On the first day of fall... celebrating winter!

I spent this past weekend doing some major prep work in the card room - stamping my 'logo' onto card backs, photographing finished work, putting things into protective clear sleeves - and the stack of stuff was HUGE! So, I'm hoping to do some more regular posting here for a while!

I did manage to sneak in a few new cards, and it seems like everyone is starting to gear up for the holidays already. This is by far the earliest I've EVER made holiday cards, but its been fun. I keep hoping that things like snowflakes will encourage our Pittsburgh weather to go from 80 degrees into REAL Fall!

This card uses some really old stuff and some brand new. The metal snowflake has been around for at least 5 years! The snowmen stamps are from Purple Onion Designs, back when Self-Addressed was my hang out. The orange mat is also from those days, Bazzill cardstock that I've been holding on to for tooooooo long.

I colored the snowmen with my Copics - I think I'm getting better with them, after watching many tutorials on YouTube. You really can find ANYTHING on the internet! I'm showing a close-up of this card because the coloring was so detailed - the snowmen are only about an inch tall, so you can imagine how tiny their little carrot noses are!

As for NEW stuff, the background paper is from Basic Grey's Offbeat line. BG makes most of their papers in a 6x6 version, shrinking the patterns tomake them perfect for cardmaking. The sentiment is from PTI's Vintage Picnic sentiments - my latest FAVORITE sentiments.

Have you started thinking about the holidays yet?