Christmas Birds

I have made a couple Christmas cards with a very lovely little bird die and cool background embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp's DieCember® release!...

Let me start by saying that this bird could be used for any occasion!  I even thought of making one of my cards with a similar fonted birthday background and simply the word "happy", but had both these backgounds already embossed, so I just simply "went with it" for Christmas!  I used one piece of patterned paper that I absolutely love, for both birds.  Another confession...I had only planned on making one birdie, but when I got done die cutting the first bird, the pink one, and found the back side of the patterned paper was SO birdlike and pretty in it's color, that I went ahead and die cut the one that is above and below!  I LOVE the way this paper made them look...100%!!  I die cut and layered the bird, the sentiment, popped up the background on some gold cardstock and then the card, and added 3 little milky white enamel dots.  Here's a close up...

The second one, much like the first...

Okay...confession three...I die cut this second background, above, because I spritzed too much water on the first one, and it left a spot on the first one, so I had to cut the background down a bit, thus the gold(in a previous post, I had mentioned that for all the detailed print in this folder, it is best to spritz your cardstock with water, so it will make the paper more pliable and not tear when you emboss...just a tip!).  I really simply wanted an all white background, but like the gold, too!  Here's a close up of this pink lovely...

I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I will be ready for Christmas...ready or not, though, it will be here, so I am doing what I can, and trying to be really okay with that...enjoy the moments and the people in my life!  My daughter and granddaughter are coming in today for a couple weeks, my SIL will be joining us a few days before Christmas.  Please take care...enjoy the moments!

Thanks so much, for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa