Merry Christmas!

Just a quick post today to wish you all a Merry Christmas and holiday season!

I have been busy making my annual "food" goodies:  Oreo Truffles, Peanut Butter Balls,

Frosted Sugar Cookies, and Chocolate Dipped Pretzels.  YUM!!  All of which I love!

As you can see, I had a little help decorating these cookies!

I have soo enjoyed having my dear daughter helping me with these this year.

I have also been in notebook making mode the last couple of days or so

and wanted to share the notebook I made for my son's teacher this year for Christmas.

I used some of my favorite Tinsel and Twig papers from The Girls' Paperie......LOVE

this line of papers.  I'm going to find it hard not to use it but some of the papers can

be used for non-Christmas so you might see them on other cards too!

Don't you love the packaging?  I was inspired by Rhonda's blog here, that I had

to order some of these bags to wrap my notebooks in too!

I am running out of my red grograin ribbon.....{sigh}...because I have bought it in

the past from The Dollar Tree for $1 a roll and yes it matches perfectly to Pure Poppy.

My local store is out of it and while I can order it online, I'm not sure I'd use that much!

I just love all the little details you can put on these notebooks! 

Ah, the row of buttons strung with baker's twine from MS and

the little row of crocheted goodness.

Finally the whole ensemble gift to my son's teacher.  Does this card look familiar?

I posted it a while back and it goes perfectly with my cute notebook.

I have come to realize that the holiday is more about giving (I mean I've always known this

but this year it's really hit home).  So next year, there will be some changes

in our home as far as gifts my children get.  We always adopt

someone that is less fortunate at the holidays but we've decided to take it a step

further and give more next year.  My kids will do fine with this but it may

be a little hard at first when there aren't as many gifts under the tree.

Here's to a wonderful Holiday season and many thanks to you

for visiting my little part of blogland!

{Happy Holidays notebook/packaging}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Take Note, Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers

Paper:  Fine Linen, Pure Poppy, Rustic White, Tinsel and Twig (The Girls' Paperie)

Ink:  Pure Poppy, Simply Chartreuse, Haystack, Charcoal

Misc:  Baker's Twine (MS), Friendship Jar Label Die, Red Grograin Ribbon (Dollar Tree), Misc. Buttons, Limitless Layers Dies, Crocheted Trim (garage sale), Paper Doily

It all started with a post about a notebook!

I posted this notebook I made for a good friend of mine a while back and Dana put this comment on it:

"I've only had a chance to make these for other people too,

so how about this: I make one for YOU, and you make one for ME!

(because I really like this one and can see how cute it would look in my hand! *grin*)

So, this is how it started......we emailed our favorite colors and decided to do a notebook swap!!   

During this time, I also found out that she liked button rings so I designed one just for her!

Well, it did take me a while to get this done and then the USPS took forever to get it there....so much so that I thought I either had put the wrong addy on it or it had gotten lost!

Finally, here are the pictures.......beware this is a long post with lots of pics!!

This notebook uses several PTI stamp sets including Take Note which is a MUST HAVE set when making one of these notebooks!  Also used here was Life and Turning a New Leaf.

Ok, so earlier I mentioned that I found out that Dana liked button rings!  Well, I have finally decided to go into making them!!  So, I designed one for her in her favorite colors as well!  This was the first time I've made one for someone that wasn't able to "try it on" before hand.  Dana says it fits just fine!

Here is the ring at side view of the wraps. 

Ok, so I had to make a card to go with all this right?  Yeah, I had to!  I used the new Enjoy the Ride stamp set and matching die to make her this cute mini card.

Well, you didn't think I would show you what I made and not show you what Dana sent to me did you??  Here's the GORGEOUS notebook she sent me.......so totally me in every way!

I want to give out a HUGE thank you to my blog friend, Dana!!  Thanks so much for posting that comment.....I had a great time designing these things for you! 

Go check out her blog....she makes amazing things!

{This & That notebook}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Take Note, Turning a New Leaf, Life

Paper:  Kraft, Terracotta Tile, Dark Chocolate, Rustic White, Dotty Biscotti

Ink:  New Leaf, Dark Chocolate

Misc:  green trim (from a garage sale), ivory trim (Wrights), Terracotta Tile button, Ripe Avocado buttons, button twine, scallop circle punch (EK Success)

{Enjoy the Ride}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Enjoy the Ride, A Little Argyle

Paper:  Kraft, Rustic White

Ink:  Orangerie, New Leaf, Dark Chcolate, True Black

Misc:  Enjoy the Ride die, pop dot, misc. gems, Embossed punch (EK Success), silver pen (Gelly Roll)

Cute notebook!

I wanted to show you a ca-yoot notebook!  I LOVE these things but I have yet to make one for myself!!  I really like this one....made for a good friend who hosted our Stampin' Away weekend. 

This was the first time using the Green Tea Leaves paper from PTI!!  It sure packs a punch with color!

In the close up pic, you can see how I used Spring Moss ink on the stamped circle and then "This &That" stamp over the top.......I really like the subtleness!

Thank you so much for visiting!

{This & That}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Take Note, Polka Dot Basics II

Paper:  Pure Poppy, Rustic White

Ink:  Spring Moss, True Black, Tea Dye Duo

Misc:  Green Tea Leaves paper, Bitty Box paper, scallop punch, circle punch, ribbon (Michaels), buttons and twine