The Splendor of Christmas

Good Sunday morning to you all..

Christmas is slowly, but surely creeping around the corner and I love making Holiday layouts..

Here is a layout I spent the last few days working on. The photo is of my hubby Mike, our youngest son Adam and in the back is our son Aaron and daughter Amber.. We were at Santa Park here in Finland for the holidays with my in-laws back in 99.. The kids had such a great time while we were there..

Here are some close ups and all of the details..

I have enclosed the download file if anyone is interested in the design.. You will have to separate all of the cuts, I have not done that for you.. I just copy and paste as I go...sorry!

Just click Here for the file..

close up of the title.. I really like how it came out.. my fingers were so full of glue by the time I got done with the title, that I'm afraid I got it all over the place..

The other part of the title..

A close up of the mantle of the fire place.. I like the way it turned out.. I forgot to add the stockings though..LOL

and close up of the candles.. I added some white liquid pearl to give it that melted wax look.

and then of the rocking horse, tree and gift box..

Supplies Used:

Cricut cartridge:

Joys of the Season:

Fireplace. rocking horse, smaller gift boxes, trees, wreath, candles, small santa, picture frame, Title foundations, little xmas tree decorations, Holly and little pearl runner underneath the mantle..

Storybook:

title: CHRISTMAS, SANTA PARK, 1999 and S in splendor

Plantin Schoolbook:

title. THE and OF

Opposites Attract:

title: slendor (minus the S)

George and Basic Shapes:

oval shape for title foundation

Cardstock:

christmas red, deep yellow, black, white, brown, and olive green

design Papers by:

No name brand

Stickles:

xmas red, holly, yellow, black and cinnamon

Pop dots and zig two way glue pen

Thank you all so much for looking and have a great Sunday..

Happy Holidays!!

hugs

Cake&Coffee has its Perks..

Hi everyone...

Its Friday again and its reveal time at SOUS..

This weeks we had a sketch by Aymee Gandy aka Southernbellscrapper.. I thought it was a brilliant sketch and so glad we were able to use it..

The challenge information is located on our challenge blog Stuck On U Sketches.. Hope you get a chance of checking out the other designers this week and joining in on the fun..

I made this layout for my best friend Kati.. She is into the coffee theme and I wanted to make a layout for her to hang up in her room..

The photo was taken in the summer of 08 while we were visiting family and friends down in Florida.. She is celebrating her birthday  with her twin brother Jari..

I don't know why the color of the photo itself is so red, its not like that at all..sorry about that though..

Here are some close ups and all of the details to the making of this layout..

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies Used:

Cricut cartridges:  From My Kitchen

Plate, coffee pot, cake and slice, title "Cake Coffee" and recipe cards

Cricut cartridges: Plantin Schoolbook

Title "Has Its" and the symbol "&"

Cricut cartridges: Joys of the Season

Coffee cups and steam

Papers:  by Rayer

Cardstock: light green, brown, black, white and light blue

Pearlized cardstock: Green, brown and light blue

Tim Holtz distress ink: denim, black and gree

pop dots

spray adhesive

Thank you all so much for looking..

Hugs

Family together

TGIF ladies.. LOL

Its reveal time again at SOUS and here is my take on the sketch.. I had a lot of fun putting together this layout with all of the christmas cuts.. It was hard to choose from amongst the many on the various cartridges...

I don't unfortunately have close ups since I accidentally deleted them, AGAIN...LOL

Here's the list of supplies:

Cricut cartridge: Stretch your imagination (X mas tree)

Cricut cartridge: Home Accent essentials (FAMILY cut)

Cricut cartridge: Joys of the Season: (candy canes, candy, gift boxes)

Cricut cartridge: A Childs Year: (teddy bear)

Cricut cartridge: Winter Woodland (house)

Papers: Sweet Dreams stack by My Minds Eye

Cardstock: black, red, green, yellow, light blue, brown and white

Stickles: Christmas red (teddy bow and candy canes)

Pop Dots

Zig two way glue pen

Snow flake stamp

light blue stamping ink by Versa Color

Thank you ladies so much for looking..

Big Hugs

Winter Wonderland-SOUS

Here is a layout I made using the sketch from STUCK ON U SKETCHES this week..

I had so much fun making this layout and using the Christmas cuts on various cartridges..

I had a hard time choosing which cuts to use, I like them all..LOL

Here are some close ups of the layout.. the little reindeer heads are tags that pull out.. I haven't journaled anything on them yet, I have to really think of something sweet.

The tag in the middle is the date and location where I took the photo at.. We were at the Helsinki International airport getting ready to board out plane.  We were going to the States to visit friends and family for the holidays.

This was our first visit back since we moved back in 1996.. the kids were so excited..

They always make silly faces when I tell them to pose..

Supplies Used:

Cricut cartridge: Winter Woodland (Title)

Cricut cartridge: Doodlcharms (reindeer heads)

Cricut Cartridge: Tags, bags and boxes (tags)

Cricut cartridge: Joys of the Season (garland and flower)

Cricut cartridge: Christmas Cheer (reindeer and sleigh)

Papers:  by Reyher (no other name on paper)

cardstock: dark redish orange, light green, deep red, mint green, tan and brown

Sitckle: xmas red, evergreen, gold, cinnamon

zig black marking pen (doodling and journaling)

pop dots

ribbon

Thank you ladies so much for looking.

Hugs