Thursday, December 1, 2011

December First

Hi!

Can you believe it? It's December 1st! Time for the first advent calendar surprise! Our advent calendar is a little wooden chest of drawers. Christopher was so thrilled to pull out the first drawer this morning and find a quarter and a piece of caramel. Yum! We discovered early on that nothing beat a sweet treat in the calendar so that's how we roll!

Will you be starting a December Daily album today? I think I will. I can't believe that I've been dragging my heels about it. Maybe because last year's December Daily isn't quite done yet! Yikes! If I get myself in gear I could complete last years and start on today, right? We have a Christmas mini book from 2007 that we really enjoy looking at each year. It's not a December Daily, it has a few highlight photos from the holiday that's become a precious treasure we display each year so that's why I want to make another.

Well, on this first day of December I have a Christmas card to share with you.


Oh how I love Kraft stock and it looks awesome with Echo Park's Season's Greetings collection!

When I create snowy themed cards I almost always rub a little white stamp ink on my papers...gives it that frosty feel!


Christmas cards also call for jingle bells! Got to have 'em! Can you see my bell is a little rusty? Last year I put a handfull of bells in a zip-lock and added a bit of water. Every day I would shake up my bells and soon the water became quite muddy looking. I let them sit in that bag for an entire year and this is all the rust I got!!! The inside is probably the most rusted! I bet I would have had better luck barrying them in the back yard!


You know what I love most about the Season's Greetings line? The stickers! Oh my! There's a big 12x12 inch sheet of stickers that are to die for! CUTE! Like the one I used for this card!

Hope you enjoyed my share! And I wish for you to have an enjoyable first day of December!

I better scoot if I want to finish last years December Daily and start on another!

Kathy :)





8 comments:

cnelson said...

What a GORGEOUS card!!!

sherry said...

Love the snowflakes on kraft and that black/white lettered sticker. Love.

Virginia L. said...

Thanks for the yummy eye candy, Kathy! Love love the elements in this sweet card!

Lydia said...

I have to giggle a little at the bell fiasco, next time add a little salt, it will only take a week or two and you should have a nice rusty finish, I love the card though beautiful

Alice said...

wow! love the black in this. so very eye catching. super card, Kathy!

Unknown said...

DARLING.

Audrey Pettit said...

So, so, so, so darn cute!! Love those embossed snowflakes, and LOVE the white ink on kraft. And isn't that Echo Park collection fabulous? yes, that's what I used on my project today, too. ;)
Love what you did with it. This is fabulous!

Diana Fisher said...

Love this card! Great colors and perfect little extras!

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