Christmas Card layout

Burlap&Buttercus has a January Sketch challenge with a twist going on this month. I was inspred to finish my christmas layout for the family album. What we had to do was to use the sketch and add distressing to it. 

Here is my take on it:

the supplies are stampin up cardstock and red pattern paper, the blue with red dots and blue strip came from the my stash (no clue what brand it was).  I add the snowflake with button and twine, the stickers came from stash as well. I inked all the edge to distress them.  thanks for looking.

I will have another layout tomorrow for Shimelle's January project for and Now for Something copletely Different..

Happy New Year!

Good afternoon, everyone! We had a great time last night. We went down to my bf's mother for the night. We went to a party which the kids love especially Caleb who is only 4 months old and flirting with every ladies there. lol Amber love the dog, Max that was there. However, we didn't make it to midnight. We all crash by 1030pm. lol Oh, well. We arrived home from his mom and just been relaxing. Right now, I'm reading the blogs on my dashboard and catching up. My one goal for blog is to do a post everyday on anything. lol I'll try not to bore anyone. As one of my resolutions: to enter more challenges to use up my stashes. First one is Scrapbook and Cards Today: I have heard about Project 12 this past year but wasn't able to play as I didn't heard about it until November 2010 so i decide to wait until the new year to play along. They just post their Project 12--January 2011 sketch due Jan 28th. Here is link if you interest in it: http://scrapbookandcardstodaymag.typepad.com/scrapbook_cards_today_blo/2011/01/november-reveal-and-new-january-2011-sketch.html

I'm going to work on this. I haven't decide on pictures yet.

Second challenge is the Jitterbuginn' once they posted on Jan 5th! That is two challenge I chose to focus on this month.

On Two Peas, Cristi is doing a thread on New Year Scrappy Goals as support group. I am following along as well.

Out of 10 goals I have decided to do for the year, I have chosen four goals to work on for month of January:

Four goals for month January I want to accomplish this month: 1. Reorganize my scrap room and purge things i won't use 2. Finish all the unfinished layouts I have in a pile that need journals or pictures 3. Finish my Dec Daily--just need to get pictures and journals printed out 4. Upload pictures to shutterfly and get them print for Dec Daily and unfinished layouts I'm also going to work on my Dec Daily tonight--get my journals done and printed them out then tomorrow is to get pictures onto 8 x 10 to save on cost. so I'm going to work it out on Pisca for this as collage. Then on Monday I will order the pictures and get it done. I'm excite to do this month as I do have alot to accomplish but I will be taking ministep so I don't burn myself out. Thank for reading!

Challenges I'm try out today:

I've combine two challenges together to make this card:

First challenge is color challenge by Paper Therapy

http://papertherapy.yuku.com/topic/1937/t/Challenge-3-WINNER-ANNOUNCED.html using basic black, pumpkin pie, so saffon, and green galore (Stampin up colors). The second challenge is the Jitterbuggin' Sketch 21 the Pumpkin Patch

Supplies I used:

K & Co black cardstock for card base

cuttlebug folder for embossing

Pumpkin paper pattern and green with dark green dot--from stash i had for over ten years. lol It was from Wal-Mart that sells halloween pack at one time.

Pumpkin-doodlecharm cartridge

Mulberry orange paper from stash

Yellowish-gold paper from Stampin up stash

crown and bats-glitter paper from Wal-Mart

Happy Hauntings--from paper stash.

forget to add: Java Walnut Ink to pumpkin pie cardstock.

bat punch came from punch i had for couple of year-it has cat, candy, a leaf, and bat all in one punch

I had fun creating this. Currently, I'm still working on my recipe swaps. Yesterday I try to cut out stuffs from my cricut bug but it was giving me problems. Every once in while, it will act up then next i go to use it it is fine. lol Anyway, I'm hoping to either work on it today or tomorrow depending on kids. Thanks for reading.