Over the hills we go, laughing all the way...

This AI image made me think of the song "Jingle Bells," especially the line "over the hills we go, laughing all the way." The houses are set in a hilly neighborhood and are painted such cheery colors. I just had to use it for a Christmas card.

As you can see, I added a couple of thin strips on each side of the image and popped up a sentiment that had been heat embossed with silver EP.

You can't really see it in the picture, but I added some glitter to the snowy roofs and hillsides. It's really very sparkly IRL.

I also heat-embossed the sentiment on the inside.

This card was the first time I had used this tree die set. I really like it. There are two dies for the branches, which I cut in two different shades of green, and a die for the trunk and branches.

The sentiment was stamped in green, and I used some dark green cord to tie a bow around my white panel, which was popped up on foam tape.

I think this makes a nice masculine Christmas card, don't you?

I added some glitter to areas of the tree, hoping it resembles snow. 

The sentiment on the inside was also stamped in green. 

I think I will use this tree to make some masculine birthday cards and Father's Day cards. I just have to come up with a few sentiments to go with it. Any ideas?

I am very happy to announce that I have finally made some Christmas cookies. Time was getting short, and I began to feel the pressure of not having gotten them done yet. We always give boxes of cookies to our neighbors and platters of them to our kids who come over for the holidays, so I just HAD to get moving on them. I'm trying a couple of new ones this year, so we'll see how they turn out.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl