Christmas

If you want to hear about how we spent our Christmas head over to the family blog at The Garland Fam. There's a giveaway hidden in one of the new posts. :) Good luck finding it!

Some of the presents I made

This is the To Do book that I made for my dad. For as long as I can remember, my dad has always carried a scrap of paper in his pocket that he keeps notes on. So I decided to make him a book.
Front (the pacifier is there for size)

Back

The cover is: 3.75x2.5 and the pages are 3.5x2.25
I used Brushed Corduroy on the masks.
The masks are mini compass and Timeworks.

I made three of these 6x6 calendars. One for each of my grandmas and my grandpa.













Month Stamps - Technique Tuesday
Blank Calendars - Boxer Scrapbooks
Papers - DCWV Christmas Combo/The Stack III/Through the Year (not the right name but you get the idea), and Bazzill
EK Success bat punch
Cuttin' Up for the 2011 on cover

Cody's Christmas Card. He asked for money to go towards his Haiti trip.

The inside of Cody's card.

Jolly Holiday at 4"
White - Recollections; Green - Super Value Pack; Brown - Bazzill Mud Pie; Stardust Stickles

The front of Sarah's journal

The back

Tim Holtz masks, metal embellishments and ink
Ledger stamp - Unity
Phrase stamp, coffee stain stamp - Tim Holtz
Luggage Tag and 'S' - ? (i'll look when I get home)

The front of Jake's journal

The back

Tim Holtz masks, 13 stamp, hands stamp, Listen stencil, metal embellishments and ink
'J' stamp - ?

Taking a Pause

I've taken an impromptu break from blogging. We're enjoying the holidays and being with family. Another reason is I have a BUNCH of crafts/presents to finish and that's taken all of my extra time. Be prepared to be bombarded with posts after Christmas (or when I give people their gifts). I don't want to spoil any surprises by posting early. :)

Merry Christmas!!!!

Jumbo Cards

My mom's friend asked me to make three cards for the owners of the clinic she works for. But she had requirements. They needed to be 8.5x11 in size, not 'cutesy', and Christian-inspired.

I glued the top inch of two sheets of cardstock together and scored to make the cards as big as possible.

Winter Frolic
DCWV & scraps


Winter Frolic
DCWV


Wedding Solutions

It took a little bit to find ideas that weren't cutesy but I loved how they turned out.

Black Friday Haul

Me, Carver, Mom and Charlie all woke up at 4:00am, loaded up, got coffee from our lovely Kolette (Kolettey's Koffee) who opened just for us :), and headed down to Yakima.

Stop #1: WalMart
I have a very strong dislike for this store but when they're the only ones that carry Cricut Lite cartridges, what's a girl to do? They only had the 7 new lite cartridges which kinda bummed me but I got the Jolly Holiday cartridge and already have a project in mind for it. I also got two movies for $1.96 a piece! Mom found a Mickey Mouse movie that will go in Carver's stocking.

Stop #2: Target
I LOVE this store!!!! But they lines were ridiculous! They wound from the registers to electronics, back down to seasonal, then along the back wall to sporting goods, up that aisle to the main back aisle back to seasonal, and then back towards electronics. But I have to hand it to the employees. They had us clipping along pretty fast. Here's what I got:

* Queen size air mattress for Jena - $12
* Two flannel plaid shirts for Carver - $5/ea
* 2 sets - 2pk Sleepers for Carver - $12/ea ($6/sleeper)
* 5 movies - $3.99-$5.99/ea
* Flannel plaid shirt for me - $7.50

The only things I wasn't able to get were the scarves ($5/ea) and a new hair straightener ($14) but we might go back today.

Stop #3: Starbucks
Needed another coffee and Carver needed some breakfast. He loves their oatmeal. :)

Stop #4: Michaels
I got 3 photo boxes. They were 3 for $5 when they're regularly $4.50/ea. Score! I also got two cricut cartridges - Everyday Paper Dolls for $28 and Simply Charmed for $37. I needed a bigger acrylic block for stamping so I got that too. I want to go there again today if we go because all of their Disney cartridges are $25 today.

Stop #5: The Childrens Place
I wanted to see if they had anymore hats (no such luck). I got three thermal shirts ($4.90/ea), a sweatshirt ($7) and matching half zip sweaters for Carver and Tyler for $13/ea. That was probably the worst place out of everywhere we went. It was FREEZING in there and they only had two registers going so the line was barely moving.

Stop #6: Borders
Mom wanted a book. I found Curious George 2 for $5 and a Mickey Mouse cd for $6 after I used my 40% off coupon

Stop #7: Fred Meyer in Ellensburg
We got there just as the sale was ending but mom got in line real quick so she got some socks at half off. Chris was already there when we got there and he got a bunch of tools for half off! :)

What deals did you get???

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #4

OOPS!!!!! I totally forgot to post this morning. Maybe it was because we (me, Carver, mom and Charlie) woke up at 4:00 am to go shopping. We had a BLAST and I got almost everything on my list!

I don't have any pictures this week for my challenge. Let me explain... Our power went out on Monday after a big storm and just came back sometime today (we're out of town). So since the power was out you'd think that I'd have a lot of time to craft since all my distractions were taken away. Wrong. I wanted to craft... but I wanted to use my cricut. So instead, I cleared a bunch of stuff off my desk and put it in it's home. It wasn't anything that was worth taking a picture of. It was stuff like...

• Putting new ribbon in my ribbon holder
• Putting all the things I'm going to need for a couple projects into bins so that it's all in one place
• Putting away the embossing folders I got awhile ago from Oh My Crafts (see this post)
• Since I couldn't post the pictures from the baby shower and Sarah's welcome home card, I wrote down all the details so I could post from my Mom's house.
• Coupons tend to take up residence on the corner of my desk until I can get them into my coupon organizer so I caught up on that (that hadn't been done in forever!!)

I think that's it. I had the great idea to glue some ribbon to the front of a shelf in the laundry room since I couldn't use my cricut... until I remembered that you have to plug a hot glue gun in. DUH! It was very frustrating. Especially when you've got your creative juices going. haha I'll definitely be crafting when we get home on Sunday.

I'm pretty sure that Lorie forgot, like me. But if YOU remembered, leave a link in a comment. We'd love to see what you've cleared off your desk. :)

Welcome Home!

My brother's girlfriend has been in Africa on a mission for the last 3 months and just came home. A bunch of people gave cards to put all over her room for when she came home. Here's the card I made. I found the directions on THIS post by Creations by Christie. It's made from one 12x12 sheet of paper and this one holds 3 tags.

Tag #1 - from me!

Tag #2 - From Carver. He drew a picture on the back (the back is white)

Tag #3 - from Chris. This page didn't have a design so I put rhinestones and stickles on some of the dots.

12x12 Paper - Target dollar section
Ribbon - JoAnns
Pink/Blue/Purple paper - scraps
Flowers - Accent Essentials at 2.5, 2 and 1.5"
Baby Blue stickles
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