variations on a Christmas theme adventure

 First, let me (humbly) thank the team at Cardz 4 Guyz for choosing my entry as one of their Top 3 - it's always such an honor when other cardmakers like my work! :)  That card was Copied And Shared (CASEd) from my friend Buffy, as I noted at the time.

I pin a lot of Buffy's cards, and I've had another card of hers pinned since last week.  I love everything about her card, but I decided to try it in green.  First, because most of my Christmas cards so far this year have been red, and also because I have some new designer series paper that I've barely cut into:

stamp set - Merry Patterns (hostess); ink - Basic Black Archival, Old Olive, So Saffron; card stock - Old Olive, Whisper White; designer series paper - Merry Little Christmas (what? no Big Shot!)

Really, I love everything about Buffy's card, and I have that designer series paper, too.  I just ordered it a couple of weeks ago, using points I earned as a demonstrator (that means it was free!), so I made another:

stamp set - Merry Patterns (hostess); ink - Always Artichoke, Basic Black Archival, Crushed Curry, Island Indigo; card stock - Island Indigo, Pool Party, Whisper White; designer series paper - Christmas Around the World (again, no Big Shot)

While I was working on that one, I decided to just suck it up and break out the pinks (I hate pink)  for Pink Christmas,,,for the Cure at Jingle Belles:

stamp set - Marbled, Merry Patterns (hostess); ink - Basic Black Archival, Blushing Bride, Old Olive, Powder Pink, So Saffron; Stampin' Write marker - Blushing Bride; card stock - Blushing Bride, Powder Pink, Whisper White (no designer series paper and still, no Big Shot)

Three cards in a row, in one day, and no Big Shot for die cuts or texture may be a record for me.  I may have to have a lie down...