Keep Calm & Bake Cookies

Can you believe that as of now...I am officially caught up on scrapbooking!  Yep...no more photos. 

 I think I need to go do something fun just so I can take pictures. ;-)

 

Our 2016 Christmas was actually celebrated on three different days since both my husband and I had to work Christmas Day. We played a new family game where you had to pick up other candy canes with the candy cane in your mouth.  It's not as easy as it may sound. We got quite a few laughs. Even Kendall wanted in on the action.  As you can see from  one photo we were also experimenting with holiday martinis.

Club Scrap papers, tags, ribbons and stamps. 

Loving my Holiday Spirits stamps by Avery Elle.

Christmas Thyme Blog Hop

Welcome to the Club Scrap Christmas Thyme Blog Hop. I'm so excited to be sharing my project for this special holiday collection. If you've arrived here from the very talented Tina you're in the right spot. If you'd like to start from the beginning, please head over to Club Scrap to see what they have created for you.

 

  

My beloved Christmas planner has run it's course. It's well loved and lasted 11 years!  This paper was from a different Club Scrap holiday collections many years ago!

 

 

I decided to go with a different style of planner after finding these black envelopes at my local stamp store and just completing the Literature Pocket Planner.

 

 

Here's a Club Scrap video to help guide you through the process.

I was super excited to use my Tricia Morris designed Piercing Cradle purchased at Club Scrap Retreat.

 

This cradle allows for precise piercing of folded pages.

Multiples at a time. I didn't want to push my luck and did 3 at a time.

This gave me perfectly placed holes on the fold lines in half the time. 

 

 

Pierce all scored pages and envelopes according to the directions.

 

 

I added decorative ribbon to the binding prior to stitching.

 

 

Once all pages are stitched I used my grid ruler to add lines to the ivory pages. This will allow me to create lists.

 

The pockets and secured envelopes allow for stamps, address labels and receipts.

 



 

 

I love my new Christmas planner!

Thank you for joining us on this special Christmas Thyme Blog Hop!

Please continue to the amazing Roni to see what she's crafted for you.

 

 



Garden Holiday Cards

I was cleaning out my digital files and came across some templates that were neglected. I took one look at a 12x12 template from Marshmella Designs and knew this was what I wanted for my holiday cards.

 

 

I resized the template to 4x6 and did some minor adjustments to the design.  The new Christmas Thyme digi kit has wonderful colors and papers to work with. I'm embarrassed to say that I bought the paper kit, stamper's kit and the stamps that go with this gorgeous collection.  Out of control!

 

Club Scrap digital papers, flowers, tag and ribbon. Marshmella template.

 

Don't forget that you can download the digital kit, print from your own computer and make as many paper cards as you need. Karen shows you how to do just that in this blog post from June.

Check back on November 26th for the Christmas Thyme Blog Hop.