STAMPlorations Inspiration Post #42

Happy Monday everyone!  Can Monday's be happy?  They can when the STAMPlorations Inspiration team is serving up a bunch of great cards to share with you!  We hope that our cards will help get your creative juices flowing and you'll join us.  You can CASE one of our cards from today's post or from post #41. Or you can check out the CASEplorations post and CASE Greta's fabulous card.  And there's always a chance to win a prize if you do play along!  Here's what I came up with...

(All stamps by STAMPlorations)

I actually used some patterned paper!  I never seem to use it anymore so I thought I probably should. I cut my strip of splatter patterned paper (Bo Bunny) and gauged where I needed to stamp my pine boughs (Christmas Bell Medley set, Dee's Artsy Impressions line) on a pale blue cardstock base.  I stamped them in metallic silver (Color Box) ink then attached my paper strip.  I added a trimmed strip of teal glitter tape (Recollections) inbetween my patterned paper and pine boughs.  I stamped the sentiment (Christmas Bell Medley set, Dee's Artsy Impressions line) in Teal Zeal Memento ink.  I'm loving the non-traditional colours of this card.  :-)

Well, I sure hope you'll be able to play along with us.  Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a lovely Monday!

I'm going to link up to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - CAS Christmas
MUSE: Christmas Visions - Kimberly Wiener created this awesome card.  I was inspired by all the blue and the silver sequins.

Addicted to CAS - code word is Sparkle