It is almost Christmas!

The big day is almost here and boy is it exciting. I can't wait until the kids open their gifts! In the mean-while I am distracting myself with Facebook and The Greeting Farm sketches.

Sketch #4 : Birthday by the Pond

I am not too sure what I was thinking when I picked the colors but it turned out exactly the way I wanted. I was hoping for a soft look and I think the Yellow and grey really do the job.

{materials}Sandy speckles Stampin' wheel. Grey and Brown ink. Colored pencils. brads. Down by the Pond Stamp set from The Greeting Farm.

{tools} Crop-o-dile.

Did you know? You can make a collage of your Facebook statuses!

Mine made me laugh... all I think about is FOOD and the KIDS!

What a silly way to look back on 2009!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a Merry Christmas Eve tomorrow!

~*~Shaz~*~

Sketchy Guy Cards!

The Greeting Farm 12 days of Sketches Challenge has my imagination on running!

I made 4 card in 2 hours... WooH... That is magic!

There are two more card and they are for the guys.

Sketch #2:Edward World

buy it Edward's World card {$2}

Sketch #3:Special guy

buy it Special Green Guy card {$2}

I have also entered both of these card into the "Anything Goes" Challenge.

The Creative Card Crew is also looking for some new designers. This will be my entry. ~ Wish me luck!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a Merry Christmas!

~*~Shaz~*~

Merry Christmas from Reeta

The gang over at The Greeting Farm are having 12 sketches for Christmas. This is the first on the twelve. I used the colorQ # 11 color prompt and the Anyone for Anya "Last Christmas" theme.

{material} purple onion background stamp, Reeta Sprout from The Greeting farm. Markers from Stampin' Up!. Sentiment stamp from Studio G. Cardstock by Stampin' Up! Ink by Close to my Heart. Flower  hand made. fabric brad is a found item.

{tools} Coluzzel oval cutter. Sewing Machine. Crop-o-dile.

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a Merry Christmas!

~*~Shaz~*~

Wrapping the perfect gift

I thought I would share 2 unique ideas for wrapping the perfect gift.
I am down to five gifts to be wrapped, Yeah for me!
Here is what I have done wrapping the perfect gift cards. 
For wrapping the perfect gift cards I created a passport folder to hold 2 gift cards and a card. 
The card and holder is for my husband so I tied to stay away from glitter and flowers. 

The card is based on Laura's Sketch 41.  I used 2 tutorial for the passport folder.

Double Gift Card Holder and Faux Leather Wallet

The second ideas is for wrapping the perfect gift basket.

I love gift baskets but I always think the stuff in them is a little weird and expensive too!

I saw some that look great but the had an ugly bowl. I would never want to see some of those bowls

after I eat all the goodies. So I wrapping the perfect gift basket and it only cost $3.00. YES, wrapping the perfect gift basket only cost $3.00! 

I went to the dollar store and picked cello wrapping, tinsel and the ornament for $1.00 each.

I hope you liked my ides on wrapping the perfect gift!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a Merry Christmas!

~*~Shaz~*~

{Baby boy} elephant card

Hey there are you all ready for Christmas?
Boy, oh, boy! It has been busy, but fun, getting ready for Christmas. I know I have not posted many crafts over the last few days, with all the gift to wrap and stuff. Don't worry this is a cute-e I promise.

This card is a multi Challenge card and a DT submission.

Pile it on Challenge #28

Mojo Monday Sketch #117

Colour Q Combo #11

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful day

~*~Shaz~*~

{MY} crafter's Christmas list 2009

Every year my husband, Hank, asks me to write a Christmas list.  {After a few years of weird gifts he realized it was better to ask.}  I have been so excited about buying for the kids. {I think I got them them best gifts every!} I had not put much thought into {MY} crafter's Christmas list 2009. So after a week of thinking a crafter's Christmas list 2009 would look like.  I picked the a few things.

Here it goes a crafter's Christmas list 2009:

1~ Copic Markers

{$3.00 to $4.00 each}

 

2~ 8G USB Drive

{$12.00 to $30.00}

3~ Socks

{YES! I really want Socks.}

4~ Teapot with a lid I cant break!

{President's Choice retailer $8.00}

5~ DIY Snow~globe

{Hallmark/Michael's $12.00}

6~ Chocolate

{YUMMY! Lindor or Ghirardelli please!}

7~ Basic grey Paper

{$1.00 per sheet to $25.00 per pad}

8~ Puma Footwear
{These are nice eh?}

So that was {MY} crafter's Christmas list 2009. I would love to hear what other crafter's Christmas list are looking like. What is on your list?

Happy Christmas Shopping!

Shaz

Christmas gift package

The Greeting Farm had a great Challenge for "the complete package", and boy was I stumped. After much thought I came up with this ...

These tins and book clip coordinate with the gift holder I made on my blog-aversary post. {here}

They are a Christmas Gift for my "Mommy-Buddy".  I stamped and colored Anya's head for tags to embellish the tins. I put a eyelet in the hat  to lace the tags to the tins.

The packaging is a re-use package from my birthday. I re-moved the original labels and replaced them with hand-stamp labels. {check out the close ups}

I also wanted to let you all know that there is a sale over at Purple Onion Design Stamps are 25% off until Dec 15th! You could also enter a draw over at the blog by post the blinkie like me. Head on over!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful day~Shaz

Busy Christmas {lots of Pictures}

Hey there crafters I have been busy with family Christmas stuff. Boy, it is a lot of work to "Deckin' them Halls","Trim that Tree" and "sendin' those greetings"... But it is all so much fun! My favorite thing to do at Christmas time is wrap gifts.
I don't put much fashion coordination into our Christmas decorating.  I try {keywork:TRY}  to let the kids do things the way they like it. Of course if all the ornament are on one side I can't resist evening it out. It is all for the kids, right!?!
Most of the ornaments on our tree are made by the kids. Some of them are not even "Christmas-y". The are just, some of my favorite crafts that they have made over the years, so that mean:
I have sun-catchers and painted butterflies on my tree. {Oh well...}

I also helped the kids with some card writing of there own. It is fun to watch them thinking about who each and every card is going to be for. Stamping the envelopes with Christmas greetings and lick the seals{yuck}. They had a grand old time.

*** Please note NO Handmade cards were harmed during this process***

Yeh... I feel like I should say that these card were store bought.

Merry Christmas!

{hugs}  Shaz 

Your comment are my favorite!

piles of glitter

Why is glitter so messy? I have done an other Pile it on challenge... and this was a messy one. Check out the pile of Challenges I used:

{1}Pile it on challenged us to use Glitter.

{2}  Sketch Saturday gave us the layout

{3} Farm Fresh Friday Color combo

{4} Crafty Cardmaking Non Christmas image on your Christmas card.

I had the grand idea to use the Laundry Hope {see the original image here} to make a tired gift wrapper.  I am sure I will look like this next week, all strung out on wrapping, apple cider and curly ribbon. Can you see her tiny slippers? I have not seen a challenge for flocking but if there was one I would qualify. I dusted her little house slippers with soft white fluff. So while "Hope" pulls an all-night-er, wrapping gifts, her toes will keep toasty.

{material}

Baja, kiwi, real red, choc chip and whisper white card-stock from SU! Laundry Hope stamped image is from TGF and embossed with stazon and SU! clear powder.. Gold glitter is from White Rose{if you even know the place I have had this glitter forever}  Christmas sentiment, ribbons and strings are random from my stash. Colored with Copic markers.

{tools}

Crop-o-dile to punch hole in tag. Making Memories Slice and Noteworthy SD card to cut dies.  Glue pen and Liquid glass from CTMH to adhere glitter and flocking. Heat gun to set the embossing powder and glues.

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful day~Shaz

Papertake Baby!

I have been so busy this week I have not done much in the way of crafting.

I spent most of me time decorating the blog for the winter{Do you like?}

I did, however, make the time to to try a new{to me} challenge.

Papertake

I used the sketch for this gift bag for a baby shower I am going to this week-end.

{materials} Sock monkey stamp set, markers, pink and teal card-stock by SU!

Jet black in by Staz-on.  Ribbon and gift bag from Wal-mart.

{tools} Scalloped edge paper edger from SU! Corner rounder from Creative Memories.

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful day,

Shaz

Blog-aversary Candy winner is....

Amy at Amy's Stocking stuffers!
Go on congratulate her...
When you're there at her blog you will see all her great ideas.
Stocking stuffers for every one you can think of.

Thanks to all who sent compliment, advise and ideas over the last year.

You have blessed me more than you know.

{hugs}

Shaz 

Your comment are my favorite!

Cherry Blog-aversary to me!

Today is My Blog-aversary and I am sure you saw the giveaway to celebrate. Today is the Last Chance to enter for the draw, So click here to enter. Hank and I were talking about it earlier in that week. It does not seem that long since I started blogging. I totally enjoy the comments and ideas I see while I blog. Some blogs are my new crafting buddies. Like... the gang over at The Color Throwdown!

Have you seen the color throw-down challenge today?

I am sure it would be great for a Christmas card but I had a little gift I needed to wrap. The gift has cherries on the package that totally matched the throw-down colors! So with the help of the ladies over at The color Thow-down... I made a pocket to hold the gift I picked up for a Mommy-buddy.

Most of the stuff I used here is in the blog-candy package.

{ Anya stamps, pearls, charms and ribbon are all in the Blog-aversary candy giveaway}

{material}

Sentiment stamp, designer paper, black, green, red. and white card-stock are from SU!

Red pearls, ribbon & floss can be found at Hobby Lobby. Vintage charm is a found item.

{tools}

Shapes cut with the Noteworthy Sd card for the Making Memories Slice.

Round tab, small oval & curly label punch from SU!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful day,

Shaz

Here it comes and it's a girl!

***Hello all, tomorrow is the last day to enter into my Blog-aversary giveaway.***

 I know Mr. Linky was was having some problem but it is all ready for you to enter now.  I did receive a message that there was some confusion on who can enter. I have no criteria on who can enter. All are welcome to win the great craft supplies up for grabs. Enter here! Ok, back to the fun stuff.

My Cousin-in-Law is having a baby in late december and it's a girl.... "Taylor" will be her name.

I altered a little frame for her room. I know this frame looks great the way it is {lol}.... but see the little window? The paper in the background can be removed and a photo can be placed in of the baby!

Don't forget about the Blog-aversary giveaway here !

Have a great day,

Shaz