365 Cards - Day 360 - Good News & D2D Shape Up challenge

Welcome to another wonderful Wednesday at 365 Cards! {Gasp} I just realized this is the last Wednesday of the 365 Cards year! Wow, where did the time go?!? Well, I had so much fun this year and I hope the next one is even more fun...but you know Pam...we never know what's up her sleeve! ;)

So here's my last creation for the year. Pam went easy on me this time and gave us an "Imagine This: challenge. This time it's "Good News"! As with all Imagine This challenges...you can use the words or just be inspired it. I went a little literal on my interpretation...at least on the front!

And I got a little funny on the inside:

I also went a little different and used the Molly image from Guylou's Inimitability Online Store on the inside with the sentiment! Seems like I heard this saying from somewhere but I'm not sure where! And I think it's the best news ever!

Here's the other challenges I was inspired for this one:
1. A Spoon Full of Sugar - Birthday Wishes
2. Cooking It Up With Katie - a little blue, few buttons, some bling
3. Cupcake Craft Challenges - Cake &/or ice cream
4. Flourishes - birthday
5. For Fun Challenges - Happy Birthday
6. Incy Wincy Designs - punches/dies
7. Meljens Design Team and Challenge - happy birthday
8. One Stop Craft Challenge - birthday card + cake
9. Scrap-Creations - birthday cards
10. SEW MANY CHALLENGES - sketch

And lastly here's my creation for the D2D Card Ideas challenge this week. The challenge this week is to "Create any Christmas/Winter card making a SHAPED card (no squares or rectangles allowed)"

I've actually had this idea in my head for awhile and finally got around to creating it! I took Faith's Cocoa image and enlarged it to about 5.5" square. I paper pieced it with Cosmo Cricket paper, punched a hole for the candy cane and tied a tag/ribbons/buttons to the handle! Here's the inside

Pretty simple!
Here's some other challenges I was inspired by for this one:
1. Craft Us Crazy - winter
2. digital tuesday challenge - punches: the tag was made from punches
3. Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Sweet Treats (use something edible on the project): The candy cane and hot chocolate are both edible!
4. I Did it Creations Challenge - Anything goes
5. One Stitch At A Time Challenge - no square cards
6. Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge - don't be square

Well, I hope you had a wonderful year at 365 Cards and I can't wait to see your "good news" and "shape up" cards!
Aloha,