Christmas Crafts

I'm sure it comes as no surprise to you all that my kids didn't cooperate for the Christmas card photo shoot. I think I made the best of what I had. Here is my Christmas card this year:

front:

back:

For Noah's teacher and bus driver, I made gift boxes and a set of all-occasion cards to go in the gift boxes. I am really proud of myself this year. I did not have to buy one single thing to make the gifts... I used everything already in my stash of supplies!

gift box for bus driver:

gift box for Noah's teacher:

the cards:

Halloween- Basic Grey paper(Eerie) and Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge for spider and web

Summer: Die Cuts With a View paper and Life's a Beach Cricut cartridge for flip flops

Baby Card- Making Memories (Animal Crackers-Ella) paper and New Arrival Cricut cartridge for rattle

Winter- Basic Grey ( Eskimo Kisses) paper and Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge for snow flake

Valentine's Day- Basic Grey ( Bittersweet) paper, Fiskars border punch and Studio G-bird and "Happy Valentine's Day" stamp

Spring- K& Company paper, scallop punch and spring stamps by Studio G

Basic Grey ( Mellow) paper, leaf punches

Christmas- Basic Grey ( Figgy Pudding) paper and stickers, Cuttlebug for embossing snowflakes

same supplies as above

birthday- Basic Grey ( Lemonade), Martha Stewart border punch, Cricut Accent Essentials cartridge for flowers and Doodlecharms cartridge for ladybugs

Noah's Invitation

This is the invitation I made for Noah's birthday party.  I used a picture off the internet of Legos and added the Halloween picture I had of Noah dressed as a Lego to it.  This was much easier than the Star Wars invitation I made for his birthday last year.

Another Digital Layout

This is a lift of a traditional layout in my CK magazine, April issue. It looks much better side-by-side as it is meant to be a two page layout, but I can't get the two pictures to post side by side.

Background paper, polka dot paper and striped paper are all from Raspberry Road Designs - Clovis the Clown. The notebook paper is from Shabby Princess- Promise, "play time" tag, blue binder clip, red file plate, blue brads and "fun" sticker are all from Raspberry Road Designs- Clovis the Clown embellishment pack. The star tag is from Red Wagon Elements by Raspberry Road Designs and the buttons are from Color Your World Elements by Raspberry Road Designs. The fonts used are, CK Ali's Hand_Official for journaling, KidTypeRuled "Pre-School", Papyrus "Days to" and Perpetua Titling "Remember".

Through the Eyes of a 5-year-old

I thought I would tell the story of what sprang forth from Noah's mouth last week with a digital scrapbook layout.

Digital Stuff

The thread header I designed for this month's scrapbooking board:



I used the same digi parts to make a new siggie for my signature line in my emails and posts.

I used those awesome scattered rhinestones again.. I do believe that is my new favorite digital embellishment! All embellishments except for the rhinestones are from the Shabby Princess, Promise kit. The rhinestones are from the Winter Chill mega kit at iMotion studios.