Let it Snow!!

Good morning Bloggers!! It's Challenge time again at Creative Accents, and this month we want to see some snow!! It must be working too because I'm looking out my window right now and it's snowing!!! Yay!! Now normally I'm not as excited about snow, but I can still see my grass right now, so we are in desperate need for some!! My kids would love to use their sleds they got for Christmas and maybe even build a snowman! 

For this month's challenge, I made this layout of my middle son Caleb's first time playing in the snow. He kinda hated it, but it made for some super cute pictures!!

I cut out the new Lifestyle crafts snowflake border with vellum and I really like how it turned out! I also used the edge set from Lifestyle crafts....love that set!!

Poor little guy! What a cutie though eh?! 

So there you have it! Show us your snowy cards, layouts or altered projects and enter them in Here.

Well, I'm off...it's my 30th birthday today and I'm heading out to Big Lake with my boys so my hubs can get  everything ready for my party tonight!

Have a great day!!

Finally! A layout!

Good afternoon Bloggers!! I wanted to show you a layout that I made last night. It's been soooooo long since I've done a good old fashioned 12x12 layout! It felt so good to get to make one last night! My hubby just got me a Silhouette Cameo for my birthday!! My birthday isn't until January 14th, but it came in yesterday so I just haaaad to open it up and try it out! I LOVE that I can cut 12x12 now! And it cuts beautifully!

Another thing I love about the Silhouette is that the online store has so many title ideas! This layout came together really quickly, except for the title...I just couldn't think of what I wanted it to be...so I jumped onto the Silhouette store and browsed some phrases and there you have it!  I cut the big label shape with the Cameo...it's pretty sweet eh?!

I just love this pic of Chris and Kieran. It was taken the day he was born...it truly is a moment to cherish! And it totally makes me want to have another baby!!

I used this sketch from Sketches in Thyme....I gotta admit, I do miss being on their DT! 

I'm also entering this into the Scrapfit Weekly Warm Up, which is to use stars on your layout.

Well, I'm off...My husband should be home with the kids soon then I've gotta start thinking about dinner!

Hubby's Birthday Card

Hey Bloggers! Just a quick post to show you my husband's birthday card. His birthday was actually October 24th! I totally had it done for his birthday, but I just didn't get around to posting it!

 I wanted to make a kinda sexy, guy card for him, so I went with this steampunk chick from Kenny K...she's kinda hot isn't she? lol The sentiment is from Graphicat Designs...love that one :)

It took me forever to colour her, but I'm pretty happy with how she turned out...I'm kinda loving the black and white colouring! 

I used my Spellbinders gears set and embossed them with Distress Embossing powder to make it look kinda rusty...then I added some of Tim's gears too. The tag was made with Distress Ink and Perfect Pearls powder over the stamps...love that stuff!

Look! I even did the inside of the card! lol I hardly ever do...hell, I hardly even make cards! They're usually just fronts! lol I kinda love these gears :)

So there you have it...I hope you like it as much as Chris did! Have a good night everyone! Happy Crafting!

December Daily pgs 1-15

Hello Bloggers! This is going to be a very picture heavy post, so I'm going to keep the rest short! I have been working like a mad woman the last few days on my December Daily album. It's kind of like a way for me to kill two "resolution" birds with one stone. One of my resolutions is to lose weight. A crafty one is to scrap more often, and by getting crafty at night when the kids go to bed, I am not munching mindlessly in front of the tv!  So I've managed to get 15 pages of my album done, thank God, because I'm really not into it this year! It's been soooo long since I've done a 12x12 layout and I'm dying to get back to it, but this album is itching at me to get it done, so I still have 11 pages to go, but I'm over half way there! This album is really about getting the pictures to pages and really telling a story of a month in our life, so it's quite simply made and really focuses on journaling, but I know that 15 years from now when I look back at it, I'm not going to care so much as to how many fabulous techniques I did, but I know it's going to be a great memory to have. That's why I do a December Daily album every year. Wow, and here I said I wasn't going to blab much!! oh well, without further adieu...

Well there you have it! Hopefully I'll be back by the end of the weekend with the rest of it!! Have a great weekend and don't forget to get a little crafty!

January SOTM

Happy New Year Everyone!! Does anyone have any resolutions? I have quite a few this year, one of which is to try to blog more often. December was a pretty slow month on the ole blog, but I was super busy with the holidays and all. I hope everyone had a great holiday! I had a pretty amazing Christmas, minus the Shingles that I got on Ethan's Birthday (Dec. 23rd) I swear I would rather give birth again without drugs than the pain that comes with Shingles! Nasty stuff it is! But I'm on the mend now, and the hubs got me a brand spankin new puffy leather chair for my craft room, so I'm going to be scrappin like a mad woman in the new year!! And here's my first card of 2012: It's the January Stamp of the Month at Creative Accents. I just love these new Bellas! 

I used my Copics to colour the image, except for the scarf that I paper pieced. I used my new Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio thingy too. It makes these fun little custom epoxy shapes out of any paper you want! 

I entered this card in the following challenges: CAS-ual Fridays Kraft and Twine

Sketch Saturday: I used this sketch, but didn't make it in time to enter the challenge! Oh well, it was a fab sketch anyway!

So, Happy New Years and I hope all your resolutions work out for you! I'm totally committed this year! Or maybe I'll have to be committed! lol ya never know ;) Anyway I'm going to bed! Goodnight all, and Happy Crafting!!

Guest DT Spot!!

Wow! December is flying by and I have hardly posted anything on my blog all month!! I've  been so busy getting ready for Christmas and we have a lot of birthdays in December, I haven't had a lot of crafty time. But I wanted to remind you that Graphicat Sketches' Challenge this month is a Choose your favourite Graphicat Sketch. She's got such fabulous sketches that it'll be hard to choose just one!! And the prize this month is a Guest DT spot for Graphicat Designs!!! 

I used August's sketch: 

And this is what I made with it:

I had originally wanted to use Graphicat's "Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins" and "That's Elf Slang for Merry Christmas" on this card, but I realised at like midnight, that I didn't have those digis!! So I went with the Island of Misfit toys instead...then I realised that Cheri used the same stamp and sentiment on a card that she made recently!! Oh well, she did a waaaay better job on hers of course!! 

The sentiment on the inside is one of Tim's and it was cut with one of the new Lifestyle Crafts nesties. 

I coloured this cute little Tickled Pink stamp (which you can get at Graphicat Designs) with my copics and added a little sparkly Spica to his hair. See that background Postage Nestie from Spellbinders? I stamped it with my  new Hero Arts gears stamp! LOOOOVE IT!!!

Well, that's all for tonight, don't forget to play along with us at Graphicat Sketches!!!

I hope to blog again before Christmas, but if I don't, I do wish you all have a fabulous Christmas! And don't forget the reason for the season!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Challenges: Raise the Bar It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Paper Sundaes: Celebrate!

December Daily, Creative Accents Challenge and Tim's First Tag!

Wow! How long has it been since I've posted anything?!?! almost a month!! Crazy I know! And I'm totally behind on my DT stuff too! I thought that having my husband gone away at school for 3 months would make it easier for me to spend hours downstairs in my craft room at night, but I have been finding that with hubs gone, so is my mojo...Sad I know ;)

Anyway, I can't believe it's December 5th already!!!  And that means it's time for another Challenge at Creative Accents! We've made it a really easy one this month...specially if you're getting any Christmas cards or layouts done...You've guessed it:

For my challenge piece I used my cover for my December Daily album. I actually got this started way before December 1st, but I've been slacking off in the December Daily area too...I need that mojo back! Tonight I hope to get downstairs relatively early and get a whole bunch of stuff done!

I can always rely on Tim Holtz for some major inspiration, so it couldn't come at a better time that he's doing his 12 Tags of Christmas! This year I decided to play along! This is the first one, and I didn't stray really at all from the original design. I made it on a day when I was having a major lack of sleep meltdown and I actually just left my mom with my kids and went to Creative Accents to play with a few girls while we all made Tim's Tags! I wasn't much into being creative, so this was perfect! I just followed it exactly, still made something, but didn't have to think much about it! And I looove all the fab techniques he shows you! be sure to check it out if you haven't already! http://www.timholtz.com

Here's Mine: 

And Here's Tim's

I'll be posting more of my "12 Tags" in the next few days hopefully! And hopefully I can get my December Daily caught up too! It's not too good when you start out behind! haha

A little note from Tara( CA owner)...

***PLEASE READ****

Normally on the challenge blog we award a prize to a random winner... and we're doing that this month as well, but IF we get more than 10 entries, we'll also award another prize to one participant selected by members of our Design Team! Our random prize will 'grow' dependingon the number of entries... starting with a 6x6 pad from one of our fave paper companies.Watch for more specifics on the prize next week, but for now... get out there and create something for Christmas!