Crafty Gals Corner #233 ~ Christmas in July

  Hello crafting friends and welcome back to another fun challenge

 starting today at Crafty Gals Corner! 

Challenge #233 ~ Christmas in July

Our sponsor for this challenge is 

Beccy's Place

Prize ~  $10 Gift Certificate

I love cardinals and I'm fortunate to have two cardinal couples that often come play in my backyard and enjoy a few treats I put out there for them.  They also feast on our fig tree which is annoying but we do have plenty to go around.  Birds are annoying, when it comes to my figs, because they pick at several different figs at the same time and therefore destroy a bunch of them in one go.  The squirrels on the other hand, pick a fig, eat the entire thing, and then go on to second one, and so on.  Anyway, now onto my card featuring the gorgeous Cardinal and Holly from Beccy's Place.  

I used a Marianne Design Christmas Stocking stencil for the stocking. I uploaded, sized, and cut the cardinal using my Silhouette. Greeting was computer generated.

I sized the cardinal image smaller and printed it on the inside of my card too.  The sentiment is from the Christmas Sayings stamp set by Creative Expressions.

Since I seem to always be short on tags, I thought this gorgeous cardinal would make simple but beautiful tags and I was right.  I made 24 of them.  Couldn't decide whether a red mat or a green mat would look better so I cut 12 of each.  Love how they came out, so I will probably print a few more closer to Christmas.  This is the beauty of using digital images - you can size them for different projects and they always look beautiful!

Well, friends, that's all for today.  Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked my card, and feel inspired to get crafty and come play along with us. You have until 12:00 pm, CST, on 9 August 2022, to link your project to our challenge.

Crafty hugs,