Christmas Cards 2011 :)

Good morning & Happy New Year's Eve to everyone!  I'm sorry for not posting for a few days, but it's been a whirl wind of a Christmas Holiday!  My kiddos have been on break since the 16th of December and return to school on the 3rd... so keeping them occupied and not 'bored' has been a challenge! lol!  

I wanted to quickly post the Christmas cards that I created and mailed out this year.  I was very pleased as to how they turned out and excited about it all, being that it was my first year creating my own Christmas cards! :)  As you all may know or have read from my blog, my creating adventures began last Christmas (2010) when my dear hubby purchased a Cricut Expression for me.  It has been a FANTABULOUS journey of creating ever since!  

I hope that you all had a splendid and blessed Christmas with your families and loved ones.  Have a FABULOUS Saturday and keep on creating! 

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Wonderland Card with Matching Gift Bag

Hello again!  Now that I have my last post all squared away and taken care of, I am ready to post my latest creation! 

As many of you know, my daughter is in dance competition.  Every year, the older competition girls are assigned  a 'lil sis' to guide and be a role model for throughout the dance year.  Well, tomorrow is their big competition dance Christmas party and my daughter is to bring her 'lil sis' a gift.  Aside from buying her a couple of things that were on her wish list, I also made her a frame (which I will post at a later time), as well as a gift bag to house her gifts and a matching card.  I LOVE the way these turned out and absolutely love the CTMH Wonderland paper collection!  Along with the Wonderland papers, I also used the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge to cut out the snowflakes for both the gift bag and card.  I am really hoping that she likes it and hoping you all enjoy it as well! 



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Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas Celebration... Day 12!

Good morning and Happy Wednesday to all my fellow bloggers!  So, I logged on to blogger with the intention of posting my lastest creation (which I will post shortly after this one).... to find out that my Day 12 post never actually posted!  UGH, so frustrated with blogger at times!  This post should have been here for you all on Tuesday, so please accept my apologies!

On Day 12, I created this cutsie little treat bucket for some of my kiddo's school teachers, dance teachers, taekwondo instructors as well as the awesome ladies in the school office.  These little buckets were picked up at my local Target for only $1 a piece!  Easy Peasy!  Inside I put a baggie of hot cocoa, mini marshmallows, a couple of small candy canes, and some hershey kisses.  I hope you all enjoy... and again, I am so sorry this is SOOOO late!  Have a FABULOUS day!

Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas.... Day 10!

Happy Sunday to all!  Well, exhaustion got the best of me yesterday after my vendor show!  I returned home, cleaned my house a bit, sat on the couch to catch my breath and TOTALLY passed out!  Woke up to have a little dinner and passed out once again.... this time for the night!  I am feeling caught up with sleep for now, but I have another busy week ahead of me!  So happy that the kiddos go on break this coming Friday.... we'll finally have a chance to sit back and enjoy each other and this Christmas season.  Can you believe that there are only 14 days until Christmas?!?!  The time really is flying on by.  This makes me a tad bit sad.... I don't like it when the holidays are rushed! :(  

Well, here is YESTERDAY'S Day 10 project!  This is my 'Here Comes Santa (Pop-Up)' layout... another LBH creation that I completed.   It was a bit tedious to put together, but lots of fun!  This particular layout will be one that will be framed and up on our wall every Christmas!  Hope you all enjoy!

Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas Celebration.... Day 9!

What a BUSY BUSY day today!  Whew!  And it's NOT over yet!  Volunteered at the elementary school again today, worked on some cards for a bit, took my little man to his Taekwondo Christmas party and have to be up tomorrow at 6AM for yet ANOTHER vendor show!  Next year I definitely plan on NOT doing as many vendor shows.... or at least have my last one in November.  So much to juggle with the hubby working out of town a lot and my kiddos school and competition teams.  I have my daughter's dance competition Christmas party on Wednesday and then as room mom for my son's class, I am in charge of their Winter Party on Thurs.  YIKES!  Mamma here needs a BREAK!  

Speaking of break.... I am seriously considering taking one of Suzanne Dean's 'On the Road' Copic classes.  She will be in Waco, TX in February and it's only a 1 hr and 45 min drive from where I live!  I think it would be really neat.... and I need to get back to my copics.... they've SERIOUSLY been neglected!  

Well, enough of my chit chat.... here is Day 9 of my '12 Days of Christmas Celebration'!  This is my NEW set of mini tags for my Words for All Seasons block set.  I created my 'Ho Ho Ho' set at The Little Blue House.  If any of you are EVER here in Fort Worth, make sure to stop by there... you will love it!  This is probably my favorite set so far (then again, I think I say that about all my tag sets)!  I hope you will all enjoy!

Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas Celebration.... Day 8!

Hello everyone!  Here's hoping that you are all doing well today!  My day started off great... went to The Little Blue House with my mother for some mother/daughter creating!  We had a great time there today and each came home with a FaBuLoUs completed project.  I will be sharing my creations with you early next week.  Like I mentioned above, my day started off great, but by the time we got home I start to get some pretty bad stomach pains.  Feeling a little better now, but still having little 'pings' ever so often.  

Though a little late today, here is my Day 8 project.  I decided to make my mother a nice Christmas frame to house a photo of all of her grandbabies.  I found the perfect place for my Cricut Art Philosophy cut poinsettia!  Hope you all enjoy... I am off to bed for now!  Have a great night!

Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas Celebration.... Day 7!

Well hello again!  I have really been on top of  this lately, haven't I?!?!  Except for my little 'oops' yesterday!  Wow, it's Day 7 already!  I need for this month to come to a brief pause.... too much to do and NOT enough time to get it all done!  I am going to seriously be worn out by December 26!  I may need to sleep this all off until the first of the year! lol!

And here it is.... my Day 7 creation!  This cutsie french fry treat box was cut using my NEW FAVORITE cartridge.... CTMH's Cricut Art Philosophy!  I know that I have said this many times before.... but the possibilities with this cartridge truly are ENDLESS!  I hope you guys like it!

I am off to The Little Blue House AGAIN tomorrow, this time with my madre, to do more CrEaTiNg (as if I don't have enough to get done here in my craft room)!  Can't wait to share those creations with you!  until then, have an AWESOME evening and an even more AWESOME day tomorrow!

Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas Celebration.... Day 6! Oops!

Ahhh, my day was so busy yesterday that I never got the chance to post my Day 6 project!  I am so sorry!  I've been volunteering at my son's school this week and I also stopped by The Little Blue House for a workshop where I created a couple of projects. :)  With Christmas creeping up on us and still a couple of vendor shows to go, my mind has been running a mile a minute will ALL the things I need to get done.  I feel that the more people try not to stress out around this time of year, the more we do!  

But I am here, and I am sharing with you one of the projects created yesterday at The Little Blue House.  What you see is my 'Season's Greetings Gatefold Accordion Book'!  As always, the ladies there did a TERRIFIC job designing this project and I had a blast working on it and putting it together!  It was a fairly easy project just took a bit of time to assemble it all.  I have yet to pick the five photos that will be displayed on it, but that shouldn't be a problem!  I hope you all enjoy and have a FaBuLoUs day!

Front of Closed Book

Front of Open Accordion Book.... Photos Not Yet Added!

Backside of Open Accordion Book

Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas Celebration.... Day 5

Hello again!  Wow, I'm doing good at keeping up with my blog lately!  YAY for me!  Feels good to be back and to see everyone's fabulous creations!

It's been pretty hectic around here and I definitely don't see things slowing down until way after the holidays.  Spent the morning volunteering for my son's school at 'Santa's Workshop'... which I'll be doing a few more times this week.  It is quite amusing to watch these little ones shop for their families.  Brings back memories of my elementary school days.... the days where I bought my dad soap on a rope and my mom little star pins for her to put on a beret hat she used to own.  lol!  And to think, all these years later, my mother STILL has those silly little star pins.  I also did a little more shopping today, mostly shopping for all of our animals food... they all seem to have run out at the same time.  We have 4 dogs, a miniature goat, miniature pony, and a bearded dragon!  Pretty busy household!

Well, for Day 5 I made a simple little tree ornament to add to my son's teacher's Christmas gift box of goodies.  Rather than giving her one gift, I thought of putting together a box of a variety of small gifts.  Enjoy my newest creation and I hope that you all have a wonderful week!  If it is FrEeZiNg where you are, like it is here in TX lately, keep warm! brrrrr!

Cricut Mania's 12 Days of Christmas Celebration.... Day 4

Another rainy rainy day here in North TX!  Oh how we've needed this here.  I hope this finds you all having a FaBulOuS Sunday.  It has been quite a lazy weekend for me with all of this rain, but I was able to craft some today just in time to post!  Here is a poinsettia flower that I put together using, one again, CTMH's Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  I had seen this online a while back, cannot remember where, and decided to give it a try.  It was quick, easy, and turned out GREAT!  I'm still not quite sure what I'll be doing with this poinsettia, but I am sure that I will eventually come up with something!!!!  Enjoy!

On the 2nd Day of Christmas.... We Have Magic Reindeer Food!

So sorry to post this so late!  It was scheduled to post while I was crafting away at The Little Blue House, but as you can see... that DIDN'T happen!  Here is a quick project I made earlier this morning for Day 2 of my '12 Days of Christmas Celebration'.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this Magic Reindeer Food idea and so does my son!  It makes a terrific gift for children.  This is a very quick project that you can throw together in no time. It consists of oats, sprinkles, and colored sugar crystals. Aside from that, I was FINALLY able to break in my CTMH 'I Believe' stamp set that I received last week!  It is such a beautiful stamp set and I cannot wait to create other projects with it.  I hope that you all enjoy!  Have a FABULOUS weekend!

CTMH 'I Believe' Stamp Set

'Rock the Block' Collage Cubes - Side 1: Christmas

Who doesn't love a FABULOUS sneak peek?!?!  I know I do! :)  Beginning December 10th through January 30th, Close To My Heart will be offering an AWESOME promotion in honor of National Paper Crafting Month!  During this promotion you will have a chance to snatch up an EXCLUSIVE E-size stamp set and the 'My creations Collage Cubes' for just $15 when you place a minimum order of $25 from the Autumn/Winter 2011 Idea Book!  That's a retail savings of almost $30!  You will absolutely LOVE the Collage cubes and the 'Rock the Block' stamp set, which work together for interactive, 3-D fun.  Contact me today for full details!

Below you will see my take on the 'Collage Cubes'!  I am a HUGE fan of ALL holidays, therefore, I have decided that my cubes will center around my family's favorite holidays.  I had such a blst with these cubes and cannot wait to see all of the sides all done.  Here is one side completed... I will post the others as I complete them.  Enjoy!

100th POST & Day 1 of My '12 Days of Christmas Celebration'!

WOW.... I have reached my 100th post! WoOt wOoT!  Had I not been sooooo busy these last few months, there would have been so many more.  I feel as I have neglected my blog so much lately.... and I will be trying my best to keep up with it like I used to on a daily basis!

December has snuck up on us and Christmas is just around the corner.  So hard to believe!  Feels like just yesterday that we were fighting triple digit temperatures here in TX.  Though, I am thankful for the MUCH cooler weather we are finally getting!  Today I am kicking off my '12 Days of Christmas Celebration' projects.  Beginning today, December 1st, through December 12th I will post a project each day!  Be sure to take a peak each day and stay tuned for a GIVEAWAY once the 12 days are up!  Thanks for stopping by and have a terrific night!