THE CHRISTMAS SEASON...

 ...is crashing down on me! I spent yesterday starting on all of the Christmas decorations and felt completely overwhelmed. Last year I gave away my old 7' tree and replaced it with a small tabletop one for just this reason, but it doesn't seem to mitigate the need to drag all of the old decorations out of their boxes in the garage and elsewhere and feel obligated to use ALL of them! So today the project needs to be completed because the workmen arrive again tomorrow to continue with the kitchen cabinets and all of these boxes need to be stored back in their places.

Meanwhile I did manage to get all of my Christmas cards mailed. My list is growing each year and I generally produce 24-25 of a single design. This year I used all of those and then offset them with 5 additional card designs that I had experimented with and/or produced for challenges. So it looks like next year I need to increase my out-put to 30! This is the primary card for 2020:

It appears that I went on a blue/aqua/white jag this year - mostly because of a bunch of medium blue metallic paper left over from last year. The village die is new to me this year - Hero Arts #D1787 "Tri-Fold Edge Village Fancy Die". This is a 3-die set but I only used 2, plus added a die-cut layer of snow for the inside message and to cover the "hinge" on the fold-over flap. The sentiment stamps are both from Impression Obsession (stamped in PTI "Blueberry Skies") and the winter swirl stamp is a very old favorite from my stash with a couple of hearts added to it. I lined the envelopes with lightweight printed paper I got at a Joanne's sale.

 

Due to all of the work still being done in my kitchen and dining rooms I may not post anything the rest of this year, but I have some fun things coming up in January 2021 that I've been anxious to share. I'll wait until then!