It's that time of the Year with Graphic 45

 

I thought we would usher in the holiday season with this layout I created for Graphic 45 using the Twas the Night Before Christmas paper collection.  I love all the layering that I created with the fussy cut items from the collection like the clocks and the holly leaves as example.  Everything just goes so well together including the picture of my little man when he was three years old.  Love those old pictures...SIGH.

 

Please be sure to go to the Graphic 45 blog today and check out Donna's post making a beautiful handmade gift with a tutorial. 

 

By the Way did you hear that Graphic 45 is doing 26 days of tutorials....OH MY!!! be sure to check them out each day until Christmas. 

Christmas Already?

The temperature is starting to drop outside, stores ares stocking fall decorations and Christmas is right around the corner.  The month over at KaiserCraft we are featuring our new holiday lines, December 25th and Silly Season.  This is a layout I did of my mother and I using the Dec 25th collection.

This is my favorite of theirs for the season as I just adore the traditional feel and the antique vibe...just up my alley. I also had to add one handmade flowers, of course.  This one was a bit different...I'm in to exploring all kinds of various handmade flowers right now if you couldn't tell. 

Don't you just love the rich colors from this line....it's just down right yummy.
Have a great weekend and I'll see you next week.

Hugs 

Christmas Pretend Layout

This is a layout I created using the Mistletoe Collection from Close To My Heart.  I stamped plain background cardstock with a sentiment to create my base page and then started layering it on.  I love the new craze of paper flowers and these rosettes are so easy to create.  The middle of my flowers were stamped and then punched out to layer on top of the rosettes.  Finally a bit of glitter glue and some of our new mocha pearls were added to the rosettes for a completed look.  All of them are 3-d foam taped down...I'm telling you I consume 3-d foam tape like water.   The star of the layout is my youngest little monkey, Cole.  Of course he's pretending and clowning around...which is does all the time.  In fact the teacher told us the other day he doesn't like group time in preschool, he would rather play.  When we asked him about it he said  he could hear the stories and play.  Oh my to keep a four year old still.