January Birthdays

Love making tent cards! This one is for a student of my husband's who shares the same birth date as him. January 20th is a popular birthdate for many people we know! Tia always remembers Mark's birthday and she is married now and has children of her own. She is a special lady! These polar bears represents winter and they are so cute, had to use them for her birthday card. Happy Birthday Tia!

This past summer I have been making these tower cards. It gives you panels to decorate. This card is a for friend from high school who has a birthday next week. Graphic 45 Fairie Dust is a favorite paper collection and it is so pretty. Love the purple! Below are more pictures of the card. Happy Birthday Betti!

Merry Christmas to All!

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse!  Finally all done with crafting, cleaning, decorating, cooking, shopping,  and wrapping!!  Love Christmas Eve when everyone can just relax and enjoy each other's company.  I am very grateful for healthy and happy family.  Wish our son could be here but we will see him soon and lucky to have our daughter nearby to help us celebrate Christmas tonight and tomorrow.  Here are some more pictures of what I have been up to, to make Christmas happy and fun!!  Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!

So much fun making this Christmas train!

These lanters are favors for family tomorrow

Christmas Cookies

More decorated Christmas cookies

Fabric Snowflake

Christmas Cards Have All Been Sent...

45 Cards all made

MFT Polar Bears

Loving these Polar bears from MFT's!  Here are the front of the cards that I made for my Christmas Cards this year.  The inside of the cards are scenic pop ups!  Love how the Polar bears are waving "Merry Christmas"!  They finally have all been sent and now just doing the last minute things like cooking and stocking stuffers!  I can't believe Christmas is only 1 week away from today!

Snowbanks sparkle!

Closer look

Today is my brother-in-law's birthday and we celebrated at Uno's with our good friend, Cindy! Below is the card that I made for his birthday!  He is a wonderful guy as you will see from the card.  Happy Birthday Russell!! Guess how old he is??

Marianne Designs  Panda Bears

Wonderful!

SU Balloons

Christmas Preparation!

I found this train tutorial on my favorite site, Pinterest!  I am going to use this for a centerpiece at Christmas!  It is my turn to have Christmas at our house so I am busy cleaning and making favors for Christmas!  The tutorial for this is below - the only difference is that I added a grill to the front of the train with a wreath!  Mixedup crafts does a wonderful job explaining this project. I also made a track for the train out of chipboard and just covered it with craft paper and a train track.  I copied the link from youtube so you can find the video there...

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2186&v=broSLev5FVs

Here are a few more pictures of the train.  I have elves managing the train!  The elves are from My Favorite Things which are so cute.  I encourage you to check out this video!  This is just so adorable for candy or that "special gift" because the engine is a box that opens up!! Perfect!

Front left side

The caboose!