♥ Home for the Holidays TAGS ♥

layering the bits and pieces that came in the Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits December 2013 Home for the Holidays Kit.  LOVE this kit, it has truly made creating these gifts so much fun

getting a head start on Christmas thank you cards with the kit also 

 

negative of the Cameo owl cut 

 

happy, merry creating♥

danni

♥ Christmas wrap made easy ♥

i have been creating away with the December 2013 Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits Home for the Holidays kit, i LOVE it.  i have create a lot of packaging for all the various gift cards for my college-age child this Christmas.   while they are gift cards, the thought and wrapping behind each one is different and hopefully fun.  so, here goes with some of the packages that all contain a gift card or certificate.

i LOVED cutting pillow boxes and gable boxes using the papers in this kit and my Cameo

this "North Pole" paper makes me sooooo happy!

isn't this the cuuuutest paper for a gable box?

it cut the sides and backside perfectly for all the numbers and words too

this tag has slots to hold the gift card and then i stitched it closed so there's no peeking until it's time to cut it open

happy, merry creating♥

♥ October Afternoon Very Merry December Kit ♥

 

good morning.  i am popping in to share my next pages using my October Afternoon Verry Merry December Kit.  it has been so much fun using this kit to create my album this year, i am hooked.  every december i take the pictures that i am taking this year, i attend the events, but they stay locked away on my computer or albums and not in any order, sense or fun....not anymore, it's such a fun time of year, it should be given it's own little album.

page ELEVEN

 i love all the 2 x 2 pockets.  it is so fun to have a lot of pictures from one event, sometimes it's just too hard to narrow it down, the pictures tell the story and save the memory

 (i've made some notes this week on embellies that made me particularly happy to have in this year's kit)

 

journaling on vellum 

(i have blurred the journaling because it's about my son's basketball tournament)

page TWELVE

i had to create a snowglobe for this fun picture of my two middles with santa.  (sorry about the picture, you can see the picture through the globe a lot better irl)

 it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

happy, Christmas-y creating♥

danni

♥ gift card gift wrap MME style ♥

good morning everyone.  

i am up on the My Mind's Eye blog today with a gift wrapping post.  I hope you'll pop over and say hello. 

happy happy creating♥

danni

♥ 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