Mommiedom

We don't have "official" elves on the shelves. I am not the crazy to spend that kind of money and I know my kids would not be able to resist touching them.

Our Elves had a crazy and wild ride here. One lost both eyes and had to have eye surgery while the other had an arm nearly ripped off, wear to the neck and of course fell into the toilet after someone decided he needed to poop mints (by the way- the mints dissolve in the toilet over the course of the night but the elf placer ignored that warning).

So tonight the head back to the North Pole and the kids bid them farewell. Have to say I don't hate them nearly as much as I did last year. A little planning goes a long way and I am proud to say I only really forgot one time (waking at 2am and shooting out of bed).

Here are all the Elves antics over the time they were here.

There are two great tutorials for Faux tiling which can be found here:

Splitcoast

The Write Stuff

Both are great resources in creating Faux tile and I have made plenty of cards using these techniques. On Technique Twist, the catch is to try something different and have a twist on it. So I thought that the Stampin Up Honeycomb Textured Embossing folder  actually seemed like tile and the more I thought about it as like a version of fun subway tile.

So I embossed some Very Vanilla paper and wrapped the card with some linen ribbon. I than stamped on the Little Sailboats from Greetings From Set from SU! in Midnight Muse. I than took the Sending Love stamp from the same set and stamped that in Real Red and punched it out using the 7/8 scallop punch.

So my twist on it is using the embossing folder as tiles. I felt the honeycomb lent it self well to the idea of tile. To be honest though not sure if I love the card but love the idea of it.

Supplies used (all Stampin Up!):

Honeycomb Embossing Folder
Very Vanilla Card Stock
Pool Party Card Stock
Linen Ribbon
Greetings From Set
Real Red and Midnight Muse Ink

Looking forward to becoming part of the Technique Twist Design team in 2014. My first project will published on January 4 for the Design Team!!!

SCIC had another inspiration project for this month and I did another digital scrapbook page. I did the fun Elf on he Shelf Page for the Christmas inspiration and this week I did one of the kids for the holidays in their Christmas PJs.


So here is the inspiration sketch:

I have had som many people ask me about how the mesh wreaths are done and I finally said okay I will teach you how so I created this sample which is also one of the preschool kid's teacher gifts. I love making these wreaths and it cheap and fast to create.

 Okay you might have seen this on my blog already for a challenge I did but I wanted to add it in to my fun list of stuff I created for the holidays.

This Happy Holidays Memo board was so easy to make.  I had bought the frame off the clearance rack awhile ago and had it for a project. I had thought that I might do a fun printable in it but than I saw the challenge and it was created.

I used a variety of stamp sets as well as MDS to create the title. I also die cut out the stamped snowflakes which is part of the festive Flurries set (you might notice I really like that set).