get cracking on christmas: january edition

I am not sure if you are just like me, but every Christmas season I have visions of the wonderful cards I will have ready to mail by Thanksgiving….in reality what I always have is a mad rush the week before Christmas trying to find all the addresses, get all the envelopes addressed, late night stamping of the cards and a MAD RUSH to the post office. What I also have is a ton of beautiful Christmas stamps that remain uninked. My friend Jenn Shurkus had an idea to change all that and I have committed to completing a month challenge along with Jenn and Chari Moss to get my holiday cards done throughout the year. We hope you will join us too!  

This year, we are going to get cracking on Christmas early and work to build our holiday card stash each month of the year. I love this idea and I began with pulling all my favourite stamps, dies, papers and embellishments into one bin to use throughout the year. I hope this makes it easy for me to shop my own Christmas stash all in one place.

My first card is a card idea that I taught in a Holiday Workshop in 2016. I had visions of using this card design for my holiday card, but never quite got around to it, so I only ever made one. The goal for this year is to create 10 of each card each month, so I will be well on my way by the holidays! 

 
Here's a close up of all the sparkly ornaments:

We would LOVE to see what you made with your Christmas supplies…please be sure to use the hashtag #getcrackingonchristmas I'd love to stop by and take a look at what you've created!