Christmas Cards with Tim Holtz Dies

This year I started my Christmas cards in January.  Yep, hardly got through making the ones for 2010 and started right back up with 2011.  Why?  Not just to beat the rush.  I love scrap booking, but sometimes I just don't have the time or inclination to do a whole page.  Cards are quick, easy and Christmas cards let me play with glitter and bling in particular, so why not?  Even with that said, I am only about half way through making all the cards I'll need, so the pace is going to have to pick up significantly.

Here are a couple of cards I made using Tim Holtz's ornament die.  I love how one is retro, clean and colourful and the other a little more muted.  This die can go whichever way you'd like it to, never mind that you can even make an actual ornament with it too.  Perhaps Tim should do the 12 Ornaments of Christmas one year.

Also used, Kaiser craft stamp, Impression Obsession CAC Pine boughs, Snow Writer, and Melissa Frances Glitter Glass.

Fall has Officially Arrived

Yep, she has arrived.  I thought the leaves were never going to turn in the backyard, but in the last few days, poof there they are.  The frosty nights help.  I loved the sky today.  That steely blue that makes me think of sunny days in February on the ski lift.  The only colours in the whole world are the blue in the sky and the skiers on the white snow.  Everything else is shades of gray.  That too will come, but right now, I'll enjoy the fire.

Spooky Stuff

So last night was my high holiday.  Yes Christmas is lovely, but every Halloween I get to be something that I decidedly am not.  It's a chance to create something that is not real and invite others to share it with you.

The wee ones don't get it, whatever you do, so we always no matter the theme try not to scare the little ones.  The older kids, however, are great fun to mess with.  Last night's theme was Zombie Strong-hold.  I am on a bit of a zombie bender anyways, what with Walking Dead being so awesome and zombies in general just being hot, hot, hot.  It was a natural extension.

What makes Halloween especially fun is that my husband participates and I think, enjoys it all as much as I do.

The disinfection team arrived, but didn't get very far before running into a little trouble (or a zombie).  All visitors were carefully screened to detect the zombies.  "Are you a zombie?"  The neighbour insisted this was a poor test, as the zombies might lie.  We of course knew that zombies only moan.  Our cat has failed the test.  Not sure what to do about that.

A "disinfection" may be imminent.

We had a couple of close calls.  Apparently things went horribly wrong at Oktoberfest this year.  But we had treats for everyone.

Happy Halloween!