BLOG CANDY WINNER

I hope everyone had a fabulous Holiday with your family and friends and I wish you all the best for the New Year.

Thank you everyone for participating in my blog give away, your comments were so nice and I really appreciate the love :).

Now for the winner - picked out of a hat by my nephew ..........

SUSAN!!

whoop whoop, congratulations Susan.  Please send me an email with your address and I will get out your goody box pronto!!

Some Fun Cards with Nikki Sivils

I just whipped up these little cards using Nikki Sivils "Cherry Cutie Cut-Ups."  These are great cards for that { All Ocassion } situation.  I am going to send them to friends just to catch up.  I have always preferred writing cards vs. calling.  I guess because I use the phone for work, I really dont like talking on the phone at home.  I do like sending cards though :)  I think it is much more personal.

I used some brads, ribbon, the cutie die cuts, Nikki's flags and her tabs.  I painted the tab then put triple thick on it (Nikki gave me that tip).  I used a couple of stamps and voila - quick and easy cards to send to friends and family. 

DECEMBER BLOG CANDY GIVE-AWAY

As promised .... I am giving out some love in the form of blog candy.  There are over $65.00 in product (retail value) in this Merry Christmas candy.  Just leave me a comment on what you think of my "Santa's Workshop" album that I did with the Reminisce papers.

I will randomly pick a name from the comments that I get and will reveal the winner on Dec. 28th. 

Hope you are all almost ready for Christmas, I know I am.  I just need to do a little more baking and a couple of gift cards and then I can relax for the rest of the week.  Whoo Hoo!!!

Just some of the goodies included in this blog give away are a photo album, a door hanger to be altered, some tags, a stamp set and more.  Good luck !!

Reminisce "Santa's Workshop" Album

I loved working on this Santa's Workshop Album using the reminisce paper.  I also got carried away and used some of the Christmastime collection too.  So as I promised yesterday I am posting some pictures of the "inside" of my album.  Unfortunately its gloomy here and I didnt get good light (boo hoo, I am crying on the inside).  But on the bright side,  the album turned out so cute I am very pleased with it.

OK, so I decided to add more excitement than I already have for my cutie patoodie album, and I want to pass my excitement on to you.  Please comment on my pages and I will add your name for some BLOG CANDY.  I will post the photos of the blog candy giveaways later, but why not get started early and send me some comments!!

Reminisce "Santa's Workshop"

Wanted to get in a Sneak Peekie of my latest project using the Reminisce "Santa's Workshop" collection.  This collection is so darn cute I want to bake it in a pie and put whipcream on top.  I have been wanting to make some more paper bag albums for a while and decided this was a good time.  I started making paper bag albums for classes years ago and they were always very popular - especially for gift giving.

I have also always worked with chipboard and fabric so got some energy and inspiration from the Santa's Workshop cutie papers and came up with this. 

The cover is made of chipboard wrapped in the pretty Making a Snowman (Shimmer) paper.  I also took a piece of canvas fabric and painted/stamped on it, then put stickles and glimmer mist on it.  I placed a sticker border from the collection and a ribbon on top to hide the canvas edge.  Then I added the florals and a cute snowman layered sticker from the collection.

I have to get going, but I will post more pictures of the "inside pages" later on.

Under the Mistletoe

I made a another card to show you using the Pink Paislee collection.  I thought it would be a good gesture to bake some cookies and give them (along with a handmade card) to my neighbors.

Last Minute Christmas Cards

I still had a couple of people to send cards to - so this is what I made last night.

I used Pink Paislee's Mistletoe collection for my pattern paper.  Glitz stickles, distress stickles, bling from Mark Richards, rub ons from Making memories, poinsettias from irene's garden, and I made the felt tree.