I thought I was done making Christmas cards, but...

Hello blogland!  Can you believe it's December 5th already?  Wasn't it just Thanksgiving?  I was ahead of schedule, or so I thought, until this week when I didn't feel well and didn't get too much done.  I was just about done making my holiday cards when I stumbled upon a fabulous card idea here and just had to try it myself.  But instead of a wreath, I decided to try making a tree using the Martha Stewart branch punch.  I forgot I had this punch until I stumbled upon Lorraine's beautiful card.

I used some DCWV cardstock for the base of the card and the tree. I used a Sizzix die to cut the tree then used a darker green DCWV paper to punch out the tree branches, and a Martha Stewart snowflake border punch for the bottom of the red card base.  I think I'll make one more and run the red cardstock with the Sizzix snowflake embossing folder and see how that looks.  And I'd like to try a wreath card like Lorraine's original design too.

Next, as I was putting away some stamps I ran across this Unity stamp and made a few of these:

I love this stamp! I forgot I had it because it didn't get stored with my other Christmas stamps but saw a picture of it last week on the Unity website and went looking for it.  I used some Stampin' Up Old Olive ink for the stamp and layered it on some DCWV cardstock and added a Prima pointsettia and brad.  Too cute!  Now I have only a few more cards to make and I'm done.....until I see another lovely card on another great blog that I want to try :)