HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS - WEEK 2 - DAY 2

Good afternoon all. Sorry for the late post. We have been busy working and shopping and working and shopping and cleaning and decorating and working and shopping. You get it!! LOL. On Friday night I had the girls over for a Christmas dinner, Kel, Dawn and Susan. I wanted to make place card for the ladies and this what I came up with. I then realized I could use them as a gift card holders as well, so I made some for my nieces.


This is the place card/gift holder. You can't even tell anything is inside (I made this one for my niece Brianna)

Sneak peek of what's inside.

I cut the card holder from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. Image #31 (sorry I don't know the page number, I re-numbered my pages so I knew exactly where the images are on the overlay). I cut at 10 inches.

I then cut my patterned paper from My Mind's Eye, I Believe stack. This also has a matching ribbon that put across both the patterned paper. The little ticket is also part of the My Mind's Eye collection. The letter is cute from Plantin School Cartridge, and shadowed. I cute at 1 3/4". I have to say I am quite pleased with how it came out.

The one I made for Kel, Dawn and Susan had a Christmas tree inside with Thank you stamped on it.

JANETS XMAS CHALLENGE ENTRY

Janet, great card! She says: "I have only stamped and colored one card before this one and was not really happy with the results. I've avoided stamping and coloring since. I have had this Santa stamp for a couple years now and wanted to use it but was reluctant to try, I finally got up enough nerve and did it, the results aren't too bad. Let me know what you think!"Check out Janets blog at: LadyLuvBug: Santa Christmas card

SNEEK PEEK! GET YOUR CHALLENGE IN!

SHHHHH, don't tell, but here is a peek into part of the xmas prize challenge...It's 1/3 of the prize.. if you know what it is...don't tell. Hurry..one week to get your layout, tag or card in!

HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS, Day 3

Here is a great card and layout done by Dawn. As you can see, she used the same pic for both the card and the layout..great idea! Dawn used PhotoElements 8 to add the swirls to the picture before printing. The papers are from Minds Eye! Loving these Dawn!

HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS WEEK 1, Day 2

Here's a layout I did that I will use on some pics I have of my kids when they were younger on santa's lap. I CB the mats with stripes.. I kinda grabbed all my papers from stash . I got the gold sleigh brads from Eyelet outlet. I got the digi stamps free from the internet somewhere..I forget where. Sticker from stash..Boy, I am a plate of information today huh?? LOL. Anyway, my coloring has a bit to be desired because I'm just starting my COPIC collection and am limited in color choices. Enjoy your day! DONT FORGET ABOUT CHALLENGE..See side bar

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!!