Notice the details on this months blog hop...

if you found your way here by Sylvia's blog then you are on the right track. If you just stopped by don't worry you can just jump right in. Once you are done looking at my projects you can move on to Deb's blog.

This months stamp set is perfect for all those little extra's that you might want to add to a scrapbook page, a card, or anything else you can imagine! This set has 41 perfect little parts for you to mix and match and use to your hearts content.

I have three projects for you today but I thought I would start you out today with a fun little card called an easle card. I did one a while back for fall but now that we ar moving closer to Christmas I thought I would share what every Christmas season needs...

Snow! I know I am crazy but I love snow as it is so pretty and it sparkles like diamonds. I used some of my favorites on thTis card: Jingle Level 2 paper pack, Flurry Elements, Notice the Details, Little bitty brads, Pearl Paint, Prisma Glitter.

Here is another view of the card when it is open. As well as a close up of all the words inside the card.

Since I made you suffer through the cold cold snow I will move you into the summer time where you can watch a little softball. My daughter has played for years and years but for three of those years she actually played club ball, which is travel softball. This basically means that we eat, drink, and sleep softball. It is round the clock and we are always on the go.  She loved it, I loved it, she doesnt' do it anymore and it makes me a little sad even though I enjoy the lighter schedule. For this page I actually made a whole calender page out of the little weekly calender. I just cut them and lined them up super cute.

 and the other page

The last thing that I have for you is a gift idea. These are journal jars and I did one for my daughter a few years ago and she loved it! She still has it as a matter of fact.

Well I hope you have enjoyed your time at my playhouse. I hope you enjoy the rest of your hopping. Now hop on over to Deb's blog.

Lets talk about snow...

Men! Haha...You thought I wanted to talk about snow for a whole post huh...where you worried? Some people really hate snow and some love it. I would be the latter and here is why, if I have to be cold I want something pretty to look at. I know simple reason. It is also so pretty to look at for the first month or so...come the end of January and I am over snow.

Anyway I made up some snowman soup a.k.a. hot chocolate, that I saw last year over at Nicole Heady's blog last year as I thought they would make fun little gifts for teachers, co-workers, secret sisters, ect..

They came together so fast! I used Aspen Level 2 papers and Snow Flurries.  I found the tins at Papertrey Ink I also got the cute little topper and poem from her blog, she again has the cutest ideas over there. This whole project came together so super fast...well I also had some help from my good friend Patti.

I think most everything is better with a little bling so I added a litttle bit of shinny gooness to the lid. I also think these would look adorable with some prisma glitter or stickles along the sides.

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I hope you all had a wonderful day today!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Traditions:

One of the cool things about being an adult is making your own traditions. I have found that some of my traditions came straight from my parents and others I have made with my family. The holidays make me get all sappy and sentamental each and every time. One tradition that we have is to put up the tree on Black Friday. I have done the shopping thing but I actually would rather stay home put up the tree and have some hot tea and put on some Christmas tunes. This year I think we will light the fire too. It is so fun going through the ornaments with the girls and giggling about the ones they have made over the years. Some are pretty beaten up but most of them are still just as nice as they were the day they came home with them so proud of what they accomplished.

As the years have went by the ornaments have become fewer as the participation in tree decorating has also went from two down to one. Savannah still loves to decorate the tree and I am so glad. It actually makes me sad that Danielle no longer wants to help but the sandness is not as bad as the attidute that I am met with if I force the issue. Pick your battles right?

This page came together so fast. I discovered a while back that the titles of the pages are labled on the back of the level one kits. What I normally do is to turn to that layout in the book that it is in, in this case Reflections, and I look at what else has been done in that chapter in regards to photo and papers.

Here is another view I just love the play on patterns here.

As well as a close up of the date. I just cut a Z to make a 7 and used a letter O for the zero

Note to self: take some photo's of the ornaments this year.

Lovely fall cards to make you twitterpatted

I am so Twitterpatted!

Twitterpatted : adj confused by affection or infatuation.

Friend Owl. Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example: You're walking along, minding your own business. You're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of a sudden you run smack into a pretty face. Woo-woo! You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head! - Bambi 1942

If you have not guessed I am so in love with this paper and this stamp set...oh my love it! For this card I gathered up a little mojo from back in the day. I used the rock and roll technique to get this beatiful change in color on the leaf and acorn. After that I used some stickles to make the swirls sparkle...cause every girl needs a little sparkle.

You could not tel from up above but this is one of those fabulous easle cards that everyone has been doing. Basically you fold the top of the card in half and then mount another peice of cardstock the same color on top and but a button or some brads down for it to sit upon. You can see how it sits here.

and the inside

Now the next card I did when I first got the stamps and paper it was super fast and easy and really fun.

I always need a quick thank you card and anytime there are stripes I seem to fall in love...

You've come a long way baby...

Here is a page from way back in the day.

Now this is not my first page I have misplaced that somewhere among the masses. I used to be addicted to stickers if you can't tell. The funny thing is I never even liked those streamers and confetti ones but I had so many and at the time I really felt like they were helping this page pop. LOL  Notice the brilliance in the title! I had run out of "N's" so I cut them out of the letter sheet.                         

How funny is that? Now when I want to use "stickers" on a page I do something more like this...

 These stickers are all layered and full of colors. The most halarious part here...that I never even noticed until I started typing this post...I subbed out a letter! Ha, the letter "v" is actually a y I think with the tail cut off.

Now this page had no rhyme or reason and man I cut out anything that would tell you a little more about the where abouts. By the way we are still at the fun fair here in case you were not sure. LOL

Personally I like the grass under my older daughters feet. Or the stickers coming out the letters. That was probably a signature move for me. How I loved to do that.

This next page surely was a sketch...

Ok but serioulsy could those girls have been any cuter? That was mothers day, we took the day and went tromping through the forrest and I took so many cute pictures. Oh man they were so cute when they were small...

Though here is a proof that you can be cute when you are old too

there is my gram she is 90 this year and still looks that fabulous if not better. When she was born women didn't even have the right to vote! Just as women have come a long way sketches have come a long way...though I cannot remember where this sketch came from.

So just remember this week You've come a long way baby! Post a link to one of your oldest page if you dare :)

Fun in th sun...

My Savannah has to be my most adventurous child and so creative too. One time she went fishing off of a the front porch with a stick and a throw rug. When I was little I used to get pretty creative with Barbies but she comes up with some doozies!  Since it we are having a bit of a warm spell in my neck of the woods I thought I would present to you ... ba ba ba bam ... the Hillbilly Pool! Since we didn't have one she made up her own...with yep as you can see garbage cans! I looked out back to check on them and was horrified at first and then I laughed and then I ran for the camera, if this isn't a kodak moment I don't know what is. Bonus: They might be good blackmail pictures for her future boyfriend.

Isn't this paper so cute. It is again from PersonalScrapper it is a Kit from July 09 and I was so happy to use up the kit the same month I got it. It only had a little bit of that fun paper with sunshine and fourishes but and so I just used a white gel pen and doodled all over the page. I am not so sure doodling is still the in thing to do but I love how it turned out on this page.

Oh and for all of you that are wondering...the garbage cans were clean ones!