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Christmas! I love, love, love, love Christmas! Maybe even more than my kids do. So much fun with crafting and shopping and buying gifts. It's a really fun and exciting time for the kids and I love to watch them get excited. My daughter still believes in Santa. At what age do we tell her the truth? Sigh. I don't want to burst her bubble. She thinks if she stops believing in him, she won't get any more presents. Little does she know that it's Mommy and Daddy buying all the gifts.

Anyway, here is a little Christmas project I made. I just had to make something when all my PTI goodies came the other day. This is actually the second Christmas craft I made so far. I'll share the first one on another day. So this uses all PTI products except for the green baker's twine (which I got at Pineapple Cove). This is a simple matchbook project. The cover just slips into the bottom tab to close.

Opened matchbook. I used PTI's pocket die to hold 5 Xmas labels.

It was a bit of a squeeze cause I didn't leave quite enough room at the top to fold down the cover so I'll have to remember that the next time I make this. I don't have any dimensions for this as I was just making it like a trial run and hoping I wasn't wasting paper. I'm glad it worked out though.

Are these like the cutest little stamps? I knew the Tiny Treats Christmas stamp set would be so cute when I first saw them online and they really are in person too. They fit perfectly on the Fillable Frames set #9. And I love the border around the tags too. It really just adds something extra to the whole label.

So Cheryl wants to know when I make all these crafts? When my kids are asleep. My 2 older ones sleep by 8:30 but my youngest is the stubbornest toddler of all time. I just started trying to have him fall asleep by himself without me lying next to him but he likes to put up a fight. So I end up reading (with a flashlight) in the room til he falls asleep which can take from 15 minutes on a good night up to an hour on bad nights. I usually try to sleep by 11 but may stay up till midnight. So I might craft for about an hour or two almost every night. I'm so lucky that my hubby helps by washing the dinner dishes, making lunch for himself and the kiddies for the next day and even irons his own clothes. What a guy! Or maybe I'm just a good trainer. Hahaha. I don't think he reads my blog much.

Anyway, thanks for reading and have a great week!

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one of the dies from MFT's gift card dies.

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story

crafting this and that

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