Midnight Snow and Ice ~ CFC #123; CHCB; SSSW

Season's Greetings!

 

We have whooshed around, faster than evah, to Friday!

 

I really miss challenges and blogging and am easily detracted as you all know, so I took another break from Christmas cards to whip up a QACAS card for you, which I will get right to or otherwise it will melt.  Today's challenges are: 

1. The wonderful CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is "Let it Snow!"
   
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   A challenge called Crafty Hands Challenge Blog, which is new to me!  The theme of the current month-long challenge is "Season's Greetings or Winter."
   
   
3. The always generous Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge where the theme is "Let It Snow."

Join in the fun with the challenges, why don't you?  You can click on any of the links for the rules and for sponsor and prize details.

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As I introspected with the hamster regarding these challenges, we came up with a moonlit nighttime frigid snowy wonderland where giant silvery icicles form and gentle snow falls:

I'm pretty sure moonlit and nighttime are needlessly repetitive, even if you do occasionally see the moon lit in a daytime sky.

The snowy mountains are just part of the pattern of a handmade paper that I have among my mountain of very old schtuff (VOS), including mulberry and handmade papers. 

I was really into all these kinds of beautiful papers a decade ago, and I'm hoping to bring them out to play more often next year.  [Trend alert.] 

 

So my quick and clean and simple card was made by adhering a portion of that paper (cut "just so" to make it look like snowy mountains) to a card base.  I over-stamped the sediment in silver ink and to finish it off, I added a topper of frozen icicles cut from shiny silver paper using a grass die.  I'm pretty sure I saw the grass die used for icicles somewhere before in the Land of Blog, but I'm sorry, I've forgotten where, so I can't give proper credit.  Thank you, whoever you are; I think it is a terrific idea!

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In our New Friends Corner today, I would love to introduce you to:

Wendy of Wee Bee Stampin' 4 Fun.  Wendy has been blogging since 2010, which means there is lots of fun ~ and I do mean fun ~ card art on her site.  She also does lots of other terrific projects for gifts.
 

Sylvia of Little Treasures by Sylvia.  Sylvia has been blogging since the end of 2010 and she is a friend I often see on our favorite Wednesday challenge:  WOYWW.

 

Next we have Vicki of Cards By Vicki.  Vicki has been blogging since 2012 and also makes the most adorable cards!  I have had the pleasure of meeting Vic on the Playground over at Pixie's.

Welcome, ladies, and thank you so much for joining the party!!

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Our annual photo card Christmas card just came in so I thought I would share it with you:

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Enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!* 

 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower!  Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor! 

  

 

*Life Is Too Short!

Project Details
Paper	PTI white; unknown handmade silver/black
Stamps	SU! unknown set
Ink	Color Box silver
Accessories	Die:  Poppy Stamps, "Grassland Border"