Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper

Here is a scrapbook page I made using SU!'s Cottage Wall paper and Rich Razzleberry designer paper. I love the rich razzleberry color, and I love the Cottage Wall paper. The main green paper is from cottage wall. That series has a lot of other beautiful patterns also. Oh, and the layered flower was cut from the old olive dsp, and it coordinates beautifully with the other two designer papers that I used. Notice how the ribbon also coordinates beautifully.
I have a picture picked out for this page, but it seems I scrapped all my copies for others for Christmas presents and so have to print another one for myself.
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Poppa and Cody

I apologize for the picture. I forgot to crop it before I uploaded it, and you can see how messy my desk top is. The scrapbook page is done in a style I wouldn't usually do. I followed sketch #84 at Creative Scrappers. I like the rich vibrant colors I used, but I am not sure about the layout. Like I said it is not really my style. The picture is of my grandfather and my nephew not too long before my grandfather passed away this year. This picture is very special to me. I have had a very hard time dealing with Poppa's passing, but I am finally able to look at pictures of him at times. Sometimes I still can't look at his pictures.
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Christmas Eve Night

Here are some pictures I took late on Christmas Eve night. It started snowing around 6 p.m. and kept snowing until close to midnight. These are pictures out my front door. For the ground and sidewalk to be covered is a major snow in our neck of the woods. This was the first white Christmas we'd had since the 1970's.

A White Christmas

We have a white Christmas in Arkansas! It's the first one we have had since the 70's. I am so excited and hope to post pictures soon.

Birthday Calendar

Here is an example of birthday/anniversary calendars I have made for Christmas gifts plus one for myself. I am the world's worst at forgetting birthdays including my own. LOL!!

Anyway this looks a lot better in person. You can't tell in the picture but there is glitter on the read mat around the white paper that says important dates to remember. I used Basic black cardstock, Night and Day dsp, and retired riding hood red ribbon and cardstock.

I need to stamp the inside pages but don't know if I will have time. We are having Christmas on my mom's side of the family TOMORROW so these gifts may be a little bare on the inside. Did you notice that the first birthday I have listed is Elvis's? Doesn't everyone need to know that?

I seriously get his and my dad's mixed up every year and have to ask my brother when my dad's is. Maybe now I can keep them straight!

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Christmas Cards

Here are some cards I made using the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit by Stampin' Up! I've made these 8 cards so far and still have a lot of of kit left over and several projects to make. I am following the planner designed by my friend Diane at Diane's Designs. You can find her store here. She also has a Merry Moments Accordian Album planner that I plan to make. She makes really awesome and easy to follow planners. You can tell she has put a lot of hard work into them.
Her blog is also awesome. I hope to have a blog like hers one day.

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Christmas page

This is one of my favorite all time pictures. It was taken last year on Christmas Day exactly one week befor our mamaw had her stroke. She never fully recovered and later passed away in February so this picture is very special to me.
There is a clip at the top of the page because the page is hanging on the wall by the clip. I like to hang my scrapbook pages up for all to see for awhile before they go into an album.
On another note I am so excited because my blog has been picked twice this week to be listed on the Late Night Stampers Blog Find blog. Kelly searches the members blogs, and there are a lot of members, for projects, cards, etc. to list on LNS Blog Find blog. My posts from the 13th and 16th were picked and I am very honored!!!! Now I am off to make something creative because now I have a rep. to uphold.
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Rudolph Card

Even though I feel that this card needs a little something, I still love it. I used the largest sizzix scalloped circle to make it. To turn it into a card, I folded a piece of very vanilla in half. I then positioned it so that the top three scallops didn't get cut, as you can tell by the flat fold at the top of the card. I got this idea from a tag I saw made by Heidi at Karpen Diem Stamps. She made a tag, but I decided to try and turn it into a card, and it worked! It even fits into a standard size envelope.
Its a little hard to tell in the picture but I covered Rudolph's red nose, that first punched out with a standard hole punch, with red stickles. Everything always looks better with a little bling!!
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Another Christmas Gift

This is an 8x10 canvas that I decorated for my dad for Christmas. The picture is of my dad, my youngest son, and my youngest nephew. They are 3 characters!!

The large flower is from SU!'s pretty kit. I colored it with ink. Covered it with versamark and then embossing powder. I love the shiny effect you get. The buttons are clear and I glued them to designer paper using crystal effects to make custom buttons. I hope my dad likes it. I have a few more canvases to make so I had better get busy.

Christmas Gift

I have been making Christmas gifts like crazy, and I feel a little crazy right now.
This is an 11x14 (I think) canvas that I turned into a scrapbook page to give to my sister.
It shows my grandparents house and one of their out-buildings. Our Poppa passed away in September, and it has been very hard on us. He loved us so completely, and my sister and I miss him so very much.
First I painted the canvas a couple of times and then inked the edges with brown ink, maybe chocolate chip. I can't remember.
The pictures are 5x7s, and I matted them with very vanilla and ruby red. The ribbon is 1 inch double-stitched grosgrain in chocolate chip. You can find it on page 182 of the Idea Book and Catalog (#111849).
If you decide to make a "scrapbook page" out of a canvas be sure and use a really aggressive adhesive. I use glue dots to attach almost everything except the ribbon. For that I used my 1.5 inch xyron adhesive machine.
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Scallop envelope treat box

Here is a treat box I made using four scallop envelopes. If you google scallop envelope box you can find all kinds of tutorials. It is a very easy box to make. I don't have anything in this one but you could fill it with just about anything. It would make a great box to put a teacher's gift in.
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Gift Card Holder

Just a quick little post to show you this quick and easy gift card holder. Isn't it cute?! I first cut two chocolate chip scalloped squares using my big shot and the scallop square die. Add a little ribbon and dsp, cut out the envelope using the scallop envelope die and there you have it. It couldn't be any easier. I got the basic concept for this gift card holder from a challenge on SCS for demonstrators. The challenge project was a tea bag holder, but I adapted it to hold a gift card.

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Delightful Decorations and Ornament Punch 4

I love this card. I cased it from someone on SCS but I have lost the paper with her name on it.
I love fall colors and think this card is so cute. The ornament is made with the ornament punch. The top part of the acorn was made with a crimper, large oval punch and wide oval punch. If I can find the link to the person whom I cased, she has a tutorial on how to make the top of the acorn.
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Ornament Punch and Delightful Decorations 3

Isn't this card cute? I CASED it from a card I saw here on Splitcoast Stampers. This card is so cute and playful and it shows another use of the stamp set Delightful Decorations. Yes, that is right. This card is made with a Christmas ornament stamp set! Who would have thought?
Stay tuned for another card using this stamp set tomorrow!

Ornament Punch and Delightful Decorations 2

This card uses the stamp set Delightful Decoration and the ornament punch to make a flower. I got this idea from Rainy Day Creations. She did a much better job of making it look like a flower than I did, but as you can see this is another use of Delightful Decorations and the ornament punch. Who would ever know that this card was made from a Christmas ornament stamp set?
Stay tuned for another use for the stamp set tomorrow and thanks for stopping by!