What ever the reason

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Joyful Kwaanza, blessings on your solstice, No matter what you celebrate, I hope that you find love, peace, and joy of giving.

This layout is one featuring some of my favorite things from Core'dinations

I am going to take a short break for the holidays to spend time with my family and friends and I will return in the new year. Wishing you the best, lots of love from my family to yours.

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What ever the reason

More holiday sparkle

The inspiration keeps going on the Imaginisce Blog today, the design team has made everything sparkly and bright with smootch glitter and some marvelous fibers. I used my smootch by misting over a playful circle mask to create this fun design on my paper.

Then I used my glue pen to adhere glitter to the torn edge of my cardstock, I think that it really adds something wonderful to the journalling block

If you have not been by Imaginisce and the clear snap blogs, it is a worth while trip there is lots more inspiration and some great holiday give aways.

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More holiday sparkle

Clear Snap and Imaginisce

There is just something fun about breaking out of the box, to random splatter a page with gorgeous sparkly red ink!! I had so much fun playing with the clear snap smootch. I sprinkled the stars and glued them where they landed, used the circles from the scallop to decorate the page and just had some creative fun. I know it is not my usual style, but it felt good just to play.

This button was just one of those neato ideas that come from creative momentum. I had a scrap of fabric sitting beside me from the packaging of one of my whimsies, and I just dipped the smootch wand and laid it on the fabric to make the stripes, turned out like a rustic candy can and I love it!!

Hope you are all have a wonder Holiday Season!! Make sure to check out the other wonderful creations happening all week long on the Imaginice blog and over at Clear snap, they both have some great give aways, it would be just the thing to edd a little extra sparkle to you festivities.

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Clear Snap and Imaginisce

These are a few of my favorite things

Have you been to the Core'dinations blog, they are doing my favorite things and there is a give away every day. One of my favorite collections is spotted, I love DOTS :) So here is my layout  using both the Tillie and Jillie Spot!!

Also uses some of last years wonderful Jillibean Soup's Chestnut soup collection.

Are you ready for the holidays?? I have only a little sewing left to do and I am DONE!! YEAH!! Cutting it close but getting it done. HO HO HO

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These are a few of my favorite things

Bella Buzz

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Bella Buzz

So what was I up too??

So why was my weekend a doozy you ask?? First I wanted to take some family photos for my Christmas cards, so here is the one I got, Thank goodness for my  tri pod and remote!! There were tons of outtakes!!!

Next we've got birthdays galore, my hubby gave me my birthday present early to help with the mountain of baking.

A shiny new Kitchen Aid {insert happy face here}

so the first batch of holiday treats for friends and neighbours was made

Delicious peppermint meringues, I found the recipe here but I added 1\4 tsp cream of tartar to my egg whites to stabilize them and get a little more stiffness to my meringue.

Next I whipped up 6 bags of royal icing for my son's class, they were making gingerbread houses!!

Then My nieces birthday cake, she loves sheep!!

This was a 4 layered vanilla, chocolate, coconut cake!

Next was Levi's Birthday, my baby boy turned 4, sadly I don't have a great picture of this cake, It was a case of the midnight baker and birthday Choas. It however had his favorite animals, a pig a chicken and a sheep!!

After the party {which was actually on my birthday} my gift to me was to abandon the mess to my loving husband and go out for some AMAZING thai food at a local restaurant called Keenaree, I get hungry just looking at these photos!!

So that was my weekend, I went through 13.2 pounds of icing sugar, had more than a few late nights and I can finally relax into the Christmas spirit.......I'm looking forward to it now that I can breath!!

TTFN:)

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So what was I up too??

Hop skip and jump

Sorry for the short Absence folks, last weekend was a DOOZY and I needed a 3 day nap!! :) But Guess what?? It is spring time on the Imagininsce Blog and we are hoppin with our newest collection. Here are my layouts

Bright fun and Cheerful!! Go check out the rest here!!!

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Hop skip and jump

and the winner is...........

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Congradulations to Lisa G. Merry Christmas, please send me your mailing info and then I can get your parcel out to you.

Oh and look what's coming!!!

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and the winner is...........

Christmas Cards

Here are a couple Christmas cards that I whipped up for a little festive cheer, both cards are from the Core'dinations dark card kit, I like that it comes with envelopes, so no measureing or cutting. The pattern papers are once again from the basic grey picidily line..........pretty festive for a line that is not christmas.

For this one I cracked out an old stamp set that I got as a gift years ago {from stamp n up} and my new sissix embossing folder {like I didn't have enough}

I will anouce the winner of the I-top give away, you've only got a couple hours left to enter.

Happy Holidays

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Christmas Cards

Basic Grey and Core'dinations

 Have you been to the Core'dinations blog lately?? It is fantastic, right now we are showing off creations with Basic Grey, they sent me the Picidily collection to play with and once I saw this bright and colorful collection I knew exactly which photo I wanted to scrap with it. This was a photo taken of my uncle and I at a very cool market place in Coombs BC, called Goats on the Roof.

I used Core'dinations Tags, the spotted collection and a neutral grey background to set it all off.

I also used my Tim Holtz embossing folder to create extra dimension on the tag!!

I love it!!

Don't Forget there is one more day to enter to win in my big give away, if you have not already, make sure to check it out HERE

TTFN :)

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Basic Grey and Core'dinations

Freezie the snow penguin

A snow penquin??? You wanna build a snow penguin?? Oh yeah, penguins live in the snow!! I love the reasoning of a 3 year old!!! So natually we built a snow penguin and here he is in all his glory!!

Today over at Imagininsce the design team is sharing all sorts of holiday treasures!! If you are looking for a little inspiration be sure to check it out.

TTFN :)

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Freezie the snow penguin

Happy

This is the week of birthdays at my house, there are 4 of them in my family and 2 with my friends.........so it is gonna be a busy one. I whipped up a quick card for my friends son, with Core'dinations and Echo park I love this little boy collection it is perfect for all sorts of things.

Tonight I am up to my eyeballs making fondant for the multiple cakes I will be making this week. I promise that I will share photos of that too, but today it is a quick post before the chaos!!!!

TTFN :)

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Happy

On the first day of Christmas......

December is here and I am so excited, I have a festive new look to my blog, courtesy of my very talented and creative friend Day. I am ahead of schedule with my Christmas shopping and the baking has begun with the smell of peppermint merigues in the oven today.

I want to share my excitement with you too and I what better way to begin the season of giving  then with a GIVEAWAY.

I am giving away a brand new i-top 2

with a selection of brads to get you started

I will also be giving away some festive colored foam tape

and some cottage country holiday rub ons

and sayings

All I am asking is that you hit the follow button and leave a comment. If you would like to earn an extra chance to win just share this give away on facebook or on your own blog and then leave another comment saying you did so!!

Happy Holidays my friends

TTFN :)

I will announce the winner on December 9th, this give away is open to everyone!!

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On the first day of Christmas......