Abby's craft night

Tonight I decided to take a break from everything and let Abby play at my scrapbook table. She gets very excited to see what she can play with. So tonight we made a couple of cards for my boss' daughters. My boss is the very first person we had ever left Abby with and she has been adopted into their family.

I can't wait for when she's older and we can sit down together and do more crafty things. Don't get me wrong, I love it now but it takes so long to do one project because I still have to do pretty much everything....oh well that time will come :)

Here is the card she made for the girls (she made one for each of them but they are identical), plus she "signed" the inside of the card. I think she did pretty good for a 2 year old :)



The stamp used was Christmas Stocking by Gillian F. Roberts through Stampavie and the papers were all from Close to My Heart. Abby used various colored pencils and gel pens and a couple metal snowflake charms/buttons from Joann's.

Club Anya Blog Hop

We've asked and they have listened....

....An ALL-CUSTOMER HOLIDAY BLOG HOP and RELEASE PARTY !!!

Here are the catagories of the hop

The HOLIDAY HAPPINESS AWARD will go to their favorite overall project of the evening and win the entire December Anya release!

THE WHO you callin' a HO HO HO award will go to the BEST use of Santa or Mrs. Claus on a card or project (you do not have to have Xmas sweeties to play-you can improvise!)

The ALL WRAPPED UP award will go to the best display of altering a 3D item using Anya and/or Ian

Last but not least, the CANDY CANE CROWN will go to the best use of Holiday sweets on a card or project-whether it's cookies, candy, cupcakes, gingerbread houses, etc...you know the drill. Think your fave holiday treat...and INDULGE US!

Now on to my creations for tonight's hop. First, I needed something to hold a gift card for my hubby from our daughter so I thought I'd try using a nugget tin :)

The tin is layered inside with the gingham paper from Merry, Merry. I used Santa Ian and colored him with my copics, his "fur" around his hat and suit is made using liquid applique (love this stuff!). He was cut out and glue dotted to the tin. I used a 1'' grosgrain ribbon from Close to My Heart and the bow was made using my bow-easy. I also added some tiny adhesive back pearls to a couple of the corners. The tag was made using the Very Merry Tags Cartridge on my Cricut, Imaginsince Polar Expressions paper and blinged up.




For my second project I made a card once again using Santa Ian. All the materials used to make this card is from Close to My Heart and is just gorgeous in person. (sorry about the quality of the picture, it's was pretty dark here when I took it).



Hope you like it. Now it's time to go back to the Club Anya blog and see who's next.

Farm Fresh Friday-Color Challenge #1

As you all know I am in total love with The Greeting Farm and all of their images. I try to do their challenges when I get the chance, well this week I had some extra time to work on it.

The color challenge was to use the following colors:


Here is my card. I used the signature anya set and colored her in with my copics. The paper is from Bo Bunny and is called Alissa (very pretty in person). The flowers and ribbon is from my stash.

Bella Blog Hop

Welcome to the Bella Birthday Bash Blop Hop sponsored by Stamping Bella! If you've just happened upon my blog, you can CLICK HERE to start from the beginning at Bloggabella.

This card uses Merrybella. I colored her in with my copics and used stickles for the ornaments and the star. The paper used was Imaginisnce's Polar Express, ribbon is from CTMH, dew drops and prima flowers.



Three gift certificates for $100 in Bella Bucks will be hidden along the hop, but we’re not telling you where so be sure to leave some love as you hop!!! Make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win!! The winners will be announced on Monday, December 7 at the Stamping Bella Blog. MWAH!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Randi a nd see the awesome creation she made!

Riley Christmas card

I finally broke out one of the Riley images from Hanna stamps that I've had laying around for quite some time now. Sorry the picture isn't the greatest but the lighting was terrible today.

This card was done using two challenges from Any Stamp Will Do.

Color Challenge--although this week's was to use stripes
Sketch Challenge

Blog Candy Alert

I am a follower of Amy's blog "A thousand sheets of paper" and she is offering some awesome blog candy. I am crossing my fingers on this one as I just love her stamps!

Check out her blog here

Abby Cleaning

When I first started buying II stamps, Lili always reminded me of my little girl Abby. Well yesterday it was actually captured on film.

Here is a picture of the stamp:


Here is a picture of Abby:



So what do you think?

Bella blog hop this Saturday

Stampingbella is hosting a blog hop this Saturday. You will have a chance to win $100 Bella bucks along the hops so come back at 10:00 est and start hopping. Good luck!