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Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year everyone. I must say that the year ended off with a bang. I ended up having surgery on my right hand about 5 days before Christmas. I had 48 hours notice before going under the knife so I worked late for two nights to try and finish my christmas gifts. I got close but not totally done. After my surgery I did however have help from one of my friends who helped me to finish the last few touches. Thanks Krista!!! Because of my surgery I have not been able to do any scrapbooking and most likely won't for a few more weeks. When I do recover I am so excited to began playing with a few of my Christmas gifts!! I will be sure to post some pictures once I began to work again. I did miss out on sending out my normal hand made christmas cards. I had to replace them with the photo style ones that you print at your photo store. I did however have a great picture to use from my family photo shoot. We had a great picture taken with an amazing photographer Shannon Lepere. I have posted the picture for you to see.

New Years Eve was probably one of the most quite New Year Eve that we have ever had. We had a family fun evening at Old Fort William with some friends and then came home to enjoy the count down on T.V. We then crawled into bed at about 12:01 am. I did however think of a small New Years resolution. I am going to try and make a point of sending cards to everyone on their Birthdays. People who have missed getting them before I will make a point to have them ready to go well in advance of their special day. I don't think it is to hard of a resolution and I hope it one that I may actually be able to keep. Well we will have to see when ring in 2011, how well I kept my resolution!

Wow, I am such a bad blogger. I can't believe how long it has been since I have posted something. I have been pretty busy. Christmas is just around the corner and I am quickly trying to finish my 4 big calendars and my 2 little calendars. They are all Christmas gifts for my family. I am almost done and hope to be finished by this weekend, as I have a few other projects that I have put on the back burner. AKA Christmas Cards. I have been so busy working on my calendars that I haven't even started to make Christmas cards. I figure as long as everyone gets them before boxing day, it still counts as Christmas. Right? Maybe I will just send a Christmas email..... Oh the pressure we put on our selves.

Feel Better Bella!!

What can I say, I love my Bellas. I have to laugh a lot at this stament as I can remember thinking to myself what is the big hype about when they first started. Now I love them and try to always find an excuse to buy one to fit the occassion. I even bought one for my husband or at least used his card as an excuse to buy one. I used Get Wella Bella to make a card for my friend who had shoulder surgery. I colored her with Stampin Up markers as I haven't got into the Copics to much yet. I cut the scalloped square on my cricut with the Mini Monograms Cartridge. The ribbon is Certainly Celery from Stampin Up. The cardstock is also Stampin Up I belive it is Certainly Celery and Ruby Red. The silver ribbon slide is from Stampin Up's Hodgepodge Hardware. The pattern paper is from my misc stash and I am not sure who makes it. Enjoy!

Card for Dad

This is a card I made for my Father in Law's Birthday. I used Fishafella stamp from Stamping Bella. The fish is paper pieced on the page and is raised off of the page with some 3D dots. I know it is hard to see. I used one of Karen Foster's fishing rub ons for the lure. The paper is "Old Guys Rule" from Creative Imaginations. Under the Old Guys Rule is 4 Bella Blings. I used Stampin Up ticket corner punch on the corners of the Fishafella piece.

A Beautiful Wedding!

My family all got the joy of being in a wedding party. We celebrated with our best friends Paul & Melissa as they became a "member of the wedded bliss club". It was a beautiful fall wedding and the weather turn out to be perfect. Rhys was a perfect flower girl, especially for being only 15 months old. She did a great job. It was a long day for all of us, but one that we will treasure the memories of.

Now weeks later I am still enjoying the memories of the wedding as I work on my wedding gift for the Bride and Groom, a guest book. Now I know what everyone is thinking. Shouldn't I have finished it before the wedding. No, this is a special guest book. Before the wedding the Bride and Groom chose to have names for their tables rather then numbers. They named each table after a country that they had visited on way of their many travels. I volunteered to make table cards for the tables with the country's name and a picutre of them while they were their in that country. The Bride and Groom loved the table cards so much that they wanted to have a way to treasure them afterwards. So I suggested to put them in their guest book. At the wedding each guest signed a buisness card with their name and their best wishes to the Bride and Groom. I then went around a took a group shot of the table once everyone was seated. So in their Guest book will be the table card, a 5x7 group shot of the table and the signed cards surrounding the photo. I think I have my work cut out for me, but I will enjoy every minute of it. Here is a photo of the table card at the wedding. The table card is a 6x8 tent card. The base colors of the card are chocolate and burgundy. The title was cut on the cricut using the Lyrical Letters Font in a chocolate brown cardstock. I then glued them onto a Vanilla strip and rounded the corners. The vanilla strip at the bottom is a description of what is in the photo. On the other side of the tent card is information for the guest telling them that a donation was made to the Cancer Society in lieu of favors. I must say I got a lot of compliments on them the night of the wedding and I am pretty proud of them.

Scrafest 2009!

I love Scrapfest. I count the sleeps until we go and usually can't sleep the night before. Just like always I had a great time! I have to thank my three travel partners for some good laughs, fun moments and many stories that we will not share with others. We were only about one hour past the border and the fun began, and thanks to the Sheriff we even got a cute paper piece to add to our scrapbooking page. LOL!

The class were great, as usual! I was disappointed that I didn't get as many as I would have liked. I did however found that shopping fill my time quite well in place of classes. I came home with quite a few new treasures and scrapbooking supplies that I can't wait to play with. Tattered Angles put on a great class teach us how to use their Glimmer Mist. What a great product! I can't wait to get some from my LSS to play with. They have also come out with some neat stamps and masks to go along with the Glimmer Mist.

Bo Bunny also put on a great class with their Mom & Me Album. I can't wait to finish it! I even plan to put pictures in it and use it! LOL! I loved the paper line that they used and hope to pick some more up from my LSS.

I was happy to have picked up a Scor Pal while I was there. I have already put it to good use with making some wedding decorations. I can't wait to try some of the neat fold card that you can make with it.