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Anyone else hoping to get all their holiday shopping done by Thanksgiving? Usually, I like the hustle and bustle of the holidays. The thought of having to fight for my own space while being preggers makes me want to vomit! How’s that for holiday spirit?! LOL! Of course, this downer comes after the airport last weekend…

We got in about 11pm and Tony took Ellie to get the car {believe me, that was the bigger hassle of the two} and I went to go get the luggage. I left with 2 bags and came home with 6 {5 if you count the backpack that Tony had on him}…thanks to Tony’s shopping and very generous baby shower gifts! I knew that I could wait inside, but decided to make it to the curb so Tony would not have to park, unload Ellie and come find me. I had 2 rolling bags, 2 shopping bags and my purse {believe me, it’s a bag!!}. I put the 2 shopping bags on top of the 2 rolling bags and started to make my way out. Well, one of the shopping bags kept falling, the handles ripped, etc. It was more of a pain than it was probably worth, but I wanted to get to the curb. Would you believe that not one person helped a pregnant lady at now darn near 11:30pm until I was almost outside and the bag fell off again? Plenty of people looked, but no one helped. As someone that keeps the door open for someone behind me, etc., I found this to be quite rude. Yea, I know that I shouldn’t expect help but it sure as hell would have been nice to see a little human decency.

So enough of my blah, blah, blah and onto my stampin’ stuff! These project feature more The Cat’s Pajamas new release from this week. The first is a card that uses a combo of stamping, cutting, punching and {Slice machine} die cuts to create a very 3 dimensional card…

A couple of detail shots…

I embossed the small snowflakes with a transparent pearl embossing powder {Stampendous} and then punched them out with a small circle punch to create ornaments for the tree…

This next recipe card project was a lot of fun to make using the new TCP Glitzy glitter and Coolvetica alpha…

Detail shot…

Just wanted to let everyone know that the November Project Parade has started over on the Verve Stamps blog. As always, I am kicking it off and have a fun {and super affordable} project…

If you want to play along with this month’s theme, “Home for the Holidays: Gifts, Decor and More” you could have the chance to win some moulah to spend in Verve store. The Project Parade runs from today through the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. We’re hoping to inspire some holiday magic in everyone!

Welcome to my stop along this holiday inspired TCP Tuesday Blog Hop for The Cat’s Pajamas featuring the ***NEW*** sets from TCP. Hopefully you came here by the way of Julee. If you happened upon here by accident, be sure to start at the beginning on Susan’s blog. Susan has issued this week’s TCP Tuesday challenge… make a December holiday card/project. Play along for a chance to win some serious Cat Cash and the title of “Swanky Stamper.” Susan has all the deets on what you need to do {and ya have until the end of the month…how’s that for a deadline!?!}.

For this challenge I have created 4 holiday tags/gift embellishments using the sets, Give a Little and Penguin Christmas which now available along with more sets, plus new glitter and buttons…

Group shot…

Individual poses…

Detail shot of the liquid applique {which I allowed to completely dry before using my heat tool to puff it up}…

These can be used as either tags on any gift or an embellishment on a bag. I was thinking that they would look great on a kraft sack…ya know the ones that are 6 for a few bucks at the major hobby stores? While I love the cute fancy sacks, it’s hard to buy many of them when they can run $4 a pop.

Ok, so are you ready for some more blog hop happiness? Then hop on over to my pal Amy’s blog. I’ll be enjoying the day off on Tuesday and will be happily creating more holiday goodness. Stay tuned!

Greetings from beautiful North Texas!! It’s been a while since I have been able to say that, so I figured I should probably take the opportunity to do so! This week has been absolutely gorgeous and I think that the temps even hovered around 80 degrees yesterday…which happened to be the day that I spent working and running around like a crazy woman. I went to my OB yesterday and I am right on track for a bib healthy baby boy in January. I have started to go every other week now and I am sure that baby boy del Muro {still not named} will be here before we know it. Ellie is very excited to be a big sister and we have been trying to prepare her for what babies are really like, but I am fairly certain that she has no clue what she is in for!! LOL! She said that she can’t wait for him to play the prince when she wants to play princesses. That should be amusing!

I actually have an ABC project for you this Friday! It’s not exactly something new and inventive, but I like it all the same. I came across this template a while ago, and consider it my go-to gift card holder.

I made these for the local coffee shop owner. They are made with Old Olive and Bashful Blue cardstock from SU, along with white cardstock from PTI and Basic Grey patterned paper. The coffee stamp set is Let’s Get Together from There She Goes. Finally, I added ribbon that I picked up at Target a year or so ago in their party/wedding section.

These were pretty easy to mass produce, which I normally don’t do. I just cut and prepped each of the pieces, lined ‘em up and popped it all together…viola! Well, lots to do today, so I am jetting off and will be back tomorrow for another SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY…and a wonderful new Designer of the Month. See ya then!!

Hey there! Well, I’m up on the Prism blog again today. with a banner just for FALL. Here’s a sneakie peekie…

I also have another project to show you here. I first saw a petal top box like this one on the Clearly iStamp blog. I knew that I had to use the Prism papers to make this into another “Fall Into Prism” project. Just imagine the possibilities with holidays coming up! You can fill the with candy, ornaments, small gifties and even make this a fancy way of giving the standby gift card!…

EDITED TO ADD… HERE is the direct link for the tutorial on her blog for those that did not find it.

Front detail…

Shot of the petal top {closed}…

Shot of the petal top {open}…

One more ~ front shot of petal top open…

All of the papers shown are from Prism…
Herbal Garden Dark G511-E
Intense Orange OR041-E
Suede Brown Dark BR309-E
Butter Cream W475-D
Spring Willow Medium G431-D