Kids Christmas Party #4

This is the rest of the outdoor party of the party!

Kids Christmas Party #3

The girls looked so amazing, it was like they were having a little prom!

Kids Christmas Party #2

These layouts are about the boy’s portion of our Kids Christmas party. They had an outdoor party with hockey and a bonfire.

Oh so Frustrated....Kids Christmas party #1

As you may know by now if your a follower .....I am a fan bar none of Creative Memories Story Book Creator to do my digital projects.....Well a couple of weeks before Christmas my best friend Char and I sat down and installed the newest upgrade 4.0, it seemed to install ok and then well it was Christmas so......lots of picture taking and no scrapbooking....but now it’s a muggy 5 degrees up here in Ontario Canada....yippee it should be -10 or lower so I am a happy girl.....but that means its finally time to hide in my scrapbooking room and get to work. Last night I got my computer and my external hard drive where I keep all my scrapbooking programs and pictures and set up to get to work.....only to my dismay, because I could not get anything to work or any of the new packages to down load....uggg, cause I had such a great Christmas package to download....so A VERY DISCOURAGED ME......went back to the 3.0 version and as my blood pressure settled down, LOL, I managed to create 8 digital pages of my Children’s Christmas party which I will share with you over my next 4 posts...........Happy New Year Everyone.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Gifts for Friends

These are the gift baskets of mugs/coffee flavoring, that I gave the girls at our Christmas lunch on this past Monday.

and this was the card I made to go with it!

Our tree with gifts for family

These are gifts for our family and friends, all wrapped up in silver paper with a beautiful pattern embossed with glitter!!! So very nice...

Shortbread Cookies

My freind Christine over at DOL CREATIONS posted a recipe for shortbread cookies, so my daughter and I though we would give it a try.

Gingerbread houses! 2011

In the past my children have built one gingerbread house and each decorated a side.

This year I decided to get two houses for them.

Here is what the came up with.

Kids Christmas Party 2011

2011 Christmas Cards

Bar for our Christmas Party 2011 and Reindeer Beer!

Festive food for our Kids Christmas Party 2011

Yellow pepper star,

cheese cubes

fresh rosemary

cherry tomatoes

layor on parchment paper lined cookie sheet

mini pretzle

hershy kiss

put in 170 degree ferinhite over for about 7 minutes til chocolate is soft.

top with a smartie

put in fridge to set

Gift Wrapping with my Cricut and Art of Philosphy Cartridge

I wanted some cut boxes to wrap gifts for some of my favorite girls...

I used my Close to My Heart "Art of Philosophy Cartridge" for the Cricut to cut these adorable boxes.

I cut the box in plain black cardstock first.

Then cut it again with the glittered wrapping paper I am using this Christmas.

Glued the two layers together and had this great little package.

Its a Red and Black Christmas In My House!! The wrapping....started..

This is the beginning of the wrapping!  It is a little tricky because of the embossed black glitter, the tape won't stick....I am going to have to get creative...I am thinking glue gun...stay tuned for the finished decorated packages in a few days....

Its a Red and Black Christmas In My House!! The wrapping....

The gifts will be wrapped in the love glitteredd paper....I am so excited....watch in the days to follow for the fully decorated versions.....I wrap one day and decorate on another day......

Even though my Daughter Makayla is 12 and fully understands the fantasy's of Christmas and my son Cameron is 10...well he is just to scared still to admit he understands.....Santa still has his own wrapping paper....this year I suggested this black and red one to him...I hope the elves use it!!

I guess my Christmas morning pictures will let us know....

Snowman Card

I was in desperate need of a craft fix last night so I locked myselft away in my scrapbooking room and this is what I came up with

Its a Red and Black Christmas In My House!! The Banister etc.

This banister looks much better in person...it does not look so skimpy along the rail...oh well pictures don't always do thing the justice they deserve.  By this point in the decorating Makayla was much more open to my ideas although again she was skeptical of the black boa until the wreath was done and hung.

In the center there is a Waterford crystal ornament that I have had for many years, it was a gift.

This a a favorite Chritmas piece that fit just lovely in my theme.