Last day before counting down

My craft of the day is to make mini envelope to fit inside our Avent calendar. Starting tomorrow, it will not be a problem to wake up the girls for school. They will be running, first to the calendar, and second everywhere in the house looking for small gifts hidden. Behind each door, an envelope will contain the location of the gift instead of the gift himself.

I need 44 envelopes with matching cards. I'm halfway already. 

Hope you will have fun with countdown...

Pound cake eater Barbie

I was @ Starbucks in the afternoon with one of my daughter, in line to buy a snack before swimming lesson, and I was asking my little one what she wants to eat. She answers me loudly (I think everyone in the store ear it) : marble pound cake ! Not much to wait, only one woman before us, and the last piece will be for her.
And, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, this "Barbie with Vuitton" chick order it ! Argggh ! The skinny heartless (fake) blond head didn't hesitate a second. I hope it went straight to her hips ! Luckily, they still have some cake pops and my daughter didn't regret too much her cake. But, come on Barbie, don't take the cake out of children's mouth !

Anyway, I have a great surprise when I came home later. My Blitsy order was there ! I was so happy I went directly to my scraproom after dinner and start a new project with the Tim Holtz stamp I told you about before. It's turning great, and I'm thinking about a new workshop to share it.

I hope you a crafty night...

Christmas angels

It's already time for another workshop in two weeks. Because I will have too many things to do before my departure for France two days after the workshop, I made the layout already. Using a Christmas paper pack from last year (Recollections), a box of Prima's poinsettias, my sewing skills (!) and my lovely collections of glitter, I create this page for my angels.

 

The title is made with Jolee's Bling alphabet on red paper, and the wings with Prima Marketing's wings on red paper. I trim around the the title and the wings.
The center of poinsettias are crystals, glitter glue, brads, half pearls most of them coming from the $1 basket at Michaels.
The paper are distress with Tim Holtz Distress inks (red barn and old paper) and some brown ink.

I love Christmas time, and I can wait to go to France where we will have a snowy Christmas. But first, I have to check everything on my to-do list. This layout make one cross.

Renaissance festival

We had a crazy Sunday. After a late departure, a traffic jam in small town called Magnolia (2 roads) for one hour and half, we arrived at the Renaissance Festival. Even if lived almost 9 years in all at Houston, it was the first time we've been there. It was huge !
It's like a little Old European like town. The population is not quite near Renaissance style, but fun to look at :

It' more like a strange shopping mall in a forest. You can find costumes, swords, perfums in bottle glass made in front of you. You can have your face painted or your ears changed in elf's ears. Eat and drink.

 

And you can have entertainment too...

 

The worst part was to quit the place : 90mn to live the parking lot, 90mn to drive to home using small country road to avoid traffic.

 

Another thing to check on my to-do-in-Houston list.

All about family

Next assignment in Spanish class for my daughter will be to present her family tree on a board. So I grab my Cricut to cut all she need for that and that what we ended with :

Now all she has to do is to learn the Spanish terms for the relatives. She's lucky her teacher only ask for 3 generations. Because if she had ask for the whole tree, my daughter will have to learn to describe a tree with 10 generations ! I'm building my family tree since few years now, and I was able to find 221  relatives on this tree ! And still looking... It's start to be a little more difficult because the records barely exists before 1650.

Anyway, I hope this board will help her to get a good grade.

Black Friday sales

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving ! Today, my dog wake me just in time to see the opening of the Blitsy's Black Friday sale. So I got my hand on a wonderful stamp by Tim Holtz and few ink pads plus some other things. I can't wait to receive them ! If you want to have great prices on scrapbooking stuff, especially Tim Holtz lines, try Blitsy.

Here is the stamp I bought :

I have a lot of idea for this already...

Happy shopping anyway !

More cards...

So Friday, the workshop went well, everybody was able to finish the 3 cards I posted previously.
I have also tried the free cuts from Cricut.com for this week... holidays cards ! But instead of cutting them, I replace the blade by a red marker. They are nice, but need some improvement before showing you.

Staying in the holidays mood, here is a card with envelope I made last year with my E2 and few embellishments. Paper by My Mind's Eye, poinsettia by Prima Marketing, sentiments by K&Company, Wild Card cartridge by Cricut.

 

 

I will probably make few more cards before the end of the month, before starting decorate for Christmas. Have you already started ?