Trendy Twine Guest Designer

HELLO and Happy New Years Eve Eve! I'm excited to share with you a project I made for Trendy Twine. When they asked me to be a guest designer I was so excited and I accepted immediately!!! I absolutely LOVE this twine and the colors that are available are fun and unique.

With New Years right around the corner, I decided to make some party poppers. And since I am expecting my own baby new year I decided to use the Blue Berry and Strawberry Cupcake Trendy twine for a theme of Pink and Blue. My family will have fun opening up these poppers to find Happy New Year necklaces and Hershey Kisses for a midnight treat.

For the pink popper I used a half of a toilet paper roll, pink shimmer tissue paper, Blue Berry twine, My Creative Time's: fancy label die and the "Cheers" stamp from the Small Talk stamp set, Peachy Keen's New Years Faces stamp and Stickles.

For the blue popper I used a half of a toilet paper roll, blue glitter tissue paper, Strawberry Cupcake twine, My Creative Time's: fancy label die and the "Happy New Year" stamp from the Small Talk stamp set, Peachy Keen stamps and Stickles. 

I hope you enjoyed my New Years project today. Please stop by Trendy Twines blog to see all the amazing projects they have there. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Die Cuttin Diva Challenge #45

Hello and Happy DCD Challenge Tuesday!

Today is bittersweet because this will be my last challenge as a design team member of the Die Cuttin Divas blog. I have truly enjoyed being on this team and look forward to participating in upcoming challenges. I want to thank the design team for all their inspiration, support and friendship.  I know you all will ROCK 2012 and can't wait to see what you have in store for all of us.

This last challenge for 2011 is a Holiday Decor Challenge. 

So, Create any Holiday Celebration idea...wall hangings, centerpieces, ornaments, layouts, gift boxes/bags, etc. I made these Star centerpieces for the Teachers Christmas luncheon at my daughters school. The star is cut from Stand and Salute and the Wreath from Trim the Tree.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today, I hope you'll join the DCD Design Team for this weeks challenge and all the new challenges in 2012. Thank you again Divas for letting me play along with all of you. Have a great New Year! Hugs, Yvonne

Christmas Treats

This is what I'm doing late at night while the family is sleeping. 

Ornaments for Teachers

I used my Favorite stamps from My Creative Time 

and Trendy Twines Peppermint Twist twine.

Lollipops for the kids

I used My Creative Time's Dies and stamp, Peachy Keen Faces stamps and more Peppermint Twist Trendy Twine

The things we do for our children and the wonderful teachers that guide them. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Snowman Christmas Tree

I was inspired by a pin on Pinterest to make this adorable snowman tree. Isn't he just the cutest thing?

He stands 3 feet tall and is made from a prelite white tree, glass ornaments filled by my Children with curled black cardstock paper make his buttons, Glittered branches for his arms, 2 My Creative Time Stitched Lollippop holders make his bow tie and the cutest snowman head my Mother in Law found at Big Lots.

I love his smile!

This is a close up of the bow tie I made from 2 My Creative Time Stitched Lollipop holder dies. I may add white stitching to it but I couldn't wait to see it on and share it with all of you! I hope you love my tree as much as we do. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a very Merry Day!

Die Cuttin Diva Challenge #44

Hello and Happy DCD Tuesday!

Welcome to our TAGS, TAGS, TAGS challenge week. This week the designers are featuring Whimsie Doodles Tis' the Seasons digis and have created the most AMAZING tags with them. Please link up your projects Here at the DCD BLOG.

For my tags I used My Creative Time XL Lable die and Giftcard Holder Die and Trendy Twines NEW Christmas twine colors.

I also used the Gingerbread man Digi from Whimsie Doodles. This is my first time coloring a digi and I know there's a lot for me to learn. I hope you enjoy my tags and all the tags from the rest of the design team. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Advent Activity Calendar

Welcome to the First day of December and the official start to the Holidays, at least for my family! 

This year to kick off the season I decided to make an advent calendar; however, since I have 3 children and I didn't want them fighting over the sweet treat for each day, I made our calendar an activity based project. I found a few examples on Pinterest and then came up with the following list of things to do with the kiddos.

List of Festive Family Activities:

Decorate for Christmas 

Write a letter to Santa 

Take a Family Christmas picture 

Read a Christmas Story at bedtime 

Do something nice for a sibling 

Make paper snowflakes 

Sing Christmas songs all day 

Donate toy you don’t play with anymore 

Make a craft with Mom 

Cook dinner together as a family 

Family Christmas movie night 

Make snowman soup 

Make Christmas cards for your Grandparents 

Eat Dessert first at dinnertime 

Spread holiday cheer to friends 

Make a gift for someone special 

Bake and Decorate cookies 

Color Christmas pictures 

Have a campout by the Christmas tree 

Have lunch somewhere special 

See some snow with family 

Drive around and look at Holiday lights 

Sing and dance to Christmas Carols 

Wear new Christmas pajamas to bed 

Spend the day with family, Merry Christmas!!

I then made 25 envelopes, matting them and adding a date label.

I then made a box to hold all the envelopes and decorated it with coordinating supplies.

The daily cards followed next with their own matting but these are not dated so they can be mixed up or change over the years if need be. 

I am so very happy with how this project turned out. It's going to be fun to see how the kids react to the daily activities we have planned. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!