Gift Tags

Yesterday while everyone was sleeping I had enough time to make my 20 cards AND all of my gift tags for gifts! I was so excited! So here they are!

For our little family I made bigger tags!

Here you will see (left to right) tags for Rogers family, Teasley family, and Ryden family!

I used my handy Cricut to cut all of the shapes and then I used bare chipboard with the first letter of each person's name (or their title: Mom, Grandma, etc.). Then I added a button to each one with a glue dot and tied some ribbon on top! So easy and so cute...right?!

December Daily - Day 7

Today we headed to Target to finish our Christmas shopping and buy the ingredients for steak soup. You were such a trooper today! Thank you!

December Daily - Day 6

Today we put up the Christmas tree.

Brooke was a big help! :)

She really loved seeing how the lights worked and trying to help unpack the tubs of Christmas decorations!

We had a fun evening decking the halls while we watched A Garfield Christmas and Elf. Then we sat by the tree and read the true Christmas story.

December Daily - Day 5

12/5 - Today was my Dad's birthday. He turned 56. (Is that right?) We enjoyed a few of his favorite things. #1: Soup, #2: Pecan Pie, #3: Michael Jackson, and #4: Family...especially the newest addition, Brooke.

It was a fun afternoon! Love you Daddy-o!

Christmas Thank You Cards

Today my family (daugther and husband) both took a 3 hour nap. I decided not to nap so I would be really tired tonight and go to bed early. Anyway...this gave me a whole afternoon to craft! WOO HOO!

I just love this paper from the Making Memories "Misletoe" Collection. Love it! My idea was to go ahead and make some Christmas Thank You cards so that I had them ready for after the holiday. I knew I wanted to cut the trees out of this paper and glue them to kraft cardstock! So this is what I started with.

And this is what I ended up with when I was done with the trees! There are approx. 70 trees on each sheet of paper! WOW!

I made 20 cards in about 1.5 hours!!!

I cut out the trees and popped one up with a dimensional. I averaged 2 trees per card. Then I used a blender pen and Close to Cocoa ink to shade in the ground. After that I rummaged through my rub ons to find 20 "Thank You" sayings. It was very simple!

There you have it!

December Daily - Day 4

Today started out just like any other...with breakfast! Brooke had half of a muffin and 1/3 of a banana. This morning she was all about screaming and talking. She said a lot of "Da da da's". One time today when she was done eating I said, "All Done?" And she said, "Ah Da." I think she's a pretty smart baby girl!

December Daily - Day 3

Today I spent a whole nap time going through the cards that I have recently made. I love the fact that I make cards...it's so much better than buying them. And I love the fact that I have a fully stocked craftroom and can just run downstairs at any moment and make a card with things I have on hand!

December Daily - Day 2

Today was a special day. We got to have lunch with Daddy! It's not every day that we get to have 2 meals with Daddy in one day and when he said he was working at the office instead of downtown today, we jumped at the chance to spend time with him!

Anyone have this magazine???

This is the magazine that I am supposed to be published in for the first time! I can't seem to find it...I'll admit that I haven't really looked too many places. But I really don't want to buy it cause I'm supposed to get 2 copies for free when they send me my goodies! So let me know if you see my Christmas ornament in there!!!

December Daily - Day 1

For the past few years, I have sat by and watched Ali Edwards create her December Daily album and have LOVED the results! The basic concept of the album is that you document your life for each day in December up until Christmas. You can read more about it here.

You try to create the base of the album before December even rolls around! This was a little bit of a challenge but I managed to get it done! Then as the days progress all you have to do is print pictures and journal. Here are a few pages from my album...

The cover...I am using an 8.5x8.5 chipboard album from Stampin Up. It's easy and it has plenty of room because it's a 3-ring binder.

My layouts are very simple. When I add my pictures to the page, I will probably embellish a little bit more.

I just tried to leave enough room for a 4x6 picture or a few cropped pictures and journaling.

I am excited to see this album come together!

Now...since I don't have a photo printer, I will be using my blog as my journal so that I have all of my pictures and journaling I want to use for my book in one spot! I told my mom that I would start a Word document but why not share my December daily happenings with you?!! I will probably print my photos once a week.

Day 1 . December 1st, 2009

While at the craft store, I decided to get some ribbon to embellish my Christmas presents. For the past few years we have wrapped our Christmas presents in the brown packing paper that Stampin Up stuffs their boxes with (recycle!). Because we spend no money on wrapping paper, I like to get some cute ribbon to embellish with! I think this year's stash is awesome! 81 yards!!