Monday, October 24, 2011

Gingerbread Holiday Hugs!

I made this card for today's CAS sketch challenge over on Split Coast as well as the Waltzingmouse October Christmas card challenge held in the WMS forum - to use food on your card!.

I stamped the group of three candy canes in red on the card, than stamped the gingerbread men on Really Rust and cut them out layering them over the candy canes with foam tape.

I added black sticky pearl eyes and buttons, stamped the sentiments in two colors of ink and drew the frame around the edges with a 01 Micron fine black pen.

My stamps are from the newly released Waltzingmouse Set called Candy Jar Christmas Fillers.

You may have noticed I've been missing in action for the last several days -  we had our annual Church Fair this past Friday and Saturday and two friends and I run a table selling stamped cards and crafts - so I was madly working on last minute projects as well as organizing and pricing all the items I had managed to finish!

Here are a few pictures of our table.

 Over the two days we sold $227.00 from our table - pretty good when you consider most things were between $2.50 and $4.00!
And here are Gwen and Nicole (Gwen is the daughter of Elizabeth working with me and Nicole is the granddaughter of Sandy,  co-chairperson of the Fair)-  the theme for the fair this year was The Wizard of Oz - so they were dressed up like the bad and good witches! They had such a good time running around and also helped us stamp "thank you" on our brown lunch bags we used for sales.

So now things will be a little less hectic for me and I will settle back into my regular stamping routine!

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Candy Jar Christmas
Paper: white - PTI, Really Rust - SU
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Palette L'Amore Red, Adirondack Butterscotch
Accessories: foam tape, black pearls - Amuse, 01 micron fine Line Black Pen

14 comments:

Riet said...

What a gorgeous card Julia.

Hugs Riet.xx

~amy~ said...

CUTE gingerbread card Julia...sounds like you gals did a great job at the sale...congrats!!!!!

Palparis said...

Oh my goodness, those girls are just so adorable;)

Annette Allen said...

aww love this card with the Gingerbread men....so so cute..

dpkennedy said...

I love gingerbread men! Such a classic cutie!

Karin Ã…kesdotter said...

So CAS and so SUPER SWEET - LOVE your bunch of gingerbread men - GREAT design!!!

Deborah Frings said...

Lovely card - I think these gingerbread guys are so cute. The photos of your fair stand are great - love the way you've laid it all out.

Mara Campbell said...

Congrats on the craft fair!! They are always so much work. And what a cute cute card!! I love those gingerbread men!

Crystal said...

Oh my LOVE those gingerbread men, HOW CUTE and such a fun design hun!

Mary Marsh said...

love the sweet gingerbread men on this cas beauty Julia-sounds like you had a successful fair

Vicki Dutcher said...

Cute card!

You did FABULOUS at your fair! I wish I could sell that much~

velta said...

Love this card and the idea of using several gingerbread men on top of each other...great idea! You have been one busy beaver with your church sales...and looks like you racked up a good bit too! TFS!

Mona Pendleton said...

Such an adorable card Julia! Love the little gingerbreatd men paired with the candy canes! Looks like you had fun at the show!

Joan Ervin said...

at a darling little gingerbread...love your CAS design, Julia!!! Our church fair is Nov. 5th and my craft room is full to the ceiling with projects...looks like you have a whole table of fabulous things to sell!!!