North Pole Breakfast 2012

Today I'm going to share with you my family's second annual North Pole Breakfast. This was a big year for our breakfast because, not only did I keep up with a tradition, but our Elf on the Shelf made his grand debut.

I planned our party for the day after Thanksgiving.

Each of my kids had a festive place setting complete with fill-in-the-blank letters to Santa and special gifts. The gifts this year included a book; a coloring book, crayon and sticker set; paint with water; socks and a rubber duck (one was Santa the other a reindeer). We also received family gifts of a new Christmas movie (Prep and Landing) and Christmas Book (Oh, What a Christmas).

I made another Magic Mailbox this year. Inside was a letter from Santa reminding the kids to be good and asking them to fill out their wish lists.

 The letter also talked abut the special kisses we all received. The large candy cane kisses were from Mr. and Mrs. Claus. We then had eight brown kisses (chocolate chips) from the reindeer, one red kiss from Rudolph and three green kisses from the elves.

To eat we had Reindeer Hash (hash browns, eggs, ham and cheese in the crock pot),

Snowballs,

Santa Belly Parfaits (vanilla yogurt, strawberries, granola and sprinkles),

and Candy Cane Milk (if you leave a candy cane in milk they start to dissolve and turn the milk pink).

I also set up a hot chocolate bar. My kids had a blast with this.

To add some festive detail I made this banner. I wanted it to say "Believe" but I didn't have enough "E's"! So "Wonder" it is!!

I hope you enjoyed this look at my families North Pole Breakfast 2012!

Pause Dream Enjoy - Use Your Stash Challenge

Happy Friday! Don't you just love Fridays? 
Today is the start of a brand new challenge at
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges!

Ch#48: Forgotten Stash

Create any type of project using some of your Forgotten Stash.

I just love these use your stash challenges because I find so many things that I forgot I had! When coming up with a project for this challenge I found this Halloween kit that I bought at ScrapFest last year! Here is what I made with it.

Starts: Friday, November 30rd 12:00 am EST

Ends: Thursday, December 6th, Noon EST

Winner (chosen by random.org) Announced: Thursday, December 6th late afternoon

Our Sponsor this challenge is

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Here's my project I created for this challenge:

Stitched Card Blog Hop

Weren't the last three cards you saw just beautiful!! Those girls sure are talented.

If you're coming to me from Rebecca, then you're on the right track. If you've just stopped by and would like to see what everyone has created then hop over to Ashley. She also has all the details on how you can win a $20 Gift Card to Michael's or JoAnn's!

Here is my clean and simple winter card.

I used the Winterland collection from Fancy Pants along with some Basic Grey stickers and Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink and marker.

Your next stop will be

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Celebrate The Occasion - Thanksgiving (w/ 3 buttons)

This weeks challenge at CTO is to create a project with a Thanksgiving theme and three buttons. Before I show you my project I ask you to ignore the background and the fact that the bottle is almost gone! I forgot to take a picture before we indulged!

So here it is:

I used a Sizzix embossing folder on the brown layer which I then rubbed with my embossing ink pad and coated in antique gold embossing powder. The same powder was used with the CTMH "Thanks" stamp. My wine tag was then embellished with my required 3 buttons and some crinkle ribbon.

Come show us your Thanksgiving projects at Celebrate The Occasion.

Red Carpet Studio - Pet/Animal Layout Challenge

This weeks Red Carpet Studio Challenge is inspired by all those lovable movie pets. From Babe to Toto animals have been in movies as long as there has been movies.

This week we challenge you to make a layout featuring a pet or any other animal. I took this opportunity to scrap another Animal Kingdom photo. As with all of my Animal Kingdom layouts I used Bo Bunny's Zoology line.

Pause Dream Enjoy - Thank You Challenge

Happy Friday! Don't you just love Fridays? 
Today is the start of a brand new challenge at
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges!

Ch#46: Thank You Projects

Create a THANK YOU Project.

For my project I made a stand-up pop-up card using this SplitcoastStampers tutorial.

I used the Close To My Heart Pemberly line to create my project. The stamp is also CTMH and I used black Zing powder to emboss it.

A little corn starch on the exposed back of the sticker takes all the stickiness away.

I used crinkle ribbon and resin flowers to embellish the front of the card.

Starts: Friday, November 16th 12:00 am EST
Ends: Thursday, November 22nd, Noon EST

Winner (chosen by random.org) Announced: Thursday, November 22nd late afternoon

Our Sponsor this challenge is



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Challenges:
Use It Tuesday - Ch 43 - Be Thankful
Shopping Our Stash - Ch 77 - Thank You or Thanksgiving
   for both of these challenges I used the Pemberly pack that I bought in March but loved too much to cut - until today
Tuesday Throwdown - Ch 124 - Thankful For You
My Sheri Crafts - Ch 98 - Give Thanks

Project Featured

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that my fall pillow box is being featured on the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog today.

If you missed it here is what I created.

The details can be found in this post.

Crafty Creations Challenges - No Flowers

This week Crafty Creations is challenging you to make a project WITHOUT flowers.

This was an easy challenge for me, I'm not much of a flower person. This layout features first day of school pictures of my daughter from last year. She was quite the model!

I used the Little Girl line by Echo Park along with October Afternoon buttons, American Crafts ribbon and jewels.

Celebrate The Occasion - Up, Up and Away!

This weeks challenge at CTO is to create a project with some sort of flying aircraft on it (plane, helicopter, hot air balloon, blimp, etc.).

I went ahead and made a surprise pop-up card featuring an airplane.

My card open.

Card close.

Stamp, postmark and cancellation made using Lawn Fawn's You've Got Mail set.

The mailbox and letters are Lawn Fawn's You've Got Mail and the plane is Lawn Fawn's Bon Voyage. The boarder is a Martha Stewart punch.

The sentiment and Air Mail mark comes from Lawn Fawn's You've Got Mail. I fussy cut the green stamp to add under the slide.

Recipe:

Lawn Fawn Stamps

   You've Got Mail

   Bon Voyage

Paper

   Making Memories Passport

Ink

   Close To My Heart

      Cranberry

      Outdoor Denim

   Distress Ink

      Tea Dye

   StazOn

      Jet Black

Markers

   Distress Marker

      Barn Door

   Stamp Marker

      Denim

Misc.

   Foam Squares

   Spool 'O Ribbon

   Hole Punch

   Circle Punch

   Corner Rounder

   Wire

I used this Splitcoast stampers tutorial.

Red Carpet Studio - Clean and Simple Layout

This weeks Red Carpet Studio challenge is to create a Clean & Simple Layout. I made this layout featuring my daughter and Belle.

I love clean and simple layouts because they're so quick and easy to put together. So if you don't have much time this week but would like the chance to win a $25 gift certificate to The Paper Parade - http://www.thepaperparade.com/ you should join us!

Pause Dream Enjoy - Color Challenge

Happy Friday! Don't you just love Fridays? 
Today is the start of a brand new challenge at
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges!

Ch# 44:  Orange & Brown

Create any type of project featuring ORANGE and BROWN.

Starts: Friday, November 2nd 12:00 am EST

Ends: Thursday, November 8th, Noon EST

Winner (chosen by random.org) Announced: Thursday, November 8th late afternoon

Here is what I created for this challenge:

This card really was simple to make. The brown cardstock is Bazzill Basics, the orange is DCWV and the patterned is MME Blackbirds. The focal point is a 7gypsies sticker mounted with thick foam squares.


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