Christmas Card Photo Shoot LO

Hey there friends! Just wanted to share a layout I completed with the Christmas Card photo shoot pictures.Materials used: Echo Park-Everybody Loves Christmas. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Echo Park’s Paper collections. They are so bright and whimsical with lots of color and cute stickers.

 

Look at the little penguin, ain’t he keeeeyooooot!?

This LO was fun to create, I haven’t done a 2-pager in a LONG time! But I really wanted to include a lot of the pictures.

This page has a bunch of embellishments: Pom Poms, a real candycane, border punching, bows, sticker accents, felt hearts. and pearls.

The journaling was done on my computer using Word.

Here is the photo I would’ve chosen.

Thank for looking and I hope your inspired to create! Happy Scrapping!

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Wanna Party?

Then click on over to The DIY Show Off for a Holiday Highlights Linky Party. Check out some very crafty chicks (myself included) and get some ideas for next year! I submitted my
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Handmade Holiday Greeting Cards

This is just a post to share the cards I made this year for my SFFs (Scrap Friends Forever) and a few other folks! 

Santa Belly! Too key-oot!

I especially love this MME collection for two reasons: Snowmen and SPARKELSSSSSS!{ In my London Tipton voice} if you have kids that watch Suit Life of Zack n Cody-you get It.

Happy Holidays!!!

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Holiday Traditions

Do you have holiday traditions that you follow each and every year? Until it was bought to my attention by The Munchkin, I didn’t consider the things we do traditions. This year after Black Friday (my favorite holiday BTW) I was running on fumes…but as Munchkin reminded me, “We always put the tree up the day after Thanksgiving, it’s TRADITION”. So after giving it some thought we do have a pretty good list of traditions, here are some of ours:

Tree & Indoor decor go up the day after Thanksgiving

Well I dunno if you call this a tradition but at the commissary they carry flavored Egg Nog each year we buy probably buy 6-8 cartons of Pumpkin and Gingerbread Flavor.

I leave the house at zero-dark thirty to shop on Black Friday not to be seen again by my family until sometime Saturday afternoon. (did I mention this is my favorite holiday?)     photo taken from google image search for Black Friday

Outdoor decorations go up Sat/Sunday after Thanksgiving. We also hop in the car on Christmas Eve, the girls in the PJ’s with thermos’s full of hot chocolate and tour the neighborhoods looking at the lights.   This is NOT my house, which it were. Image taken from Google Image search.

Christmas Cards for family and friends.

 

   Cookies for Santa! This year we’re making Candy Cane shaped one…OFCOURSE I’ll be blogging’ about them!

             Picture taken from Google Image search                   

 We each open one gift on Christmas Eve (usually it’s the new Christmas Pajama’s)       

Oh yeah and my favorite Christmas Tradition is one I stole from my friend Pam in Alaska. Instead of Christmas Dinner…..we opt for Christmas Brunch! We have pancakes, waffles, grits, omelets, biscuits n gravy, sausage, bacon, doughnuts, muffins, fruit, OJ, and hash browns. The girls love it!Picture taken from Google Image search

What are you Holiday Traditions? For next year I’m considering the Elf on the Shelf, but the girls may be getting too old for that one-we’ll see.

Happy Holidays!

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Bokeh…well “bokeh-ish”

Last year I sat drooling and dreamy eyed in front of my computer staring at this post by Amanda over at KevinandAmanda.com. I love her blog: food, fashion, photography, giveaways, traveling, srapbooking did I say food?. OKay  back to BOKEH.. First I had to get my  fancy shamancy camera. In Amandas blog as well as others I looked at they used a 50 mm lens or an 85 mm lens. Well I dodn’t have either so I had to make do what it do baby! Take a look.

I used my 18-55mm that came with the camera so now you see why I say bokeh-ish! But I’am on the right track!

I followed the directions on Amanda’s blog using a flower and heart shape. I attached it to my lens set in manual mode.

This last one was done without the shape cover. It’s so pretty-ful! (yes that’is a word!)

Happy Holidays!

Yawl come back now-ya here!

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Capturing the “Perfect” Christmas Card Photo

Capturing the perfect Christmas card photo is on a lot of folks “to do” list and it was on mind until I decided to let the girls take control. In the past we’ve sent out a Family newsletter but now thanks to Facebook and the fact that we live on the east coast (Texas & Alaska previously)  and see our family more often, I opted for a simple picture card. Plus I’d gotten some on clearance during last year’s after holidays sales! **I HEART SALES** 

This is the photo they chose to go on the Christmas Cards this year! Yeah, I know most often people want a “perfect” photo with everyone dressed and sitting pretty. But they  begged for a goofy, silly, funny photo and I had too much fun shooting them. I’ve learned that if I let them just be themselves and pose at will I get much better cooperation and at least one “perfect” shot.

This one was a close 2nd.

 

Here’s the “perfect” one I would have chosen. They said it’s too BORING!

So with all of that I’m glad my girls chose the silly photo. You never know one the receivers may be having a bad day only to open the card and have a good giggle to lift their spirits a little.

Happy Holidays!!!

Yawl come back now-ya here!

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