My Favorite Christmas Movie

I've been playing along with Sparkle's Christmas challenges off an on for the last two years. Today I had the honor of being asked to be a guest designer. How cool is that?

The part of your favorite Christmas movie was easy, the designing of the card proved to be a little more challenging. "The Christmas Shoes" is my favorite, so to me the focus is on the "Give Your Self"

Christmas should be a time not of buying thing for the sake of presents, but to take the time and think about someone maybe a little less fortunate than yourself. I think of many of my employees at work, originally from Haiti and all those they lost back home last January or the many residents who have no family or anyone to visit them especially during the holidays.

The company I work for is non-profit and every year during the holidays we get our Senior Management team and our Executive Board of Directors together. We give every employee a turkey, a small monetary token and gift cards to a Grocery Store and Walmart. The employees in turn if they want can choose a resident and buy a small gift from Santa. This may not seem like much, but to many people it mean a lot. Which is the meaning of the whole movie and of the holiday season - "Give Your Self"

For this card I also used one of Sparkle's own designs. Is he not the cutest elf you've ever seen, and of course I had to paper piece and color him with copics. Add a little masculine embellishment and let the DSP take care of the rest.

Hope you can join us in this week's challenge. I'ld love to hear the story behind your favorite Christmas move.

Working Backwards

I have been trying to catch up with some of Sparkle's Christmas Challenges. This is from awhile back and I realized I hadn't posted it yet. This goes back to Challenge #6, which was to emboss.


I love my cuttlebug and use it quite frequently with nesties, but I'm contemplating getting a big shot. Some of the extra large folders from SU won't work in the cuttlebug and I really would like a few of them. So am I crazy or what for wanting 2 embossing machines?

I'm hoping to post a few of my more recent creations in the next couple of days. With all of the craziness of late I've realized that crafting really does help me destress and I'm trying to do more of it. So stay tuned.

Hope everyone is having a great week so far. The long weekend can't come quick enough.

Playing Catch Up

Trying to catch up after spending a couple of days last week at Disneyworld. I actually thought I had a couple of posts ready to publish but for some reason they didn't, sometimes blogger can be a little wacky.

I'm all caught up with Sparkle's Christmas challenges, though a little late in posting them. So for the next couple of posts it will be a few more Christmas cards. Week #5 was to use buttons, I have a hard time with buttons for some reason. This was what I came up with. It would have been better if I had a star shaped button.

Hope everyone has a great day, it's almost the weekend.

Stamps: Unity

paper: Eskimo kisses

copics, buttons

Almost There

I'm getting there slow but sure. Week #4 of Sparkle's Christmas Challenge was this inspiring photo:

Love the colors in this image; the cupcakes look fabulous. For some reason blue & white always remind me of winter, not so much the holidays but the whole winter season. This was my version of these yummy cupcakes.

I don't actually own this Bella (yet), and I'm not sure where the image came from. It might have come from a swap back when I first learned of the Bellas.

It has definitely felt like winter around here the last couple of days, absolutely freezing. Though we did not have snow this weekend which was a first in the last month.

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. Unfortunately my PATS have been eliminated from the playoffs. I think they forgot to show up for the game. Once the Jets and Colts go too, I'll be ok. There is always next year.

stamps: Stamping Bella sentiment: Unknown (think it might be CTMH)
paper: Misc. scraps (gotta love those scraps)
SU snowflake punch, button, copics