Holiday Digital Freebie For My French Speaking Friends

My maiden (birth) name is Christine Doucette and my father's family has very strong French Canadian roots.  I have made cards for my favorite aunt in French so that she can send them to our French speaking family members in Canada and Nova Scotia, so I thought a French holiday freebie was in order.

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My sincere best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.  Thank you for your support this year - I am preparing to enter my 7th year of blogging in a few days thanks to all of you!

Again - thanks for visiting!

chris

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{this moment} - 12/21/2012

{this moment} - 12/21/2012

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  

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chris

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Couple of last minute projects ...

As much as I tell myself that I'm going to be ready for Christmas THIS year ... it never happens.  I'm still knitting like crazy and still making cards and tags.  Here's some of this week's work:

I have one more holiday freebie on Monday so be sure to stop back!

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chris

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Holiday Freebie - Christmas Round

I just love sentiments that are round!  They punch so easily and they're just plain fun!  Here's one I did for this holiday season.

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I have one more Christmas freebie for you next Monday and then I'm going to start on some for next year!  Enjoy!

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chris

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Tree Trimming Party

Ever since we have had grandchildren, we've been getting a real Christmas tree.  We stopped for a few years after getting kittens and decided that once the grandchilrdren started arriving it was time again.  For the last several years, we have been having them all over to help us trim the tree.  Their parents get a bit of a break to do some shopping and we get help trimming the tree.  This year we had a pizza party first and then trimmed the tree.  A grand time was had by all as you can see from these pix!

When their parents return to pick them up we have a family dinner and unfortunately I did not take any pix of that this year -  next year I'll remember!

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chris

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{this moment} - 12/14/2012

This week's moment ...

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  

The beginning of winter brings such beautiful sunrises.  So glad to be awake and alive and experiencing them.

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chris

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Little Miss Muffet Challenge

The wonderful folks at Little Miss Muffet Stamps kindly invited me to be a guest designer for this week's challenge on the Little Miss Muffet Challenge blog.  The challenge this week is "It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas" and I used this adorable Holiday Christmas Tree digital stamp for my project.

The background is a retired (unmounted) Stampin' Up! wheel that I just love and I stamped it using Whisper White ink.  The tree was colored using Copic markers with the star and balls also colored with SU Dazzling Details and added some "snow" using liquid applique puffed with a heat gun.  I cut it and the scalloped oval out using Spellbinders dies. I created a digital sentiment to fit in a Spellbinders label die to use for my sentiment.   This was a fun and easy project to make.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Some Stamp Camp Cards

I have some gorgeous card samples from November and December Stamp Camp North to share with you.  There are more, but not all the pix turned out due to cloudy conditions and photographer error!  Might try to photograph them again, we'll see.  But here are some of my faves that did turn out:

I have been blessed to work with so many talented people since I took up this paper crafting hobby!  I appreciate them so much for all the creative goodness they have brought into my life, and these are just the local folks that I interact with every month!  There are so many wonderful people that I have met and gotten to know online as well.  You have all enriched my life in ways that I cannot begin to describe.  Thanks so much to each and every one of you!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Monday Freebie - Happy Hanukkah

On this, the 3rd day of Hanukkah, I thought I would do a sentiment to celebrate that holiday.

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I have much to share but no time to take pix.  Hopefully today!  Lots of stunning creations by my fellow crafters.  We had a wonderful stamp camp on Saturday and that will be my last camp until February.  Lots of holiday activities planned with family and the Stampin' Up! Leadership conference in January to prepare for.  Still trying to decide if I'm going to make swaps ... 

I'm working on some great scarves and presents for the grandkids and will try to take some pictures of those things too!

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chris

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Monday Freebie - Christmas Blessings

Well it's Monday again ... so here's your holiday freebie sentiment for this week:

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We had our Rocky Mountain Inky Fingers Christmas party this weekend and it sure was a lot of fun!  Great swaps (I'll show you those tomorrow) and a wonderful time had by all.  Thanks girls for being such wonderful, creative stamping buddies - you truly are blessings!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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{this moment} - 11/30/2012

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

My first time posting {this moment} - hopefully not the last.  Photo taken by my daughter-in-law of my youngest grandson on this week's letters adventure - M&N -(mountain) getting to use his "pack-pack" - exciting stuff!

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chris

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Couple Cuties!

I totally fell in love with this image from Designed 2 Delight:

I love to color and have not done enough of it recently.  I look forward to doing more, both with my Copics and with my pencils/oms and watercolors.  I've let myself get too busy with too many other things and need to get back to basics and start being creative again!

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chris

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Monday Freebie - Just for You!

I have another freebie for you this Monday morning:

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Have not made a card with it yet, but I think this would be cute on a gift tag.  Might have to try making one of those tonight!

Things have been a bit crazy with lots of birthday celebrations (grandson and daughter-in-law) and the Thanksgiving holiday (19 people for dinner) and I didn't get in the craft cave much this past week.  I did spend some time working on a blog re-design so watch for that coming up soon!  Thanks for hanging in there with me, I really appreciate all of you!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Merry Christmas Freebie Sample

I had a good night last night and I managed to make a card sample using yesterday's digital freebie.  I haven't colored in such a long time and it was so nice to stamp out an image and get out the long ignored Copics and color!  The image is from the SU set Christmas Blessings.  I embossed the Always Artichoke card base with the holly image from that same set.

What do you think?  Have I lost my coloring touch?

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chris

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Monday Freebie - Merry Christmas

Just a quick post to give you today's freebie sentiment.  Busy weekend with the North Area Stamp Camp on Saturday and my darling grandson's 4th birthday party at our home on Sunday.  Busy, busy.  My DS and his wife will be coming in for the Thanksgiving holiday on Tuesday and will be here until Sunday morning.  It will be so wonderful to have them here sharing the holiday with us.

Without further ado, here's this week's freebie:

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Nothing fancy this week and I didn't get a chance to make a card with it.  Maybe tomorrow.  I'm off from work this week and hope to have some chances to play amongst all the festivities.
 
Thanks for visiting!

chris

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