Christmas is near so it’s definitely time to work on my Christmas gifts. I decided a few months ago that I would prepare a calendar for our parents and my grandmother, so I can give them something that I really like, done by me especially for them, and I can even have fun in the process of creating it! I will have it printed so I only have to prepare the figures I want for each month.

But that left me with 5 months still to do, and not very many decent pictures of us (I already scrapped the best, and I only want to use pictures taken in the last year or so..). Anyway, now the goal is near and I feel it will be ready soon. I’m actually liking it very much!!

Tonight I realized I needed a page for the month of December, so I pulled up last year’s pictures and I sadly discovered that there is only one of me and DH together, and it’s out of focus! :-/

So I tweaked the picture a little, kept it smallish, and did a LO I’m *very* pleased with. (While I was at it :), I did it for the template challenge at Scrapmatters – we also had to journal at least 5 sentences).

Here it is:

Credits:

Template by Jeni Hopewell

Christmas Future kit by Linda Cumberland

Glittery stars and hearts (recolored) from About A Girl by Scrap’It Designs by Brianna Cox

Pinned and Dated (recolored) by Fei-Fei’s Stuff

Font: My Own Topher

Of course, there is no journaling on the version that goes in the calendar, only a pretty alpha writing “December”.

8 months done, 4 to go! 🙂

This week we’ve had quite some snow, and cold weather: winter is finally here. I love snow and I had forgotten how beautiful it is at night when there is so much light because of the snow. I really love to live here!

I did a LO for the Saturday Special challenge at Scrapmatters. We had to do a wordart for our LO. I believe I never did one before, and I don’t usually put wordarts in my LOs, but I love how this LO turned out!
I actually spent a lot of time getting the colors right, and then the wordart flowed out pretty quick and natural.

The orange doesn’t have anything to do with the colors in the picture, but I tried it out and liked it, and could not force myself to take it out! 😉

This weekend I worked on 2 LOs about the unusual morning visits the deer paid me last week. 🙂

Credits:

Welcome Home 

and template by Erica Zane

Heart border from Abundantly Blessed by Andilynn DesignsFont: FG Bonnie’s

and the second LO for the Roadmap to Scrap challenge, these were the instructions:

1. 1 Edge to Edge Photo
2. 1 Frame
3. Stitching
4. 1 or more Fasteners (paper clip, staple, etc.)
5. 1 or more Ribbons
6. a Brush or Stamp
7. 1 Element of your Choice (choose wisely…there can only be one!)
8. No alphas

I actually started scrapping this page first, but when I got to instruction #8, “no alphas”, I realized I needed to do a 2 pager, since I cannot do a LO without alphas! 🙂

Credits:

Welcome Home, deer brush from Woodland Fantasy Add-on by Erica Zane

Green ribbon, safety pin (both recolored) and frame from Peace and Quiet by Andilynn Designs and Britt-ish Designs

Font: CK Cursive, My Own Topher

We got the first snow of the season here today, and more is coming. The streets aren’t white yet, but everything else is, and it looks like it won’t be long before the streets get white too.

I did a LO for the Tuesday Template challenge at Scrapmatters. In addition to using the template provided, we also had to scrap about some of our blessings.

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I lifted a beautiful LO by Nathy and I did a monochromatic LO. I love how it turned out!!

Credits:

Parisian Love Collection by Cinnamon Designs

Ribbon from Pretty Grungy by Scrap’it Designs by Brianna Cox

Swirly Alpha by Andilynn Designs

Here it is:

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I did another Halloween LO (and this leaves me with only 1 more to go) for the Word Up challenge at SM (we had to use a definition of a noun in our LO).

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I did another Halloween LO. I have two more to do and them I’m done.

I did this for a Roadmap to Scrap challenge at SM. These were the directions:

1. Use more than one photo
2. At least one photo needs to be framed or matted
3. Build a cluster around your focal point photo (can include elements listed below)
4. Use a 1:1 ratio of patterned paper to solid paper (for every pattern, you need to use a solid)
5. Include one fall/Halloween element, even if it’s not fall-colored- a leaf, a pumpkin, a ghost, etc
6. Include at least 1 ribbon
7. Use an alpha in your title
8. Journaling is a must!

and here’s my LO:

Credits:

by Britt-ish Designs:

Don’t Hold Back template, Date Stamp Classic, Razzle Dazzle alpha, black paper and button from I’m A Dreamer, white/orange paper from The Bright Side Add-on, ribbon and glitter from A Halloween Nightmare Add-on;

Orange solid paper from Treats by Becca Bonneville;

Patterned paper from Halloween Freebie by Syrin;

Orange button from Creativity by mgl Scraps;

Fonts: Nightmare, My Own Topher.