Sympathy cards - last day.

Hey look at me, it's New Year's Eve and I'm being a downer with more sympathy cards! Well it ain't like I've got big plans to party it up tonight. Actually, I'll probably be sleeping by 10 at the latest as we are going to be up and on the road dark & early tomorrow morning heading down to Phoenix for the Fiesta Bowl.

Alrighty - the last of the sympathy cards. Again I've gone back to the Everyday Blessings paper pack, and the Blooming Button Bits stamp set. This first card also has a little bingo card from Jenni Bowlin. I hesitated using the bingo card, but thought with the FAITH it would be appropriate. I love these bingo cards so much!

This second card features a sentiment from Communique Curves Sentiments, and another BasicGrey chipboard tea cup.

What about you? - doing anything exciting tonight?

See you next year *giggles*

Sympathy cards - day 2 of 3.

Welcome back to day 2 of sympathy cards. Sympathy cards are so hard to make - - especially if you are making them when you need them. So my challenge to you is to get some done now, like in the next week, just get a couple made and then you're done for hopefully a good long while.

So about today's cards..... I went old school with the patterned paper and brought back Everyday Blessings. I think this was Papertrey Ink's very first patterned paper. It just seemed fitting for the occasion. I also used the new stamp set Blooming Button Bits - and this is a fun and versatile set for sure.

This second card's sentiment again is from Communique Curves Sentiments and that little tea cup is from BasicGrey.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sympathy cards - day 1 of 3.

- Second post for today - scroll down for JBE tag. -

I had to come back with something non-Christmas. Blech - Christmas. So. Over. It. So I'm movin' on to sympathy cards. Yeah. I totally hate making these cards...it's such a delicate occasion, and with my style, I'm afraid of making it too happy. So I had to temper myself...every time I felt the need to add something fun or bright I had to keep saying "simma down, girl" - LOL

Anywho - so these cards today are mostly Papertrey Ink cards with some Prima embellies, Martha bling, and some A Million Memories lace trim. I love this sentiment too - the size and the fonts. That's from Communique Curves Sentiments - a super value at only $5 for the set.

I made these cards for a little bartering I did with Heather's mom. But you know, top of the year might be a good time to get a couple of sympathy cards done and in your stash so that you have them ready if and when you need them next year.

I'm back to work today; blech - work.

The last of the Christmas tags.

{sigh}
It's with sadness that I bid farewell to the Christmas tags. If you're a regular here on the blog-o, you know how much fun I have had making these little guys this year. So this week when the Jacksonbelle Embellishments DT challenge was "rolling in ribbon", I had to make one last Christmas taggie to share with you all.

I've got some scrap cardstock and ribbons, some fun Eskimo Kisses paper from BasicGrey, some vintage lace and a lil' bling on Rudolph's nose. Super fun, super easy - and I'll be making bunches of these for Christmas gifts next year (consider yourself warned).

Hope you've enjoyed my Christmas tags as much as I have!

Hey there, girl.

Orange Zest - with Raspberry Fizz, who knew?
I totally love this bright orange. And it's totally not just for Halloween!
And what do you think of that big, bold sentiment? LOVE IT!
Patterned papers and chipboard by Sassafrass, and a lil' Heidi Swapp bling in there.

Enjoying my last day off before I go back to work tomorrow - ugh!

Birthday tags.

I said I was almost done with the Christmas tags, but not tag-tags *wink*

This first tag features papers and epoxy stickers by Helen Dardik for Creative Imaginations. This is a super fun line - you'll have to check it out. I've also got a bunch of buttons on here, and a little pom pom trim by We R Memory Keepers that I picked up at Archiver's.

This second tag features patterned papers and chipboard by Sassafras. That little "today" paper is from A Million Memories and then up top I've got some Orange Zest ribbon and button from Papertrey Ink.

Hope you have a restful Sunday!

Christmas Recap.

I'm back with a lil' recap of our Christmas for those that are interested.

On Christmas Eve we went to 4 o'clock mass (church service) where my son was a donkey and my daughter was a sheep. No pictures because I brought the camera to the living room from my computer desk to take with us...and there it stayed. That's OK - the real entertainment was in the pews anyway. This lady was using coats to save an entire row, another lady called her on it and moved the coats and sat there with her family. Coat-saving lady got mad and stormed off and then was telling everyone about it. Taking-the-row-away lady sat there for about 10 minutes watching everyone look at her like she was some sort of evil villain so she stood up and yelled at the other lady and told her they could have their row back. It was pretty entertaining.

Then the priest was telling a great story about a girl whose mother was poor and at Christmas the mother took down the curtains and made the little girl a dress out of the curtains. That's all I picked up of the story because there was a screaming 2-year old sitting right behind me. Screaming in my ear. Constantly. Screaming. The kind of screaming where you feel your inner ear thingy like shake. Finally when the story was over, they took the kid out. Good timing, thanks.

Here's a picture of my kiddies on Christmas Eve. My tree and home look ghetto compared to all the lovely pictures I've seen out in blogland. We have a real tree though....it's a Disney tree....and this year we let the kids decorate it. I think it was the right thing to do, but, it would have looked nicer had just the grown-ups decorated it; too much vacant space...and just like with cards, white space unnerves me - LOL

Christmas morning we had my rice pudding. It's now called "mom's rice pudding" and every time I hear the kids and my husband call it that I feel so...grown-up. I'm the mom in "mom's rice pudding". My husband got me mostly cardmaking things, and baking goodies from Crate & Barrel and Fancy Flours. I wanted these little spatulas so bad, and I'm glad he got them for me. They are one of those things that are really cute, but you can't seem to bring yourself to spend the money on because it doesn't feel right - but as a gift, I'm all for it *giggles*

My aunt and uncle came over for Christmas Day dinner - my husband made a prime rib. It was the best prime rib in the history of prime ribness ever - - my aunt even said so. We used this recipe from Sandra Lee. Here's a picture of the prime rib in the salt crust when it first came out of the oven:

And here's the prime rib resting after the shell has been hammered off it now ready to be devoured:

So there you have it - my little Christmas.

Hope your day was something special.

The day after Christmas.

Sometimes I wish Christmas could last all year. And then I think of allllll the preparation that goes into it and think nope, one day a year and I'm good *giggles*

Today I'm sharing some pretties made with Bella Blvd. paper. Don't you just love that name - Bella Boulevard? The papers as you might imagine are just as lovely as the name.

First up I've got the second to last Christmas tag you'll see from me this year. You'll see one more with my JBE post on Tuesday. This one features patterned papers by BB, little chipboard presents by Collage Press, some Zva Creative bling, and some Glittered Skittles.

This is not a Christmas card! This is a December birthday card. I'm not sure if December babies would like a card that looks Christmassy, but I thought it was clever. Again with the BB papers, Glittered Skittles and some cool Prima stars.

Looking forward to relaxing today...amongst the piles of new Christmas presents and dirty dishes.

December 25th.

Merry Christmas, my friends!

I hope you have the bestest day today sharing special moments with family & friends, eating really good food, and giving & getting fantastic presents.

I saved this card to share today because it's my most favorite Christmas card that I made this year. I just think it's so stinkin' cute! I used some June Bug papers from BasicGrey and a fun chipboard embellishment from K&Company. Sometimes it's fun to be naughty *giggles*

Wishing you a wonderful holiday.

Rustic Snowflakes card + tag

Rustic Snowflakes really is a fantastic patterned paper set from Papertrey Ink and I'm sorry I didn't do more with it this year. I think maybe it came out too late in the season when I was already almost done with everything Christmas or something. Oh well - there's always next year. I've also got some more of those great Prima leaves on here too - I'm going to miss them....unless you think they'll work on a Valentine card?

Lots to do today. Gotta get the stockings ready....make rice pudding for tomorrow morning....the kids are in the Christmas program at church this afternoon where my daughter is a sheep and my son is a donkey (don't get me started - LOL).

Just hours away from Santa's visit - I hope you're ready!

Teacher Christmas cards.

Here are a few Christmas cards I made for the kids' teachers this year.

These first 2 cards were a while back and while I love this Christmassy numbers paper that I think is just perfect for a teacher Christmas card, I'm not sure if it's made by Scenic Route or October Afternoon. I tried to find it online and gave up after about a half an hour! By the way - sadly, Scenic Route has gone out of business, so if it's made by them you are going to be hard-pressed to find it anyway. I used a lot of scraps and random embellies hanging around on my craft table, using the numbers paper and the spiral (notebook) punch from SU! to give them that school kinda feel.

And this last card is mostly Papertrey Ink with the exception of the folded strip across the bottom which again is either October Afternoon or Scenic Route. That might have been the first and last time I used my Scor-Pal....and then I sold it on SCS. It ended up being one of those things that I got because everyone had it so that must mean I needed it. Then I got it and it just sat there - totally not me.

It's Christmas Eve eve - soooo exciting!!

A simply sweet Christmas gift.

- second post for today, scroll down for my JBE tag -

Today I'm sharing with you a quick, easy and more importantly - yummy - Christmas gift.

Nonnis' Biscotti. Do you know it? Do you love it? Oh man, I have a serious soft spot in my heart - and my tummy - for Nonni's Biscotti. I'm not big on coffee, but I do love me a nice big mug of warm milk; some people think that's gross, but I think milk tastes sweeter when it's heated. So you've got the mug of your favorite warm beverage and you dip in a piece of biscotti and let it soak up the liquid and you pop it in your mouth - heaven.

For my little project today I used Cioccolati (who doesn't love chocolate?)....

...and Limone (in case there is someone out there who doesn't love chocolate - LOL). I also like saying "limone". I'm Mexican so we say it "li-mon", but I think the Italians would say it "li-mon-ay" - say it however you like, it's still good stuff.

And then I got this cocoa from Cost Plus - but in the 99-cent packets.

And then I remembered that I had a set of mugs out in the garage. If you're like us, we have mugs galore. My husband uses his Oakland Raiders mugs (gag), I use a mommy one that the kids gave me a while back (sweet), and then we have others that have been given to us or that we have kept because we like the size or the handles on them or whatever. So, when we buy new dishes, we never bring out the mugs - ever. They just sit in the garage. Well this dish set is long gone, but the mugs are still sitting out way up on the rafters in the garage. I thought the grape print on these would be perfect to package a little biscotti goodness in!

I packaged (2) pieces of biscotti (they come individually wrapped which is so smart) and a pack of cocoa in some cellophane, tied a pretty Ripe Avocado bow around it, stamped the perfect sentiment, and then embellished with a vintage button, some leaves, and a pretty spoon that I picked up at Cost Plus.

And there's my nice, sweet, inexpensive gift for the daycare teachers. I say inexpensive because the biscotti comes 8 to a box for $2.99 making 2 of them 75-cents total, and then the cocoa was 99-cents but I got a bunch of them with a 40%-off coupon so that was only 60-cents, and everything else I had on hand at the house. I'm gonna try and find some red mugs on clearance after Christmas and do the same for school teachers and church teachers for Valentine's Day!

Have a sweet one!

A berry fun Christmas tag.

Get it, berry? Like for the holly berry? *giggles*

Because Christmas is almost here, this week the Jacksonbelle Embellishments DT is sharing pretty much anything they had time to make in this fun time of hustle & bustle. As for me, I pride myself on my organizational skills regarding Christmas (you can read more about that here) so I don't really have much to do in December and I don't go crazy (other than my normal level of craziness) trying to get things done. So I'm still having a good time here in Christmas tagland.

Again I've used some scrap cardstock and ribbon, along with some more Jolly by Golly paper by Cosmo Cricket and a sweet coordinating chipboard piece of holly and berries. I accented my berries with some Dew Drops, added some vintage lace and twine, stamped a "to" and off we go.

Hope you're just about done with all your Christmas preparations and can take a few minutes to enjoy a cup of tea or hot cocoa and just enjoy a few minutes of peace.

My holiday system.

Happy Holidays!

So I hear a lot of people talking about how they have shopping left to do still with just a few days left 'til Christmas, stressing about time and money at holiday time and they talk to me like I should know what they're going through and I have to say: I don't. I guess I used to be that way, but I got tired of the traffic, the crowds, being out in the cold, holiday retail help who don't know enough to actually help (no offense, just my experience), and the expense of having to come up with x amount of dollars all at once to shop for Christmas presents. The "most wonderful time of the year" sadly ends up being the most stressful time of the year, the busiest time of the year, and the most dreaded time of the year. So I decided to control it before it controlled me.

And now here I am sharing my system with all you fine folks. Now I know some people love being crazy this time of year - I just happen to not be one of them. And I'm not at all saying my system is the greatest or that I am better than anyone else, I'm just sharing what works for me.

I started in 2001 and putting together Word documents for both "Christmas Gifts" and "Yearly Gifts". Yearly gifts are birthdays and anniversaries or any other occasion that I might need to send a gift or a lil' something.

My Christmas list is in sections: his family, my family, friends, and then other which is teachers & co-workers (people that are subject to change on the list each year). Everyone starts out in RED, and as I am finished buying for them, they are changed to BLACK. For the little ones, I note the sizes that I am buying for this year which is typically a size up from what I bought for them last year; I do confirm this throughout the year with their mothers.

I print out my list and I keep it in my purse or in my car and I shop year-round. This is where I save money. I guess if you're flush with cash you don't need to save money, but just think how much more patterned paper and ribbon or whatever you're in to you could buy with all the money you save!

Here are (2) turtlenecks that I picked up at Kohl's in the summertime. Turtlenecks aren't hot sellers in the summertime (no pun intended), neither is other winter wear for that matter, so you'll typically find stray winter stuff hanging around on clearance racks. These turtlenecks were originally $18. Seriously - who would pay that? Maybe on sale for $9 - but $18? Get real. These were each marked down to $3.60 and I got them during one of those Saturday morning doorbuster sales where you take 50% off the lowest marked price. $1.80 each; 2 turtlenecks for $3.60 - a nice, inexpensive gift for a great aunt.

Then there's this pretty dress for my little niece Kathryn. She lives in California, so she could wear something like this almost anytime.

I picked this dress up at Dillard's after Christmas last year. The original price was $32. It was marked down to $9.60. And it was the weekend of New Year's where you take 75% off the lowest marked price making this dress $2.40.

My goal every year is to have all Christmas shopping done by my birthday - October 5th. And then I start wrapping on October 6th. I haven't always stayed true to the start wrapping part, but the shopping part, for sure.

Now here are the exceptions: gifts for my kids I do shop for throughout the year as well, however there is always that one thing that the children ask Santa for closer to Christmas that I go out and pick up for them. Same thing with my husband and my friend Heather (Hi, Heather!) who are both really hard to buy for. So I pick things up here and there that I think would be good for them, but I tend to wait until closer to Christmas to see if something cool comes out that they would like or if they mention something specific that they want.

Another thing I do is stock up on cheap holiday gifts that you find on clearance. There's always Christmas-themed gifts on clearance everywhere you go and you'll find them out until Easter and sometimes later. I'm talking about the kitchen towels, the candle sets, the Christmas-flavored teas, things like that. When you can pick up 5 of these for $1 each - do it. These are great for the great aunt who has everything, for church teachers, for anyone that you want to give a little something to without breaking the bank. Michael's has those cute Christmas kleenex packs for $1 that you can usually get for 25-cents on clearance in February and these are great little gifts for people you don't want to give a gift to per se, but just a lil' something - like non-close co-workers, KWIM?

I bought several sets of these Christmas dishcloths on clearance at Target for 90% off - 40-cents each. This year I gave the kids' teachers each a gift set that I made of Christmas pasta from Cost Plus (used a $20 off $50 coupon), fancy pasta sauce, Restaurant.com gift certificates to Carinos (80% off) and then threw in these dishcloths to complete the gift.

Oh yeah - and storage: that's my husband's part of the gig. He has everything stored in Rubbermaid boxes out in the garage. When it comes time for me to wrap, I print him out the area of the list I am working on and he goes out there and brings in the goods.

So there you have it. Maybe a little complicated or a little obsessive, but for me it's easier on the wallet to spend an extra $10 here and there than to come up with extra hundreds all at once. And I love giving a gift that looks like I spent more than what I really did - although most people that know me know how cheap I am *giggles* And more importantly, I love having the extra stress-free time in December to do things at my leisure and spend more time with the family.

Christmas taggies for my lil' girl.

Wow is it ever quiet in blogland. Not just here on my blog, but a lot of people are taking this week off from blogging. If I'd have known that, I'd have shown you some of my Christmas stuff sooner and taken the week off too - LOL Ah well, maybe when y'all come back you'll scroll down and have a looksie.

So here's the thing - patterned papers by Doodlebug are really cute, but for me, really hard to work with. And I try not to outright bash products because I'm sure some people love them and some things may work for you that don't work for me, but I have to be honest and say that these papers being so thin, like copy paper thin, are just difficult. Again, super cute, right up there as being one of the cutest Christmas lines this year, but, so flimsy and that wasn't workin' for me.

That being said, I did manage to get 2 Christmas taggies made with their Christmas papers. Not the greatest tags in the world and I think I was disappointed and struggling to work with these papers that I sort of gave up and just kind of did something to get it done.

But I'm sure my daughter will love.

Have a great Sunday!

Happy Holidays.

The last weekend before Christmas - can you believe it?! I can - because that means I am off for the next 10 days *yippppeeeeeeeeeeeee*

Today's card was made with a base of metallic paper from Paper Temptress. My patterned paper and die cut tree are from My Mind's Eye. A pretty straight-forward card; embellished with ribbon and a button (a pretty common finish for me *giggles).

It's crunch time, girls!
And it really is "the most wonderful time of the year" - isn't it?

The Friday 5.

It's Friday, girls - and we're all busy,
so let's cut the chit-chat and get straight to it.

Julia Stainton's blog.



Truth be told, I should have had Julia's blog on here week 1. I don't know Julia, don't know which forums she hangs out on, never exchanged an e-mail or posted a message on her blog, but she might be my number one source of inspiration and style since I started making cards just about a year ago now. She's totally vintage, collagey, shabby, whatever the term is - she's it and more. She mixes and matches papers and ribbons and chipboards - she is the antithesis of matchy-matchy and I like her style a lot.

These arrows from Zva Creative.

Now I don't want to bash Zva - I mean they're here on the Friday 5 so there must be something good about them. However, their bling lines are kinda flimsy and I find them hard to work with. BUT!! These arrows are really cool. I love the way they look - and they are nice and firm and adhere perfectly.

This card by Amber Hight.



The pretty Papertrey Green Tea Leaves paper, my favorite color - Ripe Avocado, perfectly-placed pearls around the edge of the circle and in the centers of the pointsettias, Luxe Satin ribbon and a sweet little dove; stunning.


This incredible mailbox by Jamie.

She actually said this was a piggybank. This is way too pretty to be a piggybank. I don't know where people find the patience or just the thought process to turn out something as incredible as this. Those colors are luscious and she's got all different textures goin' on too - breathtaking.

Stefanie's Ultimate Red Velvet Cheesecake.

Do you have a Cheesecake Factory where you are? No? Oh, the next state over? Go there - it's worth the drive *giggles* I love me some red velvet cake - I do have southern roots, don'tcha know? And I don't like white chocolate. But this is no ordinary white chocolate. It's creamy and sweet and buttery. And paired with that rich red velvet cake: winner. Should I be eating this? No. But the goal right now is to maintain. I really do think trying to lose weight - at least for me - is self-defeating at holiday time. So if I can maintain where I am (super fat though it may be), I'll be happy. And hey look - they're donating 25-cents from each slice sold to Feeding America; there just went all the guilt in my guilty pleasure.

OK girls - no Friday 5 next week because it's Christmas and I was up late last night working on this because I'm super busy right now - who isn't?

Happy Friday!

Christmas Magic.

I just love the idea of using things from the manufacturer's line on patterned papers - - like the name of the paper. That's what I did here with this Christmas Magic paper from Fancy Pants.

Ornaments were made with the SU! ornament punch, then I embellished the card with buttons and ribbon from Papertrey Ink and then popped up the Christmas Magic piece from the end of my patterned paper right in the center of my card.

My tree is from the Tree Trimming Trio set and then I embellished it with buttons and a pretty Prima leaf. I tried something that I've seen with ribbon before and that's to kind of fold it wonky and then staple it although I'm not sure I dig my result here. And then of course the Christmas Magic piece from my patterned paper edge sticking out on the side.

Ahhhh....the magic of Christmas.

Sweetest holiday wishes + Christmas Q & A

Today I'm sharing a fun card I made featuring patterned papers and embellies from American Crafts. I love brown and red together - it's just so warm - the only downfall for me is when I make a card with a base of brown cardstock, is having to put a white insert on the inside of the card to write on it and I always forget that until it's time to use it!

This Merrymint line of papers and the coordinating embellies like this sweet candy cane have been so fun to play with this year!

Oh - and every now and then I like to share conversations with my mom re: the things that I make. Here's another one....:

Me: Hey ma, look at this card, pretty, no?
My mom: Yes.....but it's ripped.
Me: Ripped, where?
My mom: Right there by the words so you can really notice it.
Me: Ma, it's supposed to be that way; I tore the edge to break up the square-square look.
My mom: Well, it looks like there's something wrong with it....it's not right.

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Miss Shelly sent me this Christmas Q&A thing and I have to admit - I DO like these things;

reading them and answering them myself.

So I thought I'd share mine with you all.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Mostly wrapping paper; but for mailed gifts a lot of bags because my pretty bows will get smooshed on the packages anyway.

2. Real tree or artificial? Real, of course.

3. When do you put up the tree? First weekend in December.

4. When do you take the tree down? New Year's Day.

5. Do you like eggnog? Gag.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Baby Alive - that yellow jelly poop was awesome!

7. Hardest person to buy for? My husband.

8. Easiest person to buy for? My kiddies.

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Several.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Old-fashioned mail.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Anything from my mother-in-law.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The Polar Express.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I never really stop.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Is the Pope Catholic?

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Prime Rib!

16. Lights on the tree? White.

17. Favorite Christmas song? I'll be home for Christmas... :(

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? How will Santa find us if we are somewhere else?

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? I don't think so....because I have Paco and Pepe on my list and everyone tells me that's wrong.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Minnie Mouse.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? People with bad attitudes.

23. What do you want for Christmas this year? Some cool things from Crate & Barrel.

24. What do you bake for Christmas? Baking is last on my list. At least fudge will get made and some sort of cookies if time allows.

25. Best Christmas memory? The year my brother and I unwrapped all our presents and re-wrapped them. I got a burgundy corduroy blazer and wore it all day before my mom got home and then re-wrapped it. We told her about it when we were opening presents; she beat the crap out of us - Merry Christmas!

Pretty pink Christmas tag.

This week the Jacksonbelle Embellishments DT is workin' a sketch challenge. I decided to work the sketch onto another Christmas tag. I thought a pink tag would be perfect for my little girl.

The thing I like most about making tags is that I can use up a lot of my scraps. The base of this tag and the ribbon are both from my scrap box. Then I took some of that fun, bright Jolly by Golly paper from Cosmo Cricket and also used the coordinating chipboard from that same line. A little bit of lace, a couple of buttons, stamp a "to" and it's done. Cute, eh?

A few JBE notes:
The new BasicGrey is now available for pre-order - I got mine ordered, get your order in so that you'll be one of the first to have it! Also, all Inkadinkado stamps are 75% off - snag a deal before they're all gone. We're also having a DT call; I've had a blast during my term with the JBE girls and would love for you to have that same opportunity.

Thanks for stopping in today!

Tags for a hostess gift.

My boss hosted a lil' holiday party Saturday night and I wanted to take a hostess gift for him and his wife, and since I'm all about the handmade, I wasn't about to go out and spend actual money on a gift. I figured it was probably too late to give Christmas cards, so I went with the next best thing: a set of Christmas tags. My boss is a rich guy, lives in Eagle where all the richies live, has a super nice house and all that, so I thought better to go nice than say fun or whimsical with these tags.

My papers are from Papertrey Ink's Holiday Vintage Prints, and ribbons, inks and to/from are from there as well. Basically I made 2 each in the same pattern, one horizontal and one vertical, and then embellished them all differently.

This first one I took advantage of the size of this huge snowflake from K&Company and didn't really need anything else beyond that.

A little glitter foam present from Petaloo, some little pearls from Martha Stewart, and a little bit of vintage trim from A Million Memories.

Some holiday chipboard from K&Company, some mesh from A Million Memories, and a line of bling from Zva Creative.

Buttons from Papertrey Ink, and lace trim from A Million Memories.

Prima Lustered Leaves and some berries from Real Deals. I added some red-line tape to the back for this one to be adhered on to a gift since my scrap ribbon wasn't enough to make a loop.

Lace trim from A Million Memories, Dew Drops, and a pretty key from Making Memories.

I'm off today and tomorrow - - yippeee! I'm gonna be home wrapping and listening to Christmas music, and who knows, I might even make some more tags *wink*

Have a great Monday!