Christmas present for Kaitlynn

Today I want share with you a project I made for my daughter Kaitlynn for Christmas. Back in August of 2010 she had the amazing opportunity to go to South Africa with the organization Serve The City. She was there for a little over two weeks and absolutely loved it. She hopes to go back someday. While there she took an enormous amount of pictures (I have taught her well!). Since she has been back she has wanted to do something with her pictures, but being a working college student she doesn't exactly have the time or money to do much with them yet. I am hoping to one day be able to help her turn them into wonderful layouts and preserve. But a few months back I asked her for the digital files of her 15-20 favorite pictures from her trip. Of course I wouldn't tell her why I needed them and since I asked for them at an odd time of year, I was hoping she wouldn't figure out what I was needing them for. Thankfully she forgot about giving them to me and Christmas morning she was so surprised when she saw it for the first time.

 Here are close-ups of each board

And here she is with it. She was so surprised and excited and said she loves it. Now we just have to figure out where she wants to hang it.

Well, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and has a wonderful New Years. See you next year!

Thanks for stopping by,
Sherrie!

Supplies:
Want2Scrap
WOW Embossing Powders
Webster Pages
Tim Holtz
Jillibean Soup
Maya Road

Don't forget your pets.....

Just want to start off by saying ..... Merry Christmas Eve Everyone!

For the past couple of years we have made homemade (all ingredients are human approved) dog treats for our dogs for Christmas. This year we decided to make extra and give them out as gifts. So, with Seth helping us this year, we made dog treats for some of our family and friends that have dogs too.

Seth is very good in the kitchen (thanks to his Grandma Chris) and loves to help make cookies. So he was a big help making the dog treats.

The finished product! We made little ones for the little dogs and bigger ones for the bigger does. We cut them out using Christmas cookie cutters and a pop bottle cap.

Thanks for stopping by,
Sherrie!

December DT Project - Christmas Cards

Today I want to share with you 3 Christmas cards I created for my December DT project for The Scrapbook Outlet.  My kit contained the beautiful, vintage looking Twinkle Bright Collection by Anna Griffin.

The first one I kind of got a little stickle happy with. But love how it turned out with the gold stickles on the leaves.

 The second card I used a wooden thread spool (sold at my LSS) that was cut in half, which I first stained brown, and then wrapped the beginning of the banner paper around.  I then crinkled the paper and inked the edges and used pop dots for adhesive to give them some depth.

And for my third card, I made it a tri-fold. I had been wanting to give this a try for some time now and finally took the plunge.  It was actually very easy to cut, score, and fold.  I also did a lot of machine stitching on this one, going around all the edges.

 I left the middle open for journaling and used my MS Scorboard to add raised lines to give it some dimension. I also did a little masking on a few of the other spaces where I used just the plain gold cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Sherrie!

Supply List:

Anna Griffin - Twinkle Bright Collection

Patterned Paper: Red Snowflakes, Red Merry Christmas, Trees, Holly, & Red and Green Bells

3 Dimensional Cardstock Stickers - Titles

WOW! Embossing Powders

If you have been following my posts, you might remember me posting about being selected for another DT but I couldn't reveal all the details then. I am now able to share a little more with you, just to keep you all up to date.

The company is called WOW! Embossing Powders (website coming soon) and has the most amazing selection of embossing powder colors and some fantastic stamps! Suzy West, our fearless leader, has an amazing collection all her own that will be officially released at CHA in January!!!!

Here is a sneak at some of the colors!

We have been asked to create projects asap for either CHA or to be used in the company catalog. So as soon as I get anything done I will post it for you all to see.

Thanks for stopping by,
Sherrie!