Merry Christmas Santa!

Merry Christmas everyone in Blogland!! Hope you have a fun-filled day, with lots of yummy food and Christmas cheer. We will celebrate Jack's 11th birthday this morning, make a fuss, give him his birthday presents and then move onto the Christmas celebrations. We try and make it a big deal for him, as hard as it is sharing your birthday with Christ. This year will be a very quiet little family Christmas for us, and that's ok.

Here is Design Team layout I created for SCRAPPINGCLEARLY, based on the sketch for this month. Here is the sketch:



Here is my layout created using the gorgeous Heidi Swapp Christmas range- Oh What Fun!

There's a little Smooch Spritz ,(silver), behind the photo layers, I have a tiny bit left in the spray bottle and I'm making it last as long as possible!

I did some fussy cutting from the 12x12" papers. (holly) Not my usual forte, but liked the way it turned out.

Finished off with some computer journaling in red, and swiped the edges of the strips with some red chalk ink!
I have so many more Christmas photos that need scrapping, will have to make the most of the rest of these very cute papers.

Christmas tags using Heidi Swapp Oh What Fun

For my Scrappingclearly Design Team post this time, I decided to make some Christmas tags. Yes, because it is getting closer to Christmas!!! I got to work with Heidi Swapp's Oh What Fun range, with lots of cute stickers, die cuts and matching papers!!!

I made my tags from some Kraft cardstock, made the reinforcement rings from the Heidi Swapp papers, using a single hole punch and a small circle punch!

At least now I have made a start on Christmas, TFL!

Working on my December Daily album!!!

Well I had the album sorted, thanks to Heidi Swapp and her marvellous Memory File system!!! Love the BELIEVE MEMORY FILE KIT! have now printed most of the photos thanks to my little Epson Picture Mate, which I love!!!! And here's a few pics of the first couple of pages!

 Front cover!!

 Day 1. hubby puts the tree up! I cut a smaller memory file into 2 pcs. So this page folds down to reveal Day 2 below!!!

Taylah cooks and we all add our ornaments and decorations to the tree!!

 Day 3. I have stuck a smaller Memory file in backwards for variation and photos are of my daughter's last netball game for the School Competition!

 On this page I have put some photo protector sheets in with some eyelets to make more photo space!

On the facing page, I have used the photo stack from the kit and added a few embellies! The arrow is one of Heidi Swapps color magic embellishments, with Distress Ink rubbed over it.

CHRISTMAS TAGS (Sneak peek)

Well, I have been busy making up sets of tags for Christmas. There is a great little market here in Darwin in November, called the SALTWATER CRAFT FAIR. It's run by the Tactile Arts Group, and this will be my first year running a stall.
Here's a peek at some of my finished tags!

Just love having my Die Cut and Embossing machine at arm's length again!!! Have Embossed the Background shield with Stars and Dots embossing folders and stamped images and sentiments before applying a lovely layer of  Ice Stickles and Distress Stickles. I have loads of ribbon to use in Christmas colours, so am enjoying using my existing stash for these!!!!