Blessings

I definitely have a lot to be thankful for this year. A great family and wonderful friends, to start. This year I'm especially thankful I get to live in such a beautiful place... every day I wake up and sit in my favorite chair with a hot cup of tea and look at the beautiful Cascade mountains outside my window. I can't wait to go hike in them again this Summer. It looks like we're in for a snowy winter... we've just had our first snow storm this year and it was not the usual sprinkling of snow we usually get! My kids loved it... they have been sledding all week.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!

BTW... Lizzie Anne is having a HUGE Thanksgiving Weekend Sale Friday - Monday. Everything in the store will be 40% off, and every order over $25 will get a holiday-themed free Single stamp. Happy Shopping!

first snow

This is the scene I woke up to this morning. Beautiful!

I should mention that last year we had NO SNOW at all (other than a few flurries), and here it is only November with this much snow. Snow plows are not plentiful in the Seattle area, so everything is shut down today... no school, husband home. A great day to relax with a cup of hot chocolate. Maybe do some stamping. Love it!

(I am hoping I am able to get to the grocery store before Thanksgiving...)

Fall projects

I'm watching the first snowflakes fall outside my window this morning. Brrrr. Last year we didn't get any snow, and this year they are (whoever "they" are ;) predicting we're going to get dumped on! I was just in Sacramento last weekend visiting my aunt and it felt like Summer there... we had lunch out on the patio of a cute Mexican restaurant. I'm glad I got that last little bit of sunshine in before settling into winter.

Here are a few projects I made with my October Hip 2B Square kit. I thought I better post these before Fall is over!

This is a layout featuring my daughter playing in the leaves. She always does a good job posing for the camera. :) The sewing/pleating idea was based on a tutorial on the Hip 2B Square blog this month.






This layout features photos from the Halloween Party that Phillip and I went to this year... it was the first time we have ever dressed up for Halloween together! I wrote about our costumes in this post if you want to find out who we dressed up as!







This is a Autumn garland I made by punching out circles of patterned paper and stringing them together. I stamped a leaf on some of the cardstock circles. It looks so pretty hanging on my bookcase!











This is a little clean and simple card I made. I'm loving the bakers twine we've been getting in our kits.




Enjoy the last few days of Fall!

Mini Wreath Ornament

I made this little mini-wreath for our Lizzie Anne Design Team Challenge today. I used one of my favorite nature/holiday sets, Heaven and Nature. That pine bough and the pinecone are well-used stamps. I framed one of my favorite picts of my kids. Will look cute on grandma's Christmas tree!



I also stamped this holiday sentiment on the back (from our November Mix set.)


This is actually version two of this ornament, the first one didn't make it. I tried sewing my circles together on my sewing machine and found out the hard way that sewing machines do not do well with glue dots. I had used just a few glue dots to try and keep the circles in place while I sewed, and the needle kept getting stuck! And sewing in circles is difficult anyways. At least for me (I've mentioned that I'm afraid of my sewing machine.) I'm sticking to straight lines for now!

I kept hearing from my design team that this challenge was difficult. And yeah, it kinda was. But the projects all turned out awesome! Very original and creative. Make sure to go see them all on the Lizzie Anne Blog today!

time for a cuppa

It's Mix it Up Day at Lizzie Anne! We are revealing our new December Mix set and having a little DT Mix Blog Hop. This is a card I created with the teapot images in the current November Mix set. I have a thing for tea. I probably have at least two or three cups of tea a day. My favorites? Honey Chamomile, Good Earth Sweet & Spicy, and Peppermint with a splash of vanilla flavoring (the kind you use in coffee.) Mmmmm. It warms me up inside and helps me deal with all the rain this time of year! And I love teacups and tea kettles on my cards too... super cute. All the paper supplies on this card are from my October Scrapbooking Kit from Hip 2B Square. The teacup and tea kettle paper is from Graphic 45... isn't it perfect?

Go to the Lizzie Anne Blog to see more Mix samples today, and check out the new December Mix set! I'm super excited about the images in that set, there are some fun ones!

sammy smile

I have a new iMac, I'm so excited! I'm still getting used to the differences between a Mac and a PC... I had to reinstall all my programs, fonts, and copy over my files. I realized that I hadn't posted this layout I did with the September Hip 2B Square Kit... and it's one of my favorites! I love the colors in this one. That smile is so typical of Sammy too... I see that one all the time. :)

sprite and starburst

We're releasing two adorable new Singles today at Lizzie Anne... Sprite and Starburst. Here's a card featuring the new stamps based on Joslyn's sketch challenge this week. We wanted a new Fairy that looks more like our Little People line of stamps, and here she is! I used the Starburst stamp on the first purple panel behind the Sprite... it makes a great background stamp! The "make a wish" sentiment is from the Everyday Sayings set (a great all-around sentiments set).

Visit the Lizzie Anne Blog to play along with this week's sketch challenge!