The last Christmas card

I have one last card to show you.  I love this Santa.  I used him several times last year too!

I'm officailly done with all my Christmas shopping, wrapping and preperation.  We'll be heading to Anthony's brothers house in Columbus for Christmas eve.  Then to Grammie and Grandpa's where Grammie will have excellent cookies to set out for Santa (I won't be able to stop myself from eating several).  I'll spend the next few days listening to Christmas music and praying for time to slow down.  I'm not ready for the end of the year, nor am I ready to face the fact that February is just around a short corner.

I'll be back on Friday to show you all the ornaments that I made this year

Have a beautiful wednesday!

Melissa

Oh Wednesday how I love you!

Wednesday means only a couple more days that I have to get up and bundle the kids up for our short walk to school before the Christmas break!!  Wednesday means we are on the down hill slide to our wonderful Christmas party this weekend.  Yay yay I'm excited!!

Isn't this card just the cutest!  I love this patterened paper from Me and My Big Ideas and these cute little reindeer from Smirk stamps.  I love the little ornaments on his antlers. 

Happy Hump day everyone!!

melissa

Angels on high

Sorry for not posting yesterday, school was cancelled yesterday so I had very little time in my craft room yesterday afternoon. 

 Last night I attended a fantastic cookie exchange with the fabulous women in my neighborhood.  I have so far refrained from having one or two of those delicious cookies for breakfast.  We are on a two hour delay from school this morning so my kids would see me eating them and then I'd have to give them one and they always tell Dad when I let them have cookies for breakfast.  They seem to forget to mention the actual breakfast that I fix them every morning.

I only have a few cards left to show you.  This is one of my favorites this year.  I love how simple it is and of course pink is always a good choice.

Have a happy Tuesday!

melissa

where did the week go?!?

Seriously its already Friday?!?  I have a to-do list about a mile long and nothing seems to be getting marked off.  Why oh why did I decide to have a holiday party this year?  I'm a little stressed, not about the party, I could throw a party in my sleep.  I have some new that I've been putting off writting about, even really thinking about. 

Shortly after the new year my hubby will be going to overseas for a year.  The girls and I will be staying in Ohio, near their grandparents. I've done really well holding off on freaking out until after Christmas but I can feel the reality closing in on me.  What I really want to do is lay down and cry, and at some point I most likly will, but now isn't the time for that.  Now is the time for us to spend as much time as possible with each other, to celebrate this wonderful, cheerful holiday together and with those we love.   So the freaking out and hysteria can wait a couple more weeks.

I promise this wasn't all a pity party for me, I do have a card to show you.  I love this one.  Super simple and cheery.

Thanks for listening to my rambling.  I wish for you a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend.  Merry Christmas Friends!!

Melissa

BRRRR

Seriously its cold outside!!! I'm past being done with winter and its hardly started.

Heres a card I did with some Smirk stamps. They are just too cute!  The colors aren't quite right in the picture (its purple) but I love how the colors of the card are bright and cheery.

Well I'm off to tackle the laundry monster that keeps growing.  Have a fabulous Wednesday!

Melissa

Mornin'

Good morning to you.  If you consider cold and snowing with a two hour school delay (after you got up already at 6 and took your shower) a good morning. It wouldn't be so bad except I had errand to run this morning after I dropped Rhalynn off so I could be back by 9:15.  But since there is a two hour delay it means the road must be bad (which terrifies me) so no driving for me this morning.

Here's one more of my Christmas cards (which I haven't even sent out yet).  I hope to be sticking them in the mail today (cross your fingers for me) 

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Melissa

Pirate Chistmas

Well  we are halfway through the week and I have plans with my BFF on Friday evening, YAY!!  Did anyone else catch Glee last night?  What did you think?  I missed last week and forgot that I missed it so I need to go back and watch it but I'm not sure if I'm really getting the show this year.

I have a fantastic card to show you today.  I just love this pirate snowman and all the little extra stamps that came with him.  Isn't the polka dot paper fantastic?  I'm hoping to use him tons more.

Well I'm off to Michaels to get some glitter to finish off my Chirstimas ornaments for this year.  Have a wonderful day!!

Melissa

Happy Shopping!

Sorry for the extended absence.  I've been busy creating I just haven't really felt like blogging.  But I'm determined to start posting again regularly.

I hope that everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving!  Did you go out and brave the crowds on Black Friday?  I did with my MIL.  I scored my girls each a pink DS's for $89.  I think they are going to have a fantastic Christmas.  I've just about finished up all of my shopping.  Just a couple of people left to buy for.  In honor of a weekend of shopping I though this card was called for.

Have a fabulous Monday!

Melissa

The last of my Christmas cards!!

Happy Monday!

Anthony the girls and I had a wonderful weekend!! Saturday we went to the Ohio Reniassance Festival. The girls had a great time seeing all the people in costume.


Then on Sunday we headed over to Beavercreek for the Popcorn Festival. Rhalynn loves popcorn so she was super excited. We didn't stay long because the girls and I were getting hot and cranky. We did discover that Beavercreek has a wonderful park and playground. I'm guessing that we'll be going back to play there again.


Well on to the crafty stuff.

Both of these cards were done with the Christmas solutions cart and my trusty Expression.









Have a scrappy day!!

Melissa

Two more Christmas cards!

Here are two more Christmas cards that I did with my wonderful Cricut Expression. Wish that I could get some better pictures but I either got showdow or the light glaring.





Let me know what you think. I love love love comments.

Have a scrappy day!

Melissa

Christmas cards as far as the eye can see....

I've been working on Christmas cards since early summer and I've finially finished all of mine. YEA!!!! I still have a few to do for my Mom but now I have a great system and can turn them out in now time.

I'm posting my latest and favorite one. I made 12 of these. I usually only make about 6 but I just loved them so much I had to make more.

The hat, tree and candy cane are one stamp for the $1 bin at M's. I just used a 3/4" circle punch to punch each one out. The used my Cricut to cut 1" red circles and 1 1/4" green scalloped circles. The green cirlces have very shallow scallops since I used the tag from Alphalicious cart. I used the Cuttlebug and the D'vine Swirls embossing folder on the lower part. This is my first project with my new Cuttlebug and I think I'm in love.

Thanks for stopping by and have a scrappy weekend.

Melissa

Christmas Cards

So I promised my friend R that I'd be posting something this weekend so here it is.

I've been working on Christmas Cards all summer long. My thinking is that if I started them in June, then possibly Id finish them in time to actually send them out this year.

The first is my favorite. The sled is from the Christmas Noel Solutions cart. I'm making six of each design. I'm not sure what size I cut them at, but since I did them in DS I have them saved. I stickled the white top part of the sleigh and the bottom was cut from a DCWV metalic stack. There are quite a few layers to this one, I love my Zig glue pen. Sorry about the quality of the picture, I waited until to late and lost all of the good light.

This one is my second fav and I think that it turned out fairly well. The reindeer is from Doodlecharms and again I have no idea what size. I stickled his little red nose. The paper is from a Martha Stewart Chirstmas stack that I got on clearence this past January. Someone suggested the googlie eyes over at the Cricut MB when I brought up my delima of doing the face.

As always thanks for stopping by and have a Scrappy week!!

Melissa

Santa Card

Good morning and happy Saturday!!! Its a wonderful day today in our household. The Hubby got back last night from a week long TDY. A week usually isn't a big deal for us but since he just got back from a 5 1/2 month deployment they girls were franic when he left. But now he is home and the girls are just as happy as little clams.



Well so on to the card. I wanted to make my Christmas cards this year but I usually say this and never do it. So I thought that if I started early enought and just worked out them occasionally I woudn't get bored with them. So I started working on them in June. They seem to be going together pretty fast.



Of course I used my Cricut (which I sometimes refer to as my third child.) I made the card and welded the shape onto it using DS. I can't even work with the Cricut with out DS. I inked Santa up a little so that he looked like he just came down the chimney. Not really sure how much I like it but it kind of grows on you.




Thanks for stopping by. Have a scrappy day!!!

Melissa