Winner of the 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Just wanted to take a quick time out from Christmas gift making, card making, and taking care of kids to announce the winner of the blog hop over the weekend. The winner was #28, picked by random.org.

I am a follower and these tags are wonderful. Love your blog :)

Happy Scrappin'

Sue B

Sue, I will be in contact soon.

Thanks so much for playing everyone!! I have something VERY exciting planned for this weekends blog hop! See you on Friday;-).

'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Welcome to the 'Tis the Season Blog Hop!

If you came here from Bonnie's Blog then you are on the right track, if you just happened to visit my blog today and want to start at the beginning, head to Iva's blog.

It's getting so close to Christmas, my kids are getting more and more excited each day. (Well at least my 4 yr old is, my 1 1/2 yr old just gets excited along with her, LOL!) I'm not sure if they are going to last the next 20 odd days to Christmas! We have been having so much fun decorating the house and crafting in all things Christmas. For this blog hop I decided to show off a few tags I made. I normally don't make my own tags for Christmas but I thought this might be something fun to try out this year. It's super easy and lots of fun!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Stampin UP! Delightful Decorations

Ink: Stampin UP Cherry Cobbler, Versamark, and Old Olive

Paper: Stampin UP! Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla

Ribbon: Stampin UP! Chocolate Chip

Supplies Used:

Stampin UP! Real Red and Basic Black paper, silver brads and retired Stampin UP! Gingham ribbon

Now, onto some blog candy I am giving away this December calendar page from Simple As ABCraft.

Calendar pages are a great way to organize your scrapbooks, especially when you are trying to "catch up". Wait, do we ever really catch up on scrapbooking?? Anyway, if you would like to win this page, please become a follower and leave a comment on this post with a way for me to get a hold of you by Sunday night, Dec 5th. Super easy!

If you would like to keep going on the hop, please stop by Christine's blog next. Take care, and have a very Merry Christmas!!

30 Days of Gift Making Blog Hop, Day 30

Welcome to the last day of the 30 Days of Gift Making Blog Hop! I cannot believe this hop is over, there have been so many fabulous projects and I have gotten lots of ideas on what to make friends and family for Christmas. Now I just need more time to do it!:-)

Anyway, on to my project. I have been wanting to make a board book on my cricut for quiet some time now. One morning I had an idea and starting designing this one on my gypsy. I thought "Noel" would be the perfect thing to cut out for a Christmas book. At first, I had a hard time cutting the chipboard I used. I chose to use a cereal box with my deep cut blade but after cutting it many times and not having much luck, I gave up. My machine was making noises and the blade wouldn't move unless I had it on a pressure of 1. I decided to go at it again with some thinner chipboard on a pizza box and not use my deep cut blade. After one cut it cut out perfectly! I am thrilled with how it came out!

Here is the book standing up

The "N", I just love my little face ornaments:-)

The book opened to the first page

The second page

The third page

The back of the book

The book laying flat

Supplies and Directions:

Cartridges: Plantin Schoolbook for the letters and the rectangle. I welded a rectangle onto each of the letters and just stretched the rectangle until I was satisfied with the look of the letters overlapping each other. I used Joys of the Season for the ornaments.

Paper: Stampin UP! Jolly Holiday DSP and Very Vanilla for the ornaments and saying

Stamps: Stampin UP! Teeny Tiny Wishes and PKS Everyday Face Assortment

Ink: Stampin UP! Basic Black, Old Olive, and Cherry Cobbler

Misc: Silver Stickles, various ribbon, 3 gypsies rings, and Stampin UP! Old Olive brads

Please email me if you have any questions on this project. Thank you to Jill, The Scrapoholic for hosting this fun Hop!

Wall Decor

I just have to share this fabulous wall decor I picked up on a recent trip to Frankenmuth, MI. If you have ever heard of Frankenmuth well then you know it's home to the largest Christmas store in the World, Bronner's! I picked up this very cute wall decor while there. It's called Wall La La! and I love how it looks on my door!

Winner of the 30 Days of Gift Giving Blog Hop

Hi everyone,

I am a day late picking the hop winner, so sorry about that. We were a bit busy in my house yesterday between school, the kids being a bit under the weather, and oh yeah Harry Potter!! I went to go see it yesterday and would highly recommend it! Anyway, onto the winner. I had random.org pick the winner and it selected number 10, Patty K. Here is what Patty had to say:

pattyk said...

Great project -kids always like pretty boxes to put thier treasures in-thanks

Thanks so much for stopping by everyone!! I have my next day for the hop on the 30th and have something fun planned. I hope to get in a few other posts along the way before we head east (Eastern Michigan that is) for the holiday.