Joy for Christmas
This is the card I entered for the Merry Monday Challenge at Always Playing With Paper. The challenge was to use this sketch and make a Christmas Card.
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Correna
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Always a Challenge- Card Challenge blogs
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- CAS(E) this Sketch! a clean and simple card challenge
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- The Play Date Cafe Have a cup of creativity on us
- Try Stampin on Tuesday
- Word Art Wednesday challenges inspired by God’s Word
Amazing Paper Craft Blogs I follow
- Babycakes Love of crafts and baking
- Bearly Mine Crafts
- Capture the Moment Inspired apertrey ink & nichole heady
- Christmas Stampin All Year Long getting ready for Christmas all year long!
- contadina k cultivating spirit through art and craft
- Crafting With Crystal a place to share my passion for papercrafting and other things
- Create with Alyson A place to share and learn about paper crafting with Close to My Heart
- Creations with Christina Thomas where scrapbooking is a work of heart
- Creative Bug on the Loose scrapbooking and cards
- Dahlhouse designs my paper crafted world
- Flowers Ribbons and Pearls Cardmaking
- Granny Enchanted.com LOTS of free papers
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- Inspired apertrey ink and nichole heady
- Jennibellie Studio
- Mel Stampz
- Miscanthus Crafts
- My Glitter Coated Life
- On A Stampage… …becoming the GOOD kind of crafty.
- Paper Craft Nut
- Pollys Paper Studio Dexter’s Premier Scrapbooking
- Pollys Paper Studio
- Scrap Happens cardmaking
- Scrapbook & cards TODAY the blog, theres a lot of stuff on here!!
- SCRaPPY CaNuCK STuDioS Havin fun with paper and glue
- Scraps of Elegance
- Scraps of Life cardmaking
- Small Bits of Paper
- Thankful Tidings
- The Paper haus
- This and That by Gwen
Food Blogs I follow
- BAREfeet in the kitchen Baking, cooking, learning and playing in the kitchen
- Barns & Noodles Simple Recipes that inspire smiles
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- Butter Believer Have faith in real food
- Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen Teresa’s adventures sharing and trying new recipes
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- Don't Waste the Crumbs Do more (and do it better) with Less
- Flour Me With Love
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- Healthy Frugalista Healthy living…Whole food…Budget friendly
- Heavenly Homemakers Making our Homes Heavenly…striving toward our Heavenly Home
- Hold the Sugar Discovering the benefits of an anti-inflammation, “real food” life!
- How to make Pancakes How to make pancakes with easy to follow pancake recipes.
- Joy of Baking Tested Baking & Dessert Recipes & Videos
- Kelly the Kitchen Kop Healthy Cooking, traditional food, vibrant health, busting “politically correct” health and nutrition information
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- Lynn's Kitchen Adventures wholesome and delicious meals from my table to yours
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- Milk Maid Recipe Box
- Mimi's Meals and Deals “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne
- Modern Alternative Kitchen Liveing the non-mainstream life!
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- Pocket Change Gourmet
- Rantings of an Amateur Chef Food…cooking…eating….tools – What works, and what doesn’t!
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- The Country Cook Home cookin’ for today’s busy cook
- The Hidden Pantry Recipes and tips from a mid-western mom, sister, aunt and grandma
- This Chick Cooks real food recipes your family will love
- Two Saucy Sisters
Great and wonderful, helpful links to check out
- Budget101.com Digging yourself out of debt, when all you have is a spoon
- Card Making Downloads
- Card Making Magic A great site for instructions on card making
- Dimple Prints invitations, printables, party packages, holiday. Also have nice free downloads
- Joe Quatrone, Jr. Proclaiming the Good News and building up the Body of Christ
- Olive Nation Your Secret Ingredient
- Paper Printables free craft downloads
- Sherry Anne Lints Acting, Singing, Speaking
- Smart Art cards Free Card Making Ideas!
- The Eastern Phoebe This link will take you to the site where you can learn about the Phoebe
- The holy kale Inspiring your quest for health
Helpful Gardening blogs I follow
- Green Bean Gardens
- Your Gardening Friend helping you cultivate your gardening skills
Homesteading blogs I follow
- An Oregon Cottage living simply and embracing imperfection
- Forgotten Way Farms
- Frugally Sustainable a resource for all things frugal and sustainable
- Homestead Revival
- Little Farm in the Big City
- Neo-homesteading A homemakers story of culinary gratification and self sufficiency
- The Morris Tribe One Big Families Journey to Sustainable Living
- The Pioneer Woman Plowing through life in the country…one calf nut at a time
- The Rehomesteaders Our naive young family’s adventures restoring a century old farmstead…and beyond
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- Domestic diva, MD my mother raised the perfect housewife…then I went to med school
- Hallee the Homemaker Home is where the Maker is
- Hillbilly Housewife nice site
- I'm and organizing junkie encouraging others to get “hooked” along with me
- Joe Quatrone, Jr. Proclaiming relevant Bible truth and building up the Body of Christ
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- Little Birdie Secrets A nest of creative tips, tricks and tutorials
- My giant strawberry
- Of Dust and Kings Reflections on God, His Kingdom, and What It Means To Be Human
- our front porch view The story of a young family’s pursuit to fulfill a simpler life
- Passionate Homemaking Loving simple, natural, and intentional living
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- rigmover I Work, I Travel, I Take Photos
- Robyn's View
- Seasonsgirl For seasons of life, the changing seasons, and the seasoning we all love to cook with.
- Serving Joyfully May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace.Rom.15:13
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- Seven Sisters the life of seven farmgirls in Indiana
- Stacy Makes Cents A frugal housewife;s guide to life, raising kids and eating good food on a budget…cause thats life
- Stone Gable inspiring creative living
- Teaching What is Good That the Word of God might not be dishonored
- Thankfully Thrifty
- The Iowa Housewife We’re sisters who like to cook and bake, talk cooking and baking, and share recipes, kitchen wisdom, and garden doings
- The Life of a novice Horses, husband, dogs, cats, kids and an apple orchard, these are the tales of a novice on her farm, Apolloson Acres
- The Welcoming House
- Two peas and their pod
- White Pines Whisper An artist, inspired by the natural world, learns to live more sustainably
- Will Cook for food
- With a Grateful Prayer and Thankful Heart faith, family, food, flora
Sewing blogs I follow
- comfortstitching
- Hummingbird Highway quilt patterns and designs by Joan Ford, scraptherapy
- Saltwater Quilts
- Sew Happy Geek
- Stitched in Color MAKE. handmade. do. Good. Quilting
- The Sewing Chick A little bit of vintage…A little bit of modern
Correna's Thoughts 
Love the clean look of your card Correna, the ornaments are very pretty. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday this week.
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Thank you so much. I enjoy do the challenges, I am new at them, but finding I really like the opportunity to do some creative with my cards. Have a great day and thanks for commenting.
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Such a festive and pretty card! Thanks for joining us at Merry Monday!
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Thanks, it was fun and new to me, but I really enjoy doing these and will keep joining whenever I can. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.
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What a sweet card….love your “joy:! Thanks for playing with the Merry Monday this week!
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Oh, thank you so much. It is a favorite word of mine for Christmas and to me it is the attitude of joy that is so wonderful during this time of year. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!
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Pretty ornaments Correna! Thanks for sharing them with us at Merry Monday!
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You are most welcome, and thank you for stopping by and commenting. I really enjoyed doing this card for the challenge, I have never made just a simple card like this before but the guidelines for the challenges are eyeopeing for what different cards can be made, Love it. Thanks again for your comment.
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