Making More Christmas Presents

My husband took our three boys swimming at our local YMCA and I finished my parents, in-laws and my neices Christmas presents! I still need to create the scrapbook pages. These are Stampin' Up's new 8 1/2" by 8 1/2" on board scrapbooks and they are the perfect size for getting started scrapbooking; not too overwhelming like the 12" X 12" pages and not so small that you can only fit one picture like the 6" X 6" brag books. I've already ordered all the pictures I plan to scrap, now just to budget some more time to complete the pages.

Dazzling Diamond Snowflake Card

I designed this card using the trendy colors that are out this season, chocolate chip and baja breeze. I added really rust for interest. I used my Big Shot Die Cutting Machine with the Sizzix snowflake dies and covered them with dazzling diamonds on baja breeze card stock using a versamark pad, heat and stick powder and a heating element. The circles were made with 1 1/4", 1" and 3/4 " circle punches all from Stampin' Up!

Starting My Christmas Cards

The Holiday Season is upon us and little by little I'm making my Christmas cards! This is just one of the designs I'll be sending this year. For this card, I used Stampin' Up!'s Window Dressing Stamp and Best Yet Stamp Sets, Kraft, Real Red and Whisper White cardstock, Scallop and 1 1/4" circle punch, Stazon black ink, Real Red Stampin' Write, Baja Breeze classic pad, Blender Pens, and Real Red 1/2" striped grosgrain ribbon. Come back to see more designs later in the month...

"So Thankful For You" Mom & Me Class

My kids and I made adorable Thanksgiving place settings at my Mom & Me Class this Saturday for everyone who will be coming to Thanksgiving dinner at our house. Some of our family cannot make it to our house this year and so we spent this time also writing notes that we will miss them and wishing they could join us. I hope they will all be encouraged. Can't wait for our Christmas Mom & Me. One of the projects we will be making are homemade ornaments for our tree!

Working on my Christmas Gifts...

My neices are getting digital cameras this year for Christmas and so when I asked my sister in law what I could get them this year, she said "photo albums!" I love how these came out. I used the Naturally Serif Alphabet Die in my Big Shot Machine to cut out the letters. Good thing my neices don't know about my blog...

Our wood stove is in!

It took awhile but our long awaited wood stove was installed just in time for Halloween. I made my homemade chicken soup and we had some friends come over to enjoy it with us. Looking forward to the cold weather and the Holidays!

A NASCAR Halloween

We decided to dress up as NASCAR people this year. Zack and Harry like Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, and so they wanted to be them for Halloween. So we decided to be the "officials for NASCAR and you can't see it but Hunter has a t-shirt with a tire mark on it. We had fun!