Holiday Mini Excitement!

So I've been waiting and waiting for my holiday mini swap to be ready for pickup and I just haven't been able to get over to the hostess's house to pick it up yet.......she lives in Edmonton, I live in Stony Plain, it's about a 40 minute drive from my house to hers and I am way to cheap to pay the postage both ways....hopefully I'll get them tomorrow!  But here's the card that I made for the swap, I used the new Season of Joy set out of the Holiday Mini Collection :) 

The Christmas tree is stamped using Wild Wasabi ink onto shimmery white card stock then layered onto Purely Pomegranate card stock.  The snowflake is from the same set and is stamped with pomegranate then punched out using the 1 1/4" circle punch.  I layered that onto a 1 3/8" circle of Wild Wasabi, folded a hunk of the double stitched ribbon and attached it in behind with a gold brad.

Once those pieces were done, I began assembling....the card base with pomegranate, a wild wasabi layer, followed by a piece of the new Prints Designer Series patterned paper in celery, then I added the tree piece and lastly the circle piece with a stampin' dimensional. 

The sentiment comes from many Merry Messages...one of my all time favorite Christmas Greeting sets!

The one thing I might have changed for this card had I not had to make 30 of them was to add some dazzling diamonds glitter on the tree...that would have really finished it off!  Especially since I am a sucker for anything glitter, lol....

Keep checking back this week for the rest of this swap...it's sure to be a pleaser!

-Terri