Bo Bunny Winter Joy Collection

I Know you may have seen

these layouts before...

but I have never shared what paper lines I used to create them.

So here are some recent layouts all about snow... since there

are a few flakes falling in the Portland area today!

Three Bugs in a Rug Snow Much Fun Collection

Crate Paper Snow Day Collection

Best Creastions Inc. Winter Wonderful Collection

Echo Park Wintertime Collection Layout

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all!

I can't believe all the fun is over :(

and I can't believe how fast the year is

flying by.

I hope you all had a WONDERFUL holiday with family

and friends and I hope you can rest up and

relax and enjoy the holiday with lots of treasured memories

to scrapbook.

I totally need to scrap some myself.

Enjoy the rest of your Holiday.

Peace and love,
Nancy

MOVIE LOVERS GIFT!!!

This is my favorite of all my gift ideas.

I have a few teens on my Christmas list... and they love movies!

So when I found these little popcorn buckets

at Target for $1 ( for 2 !!! ) I had to buy some.

I added some crinkled paper in the bottom, added some candy bar

favorites and a few other treats, plus one movie ticket.

Wrapped them up added the bow and tag and ...perfectly cute!

Cost - about $10 each

( I bought the movie tickets at Costco 2 for $15 and

all the candy bars were on sale too! )

Mini Albums

Mini Albums

make great little gifts for that someone special on your list.

I made this one for my husbands boss and his family.

It is a mini folding album and it is so easy to make.

I will try to post the directions next week.

It takes 9 sheets of 2 sided papers. And about 4-5 sheets of

cardstock. ( plus ribbons, and stickers or goodies to decorate )

It is so quick and easy... and I think a great little gift!

If you would like the directions... make sure you comment so

I WILL get you the directions BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!

Treat Bags

Cute little treat bags like these...

make great gifts for co-workers, friends,and kids.

Just a little something to let them know you are thinking

of them! :)

12/18/10 CHristmas....

Christmas rush is

here!

Keith came down with the stomach flu...

Kami has been fighting a cold...

and I am buried in

stuff to do!

Finishing up school this week was a lot

of work. There was a lot to do to get ready for

the last day.

Co-Worker gifts,

Teacher gifts,

goodies for the kids,and

friend gifts!

Well that is all done ... yea!

Then came the big push to get the

in-laws gifts out to Alabama.

Well, It's all done!

School - Done!

Alabama - Done! ( Mailed too :)

Vacation is HERE!!!! - 17 days YEaH00!!!

All that is left is my blogging that has been hanging over my head.

I have 3 little gift giving items to still share with you !!!

Enjoy!

Day 3 Cookie / Treat boxes

COOKIE/TREAT BOXES

I WENT TO MY LOCAL PAPER STORE ( PAPER ZONE IN PDX)

AND I FOUND THESE CRAFT BOXES FOR $. 69 EACH AND THOUGHT THEY

WOULD BE GREAT TO GIVE WITH SOME CHRISTMAS TREATS.

I JUST NEEDED TO DOLL THEM UP BEFORE I GIVE THEM OUT.

DO YOU LIKE THEM?

12/14 Day Two .... Cocoa

How cute are these Hot Cocoa holders?

I saw these at a Bazaar and just had to steal the idea.

I cut a sheet of red cardstock into 5 x 10,

Scored it in half,

glued along the bottom and side ... leaving a opening at top.

Belt is 1 x 11 and wrapped around the red to make the belt.

Circles are 1 inch circles ... crimped and

then I added the buckle.

Buckle 1 3/4 inch scalloped gold with 1x1 glittered center.

Once it is all assembled ... add a cocoa package and a peppermint stick.

12/13 Gift Idea #1

With the Holidays

Just around the corner ...

I have decided this week I will blog some great

little cheap gift ideas!

Each gift will....

1. Have a scrapin' touch

2. Be low cost

3. Easy to do !!!

Today I am sharing this great little treat...

Make a bunch and

give to office co-workers ( one on each desk) ... or

Your kids classmates... or

I am using mine to put in the teachers boxes at my work ( I work at a school )

Day 1

Uses Cardstock, glue, and your Cricut....plus Doodlecharms or Christmas cheer cartridges.....

and a pepermint patty.

Cost : Im guessing ... pennies!!!

The peppermints need to look like this... any brand. I found mine at Walmart around $2 a bag.

I turned them into these!!!

I sandwiched the patties between two cardstock circles. ( flower shaped & 2 inches ) They do sell a 2 inch punch at Michaels I used my Cricut. But if you don't have a cricut you
can use the punch and embellish with Stickers. ( That would just increase your cost a bit.)

Here is a back view that shows the shape of the circle. I used Accent Essentials

Cartridge and then wrote Merry Christmas with a white gel pen.

JACKI AND I MADE A TUN!

She went home with 36 and I had the same. I made about 16 more and still

had peppermints left over.... I only bought 2 bags!!!

This is a great project for scraps... I of course did not use scraps. ( ** I can hear

you ladies who know me laughing about that! :)

Here is the run down on cost....

Cardstock :

2 base color and - 2-3 additional colors per design made about 20 !

( Example: Cardstock 2 red, 1 flesh color, 1-2 white and 1 red )

About $2 per design in Cardstock.

Peppermints $4 ( 2 bags )

Embellished with what I had on hand / scraps ( these I do save ) $ 0.00

Total cost about $10 for 85 or so. About 11 cents each!!!

December Crop 12/11/10

December 11th Crop

11am - 8pm

Our last crop for the year- come join the fun and make some great

make and takes for the holidays.

Bring some Christmas goodies if you like and for dinner we will all

chip in for a pizza.

Crop fee $5 RSVP!!!!

12/3 Time for a winner ...

OK, it's time for a winner...

who is baking in our friendly layout competition?

Nadia's layout :

3 votes for Nadia!
2 votes for me :( oh, how my blog readers have let me down :) (just Kidding)
I lost so Nadia .... I will bake you anything you like ...
just not Creme Brulee... I don't think it would be
good. I have no idea how to make that!!!

So ... as for my goodie bag winner ...
it is :

Velda

I have a goodie for you!!!
CONGRATS!

Bo Bunny Midnight Frost Collection

Oh, how I love it!

This new collection from Bo Bunny

is so Beautiful!!!

I can't wait to get my hands on it!

Do you love it as much as I do???

Happy Thanksgiving

Family and Friends

are a wonderful part of the

Thanksgiving Holiday.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday

filled with peace, love, and many cherished memories

to scrapbook and carry in your hearts!

Love, Nancy

WIntertime papers from Echo Park

I fell in love with this paper line from Echo Park...

I just had to do a layout ....

And once I did that .... I was hooked!

I LOVED IT....SO
I have to use it on my

Christmas Cards

Here is the front

I used Cricut Songbird for the font and Christmas Cheer for the Snowman.


And Just because it's me...
I had to add some fun to the inside!
Do you like???

11/24 Kami's Christmas cards...

Kamryn ( Kami )

my 15 year old daughter made her

Grandma some Christmas cards.

She made 22 all by

herself... and I think they look great!

Gingerbread man is cut using Cricut and Stretch your Imagination.

Inside card says:

We hope you have the Sweetest Christmas and New year!

11/22/10 Recipe box gift idea

Need a great gift idea?

My friend Jacki and I found these wooded

recipe boxes at Craftware House for a great price.

It took a little math to get all the paper sizes but...

I think they turned out great!

I have some mini wooden spoons that I want to glue to the top

or the side of the front.

( I may still do that! )

Back View .. this paper line also had matching recipe cards.
How perfect is that?

Recipe cards

OK so I still think the project cost about $20 but if we would have eliminated

the family recipe rub on we put on the front and cut it with the cricut...

that would have saved us $7.50. YES~ $7.50!!! We didn't realize how much

they were until we were on our way home. We thought about returning them

but Craft ware house is a bit of a drive ... and this time we just went with it!

It is still VERY cute either way. I can't wait to start filling it with great recipes!