My Christmas tree

Kathy M at Scrapbookaddict.com challenged us to post something Christmas related on our blogs today, preferably something we did today. I didn't do anything Christmas related today, so I figured I'd post pictures of my Christmas trees. We set up two, one for our living room that's pretty and color coordinated and another one for the ornaments we buy each year for our boys.

This is our living room tree. It has white and silver bulb ornaments, snowflakes, and icicles. I love how it looks this year with the white lights.

This is our tree with the kids' ornaments and other unique ornaments. It's set up in our master bedroom this year, only because it's the room that had a clear spot.

Hope you enjoyed my trees!

Christmas cards, take 3

I had a Stampin' Up party on the 20th of September and got the "Wishing You Cheer" set as part of my Hostess gift. I loved the saying stamp in it and I really liked the clipboard idea in the catalog (it's on page 33). The saying stamp says "Wishing you sparkle, wishing you cheer, for a bright merry Christmas and happy new year!" I also purchased the Bright bulbs Standard stamping wheel at my party. I stamped the card background with the bright bulbs stamping wheel in a dark green. I then stamped the saying stamp in blue on a white piece of paper. I colored the tree and the ornaments with different colored markers and stamped those on white paper also. I mounted the white paper on some dark blue and dark purple paper scraps I had. The tree images I mounted on the card front with regular adhesive. The saying I mounted between the tree images using 3d foam adhesive. I mounted them on a diagonal just to give it a little more visual interest. I really like how this one turned out.