Winter Wonderland Ornaments... TWO

Hello all! Forgive me on being slightly tardy on getting the second ornament up today... to think it is only the second day of December and I am already late!!! Don't worry, I decided to ground myself to the basement and create more ornaments to make up for the lost hours... I kid, I kid!

So... onto Winter Wonderland Ornament #2!!! For this ornament I took another favorite photo {non-Christmas but still a favorite!!!} and decided to write down the first thing that came to my mind. These two little angels bring such joy to our family, only children are able to keep you on your toes and warm your heart all at the same time! I used a square scallop punch {it is so well loved that the brand name has worn off!} to make 2 pink squares using "B" side of COUNTING DOWN paper for the side of the ornament. I distressed, centered and layered the #2 on the front side of the COUNTING DOWN paper and then added one of the diecut flowers to the lower left corner. I trimmed the PEPPERMINT STICK mini alphas to serve as the center of the flower. For the tree, I took scraps from the STARBURST paper and cut them into triangles, then distressed and layered them. The button ornaments on the tree are from a random stash of odds and ends and the sheet music in the background is non-other-than my "go to" stamp from Stampabilities.

For the other side of the ornament I used an old eyelet {again, found in the stash} and Martha Stewarts Tourmaline Glitter for the polka dots. The ornament hangs from old lace found at an antique fair with dear friends, whenever I use it I think of them!!!
Thank you for stopping by today and again, look forward to tomorrow's #3 ornament! I promise not to be so very late!!!

Creative Cheers!

Winter Wonderland Ornaments... ONE

Greetings! It has been pretty chilly outside these past few days so the girls and I have been hanging out indoors. The weather outside has really got me in the snowy-wintery-snowflake mood so I have been playing with the new My Little Shoebox WINTER WONDERLAND collection and it has brought so much creative joy to our craft table.

My daughters love to "scrap" with mommy and it is very entertaining watch them play with alpha stickers or punches! I am thankful we share a love of creating!!! One afternoon we decided to make a few ornaments since ours didn't make it in our last two moves which led to an idea... using the COUNTING DOWN paper, I trimmed each number and decided to create 25 tag-like ornaments. Each one is different, has it's own story, it's own picture... I LOVE THIS PROJECT! So... if you all will bare with me for the next 25 days, I would love to show you our 25 ornaments! Since today is December 1st, well here is the first ornament!

ONE: A special welcome to the world story

The photo was a 4x6 and sadly I didn't have a tag that would fit this picture so I was veryGREEN in that I used the cardboard from the leftover KIX cereal box! I trimmed it up to fit a 4x4 and stamped the backside with my go-to Stampabilities sheet music stamp. The ink was Vintage Photo Distress Ink {of course!} and then I used Diamond Stickles to add some sparkle to the COUNTING DOWN #1. For the "journalling" I used the PEPPERMINT STICK mini alphas from My Little Shoebox. The ornament hangs with some old lace I found at an antique market with my dear bay area friends {miss you all!!!}

Our little Avery was an early Christmas present and I was so very thankful that I had the stockings done early!!! This is my favorite photo of Avery that Christmas - I mean really, how many times can you say you actually FIT in your stocking???

To create the snowy border, I smudged some Glossy Accents along the sides and then sprinkled Martha Stewarts Crystal Fine Glitter. To make the poinsettia, I used the large EK Success flower punch and just trimmed the curved edges of two flowers to come to a point. The leaves are made from the square flag diecut cut in half, distressed and then layered. The pearls in the center are from an old dress up gown the girls wore plain out!

Here's to hoping you are nice and toasty as you create!!!

Creative Cheers!!!

MLS Thanksgiving Tag & WINNER!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

This is the time of year to which I list all the things I am thankful for... it's a looooooooong list!!! One of those things is the gift of creating, I love it! I have been so very blessed through this craft and recognize that every.single.day!!!

Another thing I am thankful for are the teachers at my girls' school! They are amazing and their ability to pour God's love into those little children is a gift. To say thank you for all that they do I picked up a few loaves of bread {Great Harvest Bread Company} and made these little tags to go with a yummy french toast recipe! The tags were SO stinking easy {I made 16 in less than an hour} and they turned out pretty cute!

I used the B sides from My Little Shoebox's PLAYTIME and PRETTY LITTLE THINGS collections along with a few punches, random paper clips, and random pieces of green ribbon. With the help of a little Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Thermoweb Zots... VIOLIA!!!

And now for the WINNER from Monday's blog hop... drum roll please:

Angie said...

Clever how you created the tree, way to use your products and think outside of the box. Thank you for the inspiration!

NOVEMBER 21, 2011 7:54 PM

CONGRATULATIONS! I have some yummy blog candy to be sent your way so please email me your address to outoftheboxcreative@yahoo.com and I will get your My Little Shoebox goodies out your way!

Happy Thanksgiving to all and Creative Cheers!!!

WINTER WONDERLAND BLOG HOP...

Greetings! Today a few of us are featuring the new super cute line from My Little Shoebox called WINTER WONDERLAND!!! You should be joining me from the ever-so-talented KEELY YOWLER's blog, isn't her card SNOW fantastic?!?!?! If I am your first stop I suggest you start HERE to make sure you don't miss our on all the scrappy holiday cheer!

It was so very hard to choose which paper to start with since they are all full of bright fun winter colors. I ultimately had to do the eenie-meanie-mynee-mip-catch-the-Winter-Wonderland-by-the-paper-tip!!!

So I started with the Winter Folly paper and then turned to my stash of minis. I am a big fan of the minis, they provide such inspiration when thinking out of the box and the APPLES minis were just meant to be a Christmas tree for the center of this card. With the help of a little Flower Soft and Glossy Accents the rest of the card just came together!

SUPPLIES:

My Little Shoebox Winter Folly

My Little Shoebox Snow Flake Valley

My Little Shoebox Starburst

My Little Shoebox Mini Alphas - Apples

Idea-o-ogy Tiny Attacher

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Ranger Gossy Accents

Yellow Twine

Flora Soft

EK Success circle punch

We so appreciate you joining us today for our Winter Wonderland Inspirational Card Hop! To say thank you there are a variety of scrappy candy being given away today! There will be two Winter Wonderland collections given away on the My Little Shoebox Blog to two random commenters. But that's not all, be sure to leave comments all along the hop because some us have special prizes to give away too!!! Prizes will be announced Tuesday, November 22nd!

Now keep on hoppin' and check out what dear, sweet SHEMAINE SMITH has created! Her heartfelt cards are just beautiful!

Creative Cheers!

Happy Halloween & Contest Winner...

Happy Halloween!

In our family Halloween is all about friendly costumes and the delicious candy. Skittles, M&M's, Reese's... chocolate or fruity, each itty bitty bit size piece provides the perfect balance of treat and sugar rush. There is one thing we are supposed to be on the lookout for... Snickers! They are my hubby's favorite and to keep him from eating them all at once, they spend the next week in the freezer. See, these are all the little things I want to remember when it comes time to scrap this year's Halloween photos.

I am so very thankful to be where we are, to finally be 90% settled and to have my very own craft table in the basement that is prepped and ready to create when the urge hits. To celebrate this simple fact I would like to share some lovely My Little Shoebox treats! I am hosting a contest and starting today, leave me a comment on my blog for a chance to win the ENTIRE collection of Trick or Treat! Then, check in next Monday because another beautiful My Little Shoebox collection will be featured and you guessed it... one lucky commenter will win the entire collection that is being featured! I promise this is all about treats, absolutely no tricks!

Now it is time to announce the lucky scrapper who will be taking home the My Little Shoebox Pretty Little Things collection along with the coordinating Unity Stamp! A winner was chosen at random {courtesy of my 5 year old daughter} from the comments on Friday's post featuring the fabulous Unity Stamp & My Little Shoebox blog hop...

Drumroll please...

Scrapycandy said...

some serious time went into this! So creative! Thank you!

OCTOBER 27, 2011 12:02 PM

Congratulations!!!

Please email me your address at outoftheboxcreative@yahoo.com to claim your fantastic prize!

Creative Cheers!

Hip Hoppin' with Unity Stamps and My Little Shoebox!!!

Hello all! Welcome to a very inspiring blog hop that is featuring some of the most creative ladies on the planet! You all should be joining me from the super talented ANGIE BLOM... seriously, did you see what she created?!?!? That is just stamptastic! If I am your first stop, please make sure to start at the Unity Blog - you don't want to miss out on the eye candy!

Start here.... Unity Blog

Angie Blom

Nicole Wragge {you are here}

Christi Snow

Norine Borys

Jen Buck

Pattie Beltran

Jimmi Mayo

Pearl Liu

Lisa Arana

Rocio Duran

Maren Benedict

Ro Philippsen

Natalie Dever

Shelly Berg

Shemaine Smith

Zoe Nemburt

Stephanie Muzzulin

My Little Shoebox Blog ... end of the fabulous Blog Hop!!!

I was fortunate to work with the My Little Shoebox Pretty Little Things collection and the darling Unity Stamps to go with it!

So essentially...

PLUS

= Creative Happiness!!!

The papers are filled with bright colors and darling little designs! There are so many fun ways to create with My Little Shoebox, but when you add the high quality stamps from Unity... well possibilities are endless! This project was inspired by a wonderful piece of advice I received years ago from a wonderful woman who has walked in my shoes {only hers were CHANEL!} Life is crazy and if you live yours out of moving boxes you aren't really living... so BLOOM WHERE YOU PLANT!

SUPPLIES:

My Little Shoebox Pretty Little Things Collection

My Little Shoebox Mini Alphas in Limeade

Unity Stamps

Raspberry Flora Soft

Paper Source Gift Tags

3D Zots

7 Gypsies

Tim Holtz Hanger Clips

Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Chip Art Chipboard Alpha

Bazzill Large Flower

Fiskars Flower Punch

EK Success Mini Flower Punch

Glossy Accents

Ribbons

Tulle

Here is an up close picture of the tag featuring the I Love You stamp from Unity...

These stamps are super easy to work with and

with a touch of ink they come out nice and clean!

Thank you so much for hopping by... now it is time to continue the hop with the extremely creative CHRISTI SNOW!

She has something special prepared just for you!!!

For those of you who love scrappy candy you have more than one chance to win... leave a comment here on my blog and one lucky commenter {chosen at random, announced on Monday} will win the ENTIRE Pretty Little Things Collection along with THIS STAMP!!!

And for another great prize, be sure to leave comments all along the blog hop and Unity will be announcing the blog hop winner on Unity's blog Monday, October 31st!

Creative Cheers!

so it's been awhile...

Forgive me for not blogging sooner...

Our life was thrown a curve ball the beginning of September...

Now we are living in the beautiful state of Missouri...

The girls are in school...

Hubby is happy at work...

I am still unpacking...

{for the second time in one month}

To say the least there hasn't been much time to create...

But during all the flights/planning/organizing/moving my dear mother found time to create with the girls...

Here are two pictures of their creations!!!

Avery's Student of the Week Poster using Audrey:

Moving Calendar using Trick or Treat and Destinations:

My mom created this calendar to show the girls what was going to happen on which day so that they knew what was going on and where are their toys were going!

Now that we are somewhat settled I hope to break open my boxes of My Little Shoebox and get to creating! Thank you all for your love, patience and prayers!

Creative Cheers!