Mr. Twigster says MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hey all!!

Just a quick post to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I hope you are all enjoying today with family and you are celebrating the holidays with someone you love.
Enjoy!!

Thanks for havin' a peek today.
HO HO HO!!
Paula

Christmas Place Settings

Good day,

So if you are following my blog you know that my hubby and I are hosting our family Christmas for the very first time. I am so excited to have everyone here on Christmas day!! Of course I wanted to personalize my table so I just HAD to make place cards. I just painted my dining room a similiar colour to Baja Breeze (for those of you that use SU stuff). It's a bit lighter I'd say though. Anyhow, I am trying to have my table match somewhat so my Christmas colours are blue and brown. Not really festive is it?? Well I am adding pewter/silver to it as well. All the shimmer......will look so nice!! I will have to take a picture of my dining room table all set up and post it for you all to see.
As you can see I did all the ladies place settings the same, the guys and then the kids. All blue and brown BUT all different somehow. I gave the ladies the dazzling diamonds...seemed fitting. These are simple 3X3 pieces of paper folded in half and for the kiddy ones I folded a piece of DSP and simply punched it with my scallop punch. So easy!!

Enjoy your day and Christmas is just around the corner!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

HAPPY SATURDAY, HAPPY WEEKEND!!!

So yesterday was a crazy snow storm here where I live which meant we got sent home from work!! YAAAHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! That enabled me to get some things done around the house. MUCH NEEDED!!

So again this is a Christmas card we did in my Christmas card class. This is my favourite one I think. I truely believe it's because it's Kiwi Kiss, number one and number two, my only other colour is Very Vanilla. SIMPLE, not fussy at all. I just added my dazzling diamonds ( as usual ) to the ornaments and voila. Easy!! If you notice the tops of my ornaments are simply punched out corners of the square scallop punch by SU. I couldn't think of anything to use and that just popped in my head. Works doesn't it??

Anyhow I hope you like it.
Enjoy your weekend. More snow to come tomorrow says the weather man!!
Paula :)

So Simple Christmas Card

Hey all!!

So another Pacific Point Christmas card. I am loving that blue especially with a snowflake stamp!! This was a card we made at my stampers club. SOOOOO easy it's silly. My goal was to make the snowflake look like an ornament...added the ribbon to help the effect. What do you think? As always on my Christmas cards I added my Dazzling Diamonds. How can you not???!!!

Well enjoy your day and not long now until the 25th!! HO HO HO!!
Paula :)

HO HO HO!!

Happy day to you all!!

I can't even believe Christmas is next week!! We are hosting this year and holy smokes there is a lot to prepare!! With being back to work it's just so BUSY BUSY BUSY!! Good thing it's only once a year!

OK on to the post. This card was a layout I did for my FIRST Christmas card class and decided to do it again for my SECOND Christmas card class. Obviously I switched it up a bit colour wist but it's sooooo easy and I just love it!! Hope you do too.

Enjoy your day today and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Paula :)

RECIPE:
PAPER: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Ski Slope & Holiday Treasure DSP
INK: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red
STAMPS: Punches Three, Snow Swirled

Pacific Point Christmas

Good day everyone!!

Well we made it back safe and sound from Cincinnati and what a great weekend we had. We went to the Bengals NFL football game and the weather was GREAT!! It was warm, no winter coats needed at all.They even won which shocked us all!! GO BENGALS!

OK so on to the card. This AGAIN was a card we made at one of my Christmas card classes. I do love that Pacific Point paper. So BOLD!!

I hope you like it. MERRY HOHO!!!

Paula :)


RECIPE:
PAPER: Pacific Point, Soft Sky, Whisper White
INK: Pacific Point, White
STAMPS: Snow Swirled
OTHER: Soft Sky Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds

Half of Mr. Twigster

Happy FRIDAY and I know it's Friday because I am back to work and am back to LIVING FOR FRIDAYS!! YEAH!!! So now I even know the date and everything. It's amazing how the days just pass by when you are on mat leave. They all mesh into one!!

Well, poor Mr. Twigster. I totally cut him in half for this little card. This card uses the old Old Olive DSP which I LOVE LOVE LOVE!! It's such a simple layout, this card. It can be recreated for ANY occasion.
Thanks for stopping by today and have a fantastic weekend. We are off to Cincinnati for the weekend. No kids and shop shop shopping!!!

Take care.
Paula

RECIPE:
Paper: Craft, Old Olive DSP, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip
Ink:Stazon Black, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red
Other: Old Olive Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 1/4 circle punch

STAMPIN' UP'S RETIRED LIST!!!!

HEY ALL!!!

Just wanted to let you know that SU has released their retired list. This is always bitter sweet to me. I hate seeing some sets go BUT that just means they are making room for new ones!!! How exciting and I can't wait. A new catalogue will be realsed in January!! I'm PUMPED!!!

Please let me know if you are interested in any retired sets. If you spend $100 you will get FREE SHIPPING!!!!!!!! HOW AMAZING IS THAT???? Tell ya what...I am soooo in the Christmas spirit of giving that I will beat that. If you spend $50 before tax I will give you free shipping!! HO HO HO!! Isn't that a sweet deal???

OK click below and SHOP SHOP SHOP. These sets would make great Christmas gifts too.

Thanks for popping by.

Paula


STAMPIN UP'S RETIRED STAMP SETS!!!!

A Mature Christmas Card

Hello all and happy Monday!!

So I've seen this little poinsettia made with the stamp set Doodle This all over the place. I thought I'd give it a try. I have to say this is not a typical card I would make. In fact I wasn't sure I liked this particular paper in the Holiday Treasures pack but it did grow on me. I think this is a more MATURE card. Guess that means I'm immature LOL!!
I hope it's something you like. Of course I added my dazzling diamonds to the pointsettia, it just added that little bit of Christmas.

Take care and enjoy your Monday.
Paula :)

Snowswirled Snowflake Card

SEASONS GREETINGS EVERYONE!!!

As I post this today the snow is coming down outside and it's BEAUTIFUL. Of course being inside in my PJ's and not actually out in it is nice.

This was a card we did in my Christmas card class. Easy layout and of course Chocolate Chip is in it which I love, love, love. I added some Dazzling Diamonds (a must for a Christmas card) to the snowflake. It uses the SU set called Snow Swirled. I must say I have gotten a lot of use out of this beautiful set. Then I just ran the Whisper White piece of cardstock through my cuddle bug using the snowflake embossing folder. It just gave it some dimention.

Hope you like it and I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
Take care!!
Paula

Ornament Card

Hi all,
Well I have survived 2 days of work and I have to say so far so good. I'm keeping busy with loads to do. I must say my stamping has taken a back seat which I am sad about BUT I plan to do some on the weekend for sure!!

This is a short post because time is of the essence. Lunches to make, kids stuff to pack up for tomorrow and the list goes on.

This was a card we made in one of my Christmas card classes. I have to say that in the end I added glitter on the ornament and it made it waaaaaaaaaay nicer...sorry I don't have an updated picture to show you :(

Anyhow, I hope you like it!!
Take care and enjoy the remainder of your week.

Season of Friendship Christmas Card

Well folks....this is it. My mat leave has officially come to an end and as you view my blog today I am back at work. BOOOOO!!! I can honestly say I have NO idea where this past year went. All I can say it was the best ever and I love my girls. I'm so darn lucky it's sick. Yesterday was a wonderful last day off as we celebrated Berlynn's Baptism. It was a great day spent with family. The house was full of laughter, kids, food and just the closest people around me. What more could I ask for on my last day of mat leave?

OK enough MOOSH. Let me sop up my tears and move on to the card.

I LOVE THIS SET!! Season of Friendship. AWESOME!! It's a pretty simple card, simple layout and simple stamping. I hope you like it and HAPPY WINTER!!

Enjoy your day and hugs the ones you love.
~Paula~