Simple Things

{Photo taken with an iPhone 4.  Pioneer Woman's Vintage Action used at a lower opacity.}

[My kids and I playing Trouble, using almonds and Halloween candy eyeballs as game pieces.]

Quickpage Templates

Have I mentioned that I love quickpage templates?  You can use them as quickpages by adding photos and journaling, and be done.  But they are also layered, so you can clip papers and photos to the layers and make it totally your own. 

I took this QPT, as we call them, and made it into a Halloween layout!

{Supplies:  Halloween 10 Grungy Papers 1 and  Halloween 10 Grungy Papers 2, and I threw in a skull from Halloween 10 Elements 1: The Blacks and Die Cuts, all by Cilenia Curtis at Digital Designer Shop, Heartland Action by Pioneer Woman on photos, and fonts: Didot and Destroy.}

Are you ready for Christmas?

I am!  Almost.  I'm ready for scrapping Christmas, let's put it that way. Presents, no.  Food, not really (I generally have all my non-perishables and candy making supplies by now). Decorations?  Well, we'll be putting our house up for sale next week, so I have permission for the tree and that's it. I'm okay with that.

I am taking Journal your Christmas over at Shimelle.com.  I've mentioned her before, I'm sure.  I never got to meet her when I lived in England, but she was up and coming, and she's a friend of a friend. :) I can't wait!  I still haven't decided how I'm going to do it. I was thinking of doing it all digitally and then making a Shutterfly or Artscow book, but I kinda want my handwriting in the book as well, and haven't figured out how to accomplish that.  I could buy a scrapbook album, make my pages digitally and print them, and use the page opposite to each layout for journaling.  I packed up all my paper scrapping supplies (think adhesive and paper cutter) already, though, so I'm not sure that will work. Any ideas?

Other than that, I have my digital kit figured out!  Cilenia and Veevs are coming out with an awesome kit on Friday!  It's called Days of December.  It includes tons of papers, elements, and some gorgeous silver ornaments! I love it!  I wonder if she'll get mad if I give you a sneak peak?  There will also be templates- tons of them!  I'll show you the first layout I made using the kit. This was last year- DH and DS#2 were trying to sing my favorite German Christmas carols to cheer me up when I was homesick!  It was hilarious!  (Yes, I got some of it on video, too! I wish I knew how to post those, but they might not appreciate that too much!)

 

{Supplies:  The Days of December kit (out this Friday), eyelets from the upcoming kit Staples Plus, strings (holding the ornaments in the upper left) from Tiny Tags 1 Cardstock Basics, all by Cilenia Curtis and Honey Scraps at Digital Designer Shop, font:  Apple Chancery} 

Tell me how you're going to scrap Christmas this year!

Edited to add:  Cilenia just put the preview up in the forums, so I'm going to sneak you a peak! Here is the Days of December kit, in all it's glory!

"Seven kits offered separate and as a collection along with a 22 page Days of December Layered PSD Album with a front cover all done for you, a back cover in PSD sketch for you to embellish how you want (or use for front if you don't want to use the front), and 20 pages with 1-3 elements on each on their own layer. "

Enjoy!

Holiday Bazaar

I went to a holiday Bazaar on Saturday. It's the same one I made cookies for last year.  I made snowflake cookies this year, along with 4 types of chocolate bark.  I'll tell you about it in a few days.  I took a ton of photos of the cookie making and am proud to announce COOKIE WEEK!!  December 6th will be cookie week on the blog. I'm no professional, but I love decorating cookies, and some of my friends have been *harassing* me to put tutorials up on my blog!  So there will be tutorials, photos, and lots of links!  Come check it out!

Right now I want to show you something I won in the silent auction at the bazaar I went to Saturday. I am pretty sure my "sister" Penny made it.  This is a casserole dish carrier.

I've seen these at one other bazaar at least, and they usually go for a pretty penny!  Saturday there were 2 with different fabrics. The other one was blue and green- two of my favorite colors. At first I bid on both of them.  This one had a glass casserole dish with it, and I didn't want another dish to pack. So I placed a second bid on the blue/green cover.  Then someone around me gasped "Don't bid against Holly!!"   Yes, we get emotional and protective at the silent auction!   So I bid on this one as well.  At the end of the auction I won this cover and I LOVE it!  Holly is a nice young girl, and I wasn't sure if she has a full kitchen yet, so I offered her the dish from my winning. Yes, I'm that sweet! :)  I LOVE this cover and can't wait to bring a dish to some event so I can bring it!! :)

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