Countdown to Christmas: FM86 Non-Holiday Holiday Ornaments

Happy Black Friday!  5 weeks to go until Christmas...  If you have a spare moment between shopping trips this weekend, I've got a Friday Mashup challenge for you!  You are going to have to put on your thinking cap for this one.  I would like you to use a non-holiday stamp set or image to make a holiday card.  As my physics professor would say, the first step to solving a problem is to get a cup of coffee and think about it.  So don't just run to your stamps, but take a moment.

And to make it extra fun, if you choose to mash it up, use one of the messy techniques like spritzing, smooching, shimmer painting, or splattering with an aquapainter.

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So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

1. Make a holiday project using "Non-Holiday Image(s)".
2. Or Make a project with a "Messy Technique", such as spritzing, smooching, shimmer painting, or splattering with an aquapainter.
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Holiday Project from Non-Holiday Stamps and a Messy Technique".

Holy cow, how is it that this simple card was so freakin' hard?  I had an idea, several ideas, right away.  I went with the clean card and had to rip it apart three times.  One of those iterations, I forgot the spritzing.  Isn't that always the way?

Stamps: Elements of Style, Christmas Greetings; Paper: Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Brushed Silver; Ink: Marina Mist, Marina Mist marker; Accessories: Silver elastic cord, Color Spritzer Tool, Sponge, Circle punches, Northern Flurry EF, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

I got all wrapped up in this challenge and managed a second card, which went better than the first.

I spied the Perfectly Preserved set and thought there must be something I can put in the jar.  The pine cones came from the Fall stamp set Autumn Days.

Can you believe it?  I forgot the messy technique again.  Well, I would have spritzed the background; you get the gist of it.  I used Freshly Made Sketches #58.

Stamps: Perfectly Preserved, Autumn Days, Sweet Essentials; Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Frostwood Lodge DSP; Ink: Soft Suede, Always Artichoke marker, Soft Suede marker, Chocolate Chip marker; Accessories: White baker's twine, Festive piercing pack, Square Lattice EF, Perfect Polka Dot EF, Window Frames Collection framelits, Cannery Set framelits, Petal Cone die, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

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