Warm Thoughts on a Snowy Day

We woke up to about seven inches of snow and very cold, windy temperatures!  We were lucky compared to many people. My husband and I were fortunate not to have to work today, but my son had to get in.  We all bundled up and, with shovels in hand, went to dig him out of a very long, snowy driveway.  

You can guess my inspiration for this card.  We are all thinking warm thoughts today!

                                     WARM THOUGHTS

Paper Smooches Stamps

 I am entering this card in the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge, Anything Goes.

The boots are from the Paper Smooches set, Green Thumb.  I tried a technique called 'mirror stamping' so that I could have a pair of snow boots!  The snowflakes are from two different Paper Smooches sets, Swanky Snowdudes and Merry Motifs.  The sentiment is from Sentiment Sampler.  

Mirror Stamping Technique

 Basically, you use another stamp and place it on your block wrong side up.  You have to use a stamp with very little empty spaces.  I used another Paper Smooches stamp from the Promenade set.  It took a couple of tries.You have to be careful not to let it slip.  Coloring and outlining the image after stamping covers up any imperfections! 

The image on the bottom right is the original stamped image.

Stay warm!
Mary

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Merry Christmas!

Hello!
I hope you had a wonderful, relaxing Christmas day!  It was one of the most peaceful Christmases in a long time and I enjoyed every minute!  My husband was very sweet and picked up some paper crafting goodies for me even though I told him not to.  I had placed a pretty hefty order for myself a while before Christmas and had been holding off using them until Christmas.  I joked that I should have made a tag saying From: Mary To: Mary.  More about those goodies later!

This morning I was having my coffee and looking through my family's Facebook posts from yesterday and had the idea of printing off some of the photos that my niece had been posting of her son.  They were absolutely precious.  I sent an order off via Snapfish to my local pharmacy and drove down in a pretty bad little snow squall to pick them up.  The rest of the day was spent happily scrapping!  Here are some photos.

I kept everything very simple and left plenty of room so my niece can journal. I actually used 4  by 6 Project Life journaling cards between each photo page.  I love how it turned out and I think she'll appreciate having these memories in her hand and not just online.   

Materials

October Afternoon paper and stickers, Lawn Fawn and Paper Smooches stamps We R Memory Keepers Cinch binding system