inspired by... SHOPPING OUR STASH!

it's tuesday, and thus time to see what's cooking at SHOPPING OUR STASH this week! just to be timely, as we gallop full-tilt into december, miss carla has thrown us a super-easy and super-helpful challenge: make a hanukkah or christmas card... OR... make a card with a snow or winter theme! i'm guessing you could use a few of one or other of those right now, eh? so dig deep into your older stash, your remnants, your leftovers, your scraps and see what you can devise! here's what i made:

(vintage: eyelet lace, trimmed; santa element from polka dot pixels' "christmas shopping" digikit, two peas in a bucket; patterned paper--almost all scraps, woohoo: echo park, crate paper, basic grey, amy tangerine, doodlebug; ornament: crate paper; brad: doodlebug; ink: colorbox; adhesives: staples brand gluetape runner, 3m foam tape, sewing machine)  

i was SERIOUSLY "inspired by" (hence the name!) inspired by challenge #52 (and ♥CONGRATS, miss laurel, on your first full year of utterly AWESOME challenges!!!♥) which, as you can see, is soooooo totally rocking the vintage holiday flair, that i basically worked in as many elements from the photo as i possibly could:

at the same time, my layout was suggested by this week's gorgeous retro sketch #40, which i rotated a bit (i used scraps to make up the patchwork bit in the middle, and they just fit the santa tag better in this direction; because yes, this is how "scientific" my process is, lol!) but otherwise it's quite a faithful rendition:

now i hope you'll hop over to SOS and see what my uber-talented fellow DT members have cooked up for your inspiration... it'll be worth the trip, i promise! ♥