Belated Christmas Wishes

Happy New Year to everyone!

I hope everyone who celebrates had a wonderful holiday season.

I'm playing catch-up in my personal life but way behind in blogland:) I thought I'd post a card I made a few weeks ago and never made time to blog about.

I used Rad and Christmas Carols from Casual Fridays Stamps and just doodled the rest of each letter with a white gel pen.

Go check out the awesome news on the CFS blog today...

They are participating in the 2nd Annual Seasons Giving Blog Hop and THREE lucky winners will receive a $25 gift code!

Plus, there is a special for anyone as well, even if you don't want to try to win.

Now that's the kind of sale I'm all about!

I'm going to end with a few photos of the holidays around here.

I snapped this with my iPhone. It's our Christmas Eve table display. I like to do white/purple/silver in my dinning room for Christmas but it was dark and the colors didn't come through very well. . 

My youngest on Christmas morning. 

I love how he nearly blends into the tree! (I had to wake him up and ask him to come down...can you believe it??)

My beautiful mom on Christmas morning. 

She was opening a Matryoshka nesting doll I put in her stocking:) 

This is Lily. 

She belongs to my boyfriend, and she loves to be photographed:) 

My favorite gift! 

I have wanted one of these for 10 years! 

Before I sign off, I want to let you know that there will be some exciting things happening here in the next week or two! 

Both stamp companies that I design for will be releasing some awesome new goodies and sneak peeks begin January 6th!!

AND

Be sure to check out both the Denami Blog and the Casual Friday Stamps blog beginning January 6th!

Wishing you all a happy, healthy new year,

XOXO

Thanksgiving placecards

Hello! I wanted to pop in and share these simple placecards I created for today's Spotlight Post at Denami. This small in stature, but large on impact Turkey stamp is super cute for lots of holiday projects. 

As a vegetarian family, we choose to "Adopt a Turkey" each year instead of eating one:) I know that is not a popular sentiment because folks seem to base entire holidays around eating them this time of year, but it works for us! We even get photos of our turkey and get to read about his/her life at Farm Sanctuary.

These simple placecards will remind us of just how thankful we are as we sit down together to enjoy a cruelty free meal with loved ones.

The design team really outdid themselves with this spotlight, so be sure to check out what they created on the Denami blog as well!

Thanks for stopping by,

XOXO

Spring has sprung!

Spring has finally come to our house!

I took this photo yesterday while the hubster was doing some landscaping maintenance. He was going to mow our front lawn too (he despises dandelions) so I quickly snapped this because I love the mix of yellow and green and pink.

Just so pretty and the flowering Cherry tree makes me happy too.

So I have no crafty goodness to share today, but I wanted to remind all you Practicing Creativity lovers to check out Courtney's blog for yet more samples using the newest stamp set due to be released on May 6th!

Alice has some fun things to see at her blog too, so stop by there if you get a chance.

Thanks for stopping by friends, be sure to come back tomorrow to see a few things I whipped up using the new May release. I can't wait to see what you all think!