Who remembers this vintage stamp set from Stampin’ Up!?!! It was a favorite back then and for many years! It’s the Frosty Stamp Set! In reading some old blog posts, I see I wrote it was one of the first stamp sets I bought after becoming a Demonstrator in 2002 so I could use it at my first workshop! It’s one of those stamp sets that we couldn’t believe Stampin’ Up! would retire, but they did in 2007! It came out in 2001 so it had a six-year run, which is pretty long nowadays!

This card has been sitting in a container with some other Christmas cards that I think I made last year or the year before and were extras I didn’t get mailed. I don’t know if I made multiples of this card or just this one. Either way, I think I couldn’t let go of this Frosty card! I had to keep it for the memories!

The reason I am posting it today, besides for a trip down Memory Lane for those of us who have been around Stampin’ Up! for quite a while, is to commemorate all the winter weather all over our country, even all the way down here in Texas! Last winter we didn’t even have a hard freeze here in Houston, they say, but now we are getting real winter weather and extended freezing, maybe even freezing precipitation. I know that is bad if you have to go out and drive, so be careful, but when you can stay inside and off the roads, it’s kind of fun! I’d love to see some snowflakes but it sounds more like icy roads in places later today. I’d say it’s a good day to bake cookies but they have asked us to conserve energy in the morning hours so I’ll wait.

My husband worked hard covering the outside faucets and covering a few plants in the yard, including wheeling the gardening box into the garage as we have lettuce, radishes, and carrots already popping up out of the soil that he planted from seed not long ago. We can get an early start on these things as long as we protect them from a hard freeze. Some neighbors have blankets, tarps and all kinds of covers thrown all over their bushes and every plant in their yard, including some trees! I just hope the freeze kills some bugs that are so prolific here!

Here and here are a couple of very old blog posts of mine about using the Frosty Stamp Set!

I wish I was going to be able to build a snowman like Frosty, but I doubt we are having that kind of weather today and tomorrow! But a girl can hope! Stay warm and safe, Everyone!