Santa's Friend!!

   Today has flown by for me, and part is the reason is that I slept late, but also slept pretty well.  I'm also not feeling too bad today and LOVE these mild temperatures that we've had this month.  This has to be one of the mildest November's we have had in a long time, and this girl is very happy that winter is staying away.

  Once it did get up and finished up the typical morning chores, I knew my next goal was to focus on my Christmas Card list and start printing the labels and writing out my cards.   That task went very well and I have quite a few done and almost all set to mail.  I was also very happy to see that I have more than enough cards already created and that was great news.

   I also received my Shopping Spree code today from Hero Arts and will be looking forward to shopping in the store for some new goodies.  This time of year, I try very hard NOT to buy anything for myself and instead focus on my buying Christmas gifts for my family.  It will be nice to have this spree, but I'm in no hurry and may save it to use for the CAS Card Class I'm taking in January!  Between that and the new release Preview Party on December 10th,  I'm sure I will have a great time shopping!   If you want to join in on the new Preview Party, please go HERE for all the details, or simply click on the link below.

   I have one new card to share today and it was inspired by the brand new Color Combo Challenge being hosted over at 'The Outlawz'.   Below I am sharing a copy of the swatch for this week's challenge.  The twist for this week is to also include Button(s) on your projects.

   I had a lot of fun with this card and started with this cute little Santa and Rudolph digi that I picked up today over at DigiStamp Boutique.   I was just about to start looking for an image to use, found an email from DSB in my inbox and knew I wanted to use one of the Santa's from this collection on my card.  This cute set has a total of six different images and it's awesome!  You can find in the store HERE!!   I'm also planning to submit this card to the monthly Customer Competition challenge over on the DigiStamp Boutique Blog.

   In addition to those two challenges, I am also entering this card to this week's Anything Goes Challenge over at Party Time Tuesdays!  I hope you'll come on over and join the fun!  :)

  Before I sign off, I'd like to also invite your all to take part in the challenge that I came up with as the Guest Designer this week, over at Crafting by Designs.  It's also a color combo challenge and you can find all the details HERE or on my blog post HERE!!  I would LOVE to see some of you join the fun and want to thank the girls that have already created some awesome cards for the challenge!!   THANK YOU Sharon, Gwen and Mo -- All of your cards look fabulous and I'm so happy you played along!!

  And now I'm signing off and will have some dinner and then get back to work on finishing up my Christmas Cards.  I like to mail mine early and will be very happy to make that goal this year.  Last year, I was much farther behind and then also ended up having to buy cards, as I did not make enough.  It's nice to be ahead on something and I hope I can continue to stay on track.  If all goes well, I would like to start on a little bit of Christmas decorating on Saturday.   How about you?  Did you already start your decorating or do you start later?   Have you scaled back this year or do you still go all out??