Our Christmas Card

Here is the Christmas card that we will be sending out to friends/family this year. The photo doesn't do it justice . . . it really is much cuter in real life!

I do think this is the simplest card I have ever made for our Christmas cards - whew! Good thing, because there is so much going on these days that SIMPLE IS GOOD! LOL!!

The photo of the boys (ages 3 and 6) was taken in May while we were razor clam digging at Copalis, WA. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera when we went on this trip (almost a crime in my book!) so I had to buy a disposable camera and the photos were just not as good of quality as they would have been had I had my camera - oh well - at least I got photos!

Razor clam digging is one of our family traditions and the only time we will pull the boys out of school (sorry, teachers!)! So, although it seems kinda like a silly photo to put on our Christmas cards, it is the photo that would mean the most to those that are close to us! I hope you enjoy it . . . . . .



The sentiment says: May the spirit of Christmas, (inside of card) warm your hearts all year long.

All products used were CTMH.

Christmas and Fall cards

Here are a couple of cards I did for a gathering last night. I wanted to come up with 2 different cards using the October Stamp of the Month (Annotations). Everyone seemed to like them and we had a lot of fun - thanks, Angie (and Pam for letting me borrow Evergreen!!). :-)





I finally got enlargements of the boys on their firsts days of school and our Christmas photo of the boys for our Christmas cards . . .so my goal this weekend is to get our Christmas card posted (that's easy) and get the boys First Day of School layouts done (that one's a little tougher). Check back this weekend to see if I get them done!

Have a great weekend everyone and, as always, thanks so much for visiting my blog and all of your wonderful comments on my work! :-)

WINNER!

Yaaayyyyyy . . . Congratulations, Diane! Diane got her last needed word today (cuttlebug) and emailed me with BINGO!

Diane, email your mailing address to me and I'll get your goodies out to you ASAP!

I hope you all had fun playing! Keep visiting my blog for fun projects and more games!

THE FINAL 5?

Are these the final 5 words? Will we have a winner today? Oh, it's so exciting . . .

Here they are . . .

Stamping
Revolution
Papertrey Ink
Brayer
Cuttlebug

If we don't have a winner (email me) by the time I get home from work (1:30pm), I'll post a bonus word! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Perfect day cards and holder

Scrap Bingo has been keeping me pretty busy, but I have found some time to play! I made this adorable little card holder and 3 coordinating cards to go in it. I saw this card holder on the CTMH bulletin board and thought it was so cute I had to try it. It will hold about 8-10 cards (with envelopes) so I've still got to make a few more!





I used the CTMH Perfect Day Lv. 2 paper pack - so cute! Happy Wednesday!

Wednesday's bonus word . . .

is . . .

LAYOUTS

I know a lot of you are getting close . . .we'll see if this word helps!

I'll post 5 more words in the morning . . .I think tomorrow might be the day . . . some of you are verrryyy close! Good luck!

5 words for Wednesday . . .

Here are your 5 words today . . . someone's got to be close?!?!?

Two Peas in a Bucket
Prima
Ink
My Favorite Things
Bellas

I'll post a bonus word later today if nobody emails me with BINGO!

Today's words - sorry so late!

Sorry it took me all day to get these posted . . . it's been a busy day!

Here are the long awaited 5 words for the day:

Quickutz
SEI
Fiskars
Flourishes
Basic Grey

and I might as well just go ahead and give you a bonus word now because I have a meeting tonight and probably won't get back on here . . . so, here ya go . . .

PAPER

Good luck, all! I'm anxiously awaiting someone to yell out BINGO!!!

Late BONUS word . . .

I know it's a little late and some of you probably won't even get this until tomorrow, but here's a bonus word for you guys . . . . isn't the suspense killing you . . .

. . . .

. . . .

the bonus word is . . .


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hmmmmm. . . . .


okay, just kidding . . .

TECHNIQUES

Good night, ladies! 5 more words in the morning . . . :-)

5 for Monday

Here are the next 5 . . . is someone gonna get BINGO today????? Email me if you do!


Adhesive
Tsukineko
Create
Doodlebug Design
Rusty Pickle

Good luck!

Bonus Word

Today's bonus word is:

Scor-Pal

We could have a winner anytime now, since I've given you more than 15 words. First one to email me with their BINGO wins! We'll keep playing until we have a winner. I'll post 5 more words in the morning.

Good Luck!

The next 5 . . .

Happy Sunday, everyone. Hope you are all having a great weekend.

The next 5 words are:

Scraps
Gina K.
Ribbon
Photographs
Liquid Applique

Good luck . . . we'll see how close you're getting . . . maybe another BONUS word today.

;-)

BONUS WORD!!!

The bonus word for today is Distressing!

Hope you guys are having fun! 5 more words tomorrow! Have a great weekend!

Next 5 Words

Way to go, everyone! Here are the next 5 words:

Close To My Heart
Sponge Daubers
Karen Foster
Chatterbox
BoBunny

Stay tuned today . . . . I'm feeling a bonus word coming on ;-)

First 5 words

Here are the first 5 words. Remember, when you get all 15 words email me to claim your prize!

Making Memories
Impress
Spellbinders
Hero Arts
The Cat's Pajamas

GOOD LUCK!! Reply here and let me know how you're doing! Have fun! I'll post the next 5 words tomorrow morning!

Scrap Bingo Players

Here are the 12 players who have emailed me their 15 words for this round of Scrap Bingo.

Diane
Chrissy
De
Shan
Kris
Paula
Shir
Kathe
Sanela
Yvonne
Cheryl M.
Kelly

I'll post the first 5 words in about a half hour (after I take my son to school)!

Scrap Bingo deadline tonight - need 4 more players!

If you haven't selected your 15 words yet, please look through the list below and email me your words so you can play! Deadline for emailing me your words is 10pm tonight (PST).

I'll post the first 5 words tomorrow morning! Feel free to post a response and let us know if you got any words or not!

GOOD LUCK! :)

Christmas Card

I was hoping to get both of my sons 1st day of school layouts done today, but started playing with my new stamp set instead. I got this adorable stamp set out of the new CTMH catalog . . . this is the first card I've made with it and I'm so glad that I like it as much as I thought I would! I used liquid applique for the snow and a cute little charm from CTMH.







I'll try again tomorrow for those 1st day of school layouts! ;-)

Still need for 4 more people for Scrap Bingo . . .starts Friday morning! Hurry and sign up by emailing me your 15 words!

Scrap Bingo - Let's Play!

Ok . . so here are the rules for Scrap Bingo (as adapted from April at Artistic Paperie - Thanks, April!). The first 12 people to email me their lists will get to play this round, so email all your scrapping friends and get them to play along!

This is an EASY game . . . just a matter of luck, no skill needed! Anyone can play!

1. Pick 15 words from the list below

2. Email them to me no later than 10 pm PST on Thursday, October 16 (to keep things fair, no late entries will be accepted)

3. On Friday, October 17th, I will start calling off 5 words a day

4. Cross off the words on your list that I call

5. The first person to get all of their 15 words called, email me, and you will be the SCRAP BINGO WINNER and win a fun assortment of scrapbooking/cardmaking supplies. I went through all of my STUFF!!! and picked out some beautiful papers and fall ribbons and flowers and a couple of small 3x3 cards you can embellish. Also threw in a couple of cute little purse kits (these make adorable little treat boxes) and a few chipboard pieces! I'll go through and try to add some more fun surprises in there for the winner!





Here are the words from which you need to pick your 15 words from:

Autumn Leaves
Adhesive
Paper
Fancy Pants
Scraps
Ink
Cosmo Cricket
Sponge Dauber
Brayer
Fiskars
Create
Dimensional Elements
Close To My Heart
Making Memories
Stamping
Papertrey Ink
Impress
Scor-Pal
Gina K.
Bellas
Cuttlebug
Flourishes
Chatterbox
Pebbles Inc.
Techniques
Distressing
Rusty Pickle
Spellbinders
Quickutz
Layouts
Ribbon
Doodlebug Design
Prima
Karen Foster
Photographs
SEI
Bazzill
Two Peas in a Bucket
EK Success
Hero Arts
Heidi Swapp
Tsukineko
Queen & Co.
Provo Craft
Revolution
Basic Grey
The Cat's Pajamas
My Favorite Things
Liquid Applique
Creating Keepsakes
BoBunny
Crate Paper

And, just in case my links above don't work . . . my email address is jeanihill@tfon.com

Have fun and GOOD LUCK!

SCRAP BINGO . . . who wants to play?

Get ready . . . .scrap bingo details will be posted later today! Winner will get a great prize package of scrapping stuff! I'll post all the rules, details and photo of the prize after I pick up my son from school! :-)

Halloween Cards

I got some great new stamps from Impress and had to play around with them. Here are 2 Halloween cards I made. I don't usually send Halloween cards, but they are so fun to make!



The little witch on this card is a Martha Stewart punch I ordered from Impress. I brayered the background and used the winter tree from CTMH's Four Seasons and then just used my black pen to put the other dots in. The moon was just made with my circle punch. It all came together (thanks to Jody!). Love that little rickety picket fench stamp from Impress. :-) Enjoy!

Fair cards

Here are a couple of cards I made while demonstrating at our fair (in August!).

For this card I used CTMH's Yeehaw, Sarsparilla Lv. 2 paper pack:


For this one I used CTMH's Say It In Style, Evensong Lv. 2 paper pack:


Gotta do a little housework and then I'll post some of the stuff I've been working on while my camera was out of commission! So much catch up . . .whew!

Finally!

Yes . . .I finally got my new camara. Got a little cheaper one than I had hoped, but I needed new clothes for work . . LOL! Hope it will do the job!

I thought I had posted these before, but guess I didn't. I created this card (using CTMH Four Seasons and Spot On Backgrounds) several weeks ago and liked it so much that I copied the design but made it a sympathy card (for a co-worker who lost her FIL). Hope you like . . I'll post a bunch of stuff later that I've created over the past couple of weeks . . .

Here is my original card (love those little trees!):



Here's the sympathy card: