Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Celebrating Him!

¹⁰But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. ¹¹Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ^[a] the Lord. ¹²This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

 ¹³Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
 ¹⁴"Glory to God in the highest,
      and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

Luke 2:10-14

December Daily Days 8, 9, 10, and 11

Can you believe Christmas is only two days away. I really can't. I mean where did this month go?

Well, here is the latest in my December Daily album. My plan is to completely finish it up this weekend. We'll see how that goes!

I did a lot of writing for these few days, which is a big surprise for me. Usually I don't like to write much.

Day 8:

Day 9:

Day 10: Maddie got her very own page and jounaling. The picture says "Maddie's First Christmas*" and then below "*with us"

Day 11: My work party

Just two days left for EBTKS! I think Winter's sketch is top-notch! It was such a fun one!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve!

Embellish Magazine Color Challenge with Snowflakes

Wow, it's been awhile since I made a card. It felt good to take a break from my December Daily (although I'm still loving it I'll have 8,9, and 10 tomorrow). I just love Ashley's challenges, I think it's the pictures she puts together. Here's the image:

And I'm seriously in love with those colors. I really think it's one of my favorite combos. Here's my card:

Stamps: Guide Lines, Merry and Bright

Ribbon: Brown Grosgrain, Aqua Mist Twill

Card Stock: Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist (PTI), Kraft (SU)

Ink: VersaFine, VersaMark

And I actually made a little video about how I made this card and my snowflakes. I had to cut a lot of footage out so I hope it's not too choppy!

Actually it is still loading to YouTube and I'm about to fall over. Chase and I started P90X yesterday. If you aren't familiar with it, it's this super intense workout system. Just trust me... I can't move. :)

Okay here it is:

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Also just a couple more days left in this EBTKS sketch challenge! Come join the fun!

Christmas Gifts

Hey there? Are we all so busy? It seems like the blog world is a little slower than normal. I did want to jump on here and show you a few gifts I took to work today. They were more funny that pretty.

Here's the big group of gifts I took (that large bag in that back was HUGE and a total joke):

For the girls around the office I got really long knee high Christmas socks, rolled them up and tied a ribbon around the pair of socks.

For the guys I gave them a small little thing of play-doh. I thought it was a nice little nostalgic gift.

 

Of course as a result I found out we have some pretty creative guys in our office. Check out what my friend Matt did with his gift:

Pretty good right? What about this?

Now I will say all of these figures started because of some brown play-doh and I'm sure you don't have think hard to figure out what the boys made with that.

Here's just a couple other shots of presents:

 

These are some Krystal Light containers I wrapped with paper. Super quick. 

 

 How are your Christmas gifts coming? I still have a lot of wrapping to do.

December Daily Days 5-7

Are you all as busy as I am? So far this week I've had three parties, and I have two more to go to before Saturday night. Oh and did I mention the party on Saturday is at my house! What a crazy time of year! I was hoping to get through day 8 tonight, but I just couldn't get there, but here's what I did get done (you can click on any of the images to see them larger):

Day 5: Wedding Dress Shopping with one of my best friends and cooking with my mom!

 

Day 6: Youth Leader Christmas Party at our house. Oh and funny story. Do you see this silver napkin below? DO NOT BUY IT FROM TARGET! Seriously everyone's hands and faces were silver! It was so funny.

 

Day 7: The final touches on the tree.

Here's a closer look at this year's tree. It's kind of like my December Daily neutrals with a touch of red.

If you are curious what the garland is, it's just strips of white burlap that I cut. I also used some for the tree skirt. Okay and seriously don't you love the little mini Christmas flash cards? Oh and the star I made from twigs and twine. My husband says it remind him of the Blair Witch Project, but I still like it anyway!

You can see days 1-4 here.

I'm off to bed. I can barely keep my eyes open!

EBTKS Challenge 5 - Sketch Time

Hey there it's time for another EBTKS Challenge and Winter has a great one for us! You'll never believe her inspiration for this card. I'm serious guys there is inspiration all around us! I have to constantly remind myself just to slow down and look around!

Okay so here's here inspiration:

And check out this sketch:

How fun right? And here's what I came up with. I knew I wanted to use ribbon to create the scallop effect and then I just worked from there!

Fun right? And check out this awesome book Winter is giving to the big winner...

 

I've heard it's amazing myself.  So head on over to EBTKS and join the fun!

Cardstock: Basic Black (Stampin' Up)

Patterned Paper: True Black Bitty Box Basics (Papertrey Ink)

Ribbon: Black Grograin Stripe (May Arts)

*** Ribbon purchased from Perfectly Pretty Cards

Brads: Circle Brads (Making Memories)

Miscellaneous: Vintage Ephemera (7 Gypsies); Journaling Stars (Jenni Bowlin), Cork Sheets (QuicKutz)

EBTKS Challenge 4 Winner

I just wanted to jump over here and show you the winners from the latest EBTKS challenge. Seriously you should check these out... so creative.

Anthonette

Paloma

Lea 

A new sketch challenge starts Tuesday. I'll hope you'll come join us!