PEACE

Hello!

 

Happy Christmas Eve!  Here is non traditional Christmas colours for Little Red Wagon Challenge #216.

 

I had fun creating this card.  This card will go to somebody in the family tomorrow when we the whole family get together.  That is mom, 3 sisters, 3 brother in laws, niece in law, 2 nieces, 3 nephews, and 3 great nieces/nephews plus my family.  Looking forward to celebrate Christmas with my whole family!

 

Merry Christmas to you all!

 

Laureen

Our Jolly Janna

Hello!!!  Yay!  Another page for my December Daily 2011 album!  When I looked through my file on the computer for the pictures, I found this good picture of Janna.  It is not very often that she is willing to pose for the camera!  And on this day, she was willing to do that!  A bonus to add it to my album!  I am very happy about that!  So here is the page for her!  My Jolly Janna!

A really simple and easy design to the layout.  I did not use any sketch or did any challenges because I went all based on the premade background pp.  I wanted it to be very simple so that we can focus on Janna's beautiful smile!

Challenges I played:
none

Supplies I used:
unknown background pp
AC cardstock
MME Be Merry pp
Cricut: George and Basic Shapes
Recollection Circle border bling
Adornit Sunshine lowercase stickers

SCRAPPING DOES YOU GOOD!

Laureen

 

SANTA

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SANTA SANTA SANTA!  What is Christmas without Santa Claus?  A true magical person for Christmas in children's eyes!  Yes we remember the every reason behind Christmas.  It is Jesus....  Every year I must have a picture of the children with Santa Claus.  I do see this coming up more of a challenge every year as the children get older.  The girls are not too keen about this.  The boys are still willing to post for picture with the Santa Claus.

For this layout, it is an addition to my December Daily album.  No sketch for this one. 

I fussy cut the Santa from the MME Holly Jolly.  I used the banner to anchor the picture of the children with the Santa Claus!

Challenges I played:
Two Scrapbook Friends:  Christa's December Crafty challenge - scrap about a holiday tradition

Supplies I used:
MME Holly Jolly pp
MFT Dienamics Fishtail Flag stax
EK Success scalloped border punch
Tim Holtz Distress Ink (brushed corduroy)

SCRAPPING DOES YOU GOOD!

Laureen

THE CHRISTMAS PLAY and A HOLIDAY MAGIC

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Every year there is a Christmas play at Braden's school.  Really, they call it "Holiday" play now, as the government school is not allowed to use the word Christmas.  At his school, many Deaf students come from different country cultures and religion.  To my eyes, it is still a Christmas play.  Braden and his class did a play focusing on Pioneer theme.  It was very good and cute!  Of course I had to scrap about this event.  We had Christmas Holiday dinner at the school cafeteria, before the play.  It was good to see his friends' parents and some of the staff there.  I love to go this traditional event every year!

Love this page with the pictures of ourselves, myself and Chris...  Yes it is a magic that helps us go through every Christmas! LOL!  Chaos of shopping, baking, wrapping, decorating, cleaning up, cooking dinner and so on!!!!  I must take a picture of the children AND ALSO ourselves too!!!!  It is fun to look at the pictures from the year before!

 

Challenge I played:
Two Scrapbook Friends: Christa's December crafty challenge - scrap a holiday tradition

Supplies I used:
unknown background pp
Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas pp
October Afternoon Mini Market stickers
American Craft ribbon
Michaels Rhinestone

SCRAPPING DOES YOU GOOD!

Laureen

GIFT CARD and DINNER..

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More pages to share from my December Daily 2011 album.  Double page layout....   Online crop with 2 girlfriends!  Dd, SBE and I had an online crop last Sunday.  Dd threw in a challenge for us to use STRIPES over at the An Inky Situation.  I looked through my December Daily album to see if I have any stripes.  BINGO!  I was lucky to find this WONKY stripes... (I know the pp is ugly... I wanted to get rid of them and to use them.  I knew that I had the challenge to make my pages PRETTY!!!! wink!)  Another challenge was to "kill" the purple colour on the pp!  LOL  I think I did well to make the pages pretty!?!

my UGLY WONKY stripes!

a picture of my stuff that I planned to use for the online crop

 



I just love Braden's face on this picture when he got a gift card for ToyRus!  I just love his face!!!!  It says it all!
Traditionally, we  all open our gifts at home and when we go out for the Christmas dinner with the WHOLE family, the nieces and nephews get to open more presents at the host house from "aunts and uncles".  So the gift card that Braden got was from an aunt, (my sister).

Traditionally, we have the Christmas Dinner with the WHOLE FAMILY. (Mom and sisters/their families)  The second page is a picture of some family members at the table.  With our family, two or three tables are often needed and we eat all over the house! LOL  For this page, when I saw the picture, I just knew I MUST scrap about it since Brent my nephew is in it. (he is the one with the black top in the picture) I sure do miss him.  He passed away in February this year.  Any picture I have of him are PRECIOUS!  It will be our first Christmas without him this year!  May we all be given the strength for this upcoming Christmas!   We miss and love you, BRENT! 

 



Challenges I played:
Two Scrapbook Friends: Christa's December crafty challenge: Scrap a Holiday tradition
Stuck?! Sketches:  December 15 Challenge
A Inky Situation: Linky Party #21 Stripes!

Supplies I used:
unknown background pp
MME Holly Jolly pp
EK Success corner punch
October Afternoon Mini Market stickers
Holiday Trendz Chipboard letters
Til Holtz Distress Ink (brushed corduroy)
Dress It Up Gold Glitter Tree
sequins

SCRAPPING DOES YOU GOOD!

Laureen

OUR BABY ORNAMENTS and OUR CHILDREN

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Another double page layout that I completed on Saturday!  They are for my December Daily 2011 album.  It is 8x8.

Every year we hang up children's baby ornaments on the Christmas tree!  This is a family tradition.  We also take an individual picture of each child every year to show their growth over the year!  So many Christmas traditions in our house!

I did not use any sketches for this double pages.  I knew I had four pictures for each page and that they would take over almost the whole page.  I touched them up with very small embellies and a title for each page.

Challenges I played:
Two Scrapbook Friends: Christa's December Crafty Challenge - Scrap a Holiday Tradition

Supplies I used:
unknown background pp
October Afternoon Mini Market stickers
Dress It Up: Holly Jolly Christmas

SCRAPPING DOES YOU GOOD!
Laureen

ADVENT

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Last night I stayed up really late... why?  I could not stop scrapping!  That was good! (wink!)  I managed to complete a double page layout this time!  You know that I have been working on my December Daily 2011 album.  Most of the pages are "single" page layout but the colours do coordinate on both pages.  Often each page scraps about a different event.

I used a single page layout sketch from My Scraps and More Sketch. I used the sketch for my left page and I just did my design for my right page stealing some ideas from the left page sketch so that they all coordinates. (The sketch shows two pictures.  I only used one picture because the page is 8x8.  It is really small page so the size of my picture was big enough for this page.)

This double page layout is about Dalton's school activity at his school.  We just love when we get to be invited to ANY event at the school because our presences make our child SMILE! (Dalton is still young so  he loves to have us over!)  I know that that will end soon!  I have noticed that with the girls.  Older children do not want parents to show up at the school!  It is holiday tradition at the school to have a ADVENT activity.  So my double page layout is ALL ABOUT ADVENT.  We celebrate ADVENT every year.  So this works out good for the December crafty challenge over at Two Scrapbook Friends!

 

 

Challenges I played:
My Scraps and More Sketches: Sketch #59
Two Scrapbook Friends: Christa's December Crafty Challenge (Scrap about Holiday Tradition)

Supplies I played:
unknown background pp
AC cardstock
Basic Grey pp
MME Holly Jolly pp
Studio G moustache clear stamp
October Afternoon Mini Market stickers
Sticko Christmas Repeats dimensional stickers
Fiskar bracket punch
My Scraps and More Sketch #59 by Tammy Bennet

SCRAPPING DOES YOU GOOD!
Laureen