A Misfit Christmas Card

Here is the final Christmas Card I'm sharing from my weekend of cardmaking with my sister a few weeks ago.  I call this card my Misfit card because the idea for this card began from a mistake.  Since I was not taking my cricut machine with me on our little trip, I spent the morning cutting a bunch of cricut images to take with me.  I had a stamp set that coordinated with many of the images on the Artiste Cricut Cartridge (Z1790) so I was cutting away.  When I began cutting the mittens, I forgot to change the size to fit the stamp and before I could catch it, I had already cut out about 6 mittens the wrong size.   Standing there looking at the little white cardstock mittens an idea for a card came to me.  (I just love it when that happens!).   I had an image in my head of mittens hanging to dry to on a clothes line.

Here is the finished idea:

These mittens were cut at 1 3/4" inch.   I cut the layers from Sky and Topiary Cardstock.   See the little snowflake cutouts in the center of the mittens?  I didn't throw those cut outs away!  I saved them to use on the card!  The "Ho Ho Ho" was actually a test size for the card I shared yesterday (shown HERE).  It wasn't the right size but I saved it because I knew I could use it somewhere! I thought it fit perfectly on my 'mis-fit' card. I used the Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel (Z1313)on the mittens to add sparkle.  The striped paper is from the now retired "Believe" paper pack.  

I hope you have enjoyed my cards from my weekend of cardmaking and maybe even got some inspiration from a few of them.  I know I had a wonderful time creating these with my sister!  

I'm going to enter this card into the following Challenges:
Heart 2 Heart Challenges - Anything Christmas
Christmas Card Challenges - Use Die Cuts

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Comments

  1. canadian_linerDecember 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM

    When life gives you lemons...right? Great save on your wrong-size mittens--they are adorable. Thanks for joining the crew at H2H for the last challenge of the year. Hope to see you (well, your creations!) again in 2013. Happy holidays!

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  2. Created by KathiDecember 11, 2012 at 10:44 AM

    I LOVE your misfit card Gina! I keep my scraps too... In fact I just packed all my scraps in a box for our big move but they will be used down there when I set back up!!! Have a blessed day and thanks for sharing and inspiring the use of misfits! lol Kathi

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  3. RiNNEDecember 15, 2012 at 12:53 AM

    Awesome sauce, indeed! Very pretty! Thanks for playing with us at CCC!

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  4. patDecember 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM

    love, love, love your cute mittens!! thanks for playing along with us at CCC.

    hugs!

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