Christmas in July

It's Christmas in July and I've pulled out some snippets from the Kringle paper pad and made 3 Christmas cards. I punched a pile of squares from the snippets in the double-sided paper pad and came up with these designs. 

For the first one, I assembled the squares into a larger square, then cut 4 strips of paper and added them. Lastly, I cut 2 squares diagonally and added them to the corners and added a sentiment to the center on a stitched circle die. Adding red, black, and silver gemstones was the final touch.

Entering this into the Christmas Craft Creations July Challenge - A/G Christmas

 

Here's design #2 with squares and red gemstones and a Kaiser Craft die-cut sentiment.

Sharing this with the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #44 A/G Christmas

with this inspiration board

Here's design #3 which I embossed with a SU! tasteful textiles ef and added a SSS pre-printed sentiment. Each square was decorated with metallic and glittered ornaments done with a retired SU! mini punch with an added gemstone on each one. I hand-drew the cords from which they hang with a gold paint pen.

I'm entering this into the Snippets Playground #459 - must use snippets and have a Christmas theme.

 Here's a picture of the snippets I used for the squares. Each paper is double sided so there's a wide range of possibilities.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your weekend is a good one for you.

Carol