Hello on a Snowy Day

Good afternoon from snowy South Carolina. Our little winter mix started yesterday evening, and by dusk our deck was white (just a dusting). This morning the trees were so pretty with the ice glistening from the branches, and the bird feeders had long icycles hanging down. So odd to see the cardinals perched on the rim, chomping away, and looking out through bars of ice.

Here's today's card, and then will share some of the pictures I snapped this morning.

 

- PB Embrace wooden stamp, colored with copics, added some Glossy Accents on flower centers, butterfly & the elephant's pink nails.

- S/B Oval Bliss die

- Sweet Cuts elegant Leaves die flourish cut from a snippet of green, as was the Elizabeth Craft Hello. That was cut from snippets of the same green, top layer was a white snippet, and colored with a copic. Added Glossy Accents later, so it has a nice little shine.

- EK Success punch for top border; SU flower punch made the flower, which was cut from snippets of the paper that is on the front of the card. A YR copic edged the curled blossoms.

- 6x6 paper Graphic 45 pack- front & back of the same sheet, cut 5.5x4.75, then cut from corner to corner. Remaining pieces of that sheet worked for the border punch and the flower.

Here's the ice pictures from around our house this morning.

Was able to step out on the front porch to take these snaps. Tried to take some of the bird feeder & its icycles, but the kitchen window screen blurs the closeup photo, so trashed those. If I'd gone out to the back porch to get a shot, there's screening there as well, and no way was I chancing walking down steps and into the snowy- probably icy too - grass to get a better angle. Learned my lesson about black ice a couple years ago!

Hope you're staying cozy & warm. Compared to what some of the states are getting, this is nothing...but it's Big Deal for our area!! Lots of power outages according to the news. Not much traffic on the road in front of our house today, but some brave souls did venture out. Glad we didn't have to!

Thanks for surfing in, big Hugs!