december daily 9 - 25

How was your Christmas? Merry I hope! I've had a great time with family and friends over the holidays. It's been busy though and I kind of dropped the ball on posting my December Daily pages. I thought I would do a little catching up tonight now that everyone is in bed and I have a quiet house. :)

This is a little backwards, but I never posted the cover or intro pages of my album so here they are...

That catches me up to Christmas day. I'm actually continuing my album through the end of the month, but I suspect I won't post anymore pages until after the new year. So stay tuned.

I've been thinking a lot about Ali Edward's One Little Word concept. There is one particular word that has been coming to me repeatedly the last couple months. I think I may actually follow through with the One Little Word idea and focus on this particular word in 2011 - I'll share my word in an upcoming post. I think I may also take Ali's One Little Word online workshop. It looks really good and sounds like just what I need...but more on that later.

Happy New Year friends!

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas! Enjoy your time with friends and family.

stocking stuffer

How's your week going so far? Has it been filled with lots of holiday preparations and activities? I've been enjoying having my kiddos home - hearing their sweet voices and laughter throughout the day. Love that! Yeah, I'm pretty much blocking out the sounds of their arguing. ;-)

Today I have a fun and easy project to share with you that would make a great stocking stuffer! Pretty hair pins made with Dear Lizzy + American Crafts products.

Here is what you'll need to make your own.

To make the Flair hair pin, remove the foam adhesive from the back of the Flair badge. Adhere the badge to a crochet flower with hot glue.


Trim a small circle of felt and slide it into a hair pin as shown.

Adhere hair pin to flower with hot glue. Don't worry if the glue seeps out. Once it hardens you can use micro-tip scissors to trim away the excess.

The Dear Lizzy plastic rose brads also make a cute center for the crochet flowers. You can come up with all sorts of cute combinations with these fun products! 

To gift wrap these little hair pins I used a Laughing Cow Cheese package. These little round boxes are perfect for so many different crafts. Simply cover with patterned paper and embellishments.






 
 Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of this Christmas week!

ck @ cafe press

The other day I received this package in the mail from my sweet friends at CK.

Did you know that Creating Keepsakes magazine has a shop at Cafe Press? And they have some really fun, new designs that you can get on several different products: t-shirts, water bottles, tote bags, clocks, and lots more!

I love the Cafe Press packaging! Isn't that little owl the cutest?!

Totally love the kraft paper wrap and Cafe Press sticker. But even more, I LOVE the t-shirt design!

Umm, okay. THIS is by far, THE coolest t-shirt I have ever owned! (Sorry honey, but it IS cooler than any of my sports team tees.) And I really do believe that scrappers are WAY cooler than ninjas! Though I'm sure my eight year old son would disagree...but he'd be wrong. ;-)

I love the little scrapper ninja with camera and scissors! I think I may need to get myself a red band to tie around my head too.

I love my new tee! And I'm glad it looks cute over a long sleeve tee since short sleeve weather is a few months away.

So this is just one of several fun designs at CK Gear & Gifts, there are lots more! Go check them out and order yourself a little gift! You'll be the envy at your next crop! :)

2011 ckc

2011. It will be here in just over two weeks. It's crazy how fast 2010 has gone. I know, I probably say that every year. Of course my kids would disagree and say it went by too slowly. They're still in that, "I can't wait to be insert age because then I can..." age range. Actually, there are some days that I miss being in that age range myself. ;)

Okay, back to 2011. Recently, I was asked to create the projects for a 2011 CKC class, involving two of my very favorite things - fabric and stitching! I have to tell you, I was pretty excited about this assignment! Here's a peek at one of my pages as well as a class description.

Material Girl  
There’s a little “material girl” in all of us and if not, there will be when you’re finished with this class! Join us as we complete two, 2-page layouts designed by Cindy Tobey, CK Dream Team and Contributing Writer. In class you’ll learn new techniques for incorporating material, ribbon, embroidery floss and other notions in your scrapbooking pages. Your class kit contains amazing papers from the Thrift Shop line by October Afternoon, which you’ll use to create four beautiful pages with plenty of product left over to use when you get home. This vintage inspired line is timeless and will leave you inspired by its nostalgic colors and patterns. Come express your material girl and have fun learning and creating.







Registration is now open for Louisville, Kentucky and Portland, Oregon. If you click on the Class and Activity List for either city you can scroll down to the Material girl class and see one of the pages I created for the class in it's entirety.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

december daily 5 - 8

Will there be a snow day tomorrow? Won't there be a snow day tomorrow? That's the buzz around here tonight. Of course the kids are hoping for one...and honestly, if the roads are going to be nasty, I'm hoping for one too. I've lived in Michigan since birth and I'll admit it, I still detest winter driving! But I do love the snow. Just not on the roads. Yep. That sums it up. Okay, moving on, the real reason for this post - my next 4 days of December Daily pages...

These two spreads were a little more fun to do because of the smaller shaped page. It breaks things up a bit and adds some variety. The smaller page is from the Tradition Journal Book by Fancy Pants.

I have never been one for die cutting machines but I am loving my Silhouette! I haven't had it for very long, in fact this is my first project using it. I'm cutting out the numbers for my album and some bits and pieces here and there with it. I think I'm going to get a lot of use out of it! I guess now I am "one for die cutting machines," or at least the Silhouette. :)

Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome week!

ck idea book winners!

The winner of Scrapbooking Tips & Tricks: Stamps & Ink is...

The winner of Scrapbooking Everyday Memories is...

Congratulations Irma and Keianna! I will email you shortly to get your mailing address. If for some reason you don't receive my email, just click the "email me" button to the right and send me your address information and Creating Keepsakes will get your prize in the mail!

For another chance to win a great prize visit the Creating Keepsakes blog today where I am guesting as part of their 12 Days of Scrapbooking Giveaways! Here's a peek at my project over there.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Weekend all!

ck idea book giveaway!

As promised I have another giveaway! Two actually. Creating Keepsakes recently released two new special issues.

First up is Scrapbooking Tips & Tricks: Stamps & Ink. I love this issue! Most of you probably don't know this, but several years ago I was a Stampin' Up! demonstrator - I loved to stamp! LOVED it. But since then, I have to admit, I've strayed away from my stamps. But while reading this issue I found myself getting excited about stamping again...it has so many ideas that I want to try - I'm just going to have to dust off those stamps!

"Dream Come True" (shown above) is a layout that I created using "digital stamps," printing them onto patterned paper, and dressing them up with flock. Below, you can take a peek inside this issue.

Open publication - Free publishing - More stamping

Next up is Scrapbooking Everyday Memories. Another great issue! This one is filled with so many amazing layouts capturing those everyday moments, tips and sketches! Plus it is divided into categories such as "friends, hobbies, town, etc." so you can quickly find great ideas for the theme you are scrapbooking!

"New Supplies" (shown above) is a layout that I created about shopping for back-to-school supplies with my daughter.  Below, you can take a peek inside this issue.

Open publication - Free publishing - More scrapbooking

Use coupon code CKDT15 to receive 15% off all items in the Scrap & Paper Shop from now until December 20, 2010.

Creating Keepsakes has generously offered to give away one copy of each issue on my blog. Just leave a comment on this post for your chance to win one of these great issues and I will select one winner to receive Scrapbooking Tips & Tricks: Stamps & Ink and one winner to receive Scrapbooking Everyday Memories.

Only one entry per person please. You have until Friday, December 10th at midnight EST to enter. I will randomly draw one winner for each issue and post their names here on Saturday, December 11th. Please include your email address with your comment and I'll contact you if you're the winner.

Coordinates Collections Winner!

The winner of the Coordinates Collections December kit is...

Congratulations cardstockaholic! I will email you shortly to get your mailing address. If for some reason you don't receive my email, just click the "email me" button to the right and send me your address information and Coordinates Collections will get your prize in the mail!

Thanks everyone for entering and be sure to come back tomorrow for another chance at another great giveaway!

december daily 1 - 4

I successfully completed my first four days. Yay for me! This seriously will be a bit of a challenge to fit in, but I'm already finding that it is SO worth it! I'm going to treasure this album and the memories that it holds. And it's funny, I'm already thinking about how I'll do next year's album!

As mentioned previously, I'm using mainly Fancy Pants' Tradition collection for my album. I selected two fonts Forelle (numbers and some titles), and Print Clearly (journaling), to use in combination with the Fancy Pants alpha stickers. 

Today we took some family photos in front of our Christmas tree...and of course the first batch where we were all happy and smiling were a bust! Major glare on Moya's glasses. The next round, no glare, but seriously forced smiles...and lots of grimaces. Here's hoping I find at least one gem in the batch! You'll be seeing at least one of those pics in my next December Daily post...good or bad. ;-)

Happy Sunday all!

Coordinates Collections Giveaway!

For my first blog post of December I have an exciting giveaway! Cooridnates Collections is offering one of their Decemeber kits (winner's choice) to one of my blog readers!

Coordinates Collections is one online scrapbooking site that offers endless possibilities:
• a monthly scrapbook Kit Club that offers 2 kits per month
• an Online Store with the latest scrapbooking supplies
• fun & friendly Message Board, Blog and Idea Gallery
• Monthly Contests, Challenges and Sketches

The winner of this giveaway will get to choose either the Frosty Porch kit, or the Vintage Attic kit. Frosty Porch includes some yummy products from BasicGrey's Jovial collection, and Vintage Attic includes goodies from BasicGrey's Curio collection.

Frosty Porch

 Vintage Attic

 

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post stating which one of the collections you'd like to receive if you win. Please include your email address with your comment and I'll contact you if you're the winner.

Only one entry per person please. You have until Sunday, December 5th at midnight EST to enter. I will randomly draw one winner and post their name here on Monday, December 6th. 

Thanks for stopping by!