One more Christmas Card

OK, one more Christmas card to show you! I made this  from this Silhouette file, but changed up a couple of things. I liked the bows at the top of the wreaths, rather than on the bottom and I like using some contrasting patterned papers for the door panels, rather than having them all the same. The papers are from G45's Christmas Past stack (love them!). I cuttlebugged the wreaths with my Swiss Dots folder to give them some texture. The pretty little heart brads were in my stash. All the door panels are pop-dotted for dimension  Once cut, this was pretty easy to put together.

Have a happy Thursday!

Christmas Configurations Box

Happy Christmas Eve to all! This is my first attempt at at Tim Holtz configurations box. I made it for my mom. I am not great at dimensional stuff, but I think she will like it. It wasn't as easy as Tim makes it look in his videos, but it was fun. Just about everything in it is a Tim Holtz product, with some AC Moore mini tree decorations in there, too.

We wish all our wonderful followers a blessed and wonderful Christmas!!

Holiday Tag Swap

There is a holiday tag swap going on over at Boston Area Scrap Fanatics that I am in. The work that these ladies do is incredible, so I am very much looking forward to seeing what they create. I decided to do mine in Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas style.

Each one will have some slight variations, but this is basically it. I cut the tag with the Cameo from glossy paper and used alcohol inks and glimmer mist to color it. I had the stamp in my stash and used Stazon to stamp it. The small glass tag is a Tim Holtz acrylic fragment with a G45 image attached to the back with Glossy Accents. The micro beads are also held on with Glossy Accents. The snowflake is Maya Road chipboard painted with acrylic paint and then I used a glitter snow pen on top of it when it dried. The brad is Basic Grey, I think. The fibers are also Basic Grey; the crinkly ribbon is from 3 Girl Jam; the little ornament was from the Christmas section at ACM. I hope everyone will like them!

RIBBON TREE

This is just a fantastic tree that my daughter Amanda made. Omgosh. How we got here is quite a story.


I had orginally wanted to make these ornament trees I had seen. I shared the idea with our friend Susan. Now SHE wanted to make them. Sooo.. both of us were out in two different directions all day trying to find the ornaments we needed and store after store, text after text.. we failed miserably. We finally met up to try and put one together at my house with the supplies we both got. We were ON a mission.. let's just say...EPIC fail.. LOL . sooo.. meanwhile, Amanda's on the computer looking up crafts and she comes across this ribbon tree idea. Well.. we get so excited off we went to Micheals to get all the materials. I failed miserably and I need to make a few revisions.. LOL. So I will show you mine when I finish.. But, I had to show hers off.. she did a GREAT JOB!

Christmas Wall Art

I attended a class over the weekend on making a Christmas Wall Art, based on the work of Lynette Carroll. The girl who taught it had been to one of LC's classes and wanted to show us how to make one. She had everything all precut for us, so I can't give you details on sizes and such, but oh, this was sooo fun and easy to make and it came out gorgeous. I know she said the papers were from GCD Studios. I ran to Michaels with my coupons Sunday night to get the frame for it and will be making another one on my own for my mom for Christmas. I will share deets when I do!

Brad Challenge LO by JANET

Here is a great layout by Janet over at Ladyluvbug.blogspot.com. This is a lo she did of her daughter when she was young opening presents at christmas. Too cute Janet, thanks so much for sending it over. Good luck with our challenge!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Merry Christmas to all of you! Laurie and I thank you so very much for being part of our blog family this past year, its been a blast! We look forward to seeing all of you after the new year and we look forward to meeting new friends in 2011. We will start the new year off with a swap and a challenge..so make sure your here for all the fun!

MY CHRISTMAS CARD by Kel

This is my card for this year.. Pardon the lighting. I didn't check pic before I sent all my cards out..so this is all I got, oops. Anyway, this idea is from the 2010-11 SU catalog on page 37. The stamp set it called Welcome Christmas. I put a bit of my own personal touch to it too, Laurie helped as well. I also added these great ornament brads to it from the

Eyelet Outlet & Brads - Scrapbooking Brads, Scrapbook Eyelets They sent me and Laurie a bunch of fun brads, ribbon and eyelets to put on our projects and show you gals. They also gave us some to give away to our fantastic followers.. We will be having a challenge after the holiday to win some of these awesome prizes! Their selection is great, the quaility is great. I've used a lot of their products over time and have been pleased!

OK HERE IS #3 CHALLENGE FOR TODAY, Scroll down for 1 and 2

Kate from

Small Bits of Paper sent us this GREAT card for the challenge. Kate says: "I designed the window using George and Basic Shapes and Destinations. I cut the window three times. Between the bottom two layers, I placed piece of transparency which I embossed with a snowflake folder. The wreath is from Joys of the Season.Have a great weekend!"

Challenge #1 by Marijo..Scroll for #2

Marijo says "Here is my entry for your Christmas challenge. On the card, I used Cricut Very Merry Tags cartridge. On the blocks, I used 1"x1" wood blocks, glued some paper to them and used Creative Memories letter stickers. This is the first time I have submitted to one of your challenges"

I love these blocks they are so cute. What a clever idea!!

This card is just perfect. I love the Merry Christmas paper!

Thanks so much Marijo for your submission, great job!!

AND HERE IS SECOND CHALLENGE

Here's one from Rhonda . I LOVE this angelic tag! Blogger is being a PIP... Sorry for the freaky format for today posts..lol

JEANS CRAFTY CHALLENGE ENTRY

Here's Jeans entry for the challenge. She says :
I started out with a plain blue sheet of paper as the background. I used the Christmas Solutions cart to cut the Santa and the moon. I then printed out the sheet music to the song Up on the Rooftop and used Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink to make it look aged. I used some gold foil paper from a paper stack called winterberry to matt the picture of Kaylee with Santa. To finish it off, I took a yellow glitter pen and hand drew some stars around the page. Please check out some of her other super creations at

Jean's Crafty Corner

ANOTHER CHALLENGE ENTRY!

Here is a challenge entry by Sharon C. These are great Sharon, thanks for joining the challenge!

Please visit Sharon at .in the big blue house She's very talented!

CARRI'S CHALLENGE

Carri's submitted this cute xmas tree card into our challenge as well as a few other challenges. Please check her site for more deets! Good luck Carri!

Snowflakes Cuttlebug embossing folder
Tree from Create A Critter
Snow from Deco Art
I hand stamped the little snowflakes on the tree and used glitter embossing power

HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS - Day 1

It's Monday and will be honest, Monday is NOT my favorite, besides the fact that I woke up 33 (that is right I said 33 minutes late). In Mom land that equals 4-5 days! What we accomplish in 33 minutes is crazy!! I am impressed that no ONE was late for school or work, so all is good. It will take me the day to recoup!!

Here is cute little house card I did using ONLY the Christmas Cheer cartridge. For the house I used the Recollections paper and sanded it down to get the weathered look. For the snow on the rooftop and snowman and the snow on the bottom I had glitter paper that I bought at Target, it is great paper, it is so thick. It was 59 cents for 2 pieces. The xmas trees, on page 92 cut at 2" and 3". The snowman was on page 122 3" (I cut of his arms, poor Frosty), they didn't fit! Snowflakes are cut at 1.5" and are on page 106 and the wreath cut at 1.5 on page 124. I added some glitter to the trees and tried to make my own snowflakes with the glitter as well. Didn't turn out as I would have liked, but no two snowflakes are alike right? I am going with that!! Make a great Monday!!

CUTTLEBLUG WEEK - Week 2 - Day 3

We are back to Cuttlebug week. I wanted to share a card I made with new paper that I had to have and have been dying to use. I bought two kits from My Minds Eye - Holly Jolly and I Believe. The kits had paper, cut outs, ribbon and brads (all matching of course). I also wanted to use the cuttlebug on the card. My thought was to use the cuttlebug on patterned paper, because I NEVER do that. So here is the finished product. The stamp is from StampinUP! Sparkling Season. I added some bling for the top of the tree and glitter pen throughout.

























These adorable tickets came in the Holly Jolly kit. The paper is from the I Believe kit.













Snowflake folder was used on the blue patterned paper. The Christmas tree was cut from Christmas Cheer cartidge at 3 1/4" layered and shadowed and a few pop dots to make it pop.

WOW WEEK, Day 4

Here is a gorgeous card for our Weather challenge from our friend at hogwildaboutstamping.blogspot.com. She says "yes, winter is my favorite time of year! I love it when we get snow, but unfortunately we don't get very much of it where I live. Maybe that's why I like it so much? I had asked her if the snowflake was croched and she said " I crocheted a ton of different snowflakes during a heat wave we had last month in an effort to make myself feel cooler! Told you I love snow! LOL!"