Monday, September 8, 2014

Christmas Cardinal


Hello and a very happy Monday to you. Today I'm sharing a card made with Deedee's digis Christmas Cardinal - a beautiful pre-colored digital image. What I love most about Deedee's digis is how quickly you can put a great card together in such a relatively short time! For this one, I used some retired SU! dsp, a green scalloped banner cut with a PTI die, and added some punched flowers and gemstones, and called this one done! I'm in full Christmas card mode these days as I donate quite a few to nursing homes, so cards like this will be made in duplicate & triplicate in almost no time.

I wanted to give you a quick reminder about Deedee's September digi of the month challenge , where you can earn the October digi set free just by playing along with us in September. The September digi release is available for a ridiculously reasonable price during the month of September too, just in case you didn't play along in August and get it free! Check all the details here. You can also check Deedee's latest release of digi stamps here or in her store here.

Have yourself a fantastic Monday and thanks for checking in!

Carol

15 comments:

Regina said...

Carol, what a fabulous image! Your coloration is great!
Monday greetings
Regina

Brenda said...

Beautiful card Carol! I love this cardinal and I know how much Momma Mary loves them. I just used this image myself on a very simple and fast card. I haven't posted it yet though, sometime this week. I love DeeDee's precolored images, they are so fabulous! Hugs, Brenda

jimlynn said...

It's a beauty! I love cardinals and we usually have them all winter long around here. Hope they start showing up soon. Love your card.
Lynn

Jean said...

This a super image Carol and you have made it into a lovely card.I like the little punched flowers for embellishment.
Jean x

Princess Judy Palmer said...

What a fat and happy cardinal. I like the colors with the darker green.

Benzi said...

Oh, that cardinal is beautiful, Carol. What a great image. Easy and fast is good. I'm sure anyone that receives one of these will be thrilled.

merrymstamper said...

Cardinals are so pretty! Your card makes me think of winter :)

KT Fit Kitty said...

This is beautiful! Love the cardinal and the gorgeous design!

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Very beautiful design, I love the image and the colours. The simple flowers with the gemstones gives a lovaly touch to your card!

nwilliams6 said...

A wonderful bird image and the card just looks wonderful Carol. These days a precolored image can come in really handy and look awesome like this one. Hugz!

Irish Cherokee said...

Usually don't like precolored images but this image is beautiful. Like this card a lot. - Jim

MaryH said...

You'll know that this image is dear to my heart! Love the backgrounds and the pretty banner behind this guy. The little red flowers were so cute with him. Great job on using this pretty image. Hope your wk is off to a better start and that things are moving along as desired. Hugs & TFS

Anonymous said...

Very elegant, Carol! You found the perfect papers to accent the cardinal, and I really like the little buds as accents. Thanks so much for sharing! I'm thankful that you enjoy using the digis and find them easy to work with -- that means a lot -- thank you!

Shannon White said...

Beautiful Christmas card Miss Carol! 8-) Love the Sweet cardinal! 8-) Reminds me I need to start working on my Christmas cards too! lol 8-)

Big hugs
Shannon

Sarn said...

LOVE this xxx