Snow!

As promised, here's our snow! I think there is more snow forecasted in the next couple of days. I'll post Christmas pictures in a few minutes, too. (Trying to get caught up!)

White Christmas

It's snowing! Looks like we'll have a white Christmas this year. Just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I'll post new pictures soon. Blessings to you and your families.

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a fabulous holiday with your families. Try not to eat too many cookies and goodies. :)

And here's some holiday fun-
Jayne is giving away a cool prize on her blog-check it out at http://feelinscrappy.blogspot.com/

She also has a fun little giveaway on the Feeling Scrappy message board!

Paint and a fun prize! (and other stuff)

I love snow but it kept me from accessing the Internet since Friday morning! Thankfully, I'm back now. :) I hate not being able to go online!!

Been busy working on January's paint class for www.feelingscrappy.com. Jayne's offering a great deal if you sign up for the next two classes(the paint and sketch classes)-go sign up now and save a few bucks!! We've added a new one week mini project class-Noteworthy Monograms- that I designed and will be teaching in February. I hope you'll go check it out and see how you can get the class for FREE!! Classes Here's a sneek peek of my class project-

I designed it so you can use stuff in your stash and you won't need to buy anything extra! This will make a great project for yourself or for a gift!

Still waiting to see if I get anymore ideas for a little video. If not, I'll be choosing an idea from the two people that posted comments with ideas. Remember, I said I'd send a prize to the person who posts the idea I pick. Just scroll down for the original post and add your own comment with idea.

Last but not least, i just found out I won a cool prize from A Million Memories. Check out what I won-

Thank you for the great prize!! This site puts together some amazing kits-monthly and special limited edition kits, too.

Gingerbread Men

We had a few of Joshua's friends over today to decorate gingerbread men. For some reason, I couldn't get them all in one shot-but here he is with Jack and Hannah.

Last minute gift idea!

I have a great last minute gift idea for-a gift certificate for an online scrapping class at www.feelingscrappy.com. Click HERE to go directly to the page to buy a gift certificate. Great idea for a scrappy friend or pass the link on to a hubby or someone else who might be clueless what to get for YOU!! The classes offered at this site are wonderful!! I've taken a few and will definitely be in the next few classes listed on the calendar. So much fun, you work at your own pace, you get encouragement and tons of ideas and samples. The january class is all about painting on your layouts (but most of the techniques will work for other crafty projects, too!). Then a sketch class and an embellishment class. So tons of fun and learning in store with this gift. Have a great Sunday!!

New layout

Finished up a couple of layouts last night but I can only show you this one. The other one is for the Paint class coming up in January at Feeling Scrappy. This page is for a Book of Us challenge about cars/daily transportation (I also cut some scallops for Colleen's Member of the Month challenge. I used some Webster's Pages paper I won from A Million Memories, as well as a couple of goodies from Jayne at Feeling Scrappy (grungeboard key and ribbon), CI paper, Bazzill paper, Distress Ink, embossing powder, Thickers and Rusty Pickle letters. I think that's it. :)

Card challenge and a RAK

I've posted a new card challenge on the Feeling Scrappy message board. It's all about scallops this week. I hope you'll check out my sketch and sample. :)

And I feel like trying my hand at another video but I don't know what anyone would want to see me make. Sooo, leave me a comment with your suggestion and I'll send a scrappy goodie to the person whose idea I pick. It can be anything...a how to or a technique or?? What do you think?

A sketch and some fun FS stuff!

Jayne updated the Feeling Scrappy website with the first Member of the Month, Colleen!! I hope you'll check out her interview and fave layouts on the homepage. Also, Colleen posted a fun challenge on the site's message board. Congrats Colleen!!

Here's a sketch I made a couple of days ago. I had planned on using it and posting both the sketch and the layout but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Soooooo, I'm just posting the sketch anyway. I hope you like it. Let me know if you use it. :)

Paper bag album

Suzanne asked me if the paper bags albums were hard to make. They are SUPER easy so I thought I'd post some instructions. If you make one, be sure to share it with me or leave me a comment!

You will need-
Three paper bags (I used small white bags from the craft store)
Glue
Stapler
Various paper scraps, ribbon, other scrappy goodies

Directions-
1. Turn bags in opposite directions then stack.

2. Fold them in half and then staple (or sew) them in the middle.

3. Cut a strip of paper to cover the binding and glue it on.

4. Add paper scraps to cover and decorate each page.
5. Add more paper scraps with ribbon to slide into the paper bag openings.

6. Have fun decorating it!

*I used scraps from American Crafts paper, Primas, a rhinestone from Lynda, paint, Distress ink, ribbon and a Grungeboard element that Jayne (from Feeling Scrappy) sent to me (the grungeboard, ribbon and some of the paper were from Jayne-Thanks Jayne!!).