A Little Doodlebug

Good day!

How was your weekend? Busy? Relaxing? A little of both? Can you believe it's Thanksgiving week? I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with my boys, cooking a heavenly feast and putting up the Christmas tree on Friday! So much to look forward to and be thankful for!

Today I have a little Christmas card share for you using Doodlebug Design's Santa's Workshop collection.

This line incorporates all the traditional colors of Christmas and Doodlebug's adorable style!

Okay, is it just me or does this little lady look like Cynthea Sandoval, owner of Doodlebug? Hmmm.... ;)

Well, I have quite a bit of work to squeeze into the next couple of days before the holiday so I best get to it! I hope you have a great Monday! Thanks for your visit!

Hello!

Oh my, did you notice that Christmas is less than two weeks away? The two week marker slipped passed me on Sunday! It's time to wrap up our presents and get those last minute gifts taken care of! So at the Doodlebug Designs blog, I have a tutorial to show you how to make the following little paper houses for gift giving.

Hope you have a bit of time to hop over and check out the different ways you can use these paper houses for gifts.

Kathy :)

Another Christmas Card

Hey!

I've been working on some Christmas cards in between other projects...and here's one using the new Papertrey Ink thin die alphas and the Santa's Workshop collection from Doodlebug Designs.

Love these colorful papers and whimsical patterns!

These snowflakes are also thin metal dies. The center is a brad from Doodlebug's Happy Holidays Assortment of Boutique Brads.

To add just a touch of sparkle, I added my fave Doodlebug Mini Jewels.

I had fun with this one...and I'm currently working on another using a Bella Blvd. line I adore!

Well, have you gotten back into the swing of things after Thanksgiving weekend? I'm getting there. It hasn't been as difficult as I anticipated. I'm enjoying my 'work' so I 'm not too bummed that our fun weekend is over!

As always, thanks for visiting! Hope you have a terrific day!

Kathy :)

It's Begining to Look a lot Like Christmas!

Hi!

How was your Thanksgiving weekend? Did you travel? Stay at home? Cook? Shop? I stayed home with my boys, cooked, relaxed, ate, decked the halls and ate some more! It was the most wonderful Thanksgiving!

Today will be a little difficult as I try to get back into routine. I was hardly in my office over the weekend so it's always a challenge to dive back in. To make it a little easier, I already have a cheerful and festive card to share with you!

Over at Doodlebug Designs there's an awesome Doodles card sketch for you that can be used for your Christmas card crafting.

I was in the mood to get stitchy with this one so I created a grid background. I think it's ideal for all these colorful Doodlebug papers and glittery Frills from the Santa's Workshop collection.

To make this card even more festive, I sprinkled it with gems and this totally adorable holly brad.

Thanks for stopping! I hope you enjoyed my card and have a little time to craft along with us at Doodlebug Designs. I've got to run to the post office. Shouldn't be too bad there yet! ;)

Kathy

Nutcrackers

Hello!

I'm typing up this post from a very messy office! If you stopped by yesterday, you may have read that I am on a mission to un-clutter my office like never before. Not just clean up or reorganization, but I'm getting rid of about half or more of everything in it! Not only have I been paper crafting for years, but I used to manufacture cards for stationery and gift shops and have tons of supplies from that. I have an Etsy store too! I also adore all things paper related and let's just say I've had to have it all! So over the past seven years, in our current home, I've packed in quite a lot of stuff! Time to change some buying habits and share all this with others! I've come to realize you don't need all this to created great projects!

Enough of that! How about a scrapbook page share?

This page isn't for an assignment, I just wanted to play with some of my Doodlebug goodies! The collection I used is called Santa's Workshop. Loaded with cute elves, fabulous patterned papers, and Santa!

I got the idea for these stitched half circles from a Pinterest photo of a quilt.

Isn't this quilt stunning? I love the colorful patterns on a white background! This quilt was made by Camilla Roskelley and can be found on her blog Simplify. There are oodles of beautiful items made of quilting along with patterns available for those who can sew...which is not me!

Going right along here...my page is about our nutcracker collection. We started collecting one nut cracker per Christmas when we moved to North Carolina seven years ago.

Have I mentioned how much I love this Santa's Workshop collection? This little elf cracks me up with his hammer in hand! He's been hard at work making toys for all the good little girls and boys...and maybe a few cool things for us paper crafters too? ;)

Well, I must get back to sorting through my office since I'm on a roll. And I've attempted to get this place pared down before without success!

I hope you all have a fabulous day!

Kathy :)