Laughing all the way....

So yesterday we went to the tree farm to get our tree. We decided that since it was going to snow today and be much colder, it would be better to just get 'er over with it. So we travel 45 minutes into Michigan, all the while being asked "is it much farther now????". Then we get there and this is what the ground looks like EVERYWHERE:

In case you were wondering, YES! It is mud and lots and lots of mud. Well this poses a bit of a challenge for those of us (ok, ME) who HATE HATE HATE to get dirty. Ok, so fast forward past that bit of drama....

We got our tree, and that is truly all that matters...

In case you are wondering, the stars were actually some neato creative light effect mode I used with my camera. Cool eh?

All of this Christmas stuff put me in the mood to knock out a couple of card challenges. One challenge was to create a mini card, no bigger than a 4x4 over at Card*a*licious. This is what I came up with:

Then, I couldn't resist sketch #72 I found in my mailbox from Sketches! {by tamara} Here is my take on that one: