Wintertime Peace on Earth

Because yet again, at a time when my holiday cards should have long-ago been in the mail, I'm still making them, here are a few featuring Echo Park's Wintertime Collection.  

I always have the best of intentions in January to make holiday cards throughout the year, but some time around February, those intentions seem to fall by the wayside.  Well, for 2011 I have a holiday card-making plan in the works that is going to help me (and hopefully you) Take Back December (sneak peak here).

The first one I made today is a wintry tag for the Happy Christmas Tag Challenge at Something Completely Different.  

Sentiment is from CatsLife Press.  To get the snowmen all to face the right direction on the ribbon, I fed two pieces of wired ribbon through the opening and cut the other tails short in the back.  

The tiny snowflakes are made by trimming off the longer ends of a Martha Stewart punched snowflake (actually, every time I tried to use the punch on glitter paper, a few of those ends kept falling off, so I developed a solution).  I did the corner punched elements before deciding on the glittery snowflakes … in hindsight, I probably should have decorated the corners differently.

The next one features stickers from the set with this week's CPS Sketch.

I added a gold punched star to the top of one of the trees and some adhesive pearls to finish the design.

Off to try to get a few more done.