a break...

from Christmas cards :) After having "one of those weekends", I had "one of those days...." today. I had really hoped to have some fun just making tags and some Christmas cards, but housework just seemed to get in the way...So, we'll take a short break from Christmas cards for an everyday card.

But I have to be honest...I'm not really sure I like it. More like I'm pretty sure I don't. It looked a lot cuter in my head lol. But I do think the felt butterfly turned out cute! I'll want to try that again for sure. The pattern paper is Basic Grey. Anyway,I think I'll have to work on using pattern paper better on my cards lol.

Thanks for stopping by!! Did your week start out like you planned? Mine not so much, but I'm loving the sunny weather! 

cookie card :)

I know weekends are supposed to be for resting...but you know, I don't really seem to feel like I get much resting done on the weekends....is just me?!
Anyway, I wanted to share some more tags today, but I haven't taken the presents out from under the tree to photograph yet....but then I noticed I had one more super simple Christmas card that I hadn't shared yet :)

These seem to have been my favorite colors for most of my Christmas cards this year. I stamped the jar directly on the white. Then I stamped the cookies on Fine Linen cardstock and sponged on some white ink. Well, actually I used a Q-tip again. I just used a red pen to add the red sprinkles. Then I matted it on the red and white pattern paper and added a sentiment. Finished off with the button. Really quick to put together. And since you aren't really carefully coloring in anything, the cookie part was quick too.

 I'm really into the Christmas mode now, but the weather has been a little to warm for Christmas if you ask me. It just doesn't seem like December. Just watch though, I'm sure I'll be complaining about how cold it is in just a few days lol :)Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you are ready for Monday :)

cookies, cookies, cookies....

We have a sort of tradition. I say sort of  because we just started it a couple of years ago, and I don't know exactly how "official" it is. Anyway, it's a tradition of making and decorating cookies for Christmas. Sometimes we make sugar cookies, sometimes ginger cookies. But the point is to have fun. Eating yummy cookies is of course an added bonus, but the actual yumminess of the cookies is not all that important :) So that's what we did today. We made and decorated sugar cookies. All the kids including Miss Emma. And it was established ahead of time that yes, it was ok to make a mess. Good thing too :)

It started out calm enough....

But then things got a little out of hand :).....

Since there wasn't enough room on the counter, we moved to the living room table.

We used cookie cutter shapes and made our own...unique designs :)

 Emma really enjoyed the colored sugar....

see, hands!

making a candy cane...

                          What's wrong with making hotdogs out of the dough?!

I'm making a big doughnut!!

I think it might have taken me just as long to clean up as it did for them to make all the cookies....but it was definitely worth it :)

 Don't you think? Hope you are having an awesome-ly fun day!!

tiny tag...

It's already pretty late here, and I should be in bed heehee. But I thought I would pop in and share just one more tag I made, really quick :) Really sorry you can't see it very well in the photo. I used my jar die from the Friendship jar set and cut out two--one in Fine Linen and one out acetate. I didn't even use the stamp. I stamped the little snowman and colored him with my copics just a little. I used a Q-tip to dab the white on him like I did on the other snowman before. I actually added the text after I colored him in, but it worked out ok. I   used white Stazon to stamp the snowflakes on the acetate. Punched a hole in both and threaded some twine through. I didn't get a photo of the back, but there is a place to write to and from :)

Ok, sorry just to post and run. My body and schedule just have not been able to catch up after I've been gallivanting all over the place lately. But I did start on an actual scrapbook page today, which it feels like I haven't done in ages. And that makes me happy :) Thanks for taking the time to stop by!! Just a couple more days till the weekend :) fun :)

not yet...

I know I said last week and maybe even the week before, that I was out and about way too much. Goodness, I was hoping that things would calm down and be back to normal already, but it sure doesn't seem like it yet. We left really early this morning to head out for a ladies' card class we were having. It didn't start till 10, but we had to allow plenty of time to get stuck in traffic and still get things set out. All went well, the ladies loved it, and my kids had almost too much fun hanging out with Papa and their cousins again. Miss Emma seemed to miss Mama a little bit more since she has cold, but she's definitely getting even more fond of her Papa :) Anyway, at least tomorrow we should be able to stay home and be calm...and hopefully it will last through the next few weeks.
I have a couple more tags I made that I haven't added to their respective presents yet :)

Nothing super fancy again. I really tend to use my scraps for my tags. I kind of think of it as a challenge to see what I can do with them. So that is what I used here, combined with some stamps and some dies. I usually like to add string or twine to my tags when they have this traditional "tag" shape, even if I don't actually use the string to attach it.

Ok, I'm really going to try to have a relaxing evening of stamping or crafty-blog surfing :) Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you're have a restful week :)

new grin

We made our trip to the dentist today. Rhys got his braces on :) They are actually only partial braces on his front teeth. He did really well. It didn't really take that long to get them on. I don't think he is used to them yet. He keeps checking them in the mirror telling me new things he notices about them. He was excited, though nervous, to get them.Not that it really took all day, but it did interrupt my normal day, so it's standing as my excuse as to why I didn't get much of anything done today...I have a tag to share though! At least it's proof  I did something, right?

Most of my tags have been pretty simple this year (hey, did you just think "so have your cards"? well, I did...)
This stamp is from Unity. It was actually a freebie I got with my order, but  I really love it. I just stamped it on cream with Antique Linen distress ink and inked the edges The sentiment down the side is from Papertrey's Holiday Tree set, still one of my all time favorite Christmas sets. I just finished off with a couple of Simply Chartreuse buttons and some twine.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Miss Emma is not feeling well, so I'm going to see if Mama can help her feel a little better :)

yummy.

Before Leah decided she wanted to be a professional golfer when she grows up, she said she wanted to be cake-baker :)Even though it's only second place now, she still likes baking things. These are the first cinnamon rolls she ever made:

They were super delicious. The whole batch barely lasted a day :) Since she enjoyed making them, especially cutting them with the string :), I thought I should offer her the chance to make them again...today. heehee.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm still trying to catch up with normal stuff over here. I hope to make some more tags today though. Our tree is filling up with presents :) Do you have yours up yet?