♥ OA Very Merry December Daily Album ♥

This is my first true December Daily album and it's so much fun, I can't wait to see it all finished.  I am sharing my October Afternoon Very Merry December Kit along with lots of Cameo cuts I have purchased and "promised" myself I would use, well, I AM GOING TO USE THEM....smile, and am feeling so happy about the opportunity to use the cuts and this gorgeous kit.  My pictures this week are very busy, so I created insert pages for journaling and adding embellishments to the "story". 

Here is my title page

 

I absolutely love all the journaling cards and embellies in this kit.  I added some vellum to the page from stash, but the rest is from the kit and decade stamp

 

 Pages One and Two

 

Every year, my children make a Gingerbread Village with their Grandmother and she fills an entire 10 foot table, with every candy, pretzel, graham cracker imaginable and the kids have the BEST time.  They have even won a contest at the museum, one of our most favorite Christmas memories.

 

On my next pages, we are celebrating my MIL's birthday.  It's the first part of December and kicks off our December festivities every year.  We have a large family and we spend a week doing various activities with her.  This was our time to enjoy a handmade cake and some coffee, very relaxing and such a fun tradition.

The journaling explains some feelings about Thanksgiving being the last weekend and Christmas right around the corner, there is SO much to be done, but this party helped us all relax as it always does.

 

I printed my journaling onto vellum and stitched it over snowflakes cut from Bazzill cardstock and sequins

The felt heart on the chipboard candycane was cut from one of the sheets of felt that comes in the kit, so much fun to cut hearts out of it, love it♥

On my next pages, I am sharing the shopping trip my daughter and I had during Black Friday weekend.  We are not the crazy kind of shppers, we just enjoyed our Starbucks and a mother/daughter Christmas shopping trip.  We took time to have a lunch date, enjoy the Christmas trees and of course shop!

 

I combined a couple of Cameo cuts for this Black friday title cut from Bazzill cardstock (from stash)

 

On my next two pages, I shared some of our annual traditions, besides "the elf", that cute little guy will be a seperate page in my album.  These traditions are the advent calendar the kids check every morning and the wrapped Christmas books we open every night before bed to read. (sorry for the glare from the page protector)

 

 

On my last two pages, we attended the Nutcracker ballet and it was SO much fun.  I am actually creating an additional insert with the program and tickets, but I didn't have time to create those before this post.

 

I LOVE all the patterned papers in this kit, they are gorgeous and work so well with any pictures, so many colors and patterns to choose from

 

 Thank you SO much for joining visiting me this weekend!

Very Merry Creating♥

danni

♥ MME halloween countdown inspo♥

good morning!  i am up on the My Mind's Eye blog today with a LOT of halloween cards as we continue our countdown to halloween.  i created all of the cards using the new My Mind's Eye Happy Haunting line.  i can not tell you how i love this line.  

i chose to create TWO different sets of cards with this line.  i have shared with you on the blog here, that i love halloween, if it's cute.  i know, but it's me.  i am not a "spooky halloween" kind of person at all, it's creepy (which makes it so much fun for others, and that's why we all live where we do, right?)

so, today i shared a very traditional interpretation of the line and then i decided to add some purple, green, orange and white cardstock to the line to share a different interpretation, a more "cutesy" approach.  regardless of your personal halloween taste or style, i hope you find some inspiration in the sets, because they sure were fun to create!

to see ALL the cards, individually, please hop on over to the My Mind's Eye Blog today 

 Happy 31 set of Halloween Cards

and some details of the individual cards

(BOTH of these sets were created with the MME Happy Haunting line. To change up the look, I only added cardstock and some Silhouette Cameo cuts with black cardstock.  All the patterned papers are from the line)

Bats, Black Cats, Spiders Oh My set of Halloween Cards

and some details shots of the individual cards

AND can i just say that i am absolutely head over heels in LOVE with the new enamel dots in the Cupid's Arrow and new Lost and Found Record It lines?  can you see the glittery centers?  they are so, so awesome and i used the Lost and Found enamel dots on several of these Halloween cards, but you can see the shimmery/glitter in the detail shot above

happy, spooky, halloween countdown♥
danni

♥ Cupcards to Go Sneak Peeks ♥

 just a couple of sneaks until the February Valentine CupCards to Go Card making Kits go on sale Monday!  I'll be back with more very, very soon!  You can also see more sneak peeks on the CupCards to go Card kit blog and Kristii Lockart's Blog

can't wait to share with you all the beautiful papers and tidbits of this kit, hope you'll check back♥

happy saturday

danni

♥ are you up for a CARD challenge? ♥

Good morning!  Are you up for a new CARD challenge?  I created the challenge using the January Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kit Chasing Pavements

 

(you do NOT have to use a  Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kit but it will help, since that's where i draw my inspiration for these challenges...wink)

 

.  I have fallen madly, deeply in love with this kit and all the rich greens, reds, blues, grey and orange, love it!  

 

 

Today's challenge is a recipe challenge: create a card or set of two tags using the following recipe

• 2 patterned papers

• 3 or more labels

• 3 or more arrows

• 2 or more hearts

Here is the card I created using the recipe above
the best you card








ONE winner will be selected by the dt to receive a $5.00 store credit to Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits
an ONE additional RANDOM winner will be selected to receive a $5.00 Paypal transfer from me!!!

(you may create as many cards as you like, the more entries, the more chance of winning.  when finished with your card(s), link up your cards on the Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits blog or in the Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits Forum in the "Danni's Card Classes Forum"


******BONUS******  you can earn a bonus entry!!!!!!

to earn a bonus entry, use the recipe above AND the colors: green, red and grey ONLY on your card

 Deadline: January 27th 11:59 pm PDT

Winner will be announced on January 28th here and on the Scraptastic blog

I can't wait to see your cards!

happy creating♥

danni

• Chasing Pavements hello♥ friend •

good morning, how are you?  we woke up to more snow, lots more and
we are white again :)  

i have been working very hard on CHA creations and can't wait to share new lines with you here, but until then, I thought i would pop in to share a new card created with the January Kit..Chasing Pavements over at Scraptastic.

I absolutely adore the colors in this kit and once again, Jessica has packed the kit with fun embellies, alphas and gorgeous cardstock to match.  

hello friend card

how fun are these arrows?  i could use them on everything, they are so fun to play with on the cards.  I hope you'll pop in to check out this amazing kit, but don't wait long, it's so fun and is sure to go quickly.

i hope you are having a beautiful weekend with your loved ones!

hugs & love

danni

♥ happy 2013 with Gossamer Blue ♥

happy 2013 everyone!  please forgive my blog absence during the month of december, i was incredibly sick and it took a long time for me to feel like looking at the computer screen for any period of time.

i am back today with a few cards created with the january kit over at Gossamer Blue.  this month, the Gossamer Blue january kit, and the many gorgeous add-on kits, are filled with gorgeous MME.  several designers from the MME team are creating with the gorgeous kit and add-ons and sharing all month long on the Gossamer Blue blog and MME blog with chances to win this kit!  you do NOT want to miss the giveaways, tons of gorgeous MME!

i created 6 cards and a monthly favorite dates calendar so far and can't wait to share them with all of you.  today, i can share 4 of the cards that have been shared in the january gallery.

 happy '13 card

hello 2013 card

 hey you card

what a wonderful, happy world card

 

i hope you'll check out this amazing kit this month, and check back on the Gossamer Blue and MME blogs to win one!

hugs & so much love!

danni