Pretty Pink Christmas

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eyeConnect Crafts Christmas in July

Join me over at eyeConnect Crafts where I will be showing this Christmas in July card.

Black and White Christmas Card plus Dreamerland Crafts Card

Getting a jump on the holiday season.  Watercolour bkg with distress inks and water splashes.  (The water splashes work well to create the moon.)  I used Lawn Fawn's Winter Sparrows stamp set.  First, I created the background; then I stamped the sparrows and then coloured them in with a black pen.  The hills are from a Lawn Fawn die set. 

I used Dreamerland Crafts' Happiness Is stamp for this watercolour card.  I wanted it to be a bit eccentric so I used a bright purple for the dress and bright green for the background.  I love this stamp!  Its rubber so it will last a lifetime or more!  The sentiment is from a MFT stamp set.  Both the background and the stamped image are on watercolour paper.

Favorite Christmas Movies

While you were sleeping

(It takes place at Christmas time.) Yogi's First Christmas
A Christmas Carol (George Scott)
A Chipmunk Christmas
Prancer (feel good movie)

2012 Christmas Cards

Christmas in our home

Fountain in the corner. 

 Some note about the upstairs decor:

Reindeer from Superstore $12

Candles IKEA 50% off sale in November

Candle holders from IKEA.  We stacked two to get this look.

Merry Christmas to ALL!

God Bless,

the little mennonite

Christmas in the Kitchen

P.S.  The plastic is a must for all those spills!

Baby its going to be a blue, blue Christmas (and turquoise too!)

I know I said in this post that I was thinking of pink for Christmas; however, it seems I have more blue things, and being a thrifty Mennonite I'm going blue.  A few ideas:

[Image: southern hospitality blog]

[Image: southern hospitality blog]

I could make these!  [Image: Mary Elizabeth Arts]

[Image: southern living]

Simple chic!  [Image: favim]

I can make these.  [Image: zgallerie]

I could make this.  [Image: lucky girl goods]

[Image: toriejayne]

[Image: hgtv]

I know this is not blue... but I must add it somehow!  [Image: sweet something design]

[Image: southern living]


[Image: vintage junky]

Operation Christmas Child

 Here is one of my cards for Operation Christmas Child this year.  I just found out that if you send your address along with the card you send the child, they may write back!  Sending a card and a photo of yourself is essential because the children love to hear from the people who sent the gift and they would love to know what you look like.  Did I mention that this is my favorite charity??!  Visit their web site: here.

We are just putting together our boxes now and I found these cute tambourines I had saved (because I had gotten them for free at a rally) so I decorated one for a girl and the other (not as nice - so no photo) for a boy.  Very easy and pretty.  Hope she likes it.  I'm also taking the flowers from this post and adding hair elastics, hair clip or safety pins to the backs so I can give them to the girls.  Operation Christmas Child is a great way to give your crafting!

Go to this web page for Operation Christmas Child and print out the All about me colouring page to add with your card.  (Its really for a child but a fun adult could use it too!)

Most importantly, don't forget to pray for your child/children!!

Blessings,

the little mennonite