Christmas is almost here...

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Hello everyone and Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you all are having a wonderful time with family and friends on this great holiday. I can almost smell the turkey cooking now. I love Thanksgiving it is my favorite holiday. Just good food with great people, no hassles of buying gifts or any of that. Just great conversation with the people you love.

Oh by the way, this is Donna.....

Today I have a Christmas  picture I made for my younger brother and his wife. She was born and raised in Germany and my brother met her there when he was stationed in the army. They married over there and the ceremony was beautiful, but boy can those people party!!! Any hoot, the background is made from hand made paper and then painted then I attached a painting I did to the front and wrote Merry Christmas in German on it.

I also used some LOVELY ribbon around the outside that was so thoughtfully given to us by The Ribbon Resource, it is just lovely and fit this picture perfectly. Thank you so much Ribbon Resource and go check them out, they have lovely items to choose from.

Well, I don't want to keep you from your busy day, so I will just show a few pics. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.




Comments

  1. Michele Emerson-RobertsNovember 26, 2015 at 12:47 PM

    Lovely project.....they should love it.
    Love and light,
    Michele

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  2. AnnmakesNovember 26, 2015 at 5:57 PM

    Oh wow! That is an awesome project.

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  3. SandeeNCNovember 26, 2015 at 8:36 PM

    Happy Thanksgiving! Loved the card and I am sure they will too.

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  4. mikosspot.blogspot.comNovember 27, 2015 at 10:44 AM

    Love the it and love how the snow flake trim frames your project!

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