No Snow in Sight! PPA280

Hoping this penguin from Snow Place brings us a white Christmas!  It has been an unusually warm December around here and my family is dying to bust out the skis! In the meantime Emma got to escape to an indoor water park.  It was such fun until the fire alarm went off and everyone was evacuated to the hotel ballroom.......which wasn't quite as cozy warm as the water park area.  Here she is bundled up and waiting to go back and splash!

Thankfully all was well and she got in a bit more pool time before bed!

Hope you can get a bit of craft time in this week and join us at Pals Paper Arts!  A fun sketch awaits!

                                               

From the Stacks......FMS217

This card is headed south to a friend who is a librarian.  We both love books - and crafting - so I thought she would enjoy a Christmas tree made out of books! I used a file box image for a tree stand and stamped the "due date" with a rotary date stamp.

Here's another book tree that is on display right now at our local library! 

I am delighted to be hosting the last sketch of 2015 at Freshly Made Sketches!  We will be taking a short break so the linky will be open until January 4, 2016.  Hope you get a few minutes to sneak away and craft during this busy holiday season!

Stamp Sets Used:  To Thine Own Shelf by Simon Says Stamp, Snow Place by SU!, Rotary Stamp SU!

National Cocoa Day

It's time for another Coffee Lovers Bloghop! Lots of fun....lots of prizes!  Tea drinkers and Cocoa fans are also welcome -  I belong to this second group...tea and cocoa!  So in honor of today being National Cocoa Day I inked up this sweet little fox from Lawn Fawn enjoying a cup of hot chocolate!

This card is for my daughter's birthday tomorrow.  She loves snow......she loves hot chocolate.....mmm foxes not so much......but two out of three should work!  (The inside says "and warm birthday wishes")

I actually made this card yesterday afternoon using the sketch from Global Design Project.  I decided to take a bit of a snooze before writing up my post and slept right through the deadline....so much for a short nap!  But here is the sketch I used:
    
                                                    

You have plenty of time though to join in the blog hop!  Amy and her crew do a wonderful job putting this all together.......enjoy!

Snow Place Like Home.....FMS216, MM183

Not sure I want to live in an igloo but this one looks rather festive all decked out for the holidays! And it might just be the North Pole getaway spot for Santa when he needs some time alone during this busy season.  We went shopping Saturday and stopped at "Santa's house" to say hello but he was no where to be found.  Emma looked all around for him and we finally convinced her he went back to the North Pole for dinner.  Whew this Santa thing can get very complicated!

Coloring master Rita has a wonderful sketch for us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!
                                                             


Merry Monday has a Candy Cane challenge this week so I am also linking up my igloo card with its candy cane chimney!


                                                                



Stamp Sets:  Snow Place, Holiday Home
Paper: Merry Moments DSP, Cherry Cobbler
Brick Wall Embossing Folder