Friday is here!!

I've been working away getting ready for my party tomorrow.  The food is bought the house is decorated and I'm in the process of cleaning every square in of it.  I'm pretty sure have 2 and 1/2 baths is really over kill.  I'm pretty sure we could survive with just the one upstairs and the 1/2 downstairs.  3 toliets are a awful lot to have to scrub!  Thankfully I'm almost done, I'm down to finishing the laundry and scrubbing my floors.

Today I wanted to show you some of the ways I decorated our house this year. 

I've always wanted to have a fireplace, not to have a fire but for the mantel.  I think that stocking just don't look as nice if you don't have a mantel.  Usually we use our bookshelf and hang our stocking from that.  However this year I saw a fabulous wall hanging that you could hang your stockings from.  I would have bought it but I need 5 hangers and it only had four.  I know, I know you are think "but there are only four of you," which is true but we have a stocking that says 'The Sayers.'  My MIL made it for us along with the girls stockings and I love to have it out but we each need a stocking because thats one of my favorite parts of Christmas morning.  Everyone gets something in their stocking!

So this is what I came up with this year.  I cut all the words with the Cricut Winter Woodlands cart twice, once on white vinyl and once on patterned paper.  I glued the paper to the vinyl and then stuck it on my wall.

This is the corner of my dinning room.  The tree is for the ornament exchange at our party tomorrow.  I cut all the ornaments on my Cricut with the Christmas solutions cart.  I cute the bases on red and blue vinyl and the tops on shiny silver paper, glued them together, stuck them on the wall and added shiny ribbon to make them look like they are hanging.  I love this corner so much I might not ever take it down.  Seriously, Anthony won't be here to say anything about it and the girls won't mind one bit.

Close-ups of the ornaments.  I'm not sure what size I cut these at since they are all different sizes but they all did fit on on 12x12 sheet.

I'll be entering my creations into the Fantabulous Cricut "Deck the Halls Crawl" Challange.

I hope that you all have a wonderful Friday and a fab weekend!

melissa

CD ormanents cont....

I just have a real quick post today. I wanted to show you the other two recycled CD ornaments I made.

I actually have tons of things to show you but my camera isn't functioning correctly. I'm hoping to get a new one soon. I have no idea how to get through Christmas without a camera. I might have to pull out my 35mm Canon.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Melissa

Recycled CD ornaments

We have tons of old DVDs and CDs that either have outdated information on them or would no longer work. For some odd reason we have been moving these all over the world for 10 years. When we got a new computer desk I set out to get rid of anything we weren't using and found tons of these disks. So I decided that I would reuse them and make Christmas ornaments for all the kids in my family and the kids in Rhalynn's class.

I think they turned out well.


The reindeer was cut from Doodlecharms.

The santa was cute from Doodlecharms.

The font is Plantin Schoolbook I believe and the dove is from the Christmas solution cart.

I hope that everyone is having a Blessed Holiday Season!!

Melissa

Happy Friday!!

My Cricut has been humming this morning. I'm working on several different things but my goal for today is to finish up my ormanents and get the bulk of my Christmas tags done.

Today I'm showing you the tea light boxes that I put together. The santa was a free digi from Pixie Dust Studios. I orginally created this box for their Pixie Challenge, however I never got a chance to post it before the due date.
I have seen many boxes for just about everything so I decide to try my hand at making my own. After much trial and error I finally got these two boxes. It would have probably been eaisier just to find someone elses directions.

The large box holds five tealights and the small box hold four.










I hope that everyone has a wonderful Friday and a beautiful weekend. Next week I'll have some ornaments to show you guys!

**Hugs**

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

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