Fa la la la la....

Are you feeling the spirit? We have been watching the Grinch and Frosty the Snowman over and over. Kati is infatuated with these movies all of a sudden! In fact, the Grinch is on right now! =)

I finally finished my Fa La La mini album that I was working on for Right at Home Scrapbooking and the kits are now ready and available for purchase! When you visit their site, you can click on the photo for more information about the kit contents, and on the right hand side you'll see a link to add to your cart. Here are a few sneaks of the inside:

And the cover:
If you are looking for more Christmas project ideas and inspiration, be sure to stop by the Pink Paislee blog. We are posting ornaments daily, and the girls really did a beautiful job. Pink Paislee is also having a design team search for the new year...click here to view the details if you are interested! There is also a free gorgeous holiday card template for you designed with the Pink Paislee Tinsel Town papers here if you haven't done your Christmas cards yet!

Enjoy your weekend,

I Believe...

Christmas is nearing and there is still sooo much to do! Are you all done with your shopping? I am not. There are just some people I have NO idea what to get, know what I mean? Those loved ones who have everything...yes, you know who you are! tee hee

Hmm...let's see... I've been a busy little elf creating things for the Melissa Frances catalog with some new papers, which I can't share yet. But I can't wait to show you. Today I have some cards on the Dream Street Paper blog. You should be sure to stop by and check out the site every few days this month especially, because the team has been busy creating lots of things for you to see and be inspired by! My assignment this month was to create a few cards with the Wonderland Collection, which I absolutely loved. Red is my favorite color and combined with pink and blue.. oh my! Here they are:I had to get out my Cuttlebug and emboss a little bit on the white cardstock and the foam snowflake on this one. The rub on is by Melissa Frances.
The bow on this one is just a piece of wide ribbon that I tied in a loose knot. I added white paint to the clear snowflake and another foam snowflake. The little red tag is by Making Memories, rub on by Melissa Frances again.
The striped paper reminded me of a candy cane, so I got out my Doodlebug candy cane box that came with buttons, flowers and such and traced it for my card template. The metal star is by Li'l Davis, chipboard letters are Dream Street and the white scallops are Bazzill Just the Edges (love these!).
And last but not least, a little card I made for fun yesterday. Just for me. I drew the body and head of the reindeer myself, raised the head up on pop dots and tied a little scarf around it. Papers are Camden by Collage Press, chipboard "antlers" and ornament are Basic Grey - Offbeat, and another rub on by Melissa Frances. (Most of these things were from the Nov. kit at CreateMyKeepsake.com.) I do think he could have been a little taller and skinnier, but oh well. He's a healthy little reindeer!
Thanks so much for stopping by and all your kind comments! I know I have more to share, just trying to remember what all I've made lately. I'll be back with more soon! =) Blessings,

Countdown to Christmas...

December 1st...wow...I can't believe it's December already! This month will certainly fly by too, love this busy time of year. Today the girls and I decorated the tree and mantle, here are some pictures from our day. We didn't have time over the weekend, because we ended up doing some shopping, but Taylor had a 1/2 day at school today, so today was a good day to do the tree.

Taylor took a photo of Kati and I...

Putting the tree together...

Hanging the ornaments...

Kati

Taylor

The Pink Paislee blog is also doing a countdown to Christmas with the "12 Days of Ornaments", so be sure to check it out each day to see what the design team has been up to! We created several hand made ornaments for charity and will share a couple of them each day with directions. Today was my day to post. I created a little decorative box ornament and an icicle ornament.This little box was just an inexpensive box from the craft store that I covered in Pink Paislee - Tinsel Town paper. I found a holiday pick for $1 that already had the little pink and silver presents/ornaments/greenery on it, and just attached it to the top of the box with some pom pom trim underneath. (I lightly went over the greenery with white paint to tone it down a bit.) I added a rub on tree and Joy rub on from the Tinsel Town rub on set to the front. This would be really fun holding a gift inside and hung on the tree!
For this ornament, I found an icicle pattern on-line and simply printed out the pattern, traced it onto the back of the Jack Frost paper, cut it out and folded it up for this icicle ornament. I filled it with some candies to add a little bit of weight to it and used a to/from rub on on the 5th Avenue paper and tied it shut with twine.
Edited to add: HERE is the pattern I used for the Icicle Box Ornament! I printed it out a little bit larger than the pattern here.

I do have one more ornament that will be posted on the 12th day. Thanks for stopping by!