Birthday Bella & Her Wall of Memories

I love photos.  I don't know exactly when in my life I discovered my love for photos but I'm glad I did.  Capturing an image also captures that moment of time; one which will never happen again.  This is the reason so many people spend thousands of dollars on photography whether it's for a wedding, birthday or just to have family photos.  Of course this doesn't mean you only want to dwell on the past but to remember the special moments in your life and document you and the one's around you.

This is one of the reasons why I enjoy scrapbooking; I can enjoy the moment all over again when ever I want.

A lot of us have photos somewhere in the home and some even hanging on the wall, this was the inspiration of my card.  I used a couple of Stamping Bella stamps and a couple from Stampin' Up! Enjoy! 

Thanks for popping by!  Have a fabulous weekend!

Monkey Valentine

Valentine's day is around the corner and I wanted to make something special for my husband.  We usually celebrate valentines day like any other day, a homemade meal and a movie.  One year we had a couple of friends join us and I made a chocolate fondue, homemade pizza and we watched the Notebook, it was fun : )  Do you do anything special for Valentine's day?

For today's card I used the monkey from the Fox and Friends stamp set by Stampin' Up! She's doing a cartwheel on this card, showing him she's head over heals in love ~ cheesy eh? lol

Have a fantastic weekend!  Thanks for dropping by!

Relax And Rejoice Anya

As I reflect back on last year and remember the many events that happened I can't help but think a big part of my year was spent watching movies with my family and friends. My husband enjoys a good flick as much as I enjoy creating cards! He posted his top 10 movies here.

I don't have a top 10 but these are the movies I really enjoyed.

Eat Pray Love

How to Train your dragon

The Social Network

Legend of the Guardians

Do you have a favourite movie that was released last year? Or maybe a movie you're looking forward to seeing this year? I'm looking forward to seeing: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and I'm sure there's more.

Today's card makes me smile when I look at it. It's a girly girl card and it's all about me time. I hope you're all getting some me time whether it's suggling up with a book, walking your best friend, or crafting! ... it can only energize you and make you feel good.  I used another TGF stamp I purchased last fall. I hope you like it!

Have a Wonderful weekend! 
BTW, it's finally winter in Mississauga!  Bundle up if you're in the neighbourhood : )

McSplendid Farm Birthday

It's hard to believe the holidays are officially over.  I had Monday off but Jamie didn't so after meeting him for lunch at Swiss Chalet (soooo yummy!) I enjoyed the afternoon at the Dixie outlet mall.  It was perfect timing, as it was the last day for some fantastic boxing day sales!  I'm talking 80% off the regular price! I got a bag of Jacob clothing, a pair of shoes and a new cupcake punch by EK Success... wherever there's a Michaels I can't resist stopping in and picking up a little something.  It was a great last vacation day for me.  I hope you had a wonderful holiday too.

To top off my holiday's I got some awesome comments on my blog that made me smile!  Thanks for leaving some love.  If you've seen the movie "You've Got Mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan you'll understand my "happy" when I saw those comments.

I had a lot of fun with The Greeting Farm's "McSplendid Farm" set, there are a lot of animals included in this one.  I liked how the mouse was originally sitting on the cat's head but since I couldn't make the card work with the cat I moved the mouse to the cow's head... and he appears to be happy there. 

 
You'll be seeing more TGF stamps on my blog throughout the year.  I picked up a bag of them from Scrapalicious back in the fall when they were having their 12 weeks til Christmas sale.

And just because, I thought I'd share a couple more photos I took of the cards I made for my Christmas card orders.  I am working on a few more card orders which I'm excited about.  I'll be showing those to you in the next two months : )

Have an Awesome week!  And thanks for dropping by : )

Happy New Year!

It's almost time to say good-bye to 2010! I hope you're all celebrating tonight, even if it is while you are dreaming. As I reflect on this year, the biggest highlight was welcoming my Niece. I love being an Auntie and look forward to seeing her grow even more in 2011. If you have any highlights you'd like to share, I'd love to hear about it.

I've got another Christmas card today.  I know Christmas day has passed but since my Christmas tree is still up I figured the season it's entirely over yet.  I purchased this stamp from Scrapfest in Oshawa, I wrote about my visit here. I think it's fun and cute. The owner of Local King Rubber Stamp was really quick and nice in letting me know she supports an Angel policy so I'll definitely be purchasing more of her stamps in the future; thanks Lisa!

I wanted to thank you, my blogging friends for taking the time to stop by and see my cards : )  It makes me happy to know someone other then my husband is reading along.

Have a wonderful New Years Eve!

Merry Christmas!

Only two more sleeps until Christmas day!  I'm soooo excited.  I will only have to work until 1PM tomorrow, then I'm FREEEEE!!! Okay, I'll contain myself for now.  There is so much going on I'm not sure where to start.

On Tuesday afternoon this week I was sitting at my desk working when I heard a loud "KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!"  I work from home and it's not unusual to receive a package from time to time but usually I receive a phone call so that I could buzz them in the front door... I figured the knocking was for someone else.  Then I heard it again, so I decided to check it out.  At my door there was a delivery man with a medium pizza box and cookies!  I thought to myself, that's odd, I didn't order anything. 

He gave me the box an away he went.  It was a Cookie Gram!  Now who could this be from?!?  I waited until Jamie got home to open it up and low and behold, it was a Christmas gift from our loving Sister!  What a great surprise and a perfect dessert after dinner. Thank you, thank you L!!! 

The huge chocolate chip cookie is DELICIOUS!  I've been snacking away at it this week : )  The Christmas weight had to start some time ; )  Also, I don't know how the delivery man found our apartment, the building we live in has lots of twists and turns, I'm utterly impressed with his ability to find us.  Kudos to the Cookiegram Delivery Man!  I would definitely order from CookieGram.com the next time I have something to celebrate.

For today's card, I am entering it into my first card challenge at MyPinkStamper.com.  There are already 92 cute cards entered but I figured it would be fun since I needed to make a card anyways.  My Sister asked me to make her a Baby Boy card and the colours on Robyn's challenge were perfect!  All you need to do is use the colours Teal/Blue, Green and Brown.  She made a really cute scrapbook page, check it out here. 

This is also my first time for using a digital stamp.  I used BugabooStamps.com because her images are super cute and she has an Angel Policy.  Since I have an inkjet I did run into some smearing issues because I used my copics ~ she mentions this in her FAQ's.  She also has freebies which you could download and test our yourself.  All I had to do was be careful when I coloured it in.  I also printed it the night before I coloured it which seems to have helped. 

I really enjoy this card and my Sister loved it.  I couldn't help myself but make one of the ribbons a tag : )

Okay, back to Christmas-Time!  What are some of your Christmas traditions?  Jamie and I have started a tradition for us, and that's to watch all our favourite Christmas movies during the holidays. 

Currently in our collection are:
1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (Cartoon)
2. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
3. Home Alone
4. Scrooged
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas
6. Frosty The Snowman

It's always fun to grab some popcorn or make hot chocolate to go with these movies ~ we enjoy it : )

I just read over at MyPinkStamper.com that Robyn and her family each make a personal pizza.  What a fabulous idea!  I think we might need to make that one ours too since Jamie is such a pizza lover.  

Have a very Merry Christmas! 

Happy Robots

8 more days until Christmas!  I can't believe how quick the day is approaching, I'm getting excited for the 4 days off of work I get and to see my family.  Of course I'll also be thinking of the rest of my family... some of which will be in Las Vegas!  I will be missing them all this year for the holidays but luckily Jamie and I were able to send some gifts their way : )

To follow up on my previous posts, the surprise gifts I gave my friends were chocolate and candy boxes.  I bought a box of Turtles, Mini Toblerones, Werthers Caramel, Smarties and Jelly Bellys.  I wrapped them up the night before in the same wrapping paper and had each one of them pick one from the bag; it was fun for me to see them open the gifts and they were all happy for them : )

Here are photos I took of the bookmark which I created and inserted into my Sister and Brother-in-law's Christmas Cards I made them.

For today, I'm sharing with you a Robot Birthday card.  I was in Michaels one day looking at their stamps and I asked Jamie... what kind of image would a boy want on their cards?  He told me that robots would be cool and to have one of them holding the gun image.  A fantastic idea, and from that conversation, this is what I came up with : )  I used the robot clear stamp set by Recollections.  I hope you like it!



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