Holiday Treasures

Hope everyone is recovering from Christmas and raring to go for the upcoming New Year! For my last post of the year, I want to share some of the amazing papercrafted Christmas treasures I received from my super talented friends this year...

As always, my dear friend, Patti of Creations By Patti blog from the San Francisco wowed me with her creative prowess!

Patti's Christmas card is so elegant and beautifully intricate, with glittering ornaments hanging from a bough of paper punched sprigs. Love, love LOVE the embossed background with the flurry of delicate silvery snowflakes!

And how about this cute little gingerbread house box Patti put together as a super SWEET TREAT! Look inside to find yummy Reeses chocolate peanut butter cups, all dressed up with colorful stamped stickers. And as always, so intricately, beautifully done!

Another holiday surprise, these from sweet Karen of Have A Scrappy Day blog on the Big Isle....
I was so excited to receive this little panda coaster calendar! Had to put it on my 'frig right away to show it off  to all who came over to party with us for Christmas....and of course everyone adored it! And how cute is Karen's stamped, colored, embossed, and paper pieced Christmas card! So pretty and SWEET...just like Karen!

 Check out these beautiful white poinsettias she paper pieced to embellish her card...the white on white is absolutely stunning!

And these very special handcrafted gift tags created by Gwen (snowman) and Kris (bear) will be treasured for many years to come. It's clear to see all the time and love that these ladies put into creating these wonderful keepsakes!

A fabulously unique holiday greeting came from one of my oldest and dearest friends, Bev. We  look forward to getting her cards each Christmas because she never fails to come up with something new and exciting every year. Woo Hoo!....looks like I might have to CASE this one for our cards next year!

This last holiday gift is not a papercraft, but a special gift handcrafted with love by my mom, who loves to create magic with plastic canvas. She brought this over when she came for dinner on Christmas Eve, and it was the perfect added  festive touch for our holiday dinner table!
Thank you so much to all of you who stopped in to visit throughout the year. And extra special thanks to those of you who always take time to leave such sweet comments...it really means a lot to me! Enjoy the rest of 2013 and see ya soon in 2014!