Happy Birthday Darling!

Today is my wonderful, handsome husband's birthday! I cherish this man!! He is everything I ever dreamed of and more. Happy birthday darling!

Cinema Saturday #8

This week's Cinema Saturday challenge was based on the movie Miracle on 34th Street. You know the one where the little girl doesn't at first believe in Santa Claus and where Santa Claus gets put on trial. Such a heart warming film:) One of my favourite parts about Christmas is being able to be Santa to others. After all, Santa is based on St. Nicolas, a man of faith who showed love in a very tangible way to children without. A 'merry' soul indeed!

Butterfly Award

Sunny Sankari nominated me for this beautiful Butterfly Award! I'm tickeled!! Thank you so much Sankari, I am honoured that you thought of me:) Sankari has a wonderful blog with beautiful projects and she is also one of the creative hearts behind Cinema Saturday, so be sure to check her blog out!!

The rules for this award are to

1. Pick 10 people to pass this award to them

2. Contact them and let them know that you have chosen their blog for this award

3. Link to the person who gave this award to you

I have chosen the following 10 delightful and creative people to pass this award on to. I have enjoyed visiting their blogs and have been blessed by their sweet comments on my own, so why don't you go and visit the blogs below, I am sure you will enjoy them:)

1. Jenn at Stamp Your Heart Out
2. Tanya at Stamps & Things

3. April at April's Scrappiness

4. Mary at Soft Angel Kisses
5. Jessica at Smiling Makes Me Happy

6. Amy at Tethered2Home

7.. Kiara at the Stamping Cafe

8. Deb at Sharing my Obsession
9. Ann at Creative Antics
10. Zukes Girl at Zukesgirlcreates

Father-in-law's Birthday

It was my Father-in-law's birthday this weekend and we had them over for dinner on Sunday. My mother-in-law is a vegatarian, so I made turkey lasagne with caesar salad. During the week life is so hectic these days (ever since I changed jobs almost 2 years ago now) that I can't plan to have people over at all during the week any more, and I find that weekends don't go far either, so it's nice when it does work out:) I'm looking forward to more of that as the Christmas season approaches. AND - I just learned our friends from Chicago will be here for Christmas starting on December 20th - so I have some get-togethers to plan:)

This is my Father-in-law's birthday card - yes, he's a hockey fanatic and I used Canuck colours since that is his team. It's fairly simple, no bows or sparkles, but I'm pretty sure he prefers it that way;)

Happy Hour

I went to Happy Hour at JSI this weekend and this is what I made... It's a cd holder - it closes with velcro on the other side where there's a pocket for your cd and then there's a tag in a pocket on this side so you can write a message, a playlist, a wish or journal even. I love that ribbon too:) I love getting new ideas to work with!

Here's my first ever round card! It's made using Nicole's coluzzle. The jury is still out for me on whether to get a coluzzle for cutting circles or not. On the one hand I love the options it gives you, but on the other hand I'm not that coordinated and it's a little hard to use. But then again - maybe practice makes perfect!

Cinema Satruday #7

I've missed the last couple of Cinema Saturdays either because I was away or I was catching up on life when I came back, so I was so happy to be able to sneak a few minutes in this morning to 'play' with this week's challenge.

This week's movie-theme was Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Because I live in Canada, Thanksgiving has passed (second week in October here), and so I decided to make it a Charlie Brown Christmas (instead of thanksgiving) as I still need some more Christmas cards:)

I took my inspiration mainly from the Christmas lights that Charlie Brown's poor little tree wouldn't hold and that Snoopy's house had been adorned with and that after Linus' lesson they all gathered around a real fir tree with:)

I hope you like it... And a BIG Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!!

Finally! :)

So I finally learned how to make a 'nugget box' (click here for tutorial)- and I have to say that it looks more complicated than it is! I *love* making them now!

This Year's Card Swap

So I went to my stampin' club last night and it was our Christmas card swap. What fun! I was a little behind having gone away and all with getting my cards done, but in the end it all worked out. This is what I made this year:)

On a side note, for something special we met at this little coffee shop called 'Tastebuds' - they had a private room and everything to accomodate all 12 of us - such a treat!

Another Award?!

Wow! Here I was feeling so bad I haven't had much time to create lately much less post, and still, sweet Deb gave me this award! Thanks Deb, I'm tickled!!

And here are a few people I'm passing this one on to:

1. Soft Angel Kisses
2. Bethinking
3. Papersnob
4. Schwooo
5. Stampin Starbucks Mama

Be sure to check out their blogs, you won't regret it!!!

Guess where I've been?!

...and this was the view from the scrapbooking store there where I got to 'play' one afternoon! (that's the Three Sisters Mountain:)

For our anniversary, my amazing hubby and I took a quick trip to Calgary and then on to Cochrane, Canmore and Banff (we mostly stayed in our favourite little Inn in Canmore - think English charm, amazing views, fireplace....) We had originally planned to head to Jasper this year, but Brian Doerksen and Kathryn Scott were going to be in concert in Calgary, so we decided to go that route. It was quite the opportunity to see the two of them together (Kathryn is from Causeway Coast, Ireland - I could go on and on about what her and her husband have taught us...!)

So off to Calgary we went - and the concert was AMAZING! ...and we did end up really enjoying our few days there, but mostly because we worked really hard at it - as it turned out that it was very stressful to get around Calgary and the shopping wasn't what we thought it would be, but we did end up eating at White Spot (one of our favourites), spending a morning at IKEA and finding a guitar and scrapbooking shop that we enjoyed, so all was well and then off to the mountains we went!

Canmore was were we spent our 5th Anniversary last year and so it is very special to us! As that was the first time we ever did a getaway like this:) Time prevents me from telling you about all the beautiful things we saw and did, but it was all charming, and not only did I get to look around in this cute scrapbook shop there with the view above, but I got to create a bit there. This is my first acrylic mini album - I got their scrapping room all to myself - just me, the mountains and the fireplace:) The book's not done yet, but I thought I'd post my progress since it had been so long since I posted something:)

Eifel for him:)

Happy anniversary to the most wonderful man I know~!

Arte y Pico

Kiara at the Stamping Cafe was so sweet and shared an award with me! She has an awesome blog and if you head over there right now you'll see this gorgeous acrylic mini album that I love!

The "rules" for the Arte y Pico award are:
1. If you are an award winner, show the award, the name of the person who gave it to you, and link back to his or her blog.
2. Pick 5 blogs you think deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and for contributing to the blogging community.
3. List the author's name and link to his or her blog.
4. Leave a message on the blogs of those you've selected.
5. Link back to the original Arte y Pico blog http://arteypico.blogspot.com/, so all will know the origin of the award.

Here are 5 blogs that I would like to share this with:

1. Michele at the Stamp Link. She often has new ideas that inspire me to create! I love the scrapbook pages she has up on her blog right now!
2. Dannie at Dannie's Designs. I love her tutorials! She's always sharing new ideas!
3. Kristina at Kwernerdesign Blog. Everyone knows Kristina - she gives us the colour inspirations, make a card Monday, Finally Friday. Her creations are so much fun and she inspires me to create!
4. Kadee at Kadee Morrison's Design. I love Kadee's style and recently she was published for the first time even!
5. The new Cinema Saturday blog because I *love* doing their challenges!

Thanks again Kiara for the award!

Cinema Saturday #4

'Grease is the word...is the word...
...it's got groove it's got meaning...'

So this week's Cinema Saturday challenge is inspired by the movie Grease, and my card is a card I've made for a friend who just got back from a month long vacation. Of course I took inspiration from the red convertible from the movie, from blonde haired sizzled up Sandy and then I tried to play that against some varsity feeling elements - the pennant, the argyle. I picked the red and white in the card because those were Ridel's colours.

'Grease is the word...'

'We take the pressure and we throw away
Conventionality belongs to yesterday
There is a chance that we can make it so far
We start believing now that we can be who we are '

Peace&Joy&Love&Cheer

I took inspiration for this from this from Linz:)

I've had a hard time though finding frames the sizes I need for the ideas I have - so this one was a bit larger than I originally wanted, but I worked with what I found and like the result:)

Big Shot Fun!

Here's another one of those boxes that I made out of 4 envelopes with my new Big Shot! It's fun to experient. I still don't have my top note die - backordered, I guess, but I have lots of ideas for it too when it gets here:)

Happy Hallowe'en

Well, my creating this morning has consisted of treatbags for the neighbour kids. I fill each one individually with the child in mind. We have two under 1 who'll be coming out so I have animal crackers and puddings in theirs (those are the happy face bags). Then there are the girlies between 2 - 4 - they have candy necklaces & bracelets and chocolate and treats. And then there are the older kids they have chocolate bars, gum, sours, etc. I think we went a little overboard when buying treats this year I have 4 bowls from which to fill all the treater's bags:)

I wonder how many prince and princesses will come to my door tonight?!

Colour Inspiration # 28

Guess what I got today? ...that's right my Big Shot finally arrived from being on backorder. At the beginning of the month my hubby insisted that I take a bit of the bonus I'd gotten at work and order one - isn't he a good husband?!!! And so you know I HAD to use it in this week's colour inspiration...

Since tomorrow is halloween I made this little basket with some Basic Grey paper for this week's inspiration and I filled it with treats for a little girlie around here:) The basket is made out of 4 envelopes which I cutout with my Big Shot! The tutorial is right here:)

Cinema Saturday #3

Halloween is not really my thing. Don't get me wrong - I love seeing little itty-bitties dressed up like princesses and cowboys and filling their pumpkins with treats. It's just all the other darker stuff associated with the event that I could do without. So I surprised myself when I made a halloween card tonight. It's just a little gift card that I'll attach to my daughter's goodies this year. I've bought her favourite goodies and I've stored up extra treats for the neighbour kids too! One of my favourite things on halloween is that the neighbours bring even their teeny-tinies out with them, so over the last couple of years I've gotten into the habit of making some treat bags for those under 2...and I've picked up all my supplies again this year, so I just have to assemble.

This card was inspired by the colous in this week's Cinema Saturday. I haven't seen this week's movie, but thought it would still be fun to use the colours in some way - particularly since someone sent me some witchybella images.

Colour Inspiration #27 (#9 if you're me:)

Kristina said to use any red or pink as your inspiration this week, so I thought I'd take it as a challenge to use red and pink together in a Christmas card. I just got my winter post stamps, so I had to play with the skater/lovers and I clear embossed snowflakes in the background:) ...a little glitter here and there and voila!

Recipe:
Cardstock - SU ridinghood red, pink piroette & whisper white
Stamps - SU winter post
Ribbon - SU ridinghood red taffeta
Embossing powder and glitter - SU