1st 2014 Christmas: stars and snowflakes

Before I begin the description I will comment on the weather in AZ.  Sky Harbor recorded the most rainfall EVER in one day - about 3 1/2 inches the last I heard.  We are about 40 miles away and had a lot - not that much, however.  You may have seen photos of incredible flooding on the freeways - many drivers have badly flooded cars.  Our thoughts and prayers are with those whose homes were flooded also - some for the second tme in a few weeks.
It is hard for me to focus on Christmas when temperatures have been right around 100!  Last year I made some 50 cards - will not do that again.  I have a friend who gave me a stack of her cards to recycle, and I will try to use many of them.  I am thinking of donating them to our church to enclose with the Christmas boxes we give to needy families.
This is a recycled image, and the burgundy strips and sentiment were cut from the same card.  The blue:
 bg is also a recycled piece - the cover from an annual stock report.  I embossed with the snowflake folder.
Sketch:  http://sweetsketchwednesday2.blogspot.com/
Stars:
Non-birthday sentiment:  http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/
Any, with recycles:  http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/Any:  http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/
Any:  http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/
Layers:  http://thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk/