Hello there! Happy New Year!
It's been a very long time since I've been here.
2021 definitely was a challenging year for me creatively as maybe it was for many others. Halfway through the year I finally realized I needed to just go with the flow. Then about 2/3 of the way I decided to take a bit of a break from crafting, stepping down from 4 Crafty Chicks and basically leaving my craft room more than not. I dabbled a little here and there but not significantly.
And, then came the holidays and my holiday spirit took a nose dive creating even more of a gaping hole in my creativity. I couldn't wait for January to be here so the holidays would be over. Mind you, I was thoroughly excited to have both our boys back under our roof for the holidays and to celebrate with the family. I just wasn't into all the normal hoopla of decorating, baking, etc, even though I did both. Our youngest son and his girlfriend moved back to the East coast in mid-December. Presently they are in NC splitting time between their two families and preparing to move a little north to Virginia. Our oldest and their wife are still with us as our daughter inlaw will begin her last semester in grad school this month. So while I haven't been too festive or creative, I have been enjoying my family.
Now the tree and decorations are put away, a new year has begun and so has my creativity (thank goodness). This card I created for my older brother, whose birthday was on the 5th. I wanted to wait to share it until I knew he had received it. I used the Winter Forest Layering stencil by Pinkfresh Studio to create my background and basically the card. I added a few extra lines of trees to fill it up.. The die trees are by Memory box, cut from inked paper in each of the green inks by Catherine Pooler Designs.
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