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Snowy Day in Houston Texas!

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Snow Day Backyard

It’s a snowy day in Houston, Texas and that’s pretty rare!! And the snow is still coming down as I write this! I had a project for you today but the snow is just too exciting so I have to show you snow instead! I know it’s not much compared to other parts of the country, but this is amazing for us, down here in the tropics!! There is even snow on the beach in Galveston!!! Snow On The Beach!!!

I love snow anyway being from Missouri, as long as I’m home baking cookies or brownies and not driving in it. I have driven in a few snowstorms, even blizzards and that’s not good and not fun. But being inside and watching a pretty snow coming down is magical! I wasn’t expecting snow to still be falling when I got up this morning but it was really coming down!

I haven’t ventured outside yet so I only have photos taken from my front door or back door or window. If it is not too slippery I will get out there and make a snowman! Maybe not a big one but at least a few inches tall! We do get snow, sometimes just flakes coming down that don’t stick or accumulate, every few years maybe, but this is a pretty good snow. Everything closed…schools, restaurants, stores, everything possible. Someone on TV had made a sled out of two crutches as the runners! We don’t have sleds, snow shovels (well, we do have one leftover from a few years in Oklahoma!), or maybe not even windshield ice scrapers. The land is pretty flat here but there is one halfway decent hill where people are sledding, I see on the news. Some people are using baking sheets to slide on! I see cardboard, plastic bin covers, anything you can think of to slide on! The reporter said it’s like skiing in Aspen on that hill!

Snow Day Garage

Snow Down the Street

Snow front yard

Street Out Kitchen Window

That photo is out my kitchen window so you can see the screen! When I went to bed last night at midnight there was snow sticking to the roof but not the ground yet. I was so afraid the forecast wasn’t going to pan out and we’d wake up to birds chirping and the sun shining! But no, the snow really happened!! I’m like a kid having a Snow Day from school! And kids in Houston don’t get those very often!

Looks like the snow is stopping here now. I’d love it to snow all day! Maybe I will venture out and see if I can make a snowman!

Happy Snow Day!!

Beautiful Friendship Pink Flowers Card

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Beautiful Friendship Pink Flowers Card

This weekend begins the River Oaks Garden Club Azalea Trail 2020 that we always like to go to so I made this Beautiful Friendship Pink Flowers Card to commemorate what we will likely see on the Trail. Actually, our yard is looking like this with our azaleas and even our Bluebonnets blooming. However, our home and garden aren’t quite like the ones we will see on the Azalea Trail! Those homes and gardens on the Azalea Trail are beautiful and today the weather should be beautiful!

Some people have been dusting off a stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog that I hadn’t seen in a while but makes beautiful cards really with just stamping unless you want to make it fancier. Sometimes I forget if I actually own it or wish I had it! It’s on my shelf, I own it, thank goodness! It’s the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set and has beautiful flower images and very nice sayings. It made me think of the flowering azaleas in our yard with various shades of pink (even on the same bush somehow!) and the bluebonnets blooming in the backyard.

For this card, I started with a card base of Melon Mambo, with a layer of Blushing Bride underneath the Whisper White top layer. I simply stamped the large grouping of blooms in Blushing Bride a couple of times in two rows. You can also overstamp, with the single flower stamp, in the same color to add more layers on the flower as I ended up doing to fill in some of the white space in between the petals. Then I stamped that smaller flower image in Melon Mambo because our azalea bushes sometimes have a few blooms of a different lighter or darker color than what the bush is supposed to be! For the bluebonnets, I stamped the springs of tiny flowers in Gorgeous Grape ink. The leaves are stamped in Granny Apple Green ink. With one of the smaller stamps, I added a bit of So Saffron to the centers of some of the flowers. I like the look of a bit of yellow on the card.

The sentiment is from the same Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set. I cut it out with the Layering Ovals Dies as well as the Melon Mambo scalloped oval. Before I added the sentiment, I colored in the background very lightly with my Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blends marker just to look a little like blue sky, although I think it washed out in the photo.

If you wanted to add anything to this card, you could color over some of the flowers with the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to add a little bit of shimmer. You could also, or separately, add a few pretty sequins mixed in with the flowers.

Here’s a card I made last year, even simpler, with the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set. Add this stamp set to your Stampin’ Up! order and get closer to earning Sale-A-Bration rewards!

I hope this Beautiful Friendship Pink Flowers Card makes you think of spring wherever you live, whether you are experiencing it or not because spring is coming!

Azalea Bush in Yard