Thursday already!!!

Yesterday hubby and I spent the morning driving to Dauphin for a medical test and the roads were terrible, lots of drifting snow and snow on the roads. We had to follow a snowplow for several kms and you could not see a thing so no way we were passing.

My test went ok and it was cool as I met a gal I worked with in Dauphin back in 1970-71 and she recognized me and as soon as she started talking I knew who she was. We talked non-stop when we could.

When we left Dauphin, we drove straight through to Yorkton and finished up our Christmas shopping. We thought being the middle of the week, there would be less people but it actually was quite busy.

Anyways I thought I would share one of the Christmas cards I made this year (the idea for the card came out of the PaperCrafts Magazine). I forgot to take a photo of the first one I made before I sent them all out.

It would be nice to have a smaller snowman stamp but of course I could not find one in my messy craft room until I was finished the card. I have to make several more so will probably try a new idea. My card looks different than the magazine but I loved the look of the card and it did not have a ton of embellishments so made it easier to send. I used olive green cardstock with a whisper white for the base of the card and for the spotlight. I stamped snowflakes with olive green and then used white craft and olive green craft ink with crystal clear embossing powder. I think I would have preferred white embossing powder on the white craft but of course I had none of that left. I was still happy with how it turned out. I colored the snowman scarf and hat and stamped Merry Christmas inside using basic brown. All cardstock, ink and stamps are copyright Stampin' Up.

I received a few cards in the mail yesterday as well and will share them with you.

This card was made by Fran Nelson. Thanks Fran, we were in a swap together.

Blogger makes me so mad sometimes, this photo is in the right direction when I choose to put it on here and then blogger switches it to the side....grrrr! Anyways it is a beautiful card I received from Sue Ropin in a swap. I wanted to do this card justice but of course blogger won't let me. Thanks Sue!

My friend Kathy Lambert sent me this great card. I love handmade cards so thank you to all the gals that took time to make their cards.

I also did some gift wrap stamping this year too. This one is for my nephew, Jordan who comes and spends Christmas holidays with us each year. It is fun to spruce up plain paper with some stamps.

My evening finished off beautifully too as I got a phone call from my first landlady from Winnipeg. When I finished high school, I got a job at the Winnipeg General Hospital training as an EKG technician and I lived at Evelyn's house. She seen a photo on CTV News that I had sent in and she decided to call me and get back in touch. It was so nice to talk to her.

Have an awesome day everyone, I am having lunch with my girlfriends so I know I will be having an enjoyable day!