And because it Halloween is first and NOT Christmas, I made a Halloween card and 2 shaker boxes filled with candy corn. The boxes were cut with the "Bags, Tags, and Boxes" Cricut Cartridge. I'm trying to break those out more often to justify the purchase of it. LOL!
Well, I'd better head out and take those photos or at least gather items for them: matching clothing, tripod--you know the drill. ;) Have a great weekend!
Just an October Day
Yep, that's what it looks like today except that the sky is a much darker shade of blue. Gorgeous. I took this one sitting in the car waiting for Jimmy to get out of school. I shot above the cars in the parking lot so it cut off a bit of the trees. This is one thing I LOVE about living in Utah--beautiful leaves. :)
Not much going on here--survived my daughter's 12th birthday slumber party last week--six girls stayed the night. They graciously fell asleep by 12:30 p.m. I am quite happy about that. They were all very nice. We had a Masquerade Party theme and they could wear a costume or a dress. We served a 3 course meal, and Jimmy served as both Butler and Waiter. Too cute I tell you! Then we played lots and lots of games and then watched a movie. I was more exhausted than the girls. Kate proceeded to take a 6 hour nap on her actual birthday--bless her heart! I knew she would.
Working a bit. Finished up my article for the February ST issue. Ran a few errands. Trying to figure out what we're doing for Family Home Evening tonight. Maybe we should go over and visit my Mom. It's her b-day too this month, but she hasn't been feeling too well. :( And my Dad gets home from California in a few hours. I've missed them both a lot!
Nothing creative to show you. Working with a new line from Little Yellow Bicycle--so stinkin' cute!! And I think I'll be seeing some new lines from Karen Foster in the next bit. I love that!!
What are you up to these days?
Note: they are clear acrylic so you will need a mounting block for them. :) I'll pick a winner Saturday morning.
I love this card. I think it's the blue, green and red combo. It's a little outside the box for typicaly Christmas colors. Again, using that embossing template, and LYB product. I told you this line was GORGEOUS!! :)
And I had fun trying something new with this project. It's a peanut can, cleaned out, and repurposed with LYB Christmas products. I made a bunch of Christmas tags to go inside the bag. On one side of the tag is an embossed/stamped snowflake and on the other side is the to/from and a Versmark stamped snowflake. Quick and easy project. (Those glittered brads are also LYB). :)
And I got some photos from Jessi Stringham from my SU party. Here's one of Loni, Jessi, Robyn, and I. She has an awesome camera as my living room was not this well lit. :)
And here's one of Robyn and I. She is so uber talented. I'm so grateful that she would come up and share her awesome gift with my friends and I. Thanks to all who came!!
Well, I've got to finish the laundry and get ready for my friend Amber to visit. I haven't seen her since I moved from Georgia. I'm so excited!! :)
And this "together" card using the Bella Vita stamps and products from Little Yellow Bicycle:
Well, I'm off to go and read. We're reading a new book for book club, and I haven't started it. Not wanting to. Probably part of the way I'm feeling today. Maybe I'll try and read something lighter. Hopefully I'll get to do some more stamping tomorrow. I really love it. Something about inking up an object and making a work of art that makes me feel better. :) See ya around!
Then I bought a second Imaginisce stamp to make this. (The pattern paper is Pebbles, Inc. and so very cute!! You should see the back side of it too--darling green circles.)
And then I finally used this awesome circle tag set from Autumn Leaves that Jennifer McGuire sent me a while ago. They are lovely, and after Robyn's amazing classes I knew I wanted to play with them. I made a card and tag in both color sets. I may give these as a gift to my Mom (no looking, Mom!).
In addition to stamping over the weekend, I got to listen to our LDS Conference talks. They are uplifting and always remind me of what's most important. President Monson's talk on remembering how short time is and how quickly we our loved ones return to Heavenly Father was particularly poignant for me. I disappoint myself sometimes in how I forget how precious time is and that I need to relax and enjoy every moment with my kids. You don't think you'll forget that lesson, but in moments of exhaustion or stress I still sometimes lose my patience and forget to treasure even the bad times. I suppose we all do this. But it was good to be reminded.
So an uplifting conference and stamping--it was an awesome weekend!