Holiday Blogging Hiatus

I will be taking a blogging break for the Christmas break.. but just wanted to wish everyone and their families a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and of course a safe and Happy New Year... wishing you all the best...

Sketch # 74

LOVE this fun and really versatile sketch #74 from Tamara... Used some of our recent family photos from the yearly photo shoot and LOVED this line from October Afternoon, thought it worked well with the photos...

Recipe #27 Card

Such a yummy recipe to use from Tamara's Sketches:
Circles- got my trusty circle punch
Chipboard- love the Maya Road swirls
Paint- used Lil Davis Metallic paint on the chipboard over the ink, and also around the inked sides, to give it a really soft feel.

Card Sketch #74

Just finishing up the last of my Christmas cards, and used Tamara's Sketch #74 to create this card... just got a few more to do.. oh yeah and them mail them too.. LOL

Scrap Attack DT Reveals

This month for my DT projects at Scrap Attack Scrapbooking I got to use the ever fun and distressed looking Prima Little Guy which is very versatile.. loved how it "boy" it is, but lots of the papers are really neutral.. and also the super fun, bold and bright Prima Space Boy which I just LOVED!!!! totally funky and right up my alley... so I got lots of pages done for Austin's book, which he was very excited to see. Most of the photos are from our recent family photo shoot and just had to gobble them up and use them.

Arctic Frog Pages

This month for some of our DT projects at SCRAP ATTACK Scrapbooking we got to work with some Arctic Frog pages.. and just loved the fun, bold, and bright colors to work with.. Plus lots of fun patterns on the papers, and since I love cutwork, I just couldn't resist.... Here are some of my faves that I created, I did 9 pages in total.. and felt great to be super busy...

Disco Girlz

Back in the days of the HB dances, dressing up kinda disco style or grunge girl, whatever we felt like for the month.. I will always love those fun times at the HB dances.. I came across some really old but fun photos from those days, thinking Spring 1996.. that's right Kristine, Caroline and Me probably heading out with the Krusty Rusty and lucky enough to hit 55 in it, heading out on the 405... yup, those were the days...

Inspired BluePrints #5

Just had to use this sketch when I saw it at Inspired Blueprints... I pulled out a really old photo of me, back when Jeremy and I were just barely dating.. all the way back to Spring 1996.. yes that long ago...

Black Magic Sketch Dec #1

Love the fun sketch that is over at Black Magic and the color combo for this month is red, green and brown- such a yummy combo.. and the technique is sewing.. so here is my take on it... LOVE the Scenic Route Garland line.. yummy stuff.. here is Jeremy's last year opening of the stocking...

Recipe # 26 from Tamara

for this recipe from Tamara you needed to use:
eyelets- which I don't use enough
rub ons- which I love and have lots of
ribbon- super yummy

so here is my take on it, and I also didn't use any patterned paper either:)

Card Sketch #73

such a fun card sketch from Sketches by Tamara... she always has the best cards sketches and sometimes I get totally stumped.. this is what I came up with:

Christmas Altering, Cards & Projects

WOW. it's that time of year again where there's lots of items that need to be created and altered for gift giving and for some special people. Luckily there was a crop this weekend over at Two Spotted Dogs where I was able to get lots done and worked on. Here are a few of the projects that I created this weekend..

No Patterned Paper Card:
Felt Christmas Card:

Altered Gift Bag: Mini Gift Cards:

Gift Tags:

2 sketches 4 you sketch

Such a great time for a fun sketch, esp with all the Christmas cards I need to get done. Here is my take on the 2 sketches 4 you sketch this week... I totally love snowmen and snowflakes and had this paper, so decided to break it in...

Stuck?! Sketches #67

Love the set up of the new sketch from Stuck Sketches #67, just had to use it last night... also a big fan of Scenic Route's Sonoma line, and thought it worked well with fall photos, love the muted colors from that line... so here is my take.

Christmas Card Challenge

Over at Rough Draft sketches, they have a super fun Christmas card challenge.. and since I know I still need some more Christmas cards, just hard to jump on this one... and I am a snowflake lover so here's my take: