Day 173

On Day 163 I posted a picture of an ornament I made for my Granddaughter's First Christmas. When my grandson Gavin saw it he said "Where's mine?" So here it is. :O)
I used the same alcohol ink technique as I did for Hailey's and then I used Chrishmkbold font for Gavin and the opposite side has the year 2009. I added a small snowflake on each side. Hopefully Gavin will approve.
The other day Gavin and I were reading and there was a picture of a macaw. I told him "Grama would love to have a macaw". He told me he would like to have a pigeon. :O)

Day 172

My daughter and I shopped "Black Friday" today. It was a first for me and it was fun, mainly because I was with my daughter. :O) I get to see her husband and of course my adorable grandkids, but my daughter works long hours so time with her is always special.
Saying all that, it was my son-in-law who inspired this tile. He is the best Daddy and his kids adore him. It is an 8x10 tile, designed in KNK Studio and cut on the KNK. So simple!

Day 171

Happy Thanksgiving!
I am waiting for the guests to arrive! I hope I have everything ready and didn't forget anything.
At the retreat Sandy had some cute placecards that she had made and she shared the file with us. So it is what I made for our Thanksgiving. I used brown vinyl for the names so that I didn't have to glue on all the putzy letters. I made 30 of them and they went pretty fast. I used the Coordinations paper so I sanded the edges of the pumpkins.
Last Thanksgiving dinner doubled as our son Joshua's funeral dinner. He passed away the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I really don't remember much of it, other than I didn't cook, everyone else did.
As a family we are truly blessed. There is my mom, her 8 children, assorted spouses, both current and ex's still come for the Holidays. There are 16 grandkids and 9.5 great's in the family. In the 59 years since my parents married we only lost my dad and our Josh. We are a family that gets along and who support one another. Our parents did good!

Day 170

No, it is not a card or a tile! I made this for my husbands snowmobile trailer. It has been on all summer using the Oracal outdoor vinyl and looks like new. It was fun to do and he applied it himself. Tomorrow is Turkey day at our house, should be fun. We will have 4 little ones from 8 months to 3 years and they always make us smile.

Day 169

This simple card was made doing a scan and trace. I had purchased some note cards at Michaels in the dollar bin that had a leaping reindeer.
I decided to try to duplicate it. Using the scan and trace method in my KNK Studio it was very simple. I cut the reindeer from vinyl and applied it to patterned paper like a sticker.
After having the grandkids 4 out of the last 6 days and being up at 5 am for the past week, I am one tired Grama! I have some neat stuff to show you in the upcoming days so keep watching!

Day 168

This card is so simple and sweet. I don't know who to give credit to because there was no name on the file. It was cut from white cardstock with my KNK and lined with red cardstock. How easy is that?
Update 
My friend Colleen sent the following...

The beautiful Peace card on your blog is by Ginny at PaperThreads. The link is:

http://www.paperthreads.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3441

Thanks Colleen!

Day 167

The picture is enough to make you dizzy...sorry!
I bought a pack of 35 foam snowflakes for $5 at WalMart and then had to figure out what to do with them. My sister works at a group home so I decided to make a personalized snowflake for the residents and staff. I found all vinyl is not created equal. I had bought a small roll of Silhouette vinyl on clearance in baby blue which I used on the white flakes. It didn't stick to the foam very well. Then I used the Oracal repositonal, 631 I think, in white on the blue flakes and what a difference. It adhered perfectly. Of course the vinyl was cut on my KNK.