Mojo Monday 266 and Day 5 of the 10 days of Christmas

Since I am in the middle of the 10 Days of Christmas here, I of course, had to do a Christmas card for the challenge.
I simplified it just a little bit, with the busy background and A2 card size, I didn't want too much on it. I used
Whisper White
Cherry Cobbler
Snow Festival Designer Paper pack from the Holiday catty
Certainly Celery
Layer the DSP over the white CS, cut your white tag, then slightly smaller the certainly celery tag and glue together.  Cut a white square, layer a slightly smaller Cherry Cobbler square over top.  Stamp out the pointsettia from Water Color Winter, punch out using the 2 3/8 in scalloped round. I inked the edges and also used a blender brush to color in.
TIP:  With the new stamp pads be sure to wipe some off after putting the tip of the brush in the pad, for the inside coloring. You can leave it for the vanes and outside edge.
Stamp sentiment from Snow Swirled.  Attach the scallop round using Stampin Dimensionals.  and attach to card.
See you tomorrow!

Christmas is coming, Christmas is coming.

And I'm going to be ready. I've already gotten some of my Christmas stamps and punches. More on my list, but I have enough to get started. Today I started thinking. I wanted to make a tag, but I wanted it to be different. One of my favorite things to do is use something for a purpose it was not intended.
So, I started playing, and I ended up using a framelit from the Apothecary accents set. I cut my piece and just put the one end under the cutting blade and ran it through my Big Shot. I love the tag top I got from that! I started on my tag using Crumb Cake ink and the Joy stamp in Priority Mail a fun Hostess stamp set.
Then I got to playing with my ink and sponges, sponged on Bashful Blue and Primrose Petals ink.
I used some of the elements from Watercolor Winter from the Holiday Catty, a bit of holly and just bits of the pointsettia, and with the Bashful blue I stamped on a few snowflakes from Four Seasons stamp set.After I finished with all the inking, I used my embossing pad and inked up the whole tag with it, then used clear embossing power and heated. This is giving it some gloss and texture.
I put a piece of vellum across the tag and added on some Merry Minis, stamped then punched and placed on using Stampin Dimensionals. At the bottom I put some silver brads from the neutrals package.
Yes, this took a while, not something I'd do for all my packages, but if you are in the mood to play, they are fun to do and would be extra nice for those special gifts. When I worked at a Christian school we did a Secret Sister exchange and one of the most fun things about that was the beautiful wrappings we all did. I think we looked forward to that more then the gifts inside.
Hope you weekend is grand, get some stamping in.