It's a very early Saturday after Thanksgiving and I just finished up a bridal shower card for this afternoon. I think it turned out beautiful! Thanksgiving in our house was a little delayed due to a turkey that refused to cook! Of course, once it saw the erroe of it's ways, it was delicious. Had just a couple people over but it's was just a thankful time spent with family. I really love my family and spending time with them. There have been many changes this week. A new cousin born Wednesday, triplets came Thursday (along with the bride to be!), sister-in-law flew in from Texas Friday, and don't forget the Black Friday shopping! I did not get up early, just couldn't do it, but we did venture out this afternoon and made it home about 10:00. I made a huge dent in my shopping. Yayyyy! Now the wrapping. Ugh! On to the card. I used my Cricut and cut the frame using the Fancy Frames cartridge I won from www.Joyslife.com last summer and the Victorian Romance cartridge for the dress. I used my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug to emboss the mat behind the dress. I added a metal charm from my stash tied up with some ribbon from Michael's.

The hubs and boy were gone again this weekend with their boy scout troop so I spent ALOT of time in my craft room! I worked on a few swaps and decided that my Christmas cards would not make themselves and there was no better time than the present. So I got busy. First I made a box to put them in...

And then I made this card to match the box...

Then I moved on to a couple cards with non-traditional Christmas colors......

And another non-traditional color mix

Now the next two cards are almost identical but I wasn't sure what color to make the star...What do you think?

And last but not least......

I am far from being down but I'm super excited to have gotten a jump on my cards! Let me know what you think :)

Well, I'm back! I had a great weekend at a crop over the weekend in Ohio. Geneva-On-The-Lake Ohio is just a nice, relaxing place to visit and scrapbook. I finished 12 pages, made a half dozen or so gift card holders and snuck in a trip to Pat Catans while I was there! we stayed at The Lodge and let me just say, WOW. I didn't spend much time in my room but when I did it was great having my own Keurig so I could have a yummy cup of coffee when I wanted one. My aunt came with me and I do think she had just as much fun as me. I'll only post a few pics of the pages I finished and then I have a pic of the wreath I made for my son's teacher for Thanksgiving. He attends a small catholic school so I didn't do anything for Halloween so I wanted to have a mice greeting on the door for the last few weeks leading up to Thanksgiving.

I love making anything paper related, I never considered myself a scrapbooker but I really did enjoy the whole process. I need to add some maybe an embellishment or two but overall I'm pleased with how they all turned out. Thanks for looking :)