Merry Christmas! Sketch 96

Good morning and merry Christmas to those of you that celebrate it! It's snowy and cold here in New York- your classic Rockwell Christmas. And I consider myself lucky enough to live it! Wishing you all time with friends and family and those you love and safe travels this week. We're always glad you stop by to visit with us.



This week we're lucky to be sponsored by Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.
Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - a two woman company comprised by Nicole La Cour, Founder and Creative Director and Mary Boesel, COO. Established in 2002, PPRS boasts hundreds of original red rubber stamp designs and has just recently started to manufacture clear stamps and coordinating dies. Our stamp collection includes a wide variety of sentiments, collage and background images and beautiful, whimsy stamps. Be sure to visit the PPRS blog which features weekly projects, techniques and tutorials blog hops and more!
PPRS is so generous that they are giving away a $25 gift certificate to 1 lucky random participant of this week's sketch.

In order to give all of our guest designers more time to create their cards each week, we have decided to post NO guest designer creations this week. Instead, we will feature Ryabinka and Annika's creations on sketch #97 next week. That way all of our future guest designers will have an extra week to create!

We're lucky to be joined by one of Prickley Pear's own DT members this week. Please welcome:

Michelle Pearson

Agata Pfister

Anthea McConachy
Nina Brackett

Michelle Bertuzzi
Tracy Schultz

We'd like to wish a fond farewell to Agata, Anthea, and Heather- our wonderful design team these past six months. Please be sure to leave them some love here or on their blogs. I know I speak for the entire Card Patterns team when I say it has been a pleasure to work with you ladies. Your work is incredible and you all have the warmest of hearts.

We will be announcing the new design team right around the New Year!

We would love to see you participate in this week's sketch! Simply link up your creation using the Mr. Linky box below. Please post a direct link only. Non-direct links may be deleted. [Click here for a tutorial on how to link using the Mr. Linky box.]. To be eligible for the prize and for chance at being a guest designer, please link up your new creation by

Friday, December 31st at 11:59pm EST

Also, just a note to our dear readers...We want to visit your blogs to see your gorgeous takes on the sketches. We would greatly appreciate it if you would consider turning off (disabling) word verification on your blog to help ensure we leave a comment for you! Thank you!