The Susan’s Garden Design Team are back today with our final Designer Challenge for the year.
Christmas is now only a couple of weeks away. When people think of Christmas and colors, the most traditional colors that come to mind are the colors red and green. For our challenge this month, our design team are to include the colors red, green and white with either gold or silver on their projects. It doesn’t have to be a Christmas card as these colors can be used throughout the year.
For our Challenge today we are giving away a $20 Gift Card to use on the Elizabeth Craft Designs website to 3 winners.
To enter, simply leave a comment on this blog post below and answer this question: “What Susan’s Garden products would you like to find under your Christmas tree this year?”
We will select 3 lucky winners in a random drawing.
The winners will be announced on Friday, December 15th, here on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog.
Now let’s take a look at the wonderful creations our talented Design Team have created for the Challenge this month. For more information about the cards, click on the designer’s name under each card to be taken to the designer’s blog post and will open up in a new window.
Christine Pooler has created this beautiful Christmas card for our challenge today. To create her card Christine has used the Garden Notes Wooden Fruit Crate; Garden Notes Whitepine Boughs; Garden Notes Berry Branch and A Way with Words – Noel die sets. Gold Metallic Shimmer Sheetz was used for die cutting the Noel sentiment and also for the rectangle layer under the white cardstock. Christine used Soft Finish Cardstock in White and Forest Green and Through the Lens – Wood Paper Pack on her card.
Selma Stevenson has created this stunning table centre piece for her project this month. To create her centre piece Selma has used the Garden Notes – Carolina Window & Shutters; Garden Notes – Poinsettia; Garden Notes – Mistletoe; Garden Notes – Whitepine Boughs & Cones; Snowflakes and Dotted Scallop Circles. Selma also used White Soft Finish Cardstock on this project.
Angela Whelton has created this pretty Christmas card for the challenge. Angela has used Garden Notes – Carnation; Garden Notes – Whitepine Boughs and Pinecone; Garden Notes – Ivy Vine; Garden Notes – Grapevine Wreath Oval; Berry Branch; Stitched Rectangles and A Way With Words – Noel. Angela also used White Soft Finish Cardstock on her card.
Pavitra Chanchal is next with with a beautiful card featuring the Garden Notes- Glass Hurricane & Candle. Pavitra also used Garden Notes – Ostrich Fern; Garden Notes – Love in a Mist; Berry Branch and Flower Lace 1. Soft finish Cardstock was used to create this card.
Piyanki Biswas has created this gorgeous card using the Garden Notes – Poinsettia as the feature of the card. Piyanki also used the Postage Stamp Rectangles and White Soft Finish Cardstock on her card.
Anita Kejriwal has created a stunning card suitable for any time of the year. Anita has used Garden Notes – Dahlia 2; Garden Notes – Ostrich Fern; Geometric Background and Seeds of Thought Sentiment stamp.
Thank you for visiting our blog today. We hope you enjoyed seeing all the wonderful creations our Design Team created this month and that it has inspired you to create cards and projects using the new Susan’s Garden die sets. Don’t forget to visit our designers’ blogs by clicking on their names to find out more about each project.
If you would like a chance to win our giveaway, be sure to leave your comment on TODAY’S blog post. We will select three lucky winners in a random drawing and the winners will be announced here on our blog on Friday, December 15th.
Happy Creating!
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Is there a video on how to make the 1482 Garden Note- leafy berry branch 1 and 1481 Berry spray
If you check out Susan’s Garden Club on Facebook, you will find a lot of videos that Susan has created. Many of these videos show those dies. https://www.facebook.com/pg/SusansGardenClub/videos/
These cards by the design team are gorgeous! I love all of the dies but my favorites are the wooden fruit crate and the berry branches. They can be combined in so many beautiful ways. I have not tried Elizabeth Craft Designs dies yet but am impressed by what I see!
I would love to win any of them but especially the Garden Notes – Poinsettia for this time of year. Love seeing all the card designs!
Arg my first reply flew away….I love Angela Whelton’s gorgeous carnation design. Once again she has picked beautiful elements, and created a awesome card. I feel like a hummingbird who has to flit from place to place to experience the whole scene
Wow….all of the designs are exquisite, my fav is the Carnation (Angela Whelton), once again, she has let each element stand out, while creating a gorgeous bouquet. So under my tree I would love the carnation , oh who am I kidding….all of them. Happy Holidays
Anne
A stamper from Burlington Ontario
I love the cards with the berry branch or the poinsettia.
I think they are so beautiful and can be used in winter as
birthday cards, sympathy, or get well. Of course all the
samples of the cards are beautiful, but the berry branch
or poinsettia I would love to see under my tree.
I have fallen in love with the flower dies. I would love to get the vases and last dozen flowers released, if I had my choice! Any combination of those makes me a happy scrapper!
Hi. Loved all the beautiful projects that were highlighted on today’s blog. I would love to have the wonderful Whitepine
boughs and pinecone die or Love in the Mist . Anything from Susan’s garden line would be a most welcome gift. Thanks for all the inspiration and the chance to win an awesome prize. Have a very Merry Christmas in beautiful Colorado.
Since I already have a lovely selection of Susan’s Garden Notes Flower Dies , I would like to find under my Christmas tree this year the Garden Notes – Ostrich and Ladder Fern Dies, the Garden Notes Whitepine Boughs and Cones Die Set, and maybe, if I’ve been REALLY good this year, some Microfine Glitter. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone 🙂
Such beautiful cards. Under my tree I hope to find Carnations, Poinsettia dies and Love in the Mist.
I would be happy with any of the dies used I love the candle and hurricane lamp best
Lovely and I would like all
of the Garden Notes items!
Carla from Utah
Beautiful projects from the design team.. I want it all under my tree!!????. Two of my favorites are the berry branch and fern.
I am hoping to find The Whitepines and Bough with Pinecones and the Berry Branch sets! Great inspiration here!
The design team provide such beautiful inspiration! I would love to see Susan’s tool set, pads, poinsettia and dahlia dies under my tree.
All the cards are gorgeous! love your flower dies! I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and thanks for sharing your talent with us, it always gives me inspiration!
I would choose garden notes ivy vine… cause they look beautiful … thanks for the chance to win…
It’s hard to make a choice, but I’ve come down in favor of the candle centerpiece, mostly because I’m working with a couple of windows right now.
I love them all, it’s so hard to choose, but for Christmas I would love either “Love in a mist”, “Garden Notes, Ivy Vine”, or Berry Branch. Merry Christmas Els and Family.
I want them All for Christmas! I love them all… If I have to choose, it would be “Love in a Mist”, Garden Notes “Ivy Vine, or Berry Branch. Merry Christmas Els and Family!
These are all such fabulous and stunning examples that I couldn’t possibly pick just one product for under my tree! I love the berry branches and windows the most, I guess. Thanks for sharing such amazing works of art!
Hi, I would love to find all the Garden Notes fern dies under my tree! Please Santa 🙂 All the cards created are beautiful!
Beautiful projects today. I would like to see these products for Christmas–wooden fruit crate, black eyed Susans, and Countryscapes Flora 4
I left enough hints. I hope to find some Dahlia’s under the tree this year. 🙂
Thanks for the chance to win. I love the new crate and black eyed susans. I would love to see those under my Xmas tree. 🙂
Gorgeous creations with these beautiful dies! The Garden Notes Wooden Fruit Crate would be one I’d love to find under my tree, and the fabulous Carolina Window & Shutters too!
wow, all the designers out did them selves. I love all the dies..would love them all under my tree. I would love the Dahlia and the poinsettia:) thanks for creating luch lovely dies! Merry Christmas:)
The Ostrich Fern die would be great.
I would like to see the Pan Pastel Flower Coloring Kit 1 under my tree.
I think that I would like the Ostrich Fern die. THANKS
What an impossible
choice….but I guess
I’d have to say the
Garden Notes Dahlia
2. But I love everything
Elizabeth Craft!!!
Bryana from Quebec
???
What an impossible
decision!! But if I
have to chose then
I’ll say the Garden
Notes Love in the
Mist! Stunning
collection!!! ♥️
I love everything
ECD and the designers
are just awesome !!
Thanks and Happy
HOLIDAYS !!!
??♥️♥️
Beautiful!!! Under my tree I would like find the grapevine wreath oval – I can think of a lot to do with that one!
I would love to see under our Christmas tree the stitched rectangles die cut set or any of the flower die cuts. I am new but a faithful follower to your blog and all the beautiful creations. May you all have some blessed holidays!
I have just bought the Crate and the Dahlia so any of the others especially Love in The Mist or the Berries. Such lovely cads.
I would love to see the whitepine boughs and poinsettia under my tree! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
All cards are so beautiful projects!
Under my christmas tree? Having Ivy Vine or Carolina Window & Shutters in my craftroom would be so awesome!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Hugs, Majda
I’m especially loving the mistletoe and the berry branch.
The projects are so beautiful and festive. Thanks for the inspiration!
So many beautiful cards and decor. I love the Garden Notes – Glass Hurricane & Candle set. I can see so many uses for that throughout the year. And I could easily see that under my tree this year – ha ha! Thanks for all the great inspiration and ideas!
I would like to have all of them under the tree, My favorite is the :Garden Notes – “Glass Hurricane and Candle”…. Thanks for the chance to win
Merry Christmas To You and the Staff
Cute projects!
The fern and the berry branch look so cute ^-^
Cute projects!
The fern and the berry branch look so cute ^-^
Beautiful projects, if I didn’t know they were made from paper, I would think they were real. I think Susan’s ferns would be a wonderful addition to my collection.
These cards are all so beautiful!! But I don’t have the poinsettia, Carnation or the ivy.
Having any of these in my craftroom would be so awesome!
Carolina Windows and Shutters, Love In The Mist, Ivy Vine, ALL of the foliage (Ostrich Fern, Maidenhair Fern, etc.)….I Love creating 3-D paper art pieces especially, pieces that can be Illuminated with battery tea light candles in multicolors as well as clear…very romantic and pretty…
Love the Glass Hurricane set. There are so many uses for the current season and other occasions.
Nothing more peaceful than a garden and it’s blossoms… It’s impossible to pick just one die. So, to start I would love to find “Love in a Mist (Nigella Damascena)” die under my tree.
Glass Hurricane and Candle would be first closely followed by White pine boughs set, or the Grape vine wreathe oval. They are all lovely!
I’m loving all the greenery, the berry branches; White o=pine boughs and cones; and the window shutters are awsome.!
Lordy…I love the beauty that you have in all of your creations. I really love what you have done with the flowers, I am a flower person and I am in awe. thank you so much for sharing…Lisa
Which Susan’s Garden dies? Why ALL of them!! Particularly fond of the Pinecones.
I’d like to see the poitsettia flower die.
the 4 piece all metal tool set so I can create the lovely life-like flowers I see on the blog.
Oh I love all the designs and the designers did such a superb job. I have a lot of garden note dies but I am lacking the berry branch and dahlia. What a wonderful present this would be under my tree. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
Nice to see all the examples of red, green and white cards. Sometimes it is nice to have the very traditional colours for Christmas cards, and of course it is easy to do the same sort of cards with different colours. I love the simplicity of the card done by Piyanki Biswas and the card done by Christine Pooler with all the berries on the branches. All the cards are beautiful.
I would love to see the Carnations die under the tree this year. I love carnations — one of my favourite flowers, I love the card done by Angela Whelton with the stunning red carnations, and the white carnation with red edges.
Hope you have a Merry Christmas! I would love any of the Way with Words die cuts. I have some already but there’s more I still want.
Such beautiful cards, I am in awe and inspired. Being a gardener myself I love all flowers, but this time of the year I am drawn to Christmas florals, berries, and pointsettas.
I made my Christmas wish
list! Critters 1,3,4,6 countryscapes New England stone wall, wash day, woods2…:)
Beautiful designs from all the designers.
Beautiful projects! I love the tealight idea!
Merry Christmas designers, thanks for all your lovely ideas. A large poinsettia would look great in my collection. Special thanks to Susan for all her great instructions, she really inspires me.
Oh I love all the greenery used in the above cards. Of course the beautiful scripts are enticing as well. Anything would please my Christmas heart :0)
I agree with everybody… Stunning cards. Under my christmas tree? Ostrich Fern, Poinsettia, stamp die set, glitter dots, glitter in all colors, all the other (garden) dies I don’t have (yet), card stock, mirror card stock, etc. etc., did I leave something out???
Your products make choosing very hard. I would choose White pine Boughs and Pinecones.
After much thought I would pick the berry branch. Reminds me of a red berry bush outside our kitchen window in Illinois. Every winter the cardinals would find a home in the bush and we would watch them every morning as we had our coffee.
I would love to find the Poinsettia , Carolina Window & Shutters, Mistletoe and the Snowflakes.
Nothing says Christmas like poinsettias-I would love to find that under my tree! Lovely as table decoration, coupled with candles; as a card or on a gift tag….on a gift bag……..
Gorgeous cards! I would LOVE to have that Carolina Window and Shutters die! Would never have thought to turn it into a lighted card!
Although I admire all of the products, I am fascinated by the Garden Notes Line. They seem to work so well together, as well as separately.
They are on my wish list. Happy Holidays to all!
I would love to see the new fern dies under my tree this year!
I would love to find any of Susan’s firs under my tree but especially the glass hurricane and candle or the white pine boughs or the Garden notes berry branch. I love them all!
I love the glass hurricane and candle. I reminds me of a peaceful setting.
The item I’d like is the pan pastel set number 3 to complete my collection.
Love all the cards and projects that these talented women have shared with us. Oh to have the talent. Under my Christmas tree would love to have the wooden crate and berry branch .
I would love to find the glass hurricane & candle under my tree as well as the white pine boughs and Garden notes berry branch to name just a few. Love them all!
I just made a Christmas card with the love in a mist die. What a BEAUTIFUL flower.
I would love any of Susan’s dies but I really like the white pine bough and the Noel dies. Beautiful!
I would love to find Susan’s beautiful new fern die, I think it is just what my cards need.
All very nice cards and projects. Oh to be so talented. The surprise under my tree would be the wooden crate and the berry branch dies.
I want Santa to leave me more shimmer sheets and some new dies from Elizabeth Crafts. Please Santa?
Love the designs of the crafting variety! So much so good and I love them all. The decorate pieces was great but I am still lover of cards. Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful week!
Those cards are beautiful!!! As for whice die I want to find under my tree that’s hard because I love them all but if I had to pick I would say the dalia.
Great ideas! Thanks! Hmmm – under my tree, I’d love to find a berry branch, Noel word, and flowers, flowers, flowers. Ooh – wait – I love background dies and loads of greenery. LOL Don’t think Santa can handle all that stuff.. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
All the cards are so creative and beautiful. Some of what I would like is Carnation, Carolina window & shutters, geometric backgrounds, whitepine boughs & pincone and glass hurrican & candle.
Great ideas! Thanks! Hmmm – under my tree, I’d love to find a berry branch, Noel word, and flowers, flowers, flowers. OOh – wait – I love background dies and loads of greenery. LOL Don’t think Santa can handle all that stuff.. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Such beautiful projects. I would love to get pan pastels. See them being used and would love to try them.
I’m fairly new at card making. Susan’s Designs are stunning and the Challenge Teams creations are so beautiful. Under my tree this year. I would like to find the Garden Notes:Carolina Window, the Garden Notes: Poinsettia, and the Garden Notes: Dahlia 2. My son and husband have my updated lists of Elizabeth Craft dies for gifts for my birthday, Christmas, and other occasions!!
Oh, so hard to choose. Maybe Love in the Mist…beautiful!
Truthfully, I would love to have everything under my tree because I can’t decide on just one item. Flowers are “my things”. My house is full of them and the outside would be too but the wild animals really like them too.
Oh my gosh, the cards and projects are amazing! If I had to pick a favorite of Suzanne’s Garden Notes, I think I’d choose the Mistletoe. So many things could be made with it. Perhaps even to cut out of felt and pin onto a coat.
I love the Way with Words dies. They are so beautiful and just the perfect size for any greeting card. Thanks for having such a high quality product available.
Wow – the designs are stunning! So difficult to choose but if I had to choose just one thing right now, I expect it would be the white boughs and pinecones. I would love to find anything from Elizabeth Craft Designs under my Christmas Tree!
Love all of the garden notes. I would be happy with any one in the line. Then buy the others.
I really like” little words mean a lot”. This is a very nice stamp set. Its so versitile and can be used for so many cards or scrapbook pages. I love it.
Beautiful cards. I would like to see Mistletoe under my tree.
Beautiful. I would like to see Mistletoe under my tree.
They are all beautiful. Selma’s table centerpiece would be my first choice. Hard to choose one.
Thank you all for sharing your lovely creations. Merry Christmas
Love Susan’s flowers. This is such a beautiful collections of fabulous projects. I would like to find Whitepine Boughs and Pinecones under my treee.
Anything from Elizabeth Crafts Designs would be a real treat under the Christmas tree. As well, I would love to find Angela’s Christmas Card in my mailbox, drawn to those lovely red flowers!
Love your blog, it inspires me with every session. I love the Garden Notes branches and berries under my tree. If Santa doesn’t bring them I’ll be disappointed!
Wow, you really created beautiful cards from all the dies, colours are stunning. Love the carnation die, even the dahlia die. A gift under the tree that you’ve won would be awesome.
I am not good with flowers but would love to have a chance to win to give it a try.
The flowers are amazing.
I would love the tool set, I have the pads, but the tools would be wonderful. Merry Christmas to all.
Beautiful cards. Especially like the one with Noel, fruit crate and pine boughs. Thanks for the inspiration!
All your cards are beautiful Especially like the one by Christine Pooler with the fruit crate and pine boughs ( Noel) Just beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Garden Notes wooden fruit crate and white pine boughs would be wonderful “under the Christmas tree”!
Beautiful projects!! I would love to see the Garden Notes: Poinsettia, Garden Notes: Dahlia 2, Garden Notes: Love in a Mist and just about everything else under my Christmas tree. lol
Oh My! How can you possibly choose just one? I am just so fascinated with everything Elizabeth Craft Designs and especially Susan’s Garden designs. PLEASE don’t make me pick just one!
Stunning cards. I haven’t tried the shimmer sheets yet or the soft finished card stock – but I would never say no to being gifted that wonderful Beacon’s kid’s glue. Without the glue, my flowers would just wilt.
I seem to be into wreaths this year–Christmas, florals, branches–it doesn’t matter. So any wreath cutting die or stamp would be perfect.
The dies I want for Christmas are the fern dies and the “love in the mist” die.
The candle holder using the window die is very beautiful. I may have to try to make that this year. Thanks for the beautiful ideas.
Hi I am a stamper from New Zealand
The cards are all beautiful and I have just started getting a few of your dies.
The next three dies that I would like to get would be
Garden notes woodern fruit grate
Postage stamp rectangles
Seds of thoughts stamp and
a Large Moulding pad.
Thank you for the chance to entrer the competition.
Best wishes for Christmas and a healtly 2018