A Wintry Greeting...

I decided to play along with Skipping Stones Designs sketch challenge this week.  It's a great card sketch and you can make it as simple or as complicated as you want.  I decided that I have a dear friend all the way in Arkansas that I wanted to send a little snail mail too and I thought she'd love this wintry greeting since she's a transplant from Colorado. 

And why not take care of two (yes TWO) challenges with one project???  I used to work with one of the design team members over at The Paper Variety and I saw her project for this week's challenge over there which is...

Cute, cute, cute and super appropriate since we FINALLY have snow on the ground and are expecting bitter cold temperatures and more snow to roll in this coming weekend.  Besides I have this amazing Wintertime kit from Echo Park Paper Co. that I haven't played with nearly enough since I received it.  Put that all together and this is what I came up with...

The card base is from Basic Grey's kraft basics collection, the polka dot paper is Basic Grey too.  The other patterned paper and large snowflake sticker are from Echo Park Paper Co., the sentiment stamp is Unity  and it's hard to see but there are tiny snowflakes stamped onto the polka dot paper first in platinum ink and then embossed with kaleidoscope embossing powder.  The tiny snowflake stamp is from Basic Grey.  Fun card to make and even more fun to send to a good friend. 

Now I really need to get working on this ABC Scripture Challenge that I've decided I'd like to participate in this year.  It looks like a great way to dive deeper into the scriptures and strengthen my faith.  I have this worship song stuck in my head that goes along with this week's word which is "anchor"...now I just have to find the rest of the lyrics to the song so I can get started in my study about how to better anchor myself to God in the great times and the tough times.