A Splendid Holiday Weekend!

Happy Friday! I hope you are in for a fun weekend filled with final plans for the holidays. Not too hectic but just enough that puts you in the mood to celebrate while also completing everything that needs to be done. This is a little card I made this last week as I was finishing up my cards.

Pixie Cottage Blog Hop- Anything Christmas

It's a very special challenge at The Pixie Cottage this week as we are celebrating our 100th challenge!

To mark this special occasion we are having

an "Anything Goes Christmas" challenge and also a blog hop for some very special prizes!

You should have come to me from Sharon's Blog and if not then please go back to The Pixie Cottage so that you don't miss a spot on the hop.

You'll need to collect letters from all the blogs on the hop to be in with a chance of winning.

Also you must leave a comment at all the blogs as each one is giving away a Pixie Cottage Digital Image so plenty of prizes to be had. (you'll be able to choose your image too!)

Finally when you get back to the The Pixie Cottage leave your name and link to your blog in the Inlinkz box for a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate to Michelle's Scrapbooking!. We'd love you to enter with a Christmas card/project but if you are only entering the blog hop please add BH after your name. Only one "Blog Hop Only" entry per person.

So now you just need to leave me a comment and then hop along to Audrey's Blog to carry on with the fun!

Oh you probably want your letter don't you? It is "g" !

Down to Business...........

I do not know about you all but I am so far behind on my christmas cards. I like to have them out in the mail by the first week of December and here I am on the 12th with only a handful in the mail. I just did not get a head start on them! So this week- that is what you will be seeing. And this is card #1- is this Lost and Found paper just the best? I love it; so easy to throw the cards together with coordinating prints and a few embellishments. The little stamp is a whimsy stamp (thank you to my friend Cindy who just sent them to me!)

I do want to share a couple things with you that are going on this week :

Come back Wednesday for the Pixie Cottage Blog Hop. Each of the design team members will be giving away digi stamps and then there will also be a grand prize. So check back here on Wednesday!

Then- ABC Toys and Crafts has the ultimate Christmas Gift to YOU! You should check it out HERE! Julie is giving away a $150 prize package!!!!!

Last Minute Gifts

Hey! Are you like me working on Christmas gifts, cards and such? Over at Pixie Cottage that is our challenge this week- last minute gifts so come on over and join us (you can win a prize too!) I thought it would be fun to make some little hot chocolate kits for Christmas give aways. The little cup is filled with hot cocoa, marshmallows and peppermint stick. My little snowman is Sebastian (Pixie Cottage Stamps) and he is ready to join you for the cup of hot cocoa.

Vintage Santa Box of tags

Welcome back today! I feel like I have not posted regularly due to my hard drive crashing but I have my computer back and good to go! So I have been working on a few gifts for Christmas to give to friends and family and this is a cigar box that I thoroughly enjoyed altering, it was so much fun! I have gotten a few vintage paper pads and can't recall which one htis is for sure but is that Santa not beautiful, in a vintage way. I should have taken close snapshots of the little beads, pearls, greens and twine. I am finding that sometimes more is better! (wink!) I then sprayed the entire top with glimmer mist so it truly sparkles.
Oh and inside the box................... vintage tags! I so love making these and all the fun little embellishments you can put on them. See my jingle bell- it is MS. Then there are some real jingle bells too! To my friends.... could this be yours? Hope you will join us over on the Verve Diva Challenge and make your gifts.

Christmas Pouch

Hello- here I am again with another tag pouch or gift card holder. I am loving these as they hold a perfect spot for a gift card and another tag for a message. Another hand made gift to enter in the Verve Diva Challenge too!

Handmade Gifts.......

So this weekend I started working on some gifts that are also gift card holders. I call this a tag pouch or gift card holder and they can go in a 6x6 box for gift giving. I made this card for the Verve Diva Challenge of making a gift.

This is the card with the tags on the inside..... I think that I will be needing some more of these when I look at my list of gift cards!
Have a fabulous day friends!