SIMPLE BUT ELEGANT CHRISTMAS CARD

HEY BLOGGIES,

Surprise!!  I am back with a blog post. I am so sorry it has been a while  My creativity was NEGATIVE, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA.  But I persisted to keep looking at creative ideas from other stampers hoping my lost creativity would kick in.  YIPPEE - yesterday I FINALLY got a little bit of creativity itching to come out and I did three Christmas cards and I liked them and decided to go with them for this year.

Thanks so so many stampers who share their ideas on their blogs, and on Pinterest so that I was able to figure out what to do by combining several of those ideas.

Here are my cards.  Each one is just a little bit different, but I really like them!!

 Crumb cake and Night of Navy ink; ivory, crumb cake and night of navy card stock; Woodlands embossing folder, decorative label punch, Lovely as a Tree stamp set plus a retired set for the sentiment.

Believe it or not, these are all made with the same colors, but different intensities make them look a bit different.

 I love how the evergreen trees are peeping out from behind the birch trees, don't you?

Thanks to many stampers, especially Dawn Ochelfski, Ann Craig, Dee Slater, Dianne Sisneros, Anna Masciovecchio, France Martin, Billie Moan, Sandy Griffith, Angie Walters, Debbie Henderson, Nikki Meyers, Ruthie Martini, Amy Jasper, Diane Dimich, and so many more!!

IF you have any questions, let me know.  I am off to the Post Office to mail my cards.  (Yes, I know most will be a day or more or more more late, but that's the way it is this year for me.) LOL

Thanks for stopping by!!

A QUICK AND SIMPLE FLOWER PUNCHED CARD

HEY BLOGGIES,

We had an horrendous storm on Monday evening and many, many people and areas flooded.  We did NOT flood but we had almost 12 inches in our area.  Many places down in Houston proper are flooded and the Governor declared parts to be disaster areas.  

Our home was built high and dry and we are taking care of the ponding in our pasture for our horses to be able to get up out of it.  So we are all fine.  

Thanks to all who have voiced concerns for us and our horses.  And Praise God for blessing us to keep dry and safe.

I used the pansy punch and punched out on whisper white several flowers AFTER I used a textured impressions embossing folder with stripes. Then I put different color card stock behind each one and added two punched out centers to create the flower.  Tangerine Tango ruffled ribbon and marker in the stripes of the EF, along with card stock layer behind it all finished off the card.

Hope you enjoyed this quick and easy card.  Thanks for stopping in.