Merry Christmas

Hello!  I hope everyone is enjoying some family time for the holidays.  Today my son and I made Christmas cards for my husband.  We decided to use the current sketch at My Favorite Things for the design.  Collin has been crafting with me for a few years now, he even had his own little Cuttlebug Kids machine and dies and made a few scrapbook pages.  I still have them for safe keeping but he does not use them anymore.  I asked him if he wanted to make one for his father and he said yes!  He basically copied mine but was not willing to try stitching on his.

MINE:

This is the one Collin made.  I let him pick out the patterned papers and I gave him the cardstock choices that I thought would go with these patterned papers, this is what he came up with.  I did give him the dimensions but he did all the cutting, die cutting, and stamping.  Even took his own pictures too!

HIS:

Supplies for MINE:

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Supplies for HIS:

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I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hugs,
Heather

Thoughts & Prayers

Hello everyone.  Sorry I am late with my Flourishes Friday Free for All post, out internet and phone are out and because of the bad weather I was not able to get out somewhere until now.  I am lucky to have such a wonderful friend who let me come over and steal her internet for a while.  We had a blizzard come through that dropped about 13 inches of very wet snow, and are not able to get someone out to fix our internet until Saturday.  So unfortunately I will not be able to reply to emails or visit anyone until probably Sunday.  

Supplies used:

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Make sure to stop by the rest of the design team

• Cindy Lawrence
• Christine Okken
• Danielle Kennedy
• Heather Jensen
• Silke Ledlow
• Stacy Morgan
• Tammy Hershberger

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

Celebrate the Season

I have quick post to show you a couple cards that I made for the Teacher of the classroom that I work in and the Classroom assistant.  I started a new job right before Thanksgiving as a 1:1 Special Needs assistant.  What is that you ask?  I am with a child in a regular 1st grade classroom that needs help throughout the day with whatever the day entails.  I am there every day all day long.  When my son (who is almost 13) was in preschool, I was an assistant for another child and loved it.  I could not ask for a better and more rewarding job.  After the Sandy Hook school shooting, I can say that I looked at those sweet faces a little more today and realized what a gift they all are.  The whole incident has me heartbroken.  I just can NOT imagine what would go through someone's mind when they decide to do such a horrific act.  I must move on....too sad to talk about.

I am totally HOOKED on this background stamping.  I CASED (stole) the pretty design from my sweet blog friend Meredith, who is amazing at creating beautiful backgrounds.  The gift I am giving the teacher is in a gift bag that looks exactly like the card in red and blue snowflakes.

This is one that I made for the classroom assistant.  I used the same design but with different stamps and colors of ink as well as colored cardstock.

Supplies Used for:

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Supplies Used For:

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Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather