Snow Days Blog Hop (Day One) -- A Snowflake Tree filled with Frosty Wishes!! :)

Welcome to DAY ONE of the Snow Days Blog Hop!!

We're so happy you could join us for this super-fun hop showcasing cards, layouts and projects that feature everything FROSTY, FUN, and FESTIVE about Snow Days!! You'll find an array of ideas throughout the hop -- We hope you'll enjoy each and every project along the way!!  This is a TWO-DAY hop, so please be sure to visit again tomorrow for a GLACIALLY GOOD TIME!! :)

I hope you've brought a mug of hot chocolatey goodness to sip throughout the journey...  It's a chilly theme for the hop today, and I don't want your toes to get cold!!  Now, if you're all set...  Let's GET HOPPING!!  If you've arrived here from Erin (wasn't her project just delightful???), then you are in the right place!!  If you've just popped in to visit my blog or are reading this via email and you'd like to have some FROSTY FUN, then please CLICK HERE to start at the beginning with Lisa's blog...

For the hop today, I've created a SNOWFLAKE WISHES TREE and matching card!!

Recently, one of my friends celebrated her birthday...  Wait, wait...  Let me back up a bit -- Those of you who know me (even just a little bit), know that I'm NOT a fan of the flaky, white, cold stuff...  I would much prefer the white sands of Sarasota, Florida or perhaps the beaches of Honolulu...  Even the dry heat of this Texas-girl's home state...  But, alas, here I am...  Stuck in the wintry north...  On a snow belt, no less...  When they say "expect 1-2", they mean FEET, not inches...  Sigh.  Thankfully, we've had a mild winter so far.  I mean REALLY mild...  With the exception of the TWO times we've had plans that took us into the city (because OF COURSE we had some kind of slippery winter weather on BOTH of those occasions), we haven't seen much in the way of snow...  And for me, this is GOOD!!  I am certainly not someone who should be out on the roads when there's more than a slight dusting of snow...  I do not like it, not at all...  (Okay, yes, mom, I like it through the window!!)  First of all, I can't wear my flip-flops out in the snow (trust me, I've tried -- it's not a quick recovery from frozen toes).  Second, I'm a nervous driver (and who wants to be behind a nervous driver???).  Third, gone are the days that I enjoyed building a snow fort with my best friend, Suzie, and trekking up the hill to sled down a ridiculously dangerous hill to land inches from the road (what were we thinking???)...  But I digress...  Back to my friend's birthday...  Errr...  Rather what she WISHED for...

SNOW.  And, of course, winter delivered.  We didn't get the FOOT that my favorite weather site promised, but it still came...  Plenty enough for me not to drive for three days.  Guess who was out playing in the snow on her birthday???  Yep.  Ya just gotta love her.  I was so inspired by her excitement that I made her this SNOWFLAKE WISHES TREE...  Now she can put this tree in her window and wish for all the snow her heart desires...  Of course, it would be nice if she would wish for it in lands far away from me, but I suppose it's more fun if it snows right around here for her to enjoy it fully...  Sigh.

I twisted the base of my "tree" around a bamboo skewer wrapped with white tissue paper and ribbon and secured it in a small white favor bucket with some glass stones (incidentally, how cute would these be for table decorations to match the snowflake goodies that I made HERE to enter for the Decorate To Celebrate "Winter Wedding" Challenge???).  The itty-bitty snowflakes are from the MS Arctic Snowflake punch around the page and the 1" snowflakes were punched with the Creative Memories Snowflake pocket punch.  I'm sad to say that this is the last of my bright blue ribbon -- I sure hope I can find some more soon as I sure do love the blue, silver, and white together!! :)

I made a matching birthday card for her too...  Filled it up with "Frosty Wishes" (stamped sentiment from the can be found on the "Winter Wishes" Stamp Art Set by K Andrew Designs...).  The background was embossed with Tim Holtz's "Snowflakes" embossing folder.

The sentiment is stamped with SU!'s Brilliant Blue.  The snowflakes are all punched from silver shimmer paper, and the larger snowflakes have a 1/4" bling gemstone for some extra sparkle.

And there ya have it!!  I hope you've enjoyed my SNOWFLAKE WISHES TREE!!  Thank you so much for checking it out!!  My snowflake wish for today is that you'll join me again TOMORROW for another FROSTY project (I can't wait for you to see it!!)...  Now hop on over to see what adorable creation Eva has in store for you today!!

Here's a list of the entire hop, in case you get lost along the way or want to revisit anyone:

Lisa P

Bonnie

Sherry

Doris

Theresa D

Beckie

Erin

Amy :)  You are HERE!! :)

Eva  Go here NEXT!!

Cathie

Ashley

Lisa G

Melissa

Kristen

Theresa

Anita

Lynne

Barbara

Amy Jo

Mickie

Janet

See you tomorrow!! :)