Showing posts with label Christmas thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas thoughts. Show all posts
Monday, December 25, 2017
Merry Christmas
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
The Meaning of Christmas - Kaisercraft Holy Night
The post over at the Kaisercraft Blog today is all about the Meaning of Christmas.
My fondest memories of Christmas are from when I was a child. Once you get older Christmas can become more about logistics, finances and preparation. For me Christmas is meant for the children; the excitement, the joy, the anticipation. It is a holiday the kids love the best...to see Christmas through the eyes of child is the most magical way. The adults that enjoy Christmas the most don't let the details worry them. They breathe in the excitement, have fun and don't sweat the small stuff. Spending time with family and in gratitude is most important for me, and trying to see Christmas from a kid's perspective is the way to enjoy it the most : )
This photo is of my two beautiful nieces opening a present on Christmas day last year. I love the captivated looks of anticipation on their faces. I love these two beautiful girls very much and am grateful I get to see them at Christmas time and share these moments with them : )
The Holy Night Collection from Kaisercraft is perfect for scrapping your Christmas memories.
The Kaisercraft Products Used are:
P1910 Baby Jesus
P1909 Glory
P1916 Star
SS291 Sticker Sheet
|EM424 Tag Pack
PP977 Paper Pad
SB789 Chino
IP734 - Red
CB109 - Alpha #3
AS251 - Ebony
Pop on over the the Kaisercraft blog today to see what Christmas means to the other ladies on the team and to be inspired by their beautiful layouts.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
A Christmas Card Collection
Hi Blogging Beauties,
I wanted to share this collection of Christmas cards I made for my Mother-in-law.
She wanted a variety of ten cards altogether.
Two Religious
Two Red and Green
Two Aussie (have already blogged these here)
Two abstract
Two snowy
Well I did my best with what I could find and this is what I came up with...
These were the two "snowy" ones...although not much snow really, just a big fat Santa Claus all rugged up.
The Santas are rub-ons and are part of my Christmas candy.
I made two of these Religious cards. Both exactly the same.
I found the image on the internet and added a sentiment to the top of it.
I thought the gold angel paper was nice and went with a gold and blue colour scheme.
These were the two "abstract" cards. I went for un-traditional colours.
I actually really liked these two.
They have a fresh and simple feel to them I think.
The papers were old scraps from last year.
This card I used my Copics to colour the doillie and the gem stone in the ribbon.
You can enter your Copic coloured Christmas projects here at our Mad for Marker's challenge.
This card and the one above it were the "red and green" cards...although with the papers I have used this year they are more muted greens and reds..not very bight Chrissie Colours.
I thought I would play along with:
You will be so happy to know that I put our tree up last night!
I went shopping for inspiration and I am sad to say I could not find a pretty tree in any shop I went in...they were all lacking a lot of imagination. I made a decision to stick to my red, green and gold colour scheme this year...but...I am going to shop in the sales for a small white tree which I want to have as my "un-traditional coloured" tree. I thought I might get a smallish one to sit in the middle of the dining table and make it a silver and bright colour scheme. I did buy some red, green and gold decorations to assist me with my present wrapping (havent started yet!) so I am feeling much happier with the whole situation!
As I said to Ben...you know life is good when your biggest worry at the time is your Christmas Colour Scheme right!!!
So here are some pics...
These are the red, green and gold decorations I purchased to help me wrap the presents.
Here is Honey with her favourite Christmas decoration.
And here is Ben and I donning the Santa caps and posing for a photo after I had decorated the tree. We tried to get Honey in this photo but she wasnt much of a willing participant.
So the tree is up and I am feeling a whole lot better about getting organised for Christmas.
Still lots to do...but still a few days to Christmas to get it all done!
Thanks so much for dropping by,
Alicia xx
Friday, December 16, 2011
Happy B'day to my MIL and some Christmas Thoughts
Hi Blogging Beauties,
My first day of holidays today and I feel exhausted!!
I think everything has been catching up with me.
I thought I would blog these cards I made for my Mother-in-law's birthday a few weeks ago.
She has three kids so I made a card from each one of them.
I tried to make them all different.
In the first card (green and black) I used papers and accessories from Kaisercraft Chapter One, with a Manorhouse flower and some bling.
The second one I used papers from Kaisercraft Le Chateur collection, some white alphabet stickers and some Kaisercraft aqua flowers. Then I added a swirl, some lace, ribbon and a string of pearls from my stash.
The last card was made of purple scraps (purple is Barb's fave colour) and a big Manor House flower. This is a picture of Barb opening one of her presents we got her. She really liked the cards and the presents and said she felt very spoilt so that was good!!!
I would like to enter these cards in the Southern Girls Challenge - Let's Celebrate!
I am off to get my hair cut and coloured this afternoon and hope to fit in a little Chrissie shopping too. I still have quite a few presents to purchase. If I recover in energy I hope to put my tree up. I have been feeling very slack in not getting it up yet. I am kind of a bit bored with my tree and decorations. Does anyone else get that feeling...like they would like to revamp their Christmas colour scheme?? Yesterday I was talking to a lady who said her theme for this Christmas is purple and silver and so she bought a new white tree to match. Then she bought reindeer antlers for everyone to wear at Christmas and spray painted them silver. It sounded so fresh and delicious to me...and got me thinking do I need a little revamp?
Last night I worked on a Pinterest album of Christmas and found some lovely inspirational pictures. You can check them out here if you are interested.
Then I started thinking about a few Christmas thoughts...
...is Christmas all about "the perfect tree" or "the perfect colour scheme"
...does this really matter...
and then I started thinking what does Christmas really mean to me???
(Deep I know!) I am working on a little brainstormed list...
Ben and I talked about it too...he thought that people going to such effort like this lady would make for such a magical and memorial day...
What do you think???
What does Christmas mean to you???
I am keen to know.
From wwwcoppertechbiz.over-blog.com
Alicia xx
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)