Christmas cards

What a great couple weeks it has been.  November is a hectic month in this house.  Marianne's birthday was the first weekend and 3 of the kids in my daycare as well.  We had cake at least once a week this month!!!  Zoé loves to help me bake them.  I had an Epicure party where Zoé won the bingo draw and purchased the kid's bundle, complete with apron and kid's size utensiles.  She is so cute! Today, we made a marble cake for Emily's birthday with...... Maple Syrup boiled frosting!!!  it was sooo tasty! 
Besides parties, I am so proud of a decision to clean my scraproom and put some of my stuff in a facebook auction.  It all started when my husband decided that he could not do Movember this year.  I though maybe I could raise a little money by selling some of my scrapbooking overstock and giving 50% to the Tree of Hope campaign.  I had alot more stuff than I had originaly imagined, so I kept placing pictures on my facebook page and taking bids.  So far I've raised close to 200$ and I still have lots of auctions still open.  It's a win/win/win/win situation : I get a cleaner scrapbooking room, Someone gets to make use of great products that I won't use, Money is going to charity and I get to have a little money for some Christmas shopping!  I'll post my grand total once all the auctions are closed after Dec 1st.   To take a look just visit my Facebook group.
This week I've been busy with LCOM online card crop.  I've completed all the card challenges so far, but might to revisit a few in order to finish all my Christmas cards.  Just hope I remember to mail them this year :)  Here are some of the cards I made this week :

Bling card, using Roxie paper, and bling assortments

Vintage feel challenge : using the wooden buttons, the pins from the Bling assortments and Perfect Day paper

Paper layers card : using Beleive paper and stickers.

Snowflake challenge, using Wonderland and Holiday commentary stamps

Filmstrip challenge : using Wonderland paper, bling and Dimentional elements

Die cut challenge : using Elemental paper, and snowflake dimentional elements with silver glitz glitter gel

Rested

Nothing like a good night sleep to put you in a great mood.  Since July, we have made a decision that we were going to live healthier.  I started the Simply for Life diet and am happy to report that I have lost 25 lbs so far.  The greatest benefit is how great I feel.  We recently went on a road trip, my husband and I for our 10 year wedding anniversary, and for the occasion I got to wear my wedding ring again!  It had not fit since before Zoé was born.  I hope to scrapbook those pictures soon, in the meantime, here are some layouts I did over the last weeks, one is from 5 years ago, on our 5 year anniversary road trip to Bar Harbor.  and, I finally got some Christmas layouts done! 

October workshop using Dreamin

Mistltoe

Mistletoe

Aspen

Scrappy time

   I had the pleasure over the weekend to attend another LCOM crop in Moncton.  What an awesome, talented group of ladies!  My mom also attended and we shared a table.  We got some bonding time, without my kids climbing all over her.  It was very productive!  I got to play with some of the new CTMH paper.  I love them all!  We also had a blast trying out the new Cricut Art Philosophy  cartridge too!  Check out the paper flowers, and the die-cut backgrounds all made with it.  I'm going to have fun exploring it some more... as soon as I find some more scrappy time, hopefully before LCOM next crop in November.

CTMH Elemental WOTG

CTMH Typeset WOTG

CTMH Dreamin'

CTMH Roxie

Lucky

I consider myself very lucky.  I have an amazing family.  I am married to the love of my life, my best friend and the best father for my amazing daughters.  When I saw a picture at a crop this weekend of my very handsome husband all by himself in a picture.. I had no choice but to dedicate a scrapbook page to it.  He was just himself, looking at me, and I snapped a picture.  The page is one of the simplest I ever did, but it's complete.  I love it, I love him, it's that simple. 

Typeset kit

a few more layouts

I just wanted to share a few layouts I finished tonight.  They are both inspired by Creative Scrappers sketches and one of them is another LCOM 28 days of summer challenge.  The challenge was to make a layout about nature.  The picture had to be of an element of nature and no humans are allowed.  Here is what I came up with

Thanks for looking!  See you soon!

First camp fire at home!!

We received a fire bowl for our birthday this year from my in-laws and got to use it tonight.  So relaxing and so much fun.  One last minute trip to the grocery store to get Marshmallows and the kids had a ball roasting them with the neighbors while the adults had a drink.  The weather event cooperated, no rain fell on our party and we even got to see several rainbows.  I have a feeling this birthday gift will be used a lot this summer. 

And it's with the smell of bug spray and smoke still clinging to me that I finished this layout.  I dedicate it to some dear friends who are in the process of moving even farther away!  Good luck!!  We miss you!

From LCTS using Basic Grey.  Teh butterfly is CTMH lucky chipboard.  The pearls and ribbon are also CTMH

Summer vacation, week 1

We went last weekend for a long overdue visit to my in-laws in Caraquet.  Although the weather was cold and soggy, the girls still had fun playing with their cousins in Pepere's new huge garage renamed "the play area" for the weekend.  Even Pepere and Papa had fun playing with their remote control machines.  It was great to just relaxe for a weekend, disconnect and catch up on what's going on with friends and family.  We also had the chance to attend a launch party.  A very dear friend of ours and owner of the  Acadie-Broue microbrewery decided to launch his new beer in his hometown of Maisonnette.  If you're ever in the Moncton area, be sure to visit the Laundromat bar for your chance to taste it.  So in all, a great start to summer.  Now, what to do for the long weekend??  for sure, I must put some time aside to scrapbook! 

I did not get to do much scrapbooking but I did manage to find a couple hours last night while watching So you think you can dance Canada to complete this one :

I used Basic Grey paper, CTMH ribbon and cardstock.  The pink floweres were made with CTMH ric rac ribbon, and the White flower and scrunched ribbon border were made using ribbon and using the "ruched" technique.