What? A Crafty Project??

Hey gang.  Its been a little few and far between with blog posting lately.  Sorry!  Since stepping down from my design teams I've taken quite the hiatus from the crafty world and while I miss it I have to admit that I do enjoy my 'free' time.

In any regard, I have been creating a heap more cards for friends and family - yea!  I have one to share with you today for a sweet friend's birthday that we just celebrated this past weekend.

I used papers from Bo Bunny's Isabella Collection.  Love, love the shabby chic vibe to these papers!  Such a super soft colour palette and perfect imagery to compliment the papers.  The beautiful pink crystal bling is from ZVA Creative - yummy!!

Thank you so much for popping by today. New Year's Resolution time: blog more than once a month!! EEK!  Sorry guys....

Merry Christmas to All...

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you had a wonderful day....  Here are a few random pics from over the past few weeks.  December was a crazy busy month for us with festivities every weekend as well as school plays, parties and more!

 Singing their song at the school Christmas Concert.

 Little guy stole the show! So cute!

 Sorry, majorly biast here but can you say "Gap Ad"??

 Festival of lights at Vandeusen Gardens - so amazing!

 Our one day dump of snow! So fun while it lasted...gone the next day...

 Fun times with my gals!

Hosted a gift exchange and had a great time with some amazing ladies!

We got in our Christmas Eve Day walk with the family - loved it and adore this hat on her! (I want one!!)

 My sweet boys!

We made it to our destination! A little treat at Starbucks for everyone!

 Mom's office party at the local pub - even Santa came for a visit!

The morning after the office party.  Was feeling a LITTLE icky... but what a spread we had - love my gals!

 Santa made someone VERY happy this morning!! Cannot WAIT to start playing with this crazy toy!

...And to all a Good Night!

Last Guest Post for Inkido

Santa's coming tonight!!!  For those of you who celebrate Christmas, I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful year in 2014! What a ride it has been this past year with so many things to celebrate and so many milestones that have been met.

For my last post as a Guest Designer with Inkido, I wanted to share a layout with you using their always gorgeous Happy Christmas Collection.  I love challenging myself to use themed papers (aka, Christmas) in a non-themed way. 

I looooved the cool tones in the faux wood finish paper and decided to pair with the darker musical notes for a totally different and edgy look.

As always, I added in heaps of layers of papers as well as different textures found in my metal items, ribbon, left over packaging and bling.

I also added in some stamped images with black archival ink to help tie in the darker tones in the black papers.

Thank you so much for stopping in today.  Wishing you all a wonderful Holiday Season and a safe and exciting New Year!!