My Christmas cards this year!

I made a batch of 5 of the same kind, from this VIDEO on the Christmas with the Cricut blog!

I used Heidi Grace papers and cut the card base slightly smaller, 4 x 11, instead of 4 1/4 x 11, so I could get 3 on a 12x12 sheet. I used the Christmas Cheer cart and cut the snowflake at 3 1/2 inches. The sentiment stamps are Hero Arts, and the snowflake stamps are Inkadinkado.























This one I made from scraps from the other cards, and it is just lying on the background snowflake paper. This tree is also cut from the Christmas Cheer cart, at 6 inches.

Family haircut day...

My guys were super shaggy today so I had to cut some hair in the kitchen, which I only do if I HAVE to! I was in the middle of cutting Kasoma's hair, Adrian asked me if she could have one too.

She just turned 5 about 2 weeks ago and I have never snipped a single hair on her head! After I was done with Kasoma, I cut Aaron's hair too since school starts the day after tomorrow. She asked again if she could have a haircut. Well, not really, she said "I'm getting a haircut too!!" I didn't really plan on it, but I gave her a little-bitty trim :) I didn't want to cut her baby curls off quite yet!


So here she is before...




Snip, snip!

More Halloween cards

These were fun!! I got some new goodies from Michael's yesterday, and shut myself away for a few hours this morning, ahhhh....

So all these papers except for the black cardstock were from a 4x6 stack from Michael's, called Recollections, sorry I can't find a pic of it anywhere. It says 'distributed by Michael's' on the back, which I have seen on a few other things I have bought recently. I also got the Martha Stewart spider web border and corner punches, though I tried mightily to resist!! All the scallop ovals and rectangles are cut using my Nestabilities and my Cuttlebug, except for one which I used a punch set from Marvy. The bling is misc from the Target $1 spot. Oh, and I also went a little crazy with Stickles :) All the stamping was done with Jet Black Staz-On ink.

This stamp set is by Autumn Leaves and I have had it for several years.




I showed such restraint at my LSS and ony bought FOUR pieces of paper, can you believe it?? I got this spider one, another Halloween one and two Christmas ones which I will share later... Thhis also has a bat border punch I got on clearance at M's!




This mummy is a M's wooden $1 stamp and the sentiment is from here...



Another $1 wooden stamp




That Autumn Leaves set again...



More $1 wooden stamps...




Autumn Leaves again..




The spider is from that Inkadinkado set..




The sentiment is another $1 wooden stamp...



Thanks for looking!

A Christmas page...

The journaling is hidden on the tag at the bottom.

"We all dream of the 'right' photo for the holidays, of course, don't we? I know I do! Well, this years pic was not what I imagined. It was getting late in the year and we still had no photo. Kasoma hadn't had a haircut in ages and the kids didn't have their new holiday outfits yet either. On this night, the kids had just taken a bath and put on their jammies. We were almost ready for bed time... Hmmmm.... their faces were clean, hair and teeth brushed.. I had worked that day so my hair was fixed too... So at the last minute I grabbed a sheet and hung it up in the kitchen and used the self-timer on my camera. No, I wouldn't have chosen that t-shirt for my husband, but we are all smiling and our eyes are open, so mission accomplished!"