3 Jingle balls

How many balls do you have up in the air at once? These cute little snowballs are even stackable. Looks like they are whistling a happy holiday tone too! Last years idea, this years card, nobody to sell it to! Same ole story!! Stay tuned, our holiday Christmas letter saved a tree and I wrote it on another blog spot... details to come!

Quite the foggy dreary day today! But, the Packers did WIN big over the Bears yesterday and we did go to a neighbors house to watch the game. Us in green and gold, them in blue and orange.... suckas!!!!!! Last week of school for the kids.... and me! It shall be interesting to see how the week ends with this temp job I'm working at. Last but not least. Tucker will spend the holidays with us and then we will be returning him to the rescue. I'll mention more, later.

Snowball fight!!

Tag, your it! Love this snow guy... actually snowballs. So adorable. The saying is from TAC, thought it was kind of appropriate... snowflakes don't linger.... they become blankets of snow over the scenery, or they become compacted ice under your tires, or they become cute snowmen, or wicked snowballs.... which helps them to linger a bit longer!!!

Be forewarned, winter snow advisories have been out for 24 hours, it's the biggest snow of the season, we're going to get inches and feet of snow. I'll let you know how it turns out tomorrow. The panic of breaking news that it is snowing in December in the mid-west. Go figure!

What can yellow do for you?

Here's a bright and shiny snowman decked all out in nontraditional yellow. He is an image from last year, but using copic markers and a shading technique I learned, I think he looks more 3-D. Now what I mean by an image from last year.... I probably got tired of making holiday cards, but I still liked all the cute images out there, so I made tons of extra 2"x3" doodles and drawings of other people's cute stuff, put it in my Christmas bin of merry-ment, to now be surprised and use them on card fronts. Simple as finding the right layout!

It snowed a flurry or two again last night. So far, this kind of winter I can handle. I even got a little Christmas shopping done over the weekend. Feeling a bit productive... oh yay! also got the tree up, and the stockings are hung by the chimney with care too!! Happy Day.

Stuff your stockings

Would he melt in your Christmas stocking, melt in your mouth, melt in your arms? Another snow man! Go figure! I got a million of em folks!!! There's no man like a snow man!
The only embellishment is the snowflake button.

We have a nice blanket of snow on the grass, it's about 22 degrees out.... brrrr... sipping some Chai Tea. Can it get any better than this, on a Saturday monring? I think not! Enjoy your day!

A cupo' joe in the s'no

I'm like butta.... I'm on a roll, with snowman that is. Here is another cute guy with some holly & berries on his hat and a few marshmellows in his drink. I just took scraps and layered them out in a sort of order and stitched them to the background paper... to give it an eclectic feel. Added some white gel dots and circles and lines to draw interest to the corners. Kim did you get your snow? We have a nice icy layer everywhere.

OMG, TGIF!!! This week seemed soooooooooooooooo long. Now I'm worried about getting decorations up, and finding stocking stufferes, and getting cards out.... oh yeah, although I'm outta the house now 40+ hours, whose going to be my cleaning lady???? Furry dog bunnies in the corner, half laundry folded, dishes in the sink.... I'm not cut out for full time (not even) work.... it's too much work to have both jobs!!! Thank you, I will step down now!!!

Never tire of snowmen

I probably should have a separte post just for all the different kinds of snowmen I've found to re-create over the years. This cute guy was in last years stash as well. I had made the swirled background card stock, but couldn't find a use for it... then this guy fit right in the middle, I added a few snowflakes, white gel pen, oh.... maybe a little glitter glue?? Can't remember.... and voila!!! Many of these cards don't have a sentiment, so I can add it when I send it out to that someone special who needs a party on a card.

I was thinking... right now I'm temping at a gift card company.... my creative greetings !! are a card that is the gift!! Yeh, yeh.... not too funny this morning.... over cast and cloudy, nothing to laugh at. Hi ho.... it's off to work I go!

How about a warm mug and a howdy?

This is an image from my bin (last years stuff) that I added a few more pines to the hedge hog's spine to fill him out a bit.... I guess my coloring in last year was slacking.... they look much better now. Nothing too hard here. A fun warm greeting card. Just going through my stash of cards, that are for sale by the way. $2 each. They look like they are having a great conversation, don't you think??

I'm off to the high school.... seems Sissy forgot to bring her reading book to school. Mmmmm, will she remember these nice things her mommy did for her? Then off to work stuffing envelopes with $5 pizza hut cards!!! Happy Day!

Dingle-Dangle

A happy little snowman for the first of Decmeber, snowflakes and all. Just showing off today, computer problems again, busy day at my temp. job, good chicken shish k bobs for dinner. Wishing for happy sunny days, ahead!!

In the pink!

Who says the traditional colors of Christmas are green & red? Why can't they be pink? Wouldn't this little snowgal with her pink tassled hat be a welcome surprise in your mailbox? I found a little box of images that I drew last year and decided to just plop them on a few cards and see what I could come up with! Ta-da!!!

Yay! Bubba is home safe and sound. He was at a hockey tournament all weekend in Columbus Ohio.... we didn't chaperone, nor did we attend. It was nice to get him back last night at 10pm. His high school club team were the champs of the tournament, coming home with a nice trophy (that I didn't get to see). Sunny and cold today, it's warmed up to 25 for our frosty walk this morning, the boys were in quite a fiesty mood. Yes, we still have Tucker, we're slow ... he has been the perfect (well) doggie the past week, at times so adorably sweet! Why does he have to turn into Kujo??

Are you juggling a few too many balls?

Yippee! Look at him having fun tossing up those snowballs! It's that time of year where the rush seems to be here... everyone in a hurry, things to do, people to see, food, greetings and lots of craziness. Take some time to soak it all in, and enjoy!! Martha Stewart snowflake punch.

Went to see the Sandra Bullock movie Blindside yesterday. Very good, I highly recommend it. Painted the half bath yesterday. Think it needs another coat, so I will do that today. Lit the outside lights. Need to get a few more strands, we're like the Griswolds. Bubba is in Ohio for a Turkey Hockey Tourney. He's called us a few times and they played two games, won both easily. The sun is shining, it's a great day!!!

A blast from the past

Happy Friday!!! With birds chirping outside my kitchen window, I saw this card from my inventory of pics and thought it would be appropriate. Working this week has put me behind, I've not taken pictures of any of my new creations, I haven't cleaned out my old files, I haven't cleaned the dust bunnies behind the antique sewing machine. Like I said, this work stuff outside the home is kind of a bummer ( I have yet to put in my time card to receive a paycheck too!!) Well they did ask me back for another day.... so all of that stuff will be put on hold, again!!!

Cool thing: Bubba is on a field trip to downtown Chicago! His 2nd year Chinese class is going to Chinatown, exploring for a bit (they have to take 2 pictures to share) and then they are going to lunch and back home. I told Bubba to look for a cool Chinese Christmas ornament, we'll see if he meets the challenge!!!

Frosty the snowman

What I like about spring and summer is the wide variety of cards I can create, butterflies and flowers, little kids and ice cream cones, purses and shoes.... boom, once the fun of Halloween is over, card makers move on to the holidays and SNOW! That's a four letter word I no longer like! Humbug!!!

Although I do love a cute snowman!!!! Like the saying where 'some assembly required'.... but then along with snow means the holidays, the holidays mean there are countdown calendars every where telling me how many shopping days left! Yikes, then that becomes really scary. Sissy asked me the other day if we could go shopping on Black Friday.... gulp! I'm not a black friday shopper, never was, dont want to be...there is nothing I really need/want that I would be out there with all the crazies!!! How to I tell her gently, she needs to go and find a friend, and her mother can take them, just be careful and I'm only giving you $20!~

Hand drawn snowman.... I guess he looks like he is floating in a sea of snow, cuttlebug embossing folder and Martha Stewart snowflakes!!!

Snowman cupcake

Yikes! I was MIA yesterday. I was shoveling out the end of the driveway after the snow plow had come through, it was heavy, heavy stuff.... took longer than I expected and then in the 8 degree weather I was sweatin' like a pig... excuse my expression.... so I had to book it to work with out posting.

But hopefully, this cute little cupcake snowman will make up for it. I'm not sure who original stamp this is... but of course you know I was inspired to create him. His top hat is popped up. Stickles line his bottom to create the illusion of snow. Cuttlebugged the background with the snowflake embossing folder. I still really like making cards look old, and love edging the corners with the brown. I just like all the elements of this card, love the checker board background paper, that's as much as I could find in my scrap bin! Fun, fun, fun! Have a great day!

Jingle Balls

Yay me! With a little help from dear hubby who is in Toledo Ohio chaperoning 2 boys from the 20 boy JV hockey team.... I tossed my cookies and was able to finally upload a picture!!!

Jingle bells ~inspired~ by whipper snapper designs! Cute little guys for a fun holiday hello!!! Dot to dots of hundreds of dots