12th day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

I will be honest Frosted Designs 12th Day of Christmas to use 12 brads on my layout was a bit of challenge.  I had not idea how to use brads on a layout especially 12!!  I found this cool paper by We R Memories in my stash.  It had little circles at the top, so I decided to put the brads in the circle and change up the colors.  You will have to click on the picture to see the little brads, but there are 12 brads on there!!  I did it!  I ended up making 20 pages with this challenge!  Thanks Frosted Design, you gave me the inspiration to finish my 2010 album! 

11th day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

 On Frosted Designs 11 Day of Christmas use 11 banner flags!  I decided to make lights as my banner flags, and stickled in the letters with silver.  It says "Up 2 Snow Good".  This is my cat Bonnie, peaking out at the snow, and possibly looking for Santa Claus.  My cats love Christmas.  They like the tree, presents, paper and bows. 

10th Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

On Frosted Designs 10 Days of Christmas, what do you think you had to use? Yes, 10 buttons!  I made a tree using the Cricuit, decorated with some stickles, and used buttons at the ornaments and tiny pictures as the presents!

9th Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

Frosted Designs 9th Day of Christmas is to use 9 pearls or sparkles.  I love sparkles, so I used 9 pink sparkles on my layout to match the paper!  I just love some of these expressions from 2010 for Christmas.  Again, I have loved this challenge because I have created so many pages and what great motivation!

8th Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

Frosted Design the 8th Day of Christmas requires you to use 8 brands/products in your layout.  I thought this would be the hardest challenge, but it came together rather well!

1. Stampin Up Background Paper
2. DCWJ Paper for Trees
3. Close to My Heart Mat Paper for Picture
4. Michaels Dollar Bin Tag
5. Deck the Halls Stickers
6. Ribbon
7. Brads
8. Button

7th Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

You did not miss the 6th day of Christmas which required the use of Washi tape.  I do not own Washi tape, so I skipped this challenge and moved on to the Frosted Designs 7th Day of Christmas.  I love this challenge!!!  We actually had a white Christmas in 2010, and took pictures out on my mother-in-law's deck so this challenge of using 7 sparkly snowflakes was fun!  I made them sparkle with Stickles Silver and Frosted Design!

I am also entering this into the Little Scraps Pieces: Fun Friday "Winter" Challenge.

5th Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

On the 5th day of Christmas over at Frosted Design, you had to use 5 gold things on your project!  Can you spot them?  Gold Matting for the pictures, gold in the present runner, gold rhinestones, gold stocking with teddy bear, and yes, gold around the stocking brad....

4th Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

Frosted Design 4th day of Christmas requires four patterns of paper to be used in your layout.  It was fun to create a very busy layout with bright colors!  Yes, I skipped the 3rd day of Christmas because I just could not think of something creative, so you did not miss it!

2nd Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

Frosted Designs 2nd day of Christmas requires the use of two stamped images in your layout.  I used two tags as my journal space and stamped a Christmas Tree and Present as my two images.  This project has been really fun, and if your ambitious, you should try to play along.  Not only did I get one page done for each challenge, I went ahead and finished the second page to match!

1st Day of Christmas - December 31, 2012

I decided on December 29th to play along with Frosted Designs 12 days of Christmas. You had to complete 10 out of the 12 days, and that is exactly what I did.  This is the 1st Day of Christmas which requires you to use a bird in your layout.  My bird is on the ornament - a Partridge in a pair tree!

Christmas Card 2012 - December 27, 2012

Finally, I have my Christmas Card for 2012 posted.  I barely made my Christmas cards this year because I suffered from a kidney stone and had surgery, plus again I waited to late to start my cards.  My goal is to get my Christmas cards made by July this year.  Let's see what happens!! 

I used a Stampin Up embossing folder for the background.  Joys of the Season cartridge to cute out the poinsettia, and stickles to enhance it!  I pulled out the Merry Christmas stamp from an old Stampin up set from 2002 and some decorative ribbon stashed in my box.  I made about 40 cards this year.  Thanks for stopping by....looking forward to a new year!!

December Stamp Set of the Month

Check out this cute Stamp of the Month set.  It will be great to use in the upcoming year on those special cards and scrapbook layouts.  I could even see using it as an accent for Project Life!!!

With a $50 purchase, you can receive this stamp set for only $5.00!!!!  Why wait.... start shopping!!!