Another sneak

I keep telling myself that after Christmas life will slow down, just a little bit.

My husband says that for me life will never slow down.

He may be right.

I like to keep myself busy.

He probably doesn't want to see me not busy.

Are you done with your Christmas shopping/ gift making?

Here is a sneak peak of what is to come..

I once again have had a lot of fun putting together my cards!

Let me tell you Paper Lovelies kits are awesome!

They go really fast and quantities are limited.

January's kit will be released on Friday the 23rd.

Normally they are released on the 25th of each month.

On Friday you will be able to purchase a kit or see what the all of the design team members have put together using their kits here. For ideas click on kit ideas tab.

I will have a couple more sneak peaks through out the week.

Other ramblings:

I don't want to jinx myself but I have been getting a lot accomplished during nap time and after the kiddos are asleep.

My Christmas tree crashed over sometime between 9:30pm and 1:30am. I found it's side at 1:30am. I lifted it back up, mopped up all the water and went back to bed.

This morning I found lots of broken ornaments, along with a broken angel and a dust pan full of needles. I'm glad that I was up with the baby, and with it enough to think to dry the floor, otherwise the floor would have swelled and been wrecked. Now every time you walk past the tree you can hear the needles dropping.  We had to open 2 Christmas presents that might have been damaged due to water. 

Naomi will now only have to go to physical therapy once a week instead of twice.

I mailed 2 boxes on Friday morning and heard from my mom this morning they had already gotten theirs. Haven't heard about the other one.

Need to resend a few Christmas pictures 1 that didn't get stamped and others that addresses weren't correct.

I only have 5 more days to help Santa find 1 of his gifts.

My sisters-in-law are on school break. Might need to hire them one day this week to finish up the to do list before Christmas.

I told myself I was only going to sit down and get online while the 2nd pot of coffee is perking.

The To Do list is long.

I love when I get to cross off items completed.

Yesterday I finally tackled & cleaning my craft room. Again.

If you know me I am always doing this! Mostly to fit yet another good deal!

I think I finally re-arranged, so the kids can be in there with me.

I wrapped and mailed 10 Christmas presents today. -whew!-

I absolutely detest standing in the post office line. Click and ship at the postal services web site is so nice! If you saw me at the post office today you might have seen my huge grin on my face when I walked past the long line of people and dropped off my already labeled packages.

7 of which were homemade. *big smile* I'll share photos once they have been opened.

As of late I have been working best under pressure or when the deadline fast approaching.

On the to do list is to mark the calendar for next year to start earlier!

Coffee is done.

Now to do a few fast and easy items to make the list a little shorter.

Cricut card Thursday

I made this beautiful penguin card using Christmas Cheer.

Supplies needed:

White, black, red, brown & orange cardstock, 3 different colors of blue cardstock, white gel pen, Red & frosted lace Stickles, white liquid applique’ & Embossing heat tool.

Make card base to measure 5 ½ wide by 4 ½ tall.

Cut your 3 pieces of blue cardstock:

Small piece to measure 5 ¼ by 1 ½.

Medium piece to measure 5 ¼ by 2 ½.

Large piece to measure 5 ½ by 3 ½.

Tear each piece to make it look like drifted snow. Sand edges to distress.

Attach to card

Stamp snowflakes in the sky

Apply frosted lace stickles on top of stamped snowflakes. Set aside to dry.

Now cut & glue your 2 penguin together.

The smaller penguin is 2 ¾ inches tall and the big penguin is 3 ½ inches.

When cutting out your pieces for the penguins make both cuts while you have each color loaded into your cricut eliminating extra time loading and unloading your mat in the cricut.

1^st load white cardstock into your cricut.

Select your blackout button & then the penguin button. 1^st cut at 2 ¾ and then at 3 ½. You are keeping the outline of the penguin.

Next select the shift button & then the penguin button. 1^st cut at 3 ½ since your already at this size then 2 ¾. You are keeping the rim of the penguin’s hat.

Unload mat.

2^nd load black cardstock into your cricut

Select shift button & then penguin. 1^st cut at 2 ¾ and then at 3 ½. You are keeping the outline of the penguin.

Unload mat.

3^rd load orange cardstock into your cricut.

Select the shift button & then penguin. 1^st cut at 3 ½ and then at 2 ¾. You are keeping the penguin’s feet and nose.

Unload mat.

4^th load red cardstock into your cricut.

Select penguin. 1^st cut at 2 ¾ and then at 3 ½. You are keeping the penguin’s hat.

Unload mat.

Make penguin's eyes using a white gel pen.

Attach penguin to card.

Stamp sentiment on light brown cardstock and trim to make a small square.

With dark brown cardstock cut a small piece to make sign post.

Attach to card.

Using white liquid applique’ make a small line along the edge of the penguin’s hat, under the feet & to the top of the sign and base of post. Heat liquid applique’ with embossing heat tool to make it puff like snow.

 Make the penguin’s scarf using red stickles.

Apply frosted lace stickles to the penguin's belly. 

Let dry.  

 

Early appointment

How come it seems like that when you do decide to take the early morning appointment, your fighting with kids that have WAY too much energy to go to bed?

I decided not to go to bible class this evening and make sure the kids were tucked in extra early. Like that really ever happens.

We have to be up and at the dentist office for just after 8am.

This is typically what time my kids have been getting up around here.

I hope the morning will go smoothly.

Due to the appointment I'll be posting my cricut card later in the day.

Wordless Wednesday

Tips, Tricks & Techniques Tuesday

I really like the font of this 'happy birthday' stamp. The only problem is that the words sit on top of each other and I needed a sentiment that didn't.

This works better when using clear stamps but you can use wood mounted stamps also.



I wanted to figure out how I could still use this stamp.

I first put a piece of scrap paper below where my sentiment was to be stamped. I then aligned where I wanted my 'happy' to sit & stamped.

Then I moved my scrap paper above where my sentiment was to be stamp.  Aligned my 'birthday' & stamped.

Now I had the font from the stamp I wanted, in the spacing I wanted.