Dare to Get Dirty Challenges - Post 8

Hello again!  I thought since I had a total of four projects to post this evening I would break it into two posts, make it easier to read or something (do you mind posts with a big string of cards?  Let me know!).  The first is actually a tag rather than a card, using There She Goes Clear Stamps' 'Warmest Wishes' stamp set and coordinating dies and some designer papers from Echo Park's 'Season's Greetings' stack (LOVE that collection!):

(Please click on the photo for clearer resolution).  I just love the rustic look of these colors and papers, so I thought the tiny wooden buttons would be the perfect accents for the mittens with a little twine here, little bling there.  I am entering this tag in the following additional challenges:

• Sweet Stamps Challenge - Christmas tags,
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - stitching, real or faux, (if you look closely at the mittens you can see faux stitching is part of the image - something I love about this set!), 
• ABC-Challenge - S is for Stitching (see above), 
• Inky Impressions Challenge - Button it, and
• Jellypark Challenge - Christmas in July.   

My second card uses Papertrey Ink's Heart-2-heart #6 collection:

I used the rays of sunshine cutting plate by Taylored Expressions' as a template for the sun's rays and sponged some soft sky ink at the edges of the clouds (I am still 'on cloud nine' myself after realizing I have cloud dies in my collection and no longer have to cut them out by hand, YIPPEE!).  I am entering this card in the following additional challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge - Ode to Sunshine, and
• Charisma Cardz Challenge - Up in the Clouds.  

     Thanks so much for stopping by again this evening!  I appreciate you taking the time to view my creations and read my ramblings.  Have a wonderful evening!
~ Crafty Math Chick