Hello there!  It’s the first Saturday of the month, which means at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown we have a new hostess and a new sketch challenge for you.  Sarah is our hostess this time, and she’s created a sketch that can be interpreted several different ways.

Before I settled on my card design, in my head I tossed around a few different options for the small boxes in the sketch.  I considered stamping them with a small solid rectangle stamp as a background for either a small snowman or snowflake image.  I thought about switching the boxes out for circles.  Then I noticed that this week’s theme at ‘ABC’ Challenges is to use scraps.  That sounded perfect!  Goodness knows I have lots of scraps!  🙂  Everything about this card was a “leftover”.  The card base is the remaining half of a sheet of cardstock used for a previous card.  The kraft panel was already cut down to the size of a quarter sheet, so I just trimmed it enough to leave a border of the card base showing.  The designer papers and the sentiment banner were all scraps.  And the poinsettia is the last one from a package I’d opened quite some time ago.

Be sure to see what the rest of the design team has created!  Then show us what you can do with this sketch.  Link your card to the 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown site by 1:00 pm Eastern time Friday, August 9.  We’d love to see what you make!

Supplies:
Stamps: More Merry Messages (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Kraft (SU); designer paper scraps from Aspen Frost 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Other: paper poinsettia (Making Memories)