New Years Eve 2023

Happy New Years Eve!!!

I am not a "party person" but I actually love New Year's Eve. We have let the kids have a party with friends a few times, and they have gone to friends houses once or twice, or even an event at the church, but most years, its just our little family playing games and eating and often ending with a movie. That is my kind of party, hahaha.... And we *always let our kiddos stay up til midnight, or as late as they last, no matter how old they are. Because I'm crazy... haha.
How do you celebrate?

Sometime this summer, I made this digital layout of our last New Years Eve. But I saved it to share til it was more seasonally appropriate. hahaha. 

I saw the card at the bottom right on facebook as a free download, and I liked the colors and the grungyness, so of course I snagged that. Then it became the title!
The base pages here are actually a tag I purchased with the very-long-retired MDS and zoomed WAAAAY in to, ha. But I love how it turned out. 

The handy thing about digi scrapping is you make it once and print it however many times you need it, which matters when you make a book for everyone. In this case, the family got the second page and my youngest got the set, because the first page was really just her! Everyone else was doing their own thing most of this day. Actually, my middle child was pretty sick, but she spent the evening curled up on the couch "with" us, ha. 

Supplies:
MDS, Freebie by KPertiet

I hope you have a safe and happy celebration this year! Bring on 2025!

Tree Ornaments

Wrapping up the last of Christmas, here's another evening post! It's been quite a weekend... lots of good and a whole lotta not so good too....! 

In place of a calendar this year for my family, I made photo ornaments instead. 

Several years ago, like, sixteen, lol, my mom saw an idea to stick a photo on one side of a metal lid from a can of orange juice concentrate, and scrapbook paper on the other side, and I think you were supposed to edge it all in ribbon. I saved some lids for all these years but a- we don't drink a lot of juice in our house, and b- I just didn't have enough. I decided to do a "set" of all fifteen grandchildren for my parents, and then do coordinating ornaments of the kids in each household. Does that make sense? lol.... Well it meant I needed 30 lids. This fall when I was bottling pears, I thought the used mason jar lids would work really well! So I saved some of those instead of tossing them. 

Then I pulled out my box of retired Christmas DP, haha, 

and selected small prints that wouldn't overwhelm the photos. In some cases I used both sides of the DP for one ornament, in other cases I chose two different prints from the same pack to make each ornament.
Then I had to choose some coordinating ribbon. 

I couldn't figure out what to do from what I remembered from years ago, ha, so I improvised and came up with my own plan. I also used my retired Circle Dies to cut out the DP. Then I trimmed corners to fit photos... I used my glue gun to attach the ribbon or string. I adhered the DP and photos using the Multipurpose Liquid Glue til I ran out, then I just used glue sticks. And after doing about 24 ornaments, I realized Dimensionals would work perfectly. ha. Holy cow.... 

And here's how my parents set turned out! 

The backs: 

And the fronts, in the same spots as above: 

Supplies:

Paper: Season of Cheer DP, Santa Express DP, Merry Moments Simply Scrappin Kit, All Is Calm DP, All Is Bright DP, Merry Bold & Bright DP (2003), Home For Christmas DP, Dashing DP (2006)

Accessories: Baker's Twine Trio Pack, Lucky Limeade Everyday Enchantment Ribbon, Real Red Solid Ribbon, Silver 1/8 Ribbon, Circle Dies, 

hot glue gun

2025 Calendar 4

Hopefully the last Sunday post for a while, haha.... 

But this wraps up this year's calendar! 

October: 

November: 

December: 

2025 Calendar 3

More calendar pages today...

July: 

August:

(This page was done the same as June, I think from the same pack of DP. this is a scan of a desert mtn top. You can't tell, but the colors work so perfectly!)

September: 

2025 Calendar 2

Continuing with the calendar...

April:

May: 

June: 

(On this page, I scanned in some amazing but retired DP for the background. You can't really tell it's a mountain top, but the colors still work great for the camping photos.)

2025 Calendar 1

I hope your Christmas was safe and happy. 

Now I can show gifts I made! ha! 

This year I only made one calendar... I'm kind of burned out making them, and MDS is so out of date and buggy and so I made the easy one, because it's just my family and I don't have to find photos of all of my nieces and nephews, etc. So these pages are all for my FIL. 

Cover: 

January: 

February: 

and March: 

Merry Christmas!

Good morning!
I hope you are having a happy and peaceful day, whatever you're doing. Thanks for being here and supporting my little business. 

Merry Christmas to you! 

Cute Christmas Kiddos

Today is Christmas Sunday, and that is always a special day in our family. Today should be nice. I hope it is for you too.
I just wish it would snow... my youngest had a picnic in the back yard yesterday because it's been about 52* and sunny every day this week. Totally looks like October out there and not remotely the first day of winter. 

I realized I had this colored bit sitting there, not yet used, so I glued it to a card! Crazy simple, ha. And that's the best kind...

Supplies:
Stamps: Dear Santa

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Garden Green & Basic White card stocks, A Little Bit Festive DP

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Adhesive backed Peppermints

Christmas Cookies!

Yesterday was just so busy and got away from me entirely. I had to try to finish wrapping (I think I have three gifts left....) before my kiddo was out of school for the break. I had to bake gingerbread bars and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. I had to do some cleaning for a kid's party, and I had to make what I hope was my last trip to the store, LOL! I am SO over shopping! 

Today I have made another batch of gingerbread bars, and I had this idea to use my regular chocolate chip cookie recipe, but chop up a Chocolate Orange instead of chips. YUM. I delivered (and had kids deliver...) a bunch of plates to neighbors and friends, and still have more... I am getting laundry done before Christmas (crazy me...) and all the other things! 

So today tonight? I have this cute card for you! I used the TGIF Challenge for cookies, and it was *inspired by the Freshly Made Sketch, lol. I just don't like the long skinny cards so I dropped an ornament for mine. haha.... 

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa, Berry Christmas (long retired)

Ink: Memento Black
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Cherry Cobbler, Light Granny Apple Green, Bronze, Ivory, Light Flirty Flamingo, Light Balmy Blue, Light Petal Pink

Paper: A Little Bit Festive DP, Real Red & Basic White card stock

Accessories: Circle Dies, big shot

Quickest Card!

Today's card is FAST.
I used a frame from the A Little Bit Festive DP and stamped inside it. Then since I had these retired "pearls" out, I stuck a few on there. Bam, done. ha!
Back to Christmas-ing!

Supplies:

Stamps: Shepherd's Care

Ink: Real Red

Paper: Basic White card stock, A Little Bit Festive DP

Accessories: Red & Green Adhesive Backed Pearls 

Dear Santa...

A quick post today. I need to start getting some wrapping done, and I think I still have to run to a store...
Today's card uses the last of those Christmas kiddos. And the sketch from Inspire.Create.Challenges. And the other side of the candy cane striped DP.

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa

Ink: Memento Black, Real Red

Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Cherry Cobbler, Dark Shaded Spruce, Light Granny Apple Green, Bronze, Light Petal Pink, SU700, Light Balmy Blue 
Paper: Basic White card stock, A Little Bit Festive DP

Accessories: Adhesive Backed Peppermints, Dimensionals

Glittery Gifts!

Today's card is fun because it could be for Christmas, but *I am going to use it for a birthday card! 

I used the TGIF Challenge sketch, and combined it with the SUO Challenge for glitter! But I don't have any current glitter... so my glitter is retired and the bow stamp is retired, and thus the inks are retired too, ha. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Simply Said, Festive Fireplace (long retired)

Ink: Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay, Sweet Sugarplum (all retired)

Paper: Basic White card stock, Glimmer Paper Asst (long retired), Silver Glimmer Paper (long retired)
Accessories: Red & Green Adhesive Backed Pearls (retired)

What are you making this week? Are you ready for Christmas?? I am close...!