Just Us Girls #802 -- Mood Board Week

Hi friends!  Here I am again with my third guest appearance with Just Us Girls.  This week they have a fun mood board for our inspiration.  I love a mood board!  How about you?

Here's a bigger look at the inspiration:

When you look at my card you may wonder where the inspiration is.  Honestly, I was thinking of the mug and the stars.  Somewhere along the line I forgot this Santa is a mug (see the handle?) and I made his hat red and even added a pom pom which I thought Spellbinders must have forgotten.  It wasn't until the card was done and photographed and up on the blog that I realized where I went wrong.  I suppose we can pretend you remove his hat to sip the cocoa, sheesh.

He's still cute, though.  The die set is Spellbinders Cocoa Greetings, and it includes the makings for a penguin and a reindeer mug.  I'll have better luck with those and you'll be seeing them shortly.

The card base was pulled from my stash of made-ahead card bases.  This one was complete with the embossed panel and all I had to do was add the peppermint stripe paper to make it ready for my focal panel.  A closer look below... you can picture in your mind's eye the much greater degree of sparkle than the camera picked up.

That's all for today!  Come along to Just Us Girls and be inspired by the fabulous team cards, and then show us yours.  You all amaze me with your ideas!

Have a happy day!

Stamps:  Spellbinders Stay Snuggly clear stamp and die of the month (July this year)  Paper:  Neenah Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80 & 110 lb, scraps colored CS, copper glitter CS, scrap designer paper  Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Dies:  Spellbinders Cocoa Greetings small die of the month (July this year), Spellbinders Essential Stylish Ovals, Sizzix Primitive Stars  Other:  Spellbinders Christmas Wrap embossing folder, Diamond Stickles, dimensional foam dots