Wrapping up the holidays

I hope everyone had a great holiday, which ever one you celebrate. This year we had a great Christmas. Here are a few photos of our festivities.

 Holiday party at Melissa's

 Christmas Croppin' with some of my Scrappy girlfriends

 Christmas Cook Exchange. Boy were they all yummy!!

 Me and my children. So glad we were all together in my new house.

 Christmas Eve with the man I love. Such a bummer that he was running a fever when this was taken. He didn't get to enjoy the family time.

 My man gave me pink running/hiking shoes! I love to hike and kayak with a girlie flair!!

Now that the dust has cleared I need to get the Christmas decorations put away. I ordered a ton of photos from Snapfish today! Don't miss out on their great 99 photos for 99 cent sale. (coupon code- NEWYEAR13) You can use it as many times as you want. I did 4 orders. I am going to need to get my crafting room cleaned up so when they arrive I can start working on all the fun photos.

Coming up this weekend don't miss out on a fun Blog Hop I am going to be in . It is the debut of a new blog! I will be posting more details in a few days! Make sure you check back!

Have a great weekend. Get out there and enjoy!

Daphne

Design Team Application

I am excited about the possibility of joining the design team for a new blog. I wanted to share some of the wonderful layouts I have done recently.

For this layout I used Graphic 45 paper.  This photo was taken at Epcot by my good friend Heidi. We were there to enjoy the Food & Wine Festival.

 The paper used on this cute November project is from Imaginisce. I moved into a new house in October and I created this as a new decoration for Thanksgiving.

 The paper on this layout is from Basis Grey. This photo was taken on Christmas Day 2011. Ron took me to the Wekiva Springs State Park to go swimming in the springs. It was a lot of fun. We are planning on making this a new tradition. He has been going there on Christmas day for years.

 The paper on this layout is from Close to My Heart. The photo I took when Ron and I were on a short trip to Chattanooga,TN.

I have more to share soon! I have been getting back into crafting slowly, but am picking up steam again!
Have a crafty day!

Daphne

My Wonderful New Life!

Well I took a year off from my blog, but I am back! I have a whole new life so over this week I am going to revamp my blog and get it up to date with my new exciting life. I am slowly getting back into crafting. I spend a lot of time with my boyfriend hiking, kayaking and doing all kinds of outdoor activities. Have a great evening everyone and I will be catching you up on things this week!

What Makes Me Happy

This month our challenge at Crafty Chicas is to share what makes us happy!

My life lately hasn't shown me a lot of happiness. It was very good for me to think about all the things that make me happy. There are lots of things that make me smile and bring me happiness. 

My children are the main things in my life that make me smile.

This was an exercise in finding other things besides them. Each little rectangle is packed with all those things. It is packed with pink. Pink is my favorite color, so I had to include plenty of pink.

I hope this inspires each of you to think about all the things in your life that make you smile.  

Make sure you join our monthly challenge and share those things that make you smile with us!  

SMILE~~ 

Daphne~~

Give Thanks

Well with Thanksgiving right around the corner everyone is thinking about what they are Thankful for.

There are so many things in my life that I have not been thankful for lately, that it is very good to stop and think about the things I SHOULD be thankful for.

So let me say this...I am thankful for my children, my friends, my family and my puppies.

There are many other things too, but those are the biggies!!

This beautiful Cornucopia was cut using the ProvoCraft Cricut using Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. The Give Thanks was cut using the Designer's Calendar cartridge and the apples were cut using the My World cartridge.

The flowers and leaves are Prima. They are sprayed with Smooch Spritz. The centers are Viva Decor Pearl Pen in bronze.

The letters are covered with a thin layer of Viva Decor Pearl Pen.

BE THANKFUL FOR THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE AS YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY WILL NO LONGER BE PART OF YOUR LIFE!!

~~DAPHNE~~

This project is entered in the following challenges:

Paper Patch Craft Challenge

My Sheri Crafts

Corrosive Challenges By Janet

Patches of Pink

KINDERSTAMPO GUEST DESIGNER FOR TODAY

Today I am the guest designer over at Kinderstampo. I am very happy to be featured today.

This is a little mini-album I created for her.

I used Jillibean paper. It is made using only 1 sheet of 12x12 paper! It's really easy.

You score the paper at 3", 6" and 9" in one direction. Then rotate the paper 90 degrees and score it at 2", 6" and 10". Cut along the 6" line (on the 2/6/10 side) up to the 9" line. Fold at the 2" and the 10" line to make the pockets.


I used the Kinderstampo- Grungy Inspiration stamps to make the little tickets.

The tickets were cut using the Cricut- using the Mickey Font at 2" in length.

I used Tim Holtz's Tiny Attacher to attach the tickets to the tags.

The little pearl swirls are from Zva Creations.

The little clip on the front is from K&Co.

All the inking was done with Tim Holtz Distress Ink pads- Vintage Photo and Forest Moss.

I used my ATG to hold the pockets and to attach the two center pieces together to make the middle of the booklet.


This is such a cute and easy project. Think of it as a baby gift or grandma's brag book! I am going to make several of these as gifts this year.

ENJOY

~~DAPHNE~~

BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP WINNER!

Oh my...I don't know how I missed picking a winner!! But I got my son to pick a number between 1 and 17 and he picked 7 so the winner is:

MALLIKA!!!!

PLEASE E-MAIL ME YOUR MAILING ADDY SO I CAN GET SOME GOODIES OUT TO YOU!!

Daph66@shreiber.com

Thanks everyone for all the kind comments. I enjoyed doing the Birthday Blog Hop!

FRIENDS LIKE HEIDI KEEP ME AFLOAT!!

Thanks for stopping by today. I made this cute little wall hanging for my friend Heidi! I wanted her to know how much her friendship has meant to me during the past year!!

This was a project for over at The Crafty Chicas!!

SUPPLIES AND BASIC INSTRUCTIONS:

1)Maya Road- 4" Bottle Cap

2)Large Circle in back- Arctic Frog- Sugar Sprinkles- Cut using Martha Stewart's Circle cutter to size 5 1/2"- then punched with the border punch- attached with Beacon 3-in-1 Adhesive- inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo

3)Cupcake Wrapper- inside- flattened- sanded with Tim Holtz Sander- inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo- Sprayed with Smooch Spritz Vanilla Shimmer- heat set- attached with Beacon 3-in-1 Adhesive

4)Mouse image is from a swap- colored using Promarkers- mounted with pop dots

5)Tiny flowers- Prima- attached with Helmar Acid Free Adhesive- Center is Viva Decor Pearl Pen

6)Ribbon from my stash- I poked holes in the orange ribbon and threaded the brown through it, used atg and 3-in-1 to adhere the ribbon to the back of the hanging

7)Stick pin- base- Bead Landing-Head Pins- beads from stash- attached using 3-in-1 and scotch tape to the back  

GRANNY'S RECIPES

This week over at The Collector's Cut the girls are all sharing their creations related to recipes.

This is a little mini-album that contains some recipes that my Granny wrote for me after I got married. They are my favorite recipes that she used to make. I love making these yummy cookies every year at Christmas time. I know that my daughter will love receiving this wonderful tribute to Granny some day in the future.

SUPPLIES:

Blank 4" x 4" coasters

Ribbon from Stash

Title- Cut using the Cricut at 1.25" using From My Kitchen and Lyrical Letters

Viva Decor- Black Glitter Liner

Halloween Candy/Pencil Holder- Mini-Monster

This month we have a fun challenge going on over at the Chica's Gettin' Crafty blog.

We want you to share your little monsters with us!! Enter the contest and you will get the chance to win a gift certificate to our sponsor this month!! Jens Digi Stamps

So, this month the design team were given Halloween digital images from Jenn to work with. I thought it would be fun to make an altered container and fill it with candy, but it's also big enough to be used as a pencil holder after the candy is gone!! Check out more details and enter the challenge over on the Chica's Gettin' Crafty Blog!!