Here is your last Holiday 2006 Challenge

I hope everyone had a Merry and Joyous Christmas. If you are like me you took hundreds of pictures and now you need to be inspired to do something with them. That is where this challenge will help you. Create a layout, mini album or something else creative about your holiday. Maybe your family traditions, your favorite part of the holiday, Christmas morning chaos or like I did you can make a mini album about your holiday treasures. While overseas I have gotten lots of special Christmas decorations and I want a record of where I got them. Like my Scottish nutcracker, tiny shell nativity, German pyramid and lots more. So I have taken a 6x6 Heidi Swapp chipboard album and I am going to use it to record my 'Christmas Treasures'. For the cover I used BG fruitcake papers and fibers and K & Co. Twinkle Type letters, HS jewels and my trusty DMC. I also left the fibers long so I can tie Christmas charms on as I find them. I'll share some of the layouts as I finish them.

Show us your special Christmas creation.

Bonnie

It's Christmas Eve!!!!

One more day till Christmas. Todays challenge is easy - if you have kids. Have your kids write a letter to Santa to leave under the tree.

The layout above is a letter Matthew wrote to Santa last year. The trees and rudolf are Quikutz dies that I decorated with beads, wire and glitter.

Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday from Bonnie and Cheri.

Bonnie

3 days till Christmas

Did you make anyone a homegift this year? There is still a little bit of time if you haven't. It doesn't have to be scrapbook related. Give some of your holiday baking to a neighbor or I'm sure your postman would love a little something sweet when he drops of your mail today. I made gingerbread men last night and took a family of 5 over to Cheri this morning. She has the most beautiful gingerbread houses that her family has made the last 2 years and they needed a little family to go with them. I'll post a picture later - my battery was too low when I just tried.

But I do have pictures of a present I made for Matthew. It is a 'Dog Chain" mini book. All the pictures are from the day we got our new puppy except the last one was taken when we dropped him off at the farm while we went to Paris. I got the idea from all the key chains Matthew has on his backpack and now he can add his mini book to his backpack. All the chipboard, ribbon and ribbon slides are Maya Road.

Bonnie

Last Layout Challenge before Christmas

There's only 4 days till Christmas.
Todays challenge is to create a layout about yourself that reveals something others might not know about you. I did a layout about how I would have loved to be a fashion designer and my love of costumes. Tell us something about yourself that we don't know. It might be your hopes and dreams, something funny, what you are scared of. Be creative.

A Who Wannabe
Here is the Journaling:

As a teenager, I wanted to be a fashion designer when I grew up. Both my grandmothers and my Mom sewed and taught me how when I was young. I’ve always loved the creative process—from the beginning ideas, to the playing and finally the evolution of the project into a finished creation—sometimes very different from the original vision. Victorian costumes with their rich textures of velvet, brocade, silks, laces and ribbons have always been my favorite until….…I saw ‘The Grinch that Stole Christmas’. I sat mesmerized drinking in every detail of the costumes—hair, clothing, shoes, accessories, makeup—everything. I couldn’t stop thinking about ‘Who’ costumes—fabric, details, shoes, hair. I tried for months to persuade my family to let me design costumes for us to be a ‘Who’ family that Halloween but no amount of persuasion could change their NO to a YES. It was then that ‘Bonnie Lou Who’ was born and the creative process began.

I used Scraptivity gelatin stamps for 'Who', MM chipboard stars and the fabric above the picture is what I used to line the hood of the cape I'm wearing in the picture.

I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Bonnie

Day Fourteen

Here is your 3rd layout challenge. Create a layout with sparkle and shine. Use glitter, beads, sequins, rinestones - anything sparkly or shiney. 'Disney Witches' is my 1st attempt at sparkle and shine and I must say I am sparkle and shine challenged. I envisioned using lots more than I did but this was as much as I could do. I love to see layouts that have lots of sparkle but with 2 boys, hiking and travel layouts I don't have much opportunity.

To create the title for 'Disney Witches' title I used some QK dies. For the brooms I used the die and then tied MM twistel around the broom part and then cut into strips. For the hat, shoes and caldron smoke ( I cut this from felt) I used Ranger Icicle Stickles for the sparkly bits. I made the 'C' with Heidi Swapp rinestone flowers and for the 'e' I cut it with a QK die and then glued the sequins to it. Patterened papers are Daisy D's from the July Scraptivity Kit.

Are you up for the challenge? Show us your sparkle and shine creations.

Bonnie