Cathy's Class...

I'm still really enjoying Cathy Zielske's Big Picture Scrapbooking class. I can't believe it's only a few days left now. It ends on Christmas Day. After 12 weeks of great layouts, handouts, slide shows and videos it's going to leave a little empty hole. Though I suppose I won't notice it for a little while...

With all the Christmas stuff and the Christmas journal on top of that I have kinda accepted and made the decision to save the last few assignments until January. No point in stressing through the classes just for the sake of it. I found the decision a little hard to make but once it was mad it felt very right. So you'll definitely see me working on this class for a few weeks after Christmas too.

This layout was done for one of the assignments (and yes it's straight - it's just me who can't take a photo straight LOL!) but I don't know...I'm just not 100% super keen on it. Maybe it will grow on me :)

Christmas Journal...

Ooops I have kinda neglected taking photos of my Christmas journal and posting here. I'm still doing pretty good on keeping up with it but certain days it's a little more of a struggle than others to squeeze in some time to sit down and get an entry done :)

The photo (top of left page) shows a Swedish Christmas tradition of lighting candles each of the four Sunday's before Christmas. On the first Sunday (1st of advent) you light candle no 1. On the second Sunday you light candle number 1 and 2...and so on. You would normally have homemade gingerbread cookies and drink glögg (a hot drink similar to mulled wine) with blanched almonds and raisins in your cup. It's so cosy and really the "taste of Christmas" to me :)

Our Card Making Day...

A few weekends ago we made our Christmas cards for this year. I think they should all have safely arrived now so I don't mind posting photos of the day. Basically each year I make what I call our "Christmas card prototype". It's just a card to test out the ideas and have as a guideline for making the rest. Then it's kind of a factory line assembly thing going on. This is what it looked like in the middle of doing them...

I love my Cuttlebug and was very pleased that a) I remembered to use it and b) I found a way to use it both on the card and the envelope. :) It's kinda become a yearly tradition now that I make the card prototype and then we sit down together and make all the cards. Once I go through all the little stages with Ross, and show him how to do all the different techniques, he's really great at them and we have a really cosy time making cards while listening to Christmas music :)

Yet Another Card...

I'm still in the mood for making Christmas cards LOL! There have been some great Christmas kits uploaded at Sweet Shoppe Designs over the last few weeks and they are just impossible to resist. As one of my CT assignments, I was playing with a kit by Melissa Bennett called "Dear Santa" and came up with this reindeer card:

[Supplies: "Dear Santa" by Melissa Bennett (SSD)]

Super Cute Kit...

Today I have been having fun making Christmas cards and playing with this super cute Christmas/winter kit which I got by Mindy Terasawa (from Designer Digitals):

I really can't get enough of her fantastic cute little critters. And then Christmas on top of that. Just perfect for me :)

Here are two of the Christmas cards that I made using the kit by Mindy:

Christmas...

Sorry for no update yesterday. I had totally planned to do one. But I'm not sure what was wrong with me. I just felt like I had been emptied of energy and I could hardly even sit up on a chair. Mega exhausted! Seriously thought I was coming down with something. Head hurting like mad too. Today I feel better though. Head is a little "numb" and I still don't feel like I have all my energy back. So I'm going to try and take it a little easy today...or as easy as you can when it's Christmas next week LOL!

Anyway, I'm off to get some things done and I'm leaving you with some Christmassy photos...

And The Winner Is...

And the winner of the $5 giftvoucher to Libby Weifenbach's store is...

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Randi said...I'd love to get a Cricut Expressions! I have the baby bug, but I find myself needing to make bigger things! :)
12/12/2008 5:26 PM
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Congratulations Randi! :) Please leave your e-mail address in the comments section and I will contact you asap with the details :)

I got a little behind on my Christmas journal this weekend as I did no scrapping at all. So I better get off the computer and work on that. In the meantime, here's a photo of the next spread of pages from the journal:

Loving The iPod Touch...

OMG I'm sooooo in love with my iPod Touch. Best "gadget" I have had in ages. But the "applications" shop in iTunes is almost too addictive...so many fun things to download and many of them free. It's easy to lose hours just browsing through the lists LOL!

Here's another hybrid Christmas card that I made this week playing with a super cute penguin kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs:

[Supplies: Jolly All The Way - Christy Lyle (SSD)]

Oh and I almost forgot: it's still time to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a $5 gift voucher to Libby Weifenbach's shop at SSD. Look here for details if you're interested :)

Christmas Cards...

First of all there's a blog giveaway going on, if you didn't see it yesterday you can check it out ---> here :)

Today it's Lucia in Sweden...such a cosy tradition, I'm kinda sad I'm missing it. Oh well.

[Supplies: Holly Days - Penny Springmann (SSD)]

Got this Christmas card to share with you today. It's a hybrid card that I made earlier in the week as part of my Sweet Shoppe CT work.

Blog GIVEAWAY...

Exciting...!

I have a $5 gift voucher to Libby Weifenbach's store at Sweet Shoppe Designs to give away to one lucky blog reader. She has some great digital kits and some amazing alphabet packs to choose from :)

To be in with a chance of winning, please leave a comment telling me what scrapping item you'd like most of all for Christmas (yes you can only pick one LOL!). Don't forget to make sure that there is some way of me contacting you if you are the lucky one :)

Comments need to be left before 08:00 UK time on Monday morning the 15th of December 2008.

Good luck! :)