It's All About The Journey

A Christmas Jingle Digital and a Christmas Jingle Hybrid Card

Hi Ladies. Last night I used My Digital Studio to make a Christmas card for the Keep It Simple challenge over at Pals Paper Arts. As all of you know by now I *love* keeping every thing simple. It's not only my style but it's also  the way that I live my life now that I'm older and wiser. :) I've always been a type A person. Can any of you relate to being a Type A person? If so then you know how hard life can be,  how complicated it can be and how hard it is to slow down. Not the best way to live a good healthy life. However, I think it's very difficult to stop being a type A person. Wow! I certainly went off on a tangent. Ha-ha. My point is.......the more simple life is for me the better off I am and feel.

I know that you have read this many times on my blog but I *love*the MDS program. It is easy to learn, and making projects are so simple. Even if your design is more ornate it is still very simple to make.  So this has been an awesome program for me to buy and use. 

Here is My Simple Christmas Card.

I used Christmas Jingle embellishment of the reindeer on the round punched out circles. The Merry Christmas stamp is also from the  Christmas Jingle set. I used a White grosgrain ribbon and a white grosgrain bow. I used the  Modern Day punch and Olive green card-stock all from My Digital Studio#118108.

Here is my Hybrid card.

 Every thing is the same except that I used Whisper White card-stock and a white button from Button Latte. Both of these items were not used from the MDS, although they are available in the MDS program. So there you have it! Two very simple Christmas cards. One completely done using a program and the other using the MDS and other products from Stampin'UP! Mass producing either of these cards would be so fast and easy to do. If you ever have any questions about this program please do not hesitate to ask me.

Personal Ramblings

Wayne and I did not get our Christmas tree up last night because the lights were not working and there was no way to fix them. So today, I went to the store and bought another new pre-lit Christmas tree. Wayne will be putting it up tonight. Yay!!!! In the mean time I have been wrapping some gifts and writing out a few Christmas cards. Only 25 more days to go. Yikes!!! I still have so much to do yet.

Yesterday, was in the high 40's, sunny and there was no wind blowing. It was such a gorgeous day and  a great day to take a walk. I ended up walking 4miles. It was just too wonderful to be indoors. I hope that we will have a few days in December that are warm enough for me to walk. If not, I will try bundling up and see how that goes. :)

I forgot to share with all of you a photo that I took 2 days before Thanksgiving day. Wayne was looking out or sliders and he told me to hurry over and look at the wild turkeys walking through our property. I did but I grabbed my camera fast and ran outdoors to try and get a photo of them.I did but not a very good one. Who knew that Wild Turkeys could  run??? I sure didn't. Ha-ha. Anyway here is a picture of a few of the Wild Turkeys. The rest of them headed for the woods fast!

 
Not a great photo but I was a good distance from them. They really were huge! I wish you could have seen what I did.

Well, I am off to go and wrap up some more Christmas gifts. I hope that all of you have a good week. Mine will be very busy but that's cool. It keeps me out of trouble. Smile.  :)

 

 

Anniversary Page and A Few Thanksgiving Photos

Hi Ladies. It's 2:38 AM Sunday here in NH. I lost track of the time when  I started this post  but decided to continue with it and then post it before I go to bed.:)  I have a new digital page to share with you as well as a few Thanksgiving Day photos of Wayne and I.

Now that Thanksgiving Day is over I need to concentrate on finishing up  the book about me for my daughter and I have also decided to make a book for Wayne. I am calling it "Through the Years". I will also be making cards in between each page or two. I have all of my tags stamped and punched out but have not put ribbons on them etc... As soon as they are all finished I will post those too. I have a few projects I want and need to get done. Gift card holders to make, little Christmas fancy boxes and more. I just hope I can get it all in.  Anyway, here is my first page for Wayne's book. 

 
This page went together very fast for me. I think the hardest part was deciding which photos to use. I used the My Digital Studio program from Stampin'UP! to make it. Those of you who follow my blog know how much I love this program so I wont go on about it today.:)But I would like to share with you that I became certified to teach this wonderful program. I attended quite a few hours at my computer watching and listening to the Webinars, completed the projects needed and I took the test.  Wanna see my certification? I would like to share it because I really did work hard to get it.

I am so excited to be making my books for Christmas this year. I love paper scrapbooking but in all honesty......I prefer digital scrapbooking more.  I hope that your SU demonstrator has shown you this wonderful program.

Did you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day? Wayne and I had a very nice day and a very quiet one too. But sometimes quiet is good. It was a lovely day so while the turkey was cooking I went for a walk. I think it was about 45 degrees but there wasn't any wind and there was sun so it was great walking weather. Once home, I got serious about cooking all of the other things that I needed to for our diner. Wayne loved his diner and that sure did make me happy. :) Here are just a few photos that I have to share with you. We took lots of them but I do not want to bore you or take up too much more of your time.

WARNING!!!!

There are at least 5 photos. :)

Here is a photo that Wayne took of me finishing up the cooking.

Here is our Turkey all cooked. This year I bought a Hotel style Turkey because it was only Wayne and I.

 

I took this photo on the fly of Wayne carving the Turkey. I was in a hurray to get all of the food on the table while it was still hot.

As you can see my table was decorated very simple but I think it was pretty.

 
 
 
  Whoa! This photo is quite large. We took this of one another after we ate our diner.

  And Here I am still smiling after many hours of hard work.Ha-ha. Seriously, I enjoyed every moment of it.

So there you have it. I hope that I did not take up too much of your time with putting up so many photos.

Did any of you go out on Black Friday? I have only been one other time but I went at around noon time so it was not that crazy. This year Wayne went with me and we left our house at 3 AM. We went to Toys R Us and were in the store for 5 hours, three hours were spent in line. Never again. We also went to a few other stores but the lines were so long that we walked out. We did go to Best Buy and it was an awesome experience. They were so organized. I bought Wayne a gift that he has been wanting for awhile so I can hardly wait for Christmas day. Today we will finally be putting up our Christmas tree. yay! :)

Okay, it is now 3:46Am and I am exhausted. I hope that you all  had a wonderful holiday and enjoy the rest of the weekend. I will be back soon with a card. Smile.:)  
 
 

Happy Thanksgiving Day

Hi ladies. I hope that all of you will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day with friends and family or just that one special person in your life.  

Wayne and I will be spending the day together. All of our children are going to their Mom's, Dads etc.. To lift my spirits up I went out and bought all new dinnerware, tablecloth and decorated my table  just the way I wanted it. It is simple but elegant.:) I have all of the food ready to cook as soon as I get up. It will be a very quiet day but a happy one for sure.

Here is a Smile Box card that I put together for you. Hope you like it.

Make a Smilebox greeting

If you have your speakers up you might want to lower them a little.  I hope that all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and that you ae surrounded by lots of  family and friends. Blessings and Hugs to all of you. Smile :)