A Binks Brothers Christmas

Santa came to our house yesterday and brought the kitties a Cat Tree.  It was a big hit as you can see, each cat has a level.  Mr. Binks (lower level) likes to play fetch with his mice when we throw them into the levels.  Henry (top level) likes to jump from the top to the floor...  Yammer (middle) played with it a while and then went on his merry way to do his own thing.  He doesn't need these juvenile entertainments.  If anyone is interested in purchasing one for their feline friends, we got it at Costco.

I wanted to do something special for my children up North for their first Christmas in their first apartment so I tried creating a mini chipboard album.
Album is from Michael's...$1.00 find. all paper is Die Cuts with a View.  For the snowflake embellishments, I went to the dollar store and found a Christmas garland which I dismantled and used the pieces which saved me a bit of time die-cutting.
The stamps used were # 20065 Purr-fect Holiday from the Max and Lucy series at Stamps Happen, Inc.  Fullerton, Ca. (Made in the USA)...Yeah
On the back I used my special order stamp from paperangel.com's online catalog which has my name and email address and a cute kitty in the middle.  It took me about 6 hours to make this card.
In order to make the pattern for the paper and to convice my self I could do it... I scanned in the santa hat shape and traced a bitmap in Inkscape...saved as an SVG so I could use SCAL to send to the Cricut Expression. 
I also used the RoundCatSVG from  lsshdesigns.blogspot.com/.

Hi....

It's official now, I'm addicted to cards and cats...cats and cards. I just got a new Cricut
Expression and Sure Cuts A Lot.... I can't stop the madness. Henry Binks, one of my cats
thinks watching the new Cricut is as good as watching the new printer..... I am in the process of creating my Christmas cards for this year.....