Quick Christmas Cards for CKC Advent Calendar

I am so glad to join in the fun over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge for Day 18 in our Advent countdown! If you want some great ideas for Christmas scrapping/crafting you need to go and check this out we have a post for each day in December leading up till Christmas

During the Christmas season it's not easy to get everything done on my Christmas list! I have a bad habit of procrastinating! this time of the year when it comes to cards to send out. So if you are like me then I suggest some fast cards to make:

This card was created with a variety of washi tape and stickers

 More stickers and the sentiment came from a 12X12 paper full of borders

This one is just the paper that has all the sentiments on it fast and easy!

These one was created with leftovers from other cards (save those leftovers in a special place in your stash just for some quick cards. 
Well I hope I gave you some fun, fast ideas for some Christmas cards this year...  
It's always fun to create using my stash and the easiest way I found to use it and create quickly is with Counterfeit Kit Challenge. So maybe next year consider joining us over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge as we use up our stash in fun unique ways.....

Christmas Cards for Use Your Stuff challenge

Good Morning and welcome to this week's challenge of Christmas/Holidays over at Use Your Stuff. Such a broad subject for a challenge as you can go many different ways with this challenge. Christmas to me is about being with family and friends and then there is the shopping thing that happens too :) Christmas is also time to send and receive Christmas Cards......
Just a couple of the many cards I created this year to send out:

 I've been enjoying making Christmas cards in July so then that is 1 thing off my list for the month of December :) 

Let us not forget the reason for the season as the 1st gifts were given the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh which were given to the baby Jesus by the Magi. Established the giving and receiving of gifts as the structural principle of that recurrent yet unique event", because it was the Biblical Magi, "together with all their fellow men, who received the gift of God through man's renewed participation in the divine life.
Thank  you for stopping by today :) and seeing what I'm creating in my little corner of the world. I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge over at Use Your Stuff.

1 Fine Day for Sketch N Scrap Challenge

Good Morning :) Well it's just little over a week till Christmas and we're not ready yet but closer to being ready than yesterday :) How about you? Wanted to stop in and get this fun sketch over at Sketch N Scrap posted :) This is the 2nd layout sketch of the month :)

Wow both sketches this month are great! This is what I created using this sketch:

2 of our Great Grand-daughters Emily and Ava, enjoying a bit of fun in the mud! It was cool to see these photos pop up on facebook from our Granddaughter Jessica.

 I used a couple of Counterfeit Kits for this layout. The 1 Fine Day is a card from October Afternoon and so are the puffy stickers around the layout. The umbrellas, rainboots, the fly free spot and the journaling tag came from the The Bright Side collection.

The are adorable and brighten my day :) Thanks from stopping by today and enjoying the view from my little corner of the world. I look forward to seeing your creation over at Sketch N Scrap

The Magic of Christmas LO for CKC Advent Calendar

I am so glad to join in the fun over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge for Day 11 in our Advent countdown! If you want some great ideas for Christmas scrapping/crafting you need to go and check this out we have a post for each day in December leading up till Christmas

The pictures go left to right across the double page layout. A Christmas gift that I had gotten my husband hmmm mid 1990s I would say, need to investigate this a bit better with comparing other photos. But I had fun getting this gift together with a bit of help from the delivery guys and getting them to stack the chairs to make 1 tall box. My husband is 6'4" so that gives an idea of how tall it was. As it was buy one get one free I also had a nice Christmas gift too :) But his reaction was priceless that day and a memory of a fantastic gift that I've never forgotten. Did find out that negatives just don't hold up well and these are with a bunch of negatives that I better get printed before they get any worst, will be looking into a local place that does this type of printing.

 I used Christmas pattern paper and also some gift paper. I like to try to use a variety of fonts for my title and was able to achieve using 3 of them. using a variety of Christmas die cuts and a couple of project life cards too. 
This layout was prompted during LOAD217 Greek Mythology for Day 16
DAY 16: Gifts
What is the best gift you’ve ever given or received?
This story of this gift is one of my favorite memories at Christmas time. So it was fun to finally get it documented :) 

It's always great to dig into some old stash to do my Christmas layouts and I've got quite the stash of Christmas Scrappy items :) So maybe next year consider joining us over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge as we use up our stash in fun unique ways.....

Merry Doggy Christmas

Hello and welcome to this Funday Friday Anything Goes challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack . Our Sponsor this week is  Digital Delights by Louby Lou!

 A cool digital stamp file was given to us to use this week and it made for the perfect card to give to the Hubby from our pooch Buddy :) I colored it with my bic markers and used a gold and clear Wink of Stella pens for some glitter :) Finished it with my snowflake corner punch :)
Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to link your creation up over at Jo's Scrap Shack.

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Santa & Deer card for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning :) and welcome to the 1st card sketch of the month over at Sketch N Scrap. Heather Hall provide this Christmasy sketch:

Working through some of my scraps from my layouts last month and added a fun digital stamp for this card:

 Even grabbed my stickles and added some to the snowflakes on the digi stamp :)

Added a few punched snowflakes for some extra glitter :) I look forward to seeing your creation with this fun card challenge over at Sketch N Scrap

Hooray! layout for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and Wow! It's December already! Where did that year fly off to! Are you getting busy? Any scrappy plans for December? December is usually a busy month for me, luckily I'm almost done shopping so that should take out some of the stress of the holiday and to enjoy the festivities of the month besides celebrating a special birth.
This is the 1st sketch of the month over at Sketch N Scrap and it's a good one! so many layers to play with:

and the layout I created with it :)

Avery is our grandson and one that is so determined at anything that he does, he amazes me for his young age what he has accomplished :) A bit behind on scrappy of his achievements this is the picture that spoke to me when I did this layout :) I was able to include a 2nd picture with a close up of the medal he received as one of the circles in the sketch. Williamsport Area School district colors are Cherry, White and Black so incorporated the colors within the layout.
Close ups photos:

 Using papers from my November counterfeit kit: Just Bloomin' Lovely, with adding various stars in my stash.

 Metal received. Whimsical Musings Challenge #287 be inspired by awards

The fun title created with that gold lettering in the kit :) Finally used one of the Hoorays up now to decide how to use the other one :)
Thanks for stopping by today and check back later for another posting of a double page layout I did :) Looking forward to seeing your creation for this fun challenge, it's an awesome sketch if your like to layer :) over at Sketch N Scrap