where do my days go?

How on earth did I manage to work - goodness knows.

I seem to be permanently behind these days.

Ah well.

At least I am behind on fun stuff.

 

I have scrapping news today and house news. To Orinoco first  ... he discovered our 'Hello Kitty' today. Not a proper Hello Kitty but our blackboard we leave messages on for each other.

He found the chalk and was off.

 

 

I also took a photo last night of my new little Christmas street light by our front door.

 

 

Dawn has a special offer on today on her Frostbite collection

It's all on 50% off so check it out - it is today only

 

I made these pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I can also share the work I have been doing for Karen at Charmed Cards and Crafts

 

I have been able to work with the gorgeous Bo Bunny Tis The Season Collection

 

It is a gorgeous traditional collection and I have loved working with it

 

This is just One of the pages I made with it

 

 

Nothing screams traditional to me more than Santa and I loved the photo of my husband trying to sneak a look at Santa’s book listing who was naughty and who was nice. The Bo Bunny Tis The Season papers were just perfect for such a traditional Christmas photograph.

I started by edging the gorgeous wood grain paper on the back of the Ornaments paper with thin strips cut from the striped back of the nostalgia paper to make a red and green border. Although I carefully mitred the corners to keep them neat I didn’t like the way the striped met and so I made small corner pieces cut from a square of red cardstock, inked, folded and attacked with small dark green brads.

For the frame I mounted the picture onto bright red cardstock and then added a border of candy cane baker’s twine using double sides tape. The packaging of the paper pack was so gorgeous I just had to use it, so I cut the title block saying Tis the Season out and used it as a tab for the photo frame mount. To echo that circle I cut one of the roundels from the numbered sheet of paper which said ‘Absolutely no peeking’ and just begged to be used on this page. I mounted it on some of the red cardstock and on some of the dark green that was the reverse side of the numbers sheet and finished it with a baker’s twine bow to tie it in with the rest of the frame before adding it to the frame on foam pads.

 

I cute lots of strips of the different papers and used them as banners beneath the frame. This is a great way of using up scraps of paper. You know I never throw ANYTHING away!  I then added the frame on the top.

I added some word strips, a cut out title from white  and red card and finished it with one of the chipboard Santa embellishments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• a night without coughing - awesome
• coffee with my bestie
• lunch out by the lake with Nigel

 

 

Comments

[Sam]

What has happen with your daily Christmas album?

[Barb inAK]

Aren't you clever to even use the packaging!! :-)
I really like the corners, too. I must remember this little technique when my corners don't match up correctly. ;-)
Love the Frostbite collection. I must get over there and take a look. I have no idea what layout I would do with it, but it looks like it's filled with lots of goodies. Thanks!