Hey there and Merry Christmas! I'm so thankful that even though as I get older Christmas seems to keep coming faster and faster, it's still such a special time to reflect on faith and treasure my family. We are all gathered today to celebrate the birth of our Savior. First thing we will have a little "birthday party for Jesus" at breakfast with cupcakes and candles to blow out. After church we will be having Christmas dinner at our house, followed by the Christmas story read aloud from Luke chapter 2. Then we will have our family time to open presents. Different from most Christmas mornings where stockings and presents are the first order of the day. We usually have the Christmas story on Christmas Eve, but since Christmas is on Sunday we changed things up a bit.
This Christmas card I received from my friend Kristin Kortonick is just perfect for today. Kristin used the Joyful Nativity set from the Annual Catalog to create this masterpiece of simplicity:
Crumb Cake, Dapper Denim, and Very Vanilla with the Stitched Shapes Framelit circle and Softy Falling Textured Impressions Folder combine to make this card just right!
Next, Jessica Taylor also used Joyful Nativity, combining Cherry Cobbler, This Christmas Specialty Designer Paper, and Very Vanilla. LOVE the trumpeting angel heralding Christ's birth!
The sentiment of this card by my downline, Angie Lisk, pretty much sums up my prayer for all of you this season and for 2017:
She used a Stitched with Cheer sentiment, Warmth & Cheer Designer Paper, Flourish Thinlets, and the Softly Falling folder.
I hope you have a Christmas that is filled with the love and laughter of those you love the most, and that you will learn to seek His face more and more in 2017.
Come back and see me again tomorrow. I will be starting to share more ideas and projects from the upcoming Occasions and Sale-a-bration catalogs.
Until tomorrow, have a Stampingrox! day!
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