Happy Birthday TO ME!

YIPPEEEE SKIPEEEE! 
It's my Birthday today!

Here are the last of my calendar pages...

Happy New Year!

OCL Challenge #98...Photo Inspiration

Friday means it's time for the OCL Weekly Challenge.  Look at this STUNNING photo for our inspiration.

I decided to go a different route for the challenge today ~ still use snow as the challenge but not in the elegant way this photo suggests.  I used the super cute snowman and snowflakes from the Tweet Winter Wishes stamp set and made these fun little containers of CHILL PILLS!  I made the tags on the computer and used containers of white Tic Tac mints.  I little bit of Sugar Sparkly Fluff really makes the snowman look CHILLY! 

Now it's your turn to play along.  Add your link to the OCL Blog post today for a chance to win a gift certificate from Our Craft Lounge.

Calendar Pages ... part 3

I love scrapbooking.  I've taken shortcuts the last few years & decided to make actual pages again. I used a calendar kit from Basic Grey this year.

ok...one more day after this and you'll have seen all the pages.

More Calendar Pages...

Hope you don't mind seeing a little bit of scrapbooking this week. 

Here are more calendar pages from our 2012 Family Calendar.

Gourmet Rubber Stamps ... January Preview Day!

How's about a peek?  Here's a pretty little project using the new Diners Club set for January from Gourmet Rubber Stamps?   The background, the LOVE sentiment and the heart are all part of the pretty little set called Sealed with A Kiss.

I know you won't want to miss seeing what the other girls have come up with. 

GRS Blog
Deb Felts
Jeni Allen
Joslyn Nielson
Joy Stagg
Kelli Palmer
Kendra Wietstock ~ you're here
Pam Hornschu
Rose Ann Reynolds
Taylor Usry

Calendar Pages for our 2012 Family Calendar...

I'm taking part of this week off from blogging new creations, but thought I would still share some of the calendar pages I made for our 2012 Family Calendar.  I make these each year as gifts for the grandparents & they love them.  For this year's calendar, I used pictures from our Alaska trip last summer.

I'll be back tomorrow with a preview of the new Gourmet Rubber Stamps Diners Club set for January ~ you won't want to miss it!

one tiny baby...

a baby really does change everything...

merry Christmas!

A few more Christmas goodies...

I found these unblogged cards in my folder the other day & thought I'd share them with you today.  I'm totally cracking up because I must have been doing this first card really fast ~ take a look at the sentiment...  LOL!  I used three of the new singles on this card ~ Mr Frosty, Mrs Frosty & Frosty Flakes. 

And here's one I made for some store samples... I used the Merry & Bright and Parka Penguins sets.

Have a VERY Merry Christmas!

OCL Challenge #97...Sketch Time

Today is gonna be short and sweet because I've got soooooo much to do!  But, it's Friday and that means that it's challenge day on the OCL Blog!   Today it's a sketch ...

And here's my card for the sketch!  I used the Penguin Fun stamp set and added some Rockin' Pink Sparkly Fluff on the penguins hat and ear muffs.

Have a great Friday!!!

Teacher Gifts ...

So here's how the conversation started...
Matt: "Hey Mom, did you make any teacher gifts this year?"

Me: "Nope!  You have too many teachers now."

Matt: "Can you make a few for me?"

Me: "How many?"

Matt: "I just need 4."
Me: "OK"

Fast forward ... 30 minutes later...

Matt: "Actually Mom, could you add 3 more?"
Megan: "How about the band directors at the high school?"
then a call from a friend who needs some help with gift & a small gift for my mail carrier...

Here we are...16 gifts later...LOL!

Here are my Cocoa To Go Cups ~ LOVE THEM!  Now before you ask, I found these snowman cups at Target last year & I couldn't find them this year.  Thankfully, I had an entire package of 10 cups left over.  Inside the cup ~ a Cocoa packet, Hershey Kisses, a bag of marshmellows, and a Curly Cane (Wilton's).

And here is the second design ~ since I needed more cups.

I love how both designs turned out!

more packaging ideas...

... continued from yesterday.  Today's gift idea ~ a pedicure gift certificate!  I didn't want to just give the brochure as a gift, so I stamped bubbles around the edges and tied a tag around it using the fun stamp set called Pretty & Pampered by Our Craft Lounge. 

Here's another look at the glittery, bubbly tag.

One more to make... I'll share later this week.

New Coveralls!

Have you ever noticed that as your kids get older, the gifts get smaller and more expensive?  The kids in my family love to get gift cards for gifts.  However, rather than just stick a gift card under the tree, I like to come up with cool ways to present them.  Yesterday as I was wrapping presents, I came up with this cool jean pocket for a gift card to my daughter's favorite clothing store.  This new Coveralls background stamp called Back Pocket by Gourmet Rubber Stamps is perfect!

The tag on the pocket & the sentiment inside were both made with the Love & Joy labels stamp set and the  Tweens & Teens set.  I also stamped the Back Pocket Coveralls image on the blue mat and on the blue scallop inside the card. 

OK ~ off to wrap more gifts!

Love is in the Air...

Happy Monday!  I know it's the week before Christmas, but I'm tired of making Christmas cards so here's a sweet little card using a new OCL set called Love in the Air. 

Supplies from i{heart}papers:
Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (Love in the Air)
Sparkly Fluff ~ Our Craft Lounge (Sugar & That's Hot! Pink)
Pattern Paper ~ My Minds Eye (Love Me)
Copic Markers
Palette Ink

just because {23}...

attitude is everything...