These are great, Carolyn......so sorry I can't help with the artist though...
Caro, I think you were just missing the SNOW. They are darling. We've been in high 90's here, but only 86 degrees right now because of rain (the storm that hit most of the East Coast of US.)
I looked it up - K.O., as in knock out punch in boxing, right on target, the best possible punch. Kind of funny, because emb. designs used to be really punched into cards for an IBM machine to "read" the design and punch them out!
KO designs website closed a few years ago, so I looked the S-Embroidery website and found a few beautiful free-standing lace designs of similar type than those in your photos but not those in these photos. By the way S-Embroidery is offering all Christmas designs with a 15% discount.
Hugs, Lidia
If you have not found these designs yet, try http://ls-liane-stitch.de/. it looks like it might be from there. Let us know when you find these, they are really cute. Is-Liane is a designer from Germany, the site has a little English.
these are free-standing lace ornaments.
Sorry I don't know the particular digitizer/company for these particular ones but many like Emblibrary, Anita Gooddesign, etc have similar ones