Christmas Page and Cosmo Sketch

I survived a weekend of party after party. My little one had a slumber party Friday and Saturday was recovery day. Sunday was the Super Bowl party (even if it was a small one) and then Monday was my little one's actual birthday. I don't think I want to see cake for a long time. (and I love cake!)

I've been loving the extra push I've gotten to get pages done by participating in Cosmo Cricket's sketches. Here's the most recent one.



And here's my take. A couple of Christmas's ago (yes, I'm behind on my scrapping my holiday pics!) my son and daughter decorated Christmas plates. This one shows her plate and the cookies she set out for Santa. I used Cosmo Cricket's "Jolly By Golly" collection on this page.







We have two more celebrations this week! Our anniversary is Friday (22 years!) and then Sunday is Valentine's Day. Again - no more cake, please! If my blog isn't updated until next week, you will know why. Enjoy the rest of your week and thanks for stopping by.


~melanie~

Oh What Fun! With Cosmo Cricket

The team at Pursuit of Craftyness has been having a blast playing with Cosmo Cricket's Jolly by Golly collection. Cosmo Cricket sent us complete collections and I've had so much fun playing with it the past few weeks.

Here is one of the layouts I created with the collection. My daughter was Emily Elizabeth (Clifford the Big Red Dog's owner) in our church's version of The Grinch. There was a toy parade in the production, which included Clifford, Batman, Star Wars and Toy Story characters (to name a few). I'll have to do another scrapbook page because I couldn't get all the photos on the page. The toy parade was a big hit. Kids got so excited when their favorite character came out. What am I saying - I got excited when they came out, too!







Hop on over to the Pursuit of Craftyness blog (link at the top) for more inspiration with this collection. Have a wonderful day!


~melanie~

Playing Catch Up

I played in my scraproom this weekend. That is, after I took down Christmas decorations. After that was done I cleaned my scraproom... only to get it messy again in less than 2 hours. Oh well! That's the circle of life, huh.

I'm sooo behind on using my Studio Calico kits. I pulled out my December kit and used it on these two pages. It's a fun kit. Just what you wanted to see on a blog, huh...and yet more Christmas creations. lol.








The kit has a mixture of papers including Pink Paislee, Hambly, K&Co, Making Memories (there are more), and they always have an exclusive stamp. This month the stamp was a border stamp. I used white craft ink (Stampin' Up) and stamped on craft cardstock. I pulled a few extra supplies from my stash, too.








I'm happy to have gotten at least 2 Christmas pages done. Oh, and while digging through my work area - guess what I found. Unscrapped photos from LAST Christmas!!! LOL. Never ending cycle, huh.

And guess what today is - the kit reveal for the January Cupcardstogo Kit. I think it is scheduled for later in the evening, so hurry if you think you want one (you will!). I'll post my cards once the reveal is over. Check back soon.