Christmas Past and Taggin'

So today in JYC, we were reminiscing about Christmas past.  

I told the story of putting up our Christmas tree as a kid,

the day after Thanksgiving.

Always.

No deviating.

ALWAYS the day after Thanksgiving!

My mom was cool like that =)

I was always so excited 

and 

couldn't wait for that day to get here.

I was one of five,

so this was always a day of chaos and fun.

Love and joy.

It was family to me.

So for the page,

I built a little Christmas tree in the corner 

and

decided to journal on a tag.

Love.

Added banner and twine

misted and inked

and 

done.

I may add a few things to these pages as the month goes on,

but this page has such a wonderful vintage feel to it.

Love.

I do have a question though,

if you are doing JYC,

are you adding your #'s to the prompt pages?

Are you adding the photo prompts to your book as well?

I'm just a tad confused.

So far

no numbers on mine yet.

Thinking about adding them to the outside of the page protector.

Any thoughts?

Then in May's Camp Scrap

she challenges us to make a tag using Distress stain.

I have three of these,

so I used one of those and some other Distress ink pads

and some stamps,

a little embossing 

and 

voila!!

There you have it!!!

I hope y'all are having a crafty fun season.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty kind of Day ~~

Topper, Prompt & Manifesto = Fun Day!!

Well despite a sore throat, 

today has been fantastic!!

Let's start by saying.....

I'M LOVING Camp Scrap!!

Today May talked about making some pretties for gifts,

and since Sir Cuteness and I started his advent calendar today,

this gave me a perfect reason to do a little something special in his

Advent Gift tomorrow.....

a little package topper.

How cute is this?

I used a Mr. Huey's mask and misted a brown paper bag from Michaels,

and folder a die cut piece in half and added this little Crown beauty.

Sir Cuteness is gonna LOVE THIS!!

Today was the first day of Journal Your Christmas.

It was Manifesto day.

Love.

For Advent today,

Sir Cuteness got mini Moon Pies.

He was over the Moon excited!  =)

These next two are the photo prompt photo's for JYC today.

We were to take a pic of something that reminds us of early Christmas.

For me it is the craft show in a nearby town.

I generally go every year with my friend G,

but she couldn't go today,

so my dear Arielle when with me,

an old tradition made new again.

Love that!

My dear Arielle and I went to our favorite tea house for breakfast

and coffee =)

and then we were off to the local craft show.

It was so crazy at the craft show, 

that we couldn't even park,

so we opted to do some shopping instead.

It was so fun!!

This girl is such a Blessing to me.

We had the best time.

Look at this girl.

She is just gorgeous.

Inside. 

and.

out.

I want to do most of my pics for JYC in black and white,

but look at this blue wall,

I just couldn't black and white this one.

Nope, color it shall be =)

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty kind of Day ~~ 

Journaling, Camping & Scrappin'

I love the CHRISTmas season!!

I love celebrating the birth of our Savior with my family!!!

*****

There are so many fun and exciting things going on in December,

and one started today and one starts tomorrow.

May's Camp Scrap Christmas edition,

started today.

And the challenge for today was to make something in 30 mins.

So I completed the first part of our Advent Calendar this year.

I bought the kit from Cassie over at Paper Issues on Etsy,

and then ran wild with it.

I mounted it on a 12x12 cork board and added tags.

Simple.

Love.

Here are some lovely details.

I cut a wide strip of paper and put it in the center,

and added lots of sequins, stars, washi and a button.

I stamped each tag with a fun Christmas stamp,

and on this one I colored it in with my distress markers.

What a fun bit of whimsy this is =)

On this one, I colored the stamp

with the Distress Markers,

blew on it,

and stamped.

I LOVE the results and will be doing this more.

I wasn't to sure at first,

but it worked just beautifully.

I added washi and twine to each tag,

coordinating with the row (top red, bottom green),

and edged each one with Vintage Photo.

*****

Tomorrow starts a new venture for me.

I signed up for Journal Your Christmas..... JYC byt Shimelle.

So I did some prep.

I didn't go crazy with prep.  

Kept it pretty simple.

But I have lots of things ready to go.....

embellies, paper cut, and a heart ready to journal.

This is some patterned paper I made on kraft with some snowflake stamps.

I LOVE the way this turned out.

And it was fun, easy play.

Love that.

I did some embossing on pages for my journal.

Check out this little guy.

I'm giddy.

I stamped and cut and now I'm ready to journal on these cards.

I'm ready to ink and write.

I've made LOTS of tags to go in my journal.

Here is just a sampling.

Numbers are inked up and ready.....

well at least through 25.

So I still have a few to go =)

I've been working on getting my desk cleaned off and ready for all Christmas for the month

of December.

So letter stickers are getting put away,

and more letter stickers are being put out.

I've been punching snowflakes and confetti.

Fun.

I'm having so much fun working on Christmas paper fun.

And tomorrow starts JYC!!

I'm so ready.

What are you working on in December?

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty Kind of Day ~~

Snappy, Hearts and CKC Fun!!

Glitter Girl last week tackled using items like the

Snappy collection by Simple Stories,

but using it not on Project Life type projects.

I love these products, but have struggled with how to use them.  

So Glitter Girl shone some light on how to use them,

and I ran with it.

And honestly, this came together SO quickly.

Love that.

I love these two boys so!

And Sir Cuteness got in on the act.

I added some polka dots on my letters,

and he decided that we needed to

"connect the dots" =)

So we did!

I LOVE that he helped me on this.
It gives that page so much character and charm,

don't ya think?

And then at Simon Says Stamp and Show 

this week,

its all about hearts.

This is the second challenge I've done there.  

I really enjoyed this one!

I used my Hambly vellum and lots of Simple Stories love.

This has so many details of funness!!

I mean seriously look at this heart journaling.

Love this LO challenge.

All of these LO's were done with my November CKC.

I added sequins to this one and lots of pen work.

I used the hexagon shapes cut apart.

They gave such good visual interest to the page, yes?

Me likey.

So I finished up my November kit today.

WOW!!!  How exciting!!

Well I finished using the paper in my main kit.

I still have lots of stickers and embellies,

and after the first of the year will use them to finish up some fall pictures

and Thanksgiving.

Fun!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty kind of Day ~~

Skissedilla Challenge

For the first time, I am participating in the Skissedilla challenge.

I have done other sketches of theirs,

but never got them up in time.

They have some GREAT sketches.  

Like this one this week.

This is my take on this fantastic sketch.

Some details.

I love me some twine,

some rolled twiney goodness.

Oh yes + Pen work = lovely details.

And oh the letters.....

I just LOVE mistable letters.

I misted these with black Glimmer Mist.

And some more pen work underneath my letters.

Nice.

I likey.

This was a LO about one of the funnest days we had this fall.

We took our grandbabe to a local pumpkin patch/corn maze.

It was a beautiful day!

Thank you for checking out my LO.

And go visit Skissedilla

and check out the other loveliness over there.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty kind of day ~~

2 More LO's for November CKC ~~ YAY!!!

So, have I mentioned how much I have LOVED my November kit?

I mean seriously.....

this has probably been my favorite so far!

Well, I have 2 more LO's to add to the plethora of LO's this month.

So productive =)  YAY!!!

So here is our precious Sir Cuteness.

He is our four year old grandbabe that LOVES to fish.

I mean L-O-V-E-S to fish!!

This pic is of our recent fishing trip on a day PaPa took off just to hang with us.

It was a splendid day.

He has the BEST PaPa.....

I have the BEST Husband.....

So on this page I decided to use my new Perfect Pearls.

(Yes I do realize PP is NOT new, only new to me, but I LOVE IT!!)

It gave this page a very artsy feel.

That plaid paper was some of my scraps that I had already punched circles

out of, so I just used the negative portion and added circles to it.

I love using things that I used to would have thrown away.

Stretch that stash, I say =)

Anyway, after some title work, washi tape, and some pen action

I called it good.

Then on this page, this pic taken the same day.

I did two different finishes on the same pic and added both to this LO.

This is a fav technique of mine.

So much visual interest.

Then the title, Oh the title!

Back when I was just really getting into paper crafting love,

and well before I had a studio 

(thank you my fabulous hubby!)

I found a stack of chipboard letters on sale for $5.00!

And by stack, I mean a ginourmous stack I am still using today!

I really didn't know what I was getting =)

Well, I got them home and started playing with them, 

and soon became overwhelmed and frustrated,

(they are NOT self adhesive).

Well once I finally figured out the best way to adhere,

I love them!

One of the things I love most is that you can sand them

and give them this great vintage "old" look to them.

LOVE THAT!!

And on this page it is the perfect title.

I added some leaf brads that I had in my stash.

Some bling that I got in the $1 bin at Wal-Mart,

(yes that is possible)

some twiney love in the form of the curvy line

and circles (another fav technique =).

Added journaling and ribbon and

Ta-Da!!

Done.

WOW!!  I have gotten so much use out of this kit.

In fact, I may be out of 12x12's on this one.

I've never used a kit quite this thoroughly!

I may do an add on of paper and keep going as I have a 

fun day at the Pumpkin Patch still to scrap from this fall,

but I find myself elbows deep in Christmas!!

How fun!!!

I'm getting my JYC ready

and having SO much fun doing that.

But I may get to one of two more LO's before I call this done.

Maybe.

I hope.

Anyway.....

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty Kind of day ~~

November CKC LO's ~~ Still Lovin this Kit!!!

This kit is making me so happy!!!  

Lots of fun.

PaPa (My Mr. Winslow) took a Friday off of work this fall a few 

weeks ago to take our precious Sir Cuteness fishing.

It was one of those special days.

You know the kind.....

Sun was shining.....

the weather was beautiful.....

I packed PB&J along with Penguin snacks (goldfish)

and lots of gummies,

Gatorades,

and we were off for a day at the river.

It was just one of those perfect days.

A day we will remember.....

A day captured in pictures.....

Here is Sir Cuteness and his PaPa.....

I love this picture.

You all know I love me some details,
so here is a cute little fishing line complete with fishes on this page.
So fun!!!
And easy.....

Here is a LO with pictures taken on voting day.

I am thankful to live in a country where I am free to vote.....

Vote my conscience.....

And this page went just perfectly with this LO.

I love the colors!!

And back to a little detail from the fishing page.....

How about some confetti love in the corner.....

Yep.....perfect.

Just like this particular day.

Beautiful.  Perfect.  Lovely.

Oh and a little update on JYC or DD?

I decided to go with JYC.

And I am working on getting papers cut and my album started,

so I will be ready come December 1.

I've used so much of my kit this month, 

and hopefully I will get a few more pictures done,

but Christmas season is so close,

I'll be mist deep in all this Christmas,

so we will see =)

Have a Blessed and Beautiful, Crafty Kinda Day ~~ dawn