Decorating the tree is always a must with homemade ornaments.

Today I have a couple of ornaments that I made for a few of my friends.  You can open them from the top and add candy or small toys or money or lottery tickets.

Oh and by the way, we have about 4 inches of snow on the ground right now.  First good snowfall of the year.

I have two cards for you today, my Elf for Happy Holidays and the snowman tag card.

For the elf card I first embossed a sheet of white cardstock with snowflakes to give it a little texture and then I hand colored the elf with the sign using my copic markers. I used some red plaid cardstock from Michael’s to finish the card off. A simple sentiment of Merry Christmas on the inside.

My snowman tag card was another easy one to create.  After coloring the snowman I attached him to a circle with stitching and then a banner tag.  I embossed the background using a large circle folder. A little silver bling at the top with ribbon and it’s all done.

Well it’s that time of year again, where we break out all of our sweaters for the coming winter months.  This card was created from just that very thought.

I used my sweater embossing folder for the background on cream cardstock and then cut out a wreath and added some green leaves and a bright red bow at the top.  I love the saying also for this card, “Warm heartfelt greetings for a very Merry Christmas.”