Eat Drink and Be Merry

Hello! Today I would like to share with you my most recent Christmas layout. 

Backstory: My son is ten this past Christmas and is no longer interested in sitting on Santa's lap. So instead, I took my beloved dog, Sky!!!! My little dog is too distrustful so she got to stay home and cry about it. *LOL*

Sky is eight years old and it's her first Santa picture. She did fabulous!!!! P.S. So did Santa.

The bright photo with a whirlwind of colors definitely needed bright paper to match. Nothing will do except Bella Blvd.

I'm entering this into the Scrap Our Stash's Tic Tac Toe challenge. I used misting spray, 5+ patterned papers and twine.

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

The bright, glittery title came from HL. Actually, my sister bought it and
I just had to use it on the layout. I also purposely used references to "eating" here as
well. What dog doesn't like "cookies" lying around, right?!

 

I've been playing around with misting spray. Of course I added
a bit of hand-stitching!!

Supplies:

--Bella Blvd. - Holly Jolly Christmas

--AC White Cardstock

Glimmer Mist - Denim

Red Stitching

Red/White Twine (on button)

Christmas title and button - from HL

Note: My pets really do not have access to "people" cookies. I just reference cookies for humor.

Studio Challenges: Mood Board: Happy Summer

Hello and welcome! Today's challenge with StudioChallenges is a mood board!!!!

I will be posting a lot of vacation pages from our trip to Germany. This particular photo is showing the steep trail we had to use to go down the side of the mountain. Put your best foot forward!

Supplies:

Paper:

--White Cardstock

--Bella Blvd. - Freestyle Banana

--Pretty Little Studio - Woodland collection

Embellishments:

Various items for Pretty Little Studio - Woodland collection

Cork

Buttons from Daiso!!

Hand-stitching

Give a Crafter a Cookie . . .

Hello there! It's a new challenge at "If You Give a Crafter a Cookie" challenge blog!

Here are the cookies for your inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Penguin winter face from My Scrap Chick.

Supplies:

Recollections - Ice Crystals

My Craft Spot - Stamp

Winter Ribbon from long ago . . . 

Black and White Cardstock

Such a Great Guy!!

For all those teen/pre-teen boys out there who are difficult 'creatures' but still need our love . . . this one if for you.

I reached for my stash, threw it all on my desk and came up with this.

I am submitting this to SAS4Kids as well!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:

No idea - random stuff from little bins around my desk.

Vacation: A Trip to Remember

Hello all!!!

I did warn my readers that I would be posting a lot about my family's trip to Germany! This page is about our stop to Dresden, East Germany. I will be making another page just showing the beauty of the place, but also the residual feel of Communism that was left behind in East Germany.

So much of Germany was destroyed in WWII. Nearly every major city and building was demolished due to bombing. What's different about Europe in general is that the people want to preserve their history, not build something shiny and modern.

Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, etc. is rebuilding what was destroyed. Because it's being rebuilt with copper, it already looks "old" since copper changes color so quickly, due to the weather. That's not really shown in these photos but I thought it was worth mentioning.

I was hugely inspired by the new sketch over at Stuck?!Sketches. So I thought I'd play along!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Supplies:
Paper:
--AC White Cardstock
--AC Denim (blue) cardstock
--Pretty Little Studio - Let's Go

Altenew Reflection Kit - stamps within that kit
Clock Stencil and Black Zig Pen
Tim Holtz background stamps
Pretty Little Studio embellishments - Let's Go
Denim Blue Glimmer Mist
Cork Star - Spiegelmom Scraps
"Something" I forgot . . .

Better Not Pout!!

Hello! Today I made this card to play along at Die Cuttin' Divas!!! The gingerbread man is from 

Treasure Box Designs! Thanks for stopping by today!

Studio Challenges: Here We Go!

Challenge - Review of the Year - instead of looking forward to the new year ahead, I want you to look back at the year you have just had! It could be a review of the whole year, something special that happened or your favourite thing about the year, or maybe it's one you would rather forget! it's up to you! Head back up to The Studio Challenges for more fabulous inspiration.

What a challenge, right!?? I love how I could do almost anything I wanted, as long as I talked about something from 2016.

For me, 2016 was about our big trip to Germany. I have many layouts planned with the awesome paper from Pretty Little Studio as well as the new Reflection kit from Altenew (that will come later). This is my first one about that wonderful trip.

This scene is us about 1 mile high up in the Bavarian Alps. What a grand time this was!!!! We loved the view and my son loved all the climbing. I stuck mainly to taking photos. I must say that all of us enjoyed this day together so much!! More awesome photos to come throughout the next few weeks.

I was greatly inspired by this layout from Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

I hand-stitched the entire "pie" circle.

A close up view of a cluster of embellishments

Supplies:

Paper: Background - Light Kraft

Pretty Little Studio - Let's Go

White Cardstock

Thickers

Gold Sequins

Cork and Punches

White Thread - stitching

All other embellishments from the 'Let's Go' collection

Silhouette Cameo - Pie die cut

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Studio Challenges: No Peeking

Hello and welcome! Today is a new challenge over at The Studio Challenges. The challenge is to make a layout based on this wonderful, festive table setting. Get out those Christmas papers and have fun!!!

The Studio Challenges

I was trying to be creative with taking photos of my son around our 

tree. Looks like he's got a tree bulb nearly up his nose right? My son

seems to always do this quirky movement with his eyes and mouth when I want

to take photos. Needless to say, he was still an excited 7 year old!!!

'No Peeking' is not your "normal" page title. In fact, I couldn't

find it at all in my usual places to look so I had to make my own

using SCAL3 and some fancy font.

I love stitching - the end!

Supplies:

Paper - Teresa Collins - Tinsel & Company

Stickers from various places

Sequins and Candy Cane - Hobby Lobby

Arrow punch and cork board 

Silhouette and SCAL3 - title

Red Thread and circle template

Poinsettia from somewhere

Give a Crafter a Cookie Challenge: Cookies for Santa

We have a new challenge this week at "Give a Crafter a Cookie". 

Here is the image we are working with. Beautiful!

I wanted to do something fun and adorable for two sets of people. One being my husband's coworkers and the second being for SAS4Kids. I made enough of these gingerbread face cards for both! The best part was using up scraps and using Christmas/Winter embellishments that were trapped in a drawer somewhere. 

The face is two files combined from My Scrap Chick.  I used
the smile from a snowman face to brighten up the card. I didn't want to
send a "sad" face to kids in hospitals.

I did alter the smile and eyes by using the shadow feature on SCAL3.

Bigger eyes are easier to work with. Also, I cut the smile out once and

traced it with a black pen to save me the headache of working

with a thin cut (and using a bunch of extra black card stock).

Supplies:

-AC Brown Sugar Cardstock

-AC White Cardstock

-Various Winter and Christmas scrap paper

-EP Holidays solid paper

-Various Christmas embellishments from Hobby Lobby

-Twine

-Recollections Glitter Glue (on the white)

-Chalk

-White Gel Pen

-Charcoal Grey ink (I didn't want to shade with black = too harsh)

-Stamp from My Craft Spot

-Embossing powder (on the stamp)

Tools for the eyes - top secret!

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Candy Cane Treat Boxes

Stopping by to share with you the treat boxes I made for my son's 

4th grade teachers.

They are a free file provided by Dreaming Tree!

Paper is Graphic 45 - 12 Days of Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

The Studio Challenges: Together

Oh boy did I positively drool over this year's Doodlebug Design's - Flea Market. I even bought extra embellishments from the collection cause I simply loved it all.

I seem to be going back in time these past few months scrapping about the year that Alvaro, an exchange student from Spain, stayed with us. This photo is one of my favorites with these two playing "bull fighting" at the Homestead, Ky. What I don't have a photo of is Alvaro holding his ribs after my son head butted him. It's all good though!

This layout is part of this week's challenge at The Studio Challenges. The challenge is a sketch so hop on over there to view the sketch as well as the other fabulous layouts by our design team.

Thanks for stopping by today!

I so miss my sewing machine. I wanted stitching so
I went with hand-stitching on this layout.

Up close photo of clustering embellishments.

Supplies:

-Doodlebug Designs - Flea Market

-Hobby Lobby - Wooden Leaves

-Silhouette Online Store - Large Circle Leaf Wreath

-Hand-Stitching

New Design Team and Card

 Hello and welcome!! Today I would like to announce that I'm part of a new design team called "If You Give a Crafter a Cookie".

Cute, right?!

It's simple really . . . be inspired by the image of cookies for that week's challenge. This is a great opportunity to also show off any other type of projects we can come up with because it's not just a card challenge.

Woot!!

Without further ado, here is this week's cookie challenge!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Give a Crafter a Cookie

Well, I guess my first project is a card. LOL This is a
3-D pop dot card that I got from the online
Silhouette store.

Supplies:

-AC White Cardstock

-BoBunny Altitude Collection

-Silver Ribbon from HL

-AC Coffee Cardstock (deer)

-Pop-Dots

-Silhouette Cameo

Before I forget, they do have a weekly sponsor for their challenges. Since most of the sponsors are all about stamping and coloring, I will most likely be doing my own thing.  I must say though that Beccy's images are awesome!!! Enjoy!

Beccy's Place

Creative Scrappers: Brrrrrr

Creative Scrappers is hosting a BLOG HOP today in conjunction with Spiegelmom Scraps. I hope you take a few minutes of your busy day to join us!

Spiegelmom Scraps sent me a wonderful mix of blue sequins, cork stars and gold doilies. I used them all on my layout! I will also be giving away a prize for THIS BLOG STOP! It will be a grab bag consisting of coordinating goodies for one of YOUR layouts!! Please be a follower of this blog for a chance to win that grab bag!!

Here's the order for today's hop!

Anne Keller

Ashley Smith

Audrey Yeager

Caroli Schulz

Christine Beuzit

Jinny Newlin

Joefil Cate

Kristine Davidson 

Majken Pullin

Marielle LeBlanc

Nicole Doiron

Rachel Lowe

Sarah King

Suzanna Lee

Valérie Ouellet

Vivian Lake - YOU ARE HERE

Yvette Weber

Please take advantage of this coupon on your next purchase from Spiegelmom Scraps.

Enjoy our reveal this month and please join us on December 15th for a

another blog hop with design team members from SMS!

Tag us using #Creatingwithsketches and #spiegelmomscraps.

We will also have a great prize for one of our participants as

well as a copy of the new Creating with Sketches V4!!

Your next stop is at Yvette's!!

Supplies:
Paper:
---BoBunny's Sleigh Ride
Goodies were provided by Spieglemom Scraps.
---Doily, Sequins and snowflakes, Corkstars
Title from another of BoBunny's previous winter line
Wooden Snowflake
Acrylic snowflake
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