Look what Santa brought me!

Well, sort of. My mom gave me a gift card to Michael's for Christmas and this is what I bought with it. I found a 50% coupon in the Sunday paper and then used my gift card and a new scrapbooking and stamping tool sits upon my desk! It stores tons of stuff and it looks so pretty on my desk. It is also going to keep me from digging through three or four drawers looking for frequently used or usually forgotten stuff. Hopefully I'll use some of my embellishments that I've been hoarding vs. using. And it's freeing up room for new stuff in those drawers :)

I had a hella Bella good time making these cards!

Since I'm rather new to stamping, only a year into it, I'm still figuring out what brands I like, whether I like rubber stamps or the clear acrylic and just what my style is. I had a few Bella stamps that I hadn't used and wanted to work with them a little and see what I could do. I had so much fun with them! I'm thinking that they are my favorite stamps yet! (although, I do know that I have yet to try tons of different stamp companies; I'll still be buying stamps and inks and paper and embellies to try out :) I really like how girly the stamps are. Since we have a little guy my scrapping is mostly dedicated to boy-themed stuff so making girly cards is fun for me. I have some Christmas money set aside and I have a feeling I'll be getting some new Bella stamps in the near future. Bella has so many cool stamps it's going to be difficult to limit myself. And they have an adorable baby stamp that I have to try out too... if the piggy bank was bottomless I'd have more stamps than I ever knew what to do with (paper too!)

Going to a Christmas Cookie Exchange

I've been invited to a Christmas cookie exchange tomorrow night. Nine of us are getting together to exhange cookies and recipes. We're each to bring six cookies and our recipe for them. My loving to make cards I was simply not able to print a recipe on white paper and go w/that. I decided to try my first recipe card and really love how it turned out. The plates that the cookies will go on are blue and have snowmen so the penguins building a snow penguin was fitting.

Hope you like and I'm sure I'll like all the goodies that I bring home tomorrow night :)

Happy Holidays everybody!

Do you know who's coming to our house very soon?

Santa is! And Gavin is so excited! He sat on his lap yesterday and told him what he wanted under the Christmas tree. He was very specific, like we told him he needed to be. I explained to him that Santa is simply taking orders right now and letting his elves know what they need to get made and packed up for Santa to deliver. It takes being a good little boy to make sure that present is delivered.

Anyway...I wanted to post some of the Christmas cards that I made to send out this year. I didn't have a lot of time to get them done because we had a lot going on this season w/the move to SC. My favorite is my sledding penguin. I like all of them, but he's my favorite.

I'll try to post details about them in a bit, but right now I'm being summoned by my little boss. If I don't talk to you before then...Happy Holidays!