Christmas Stitch-A-Long

Let's try this again :p

My CSAL Goal


My CSAL progress


I stitched on it all this week along with my husband's 10year anny present. We'll be married 6 years this year but it's a HUGE project. I've been watching all our movies but I'm only on the recently purchased Big Bang S2 and debating on watching the other seasons on DL or moving on to the next movie which is Big Fish. I'll post a progress picture of the Anny project when I finish the last movie starting with the letter B :D

I might stitch on the CSAL more during hockey games and during the Olympic hockey games but I put together another project for the Olympics. This way I hope it's done by Spring and I can hang it up :D

Tim Holtz Giveaway on BlueMoon

Thanks for the post Taffy! Blue Moon Scrapbooking is giving away an autographed Tim Holtz Alterations Die! I don't know that I'd ever take it out of the package!

Dirty Scraps Challenge #2 and card

I finally finished a card with a faux grid I made by scoring lines on the paper and then filing to show them up. Yes I used PINK! It's a b-day card so it's not for me ;) This was for the House Mouse Challenge.


For the #2 Dirty Scraps challenge. To scrapbook a pivotal point in your life. So I chose my parent's house. I didn't have a photo of the front so I had to get a Google Map shot! Funny enough my car is the red one in the drive way. The other photos are from my 20th B-day of my friends and one pic has Steve. The papers are Cosmo Cricket and I used thickers for my letters. Thanks to @sarahei for picking number 4 and helping me decide on the Cosmo Cricket ;) The letters are Thickers and the punch says Susan something I can't read because the clearance sticker won't come off ;) I used a Page Map from Jan 2010.

Journaling reads In the 5th grade my family decided to move from our little house on 4th ave. We went house hunting and toured several homes. The 1 I liked best had a basement room for me and lots of stairs. Mom didn't like the stairs so we moved to this home. This home decided my school zone which would have been differnt in the other home. Int he other house I may have never taken Drama or Child development. I wouldn't meet the friends tha would become C.A.S.C and take me to Laser Tag where I would meet my husband.

Sunday Scrapping

I made an easel card last night that splitcoast stampers did a tutorial on. I had to find a marker to go back and draw the bird because the stamped image didn't come out too well on the background. I love this paper and it was some of the new stuff that I bought when I was in FL for the Holidays and it was more inspiring than the random pick of This Is Not A Credit Card. I saved a few of those but besides stamping lines I haven't used them.



Then Lead Fiskater Rebecca put up this challenge on the Fiskars blog so I went looking for Christmas Inspiration and found it here at Just Christmas and Birthday Cards

This first card is for their new sketch.


and then I went down the list and made 4 more for the Fiskars Challenge I hope you like.


I didn't make the tag it was from the FiskaFriendzy tag swap so TY to the talented lady who made it there was no name on the back.
I would also like to thank the ladies who particpated in punch swaps, emobossed paper swaps and die cut swaps! The ornament embossing, square embossing, trees, snowman and dressed to chill sentiment came from them oh and the snow flakes! All that and I've barely made a dent in the Die Cut, Embossing and Swap drawer. :p







and this is my room in the aftermath

Friday Night stitching

I went out to Sit and Stitch last night and started a project. Then had to rip it out because after I stitched the middle I somehow flipped the fabric and stitched the rest of it the wrong spot. So tonight I fixed and got a little further. Hopefully I don't find anymore mistakes :p

I have a new ort container. My ferrets broke the last one :p So this one is a plastic box that used to hold Monty Python game playing cards. As no one else has cards to play with me I emptied it to be used for orts. At least this won't shatter if I leave it on the end table and the ferret climbs his way back onto the couch.

I might get together with a friend tomorrow to stitch a bit on my new project :D

Cuttlebug Challenge

The challenge over at Cuttlebug Challenge was to make a red pocket card. I found this tutorial at Splitcoaststampers and found some Cosmo Cricket Paper.
When making cards make sure you don't put the adhesive too far up ;)

I used the swiss dots cuttlebug folder on the tag and a scalloped corner rounder I had from Creative Memories. The stamps and punch are fiskars and I had happend to cut the shapes before hand and were in my stash bag :D Sticker is from Cosmo Cricket and the buttons were in my stash and was my random number item for the day :D Just happend to be putting away the paper when I saw one of the titles was camp sweet camp so I cut out the word sweet to put on the front of the card.

U&Me card

Got grungeboard again today. I think I'll start marking stuff off and if the random generator gives me something I've all ready used I'll skip it. I used my letters and punctuation. I embossed the & with Swiss Dots and inked everything in distress ink, fired brick and faded jeans. The paper is OLD Chatterbox paper that I moved from FL with that I cut and is two sided so I used the cuttlebug again with the border folders but I don't know the name of the set. The sketch I used is form the new paper crafts January/February 2010 issue.