In honor of President's Day, we are to limit ourselves to a Presidential connection. Looking at my cowboy snowman you may wonder, but I can explain.
As y'all may know, I'm a native Texan and yesterday in the Dallas area they had a record 12 inches of snow! That's just incredible! We're supposed to get the snow today here in N. GA. Anyway, we've had several Presidents from Texas: LBJ, Bush the first and junior. Eisenhower was actually the first President from Texas. (Even though KS claims him, he was born in Dennison, TX). I used to work around the corner from the house Bush the first built in Houston. While he was President I used to see him and get caught in his motorcades frequently. Bush jr. and LBJ both have/had ranches. So if you were visiting them today, this is what it would look like.
For my card, I stamped the cowboy snowman scene on the front of a 5.5 x 4.25 (A2) white card, colored it w/ markers and a blender, then masked it and used my Cindy (Mothermark) inspired cloud stencil to sponge in the clouds. I stamped the snowflake bg around the edges of the card front. The white frame has the snowflakes again and I cut the oval using a Spellbinders nestie, then sponged around the edges and attached it to a cobalt blue layer (I also cut out the center of this layer so that the snowman scene would show through).
A couple of red snowflakes were added to the upper left corner and I used the Birthday embossing folder on a piece of metallic silver c/s and cut out just the one word (the silver c/s is actually the liner of chewing gum container, lol). After all, President's Day honors the birthdays of our Presidents so it's only appropriate to have a birthday greeting. Some stickles was added to the snow.
Thanks for stopping by! Y'all keep warm! My blog:The Write Stuff. Sorry! I had to delete a bunch of really old posts from my blog & this is one of them.
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 GMT Views: 1193
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105074
Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 12:44 PM
Would you guess my favorite part is the RED snowflakes??? This is really cute, but not so cute for Dallas!!!
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131572
Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 12:48 PM
What a cool Western dude your snowman is. We've been hearing about your weather on the news over here, even. I remember when I was knitting a sweater for a friend who lives in GA I had to use the lightest wools I could, so that he'd be able to wear it there and not just keep it for his trips to Europe and Japan, so I know you don't expect that sort of cold.
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Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 2:27 PM
A foot of snow - wow! Cool card! :-)
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Registered: September 12, 2004 Location: Redmond, Washington Posts: 54468
Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 2:50 PM
Love, love, love this sweet design, Julie!! You sure do have a lot of presidents hailing from Texas. I wonder if your state has the most, or maybe Virginia from the early days. I'll have to look that up.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful card and the fun facts!!
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Registered: September 18, 2006 Location: SingStampShine, Florida Posts: 53481
Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 3:19 PM
Heheh! This could be my brother's house, just north of Dallas! So cute, Julie! Love this imaginative President's Day card and the history to go along with it!
Registered: August 7, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 28113
Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 4:26 PM
Very cute Julie!!! I bet the kids in TX are having a blast tonight!!! We're getting some but I bet you get more since this one is a southern storm! Crank up the fire and enjoy a night snuggled up by the fire with a good book or movie! Love the cute snowman image!
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