lindaalbrecht

A day late and a dollar short

Okay, I'm actually lots of dollars short after our shopping spree yesterday.  That's my excuse for not posting on Friday like I had said I would-- my husband and I decided to finish up our Christmas shopping.  We didn't.  Oh well, there's always next week and who doesn't like to battle the last minute shopping crowds in the mall? :-/

So today is packed full, but I wanted to jump on here to announce the winner of the Christmas Bingo Album kit.  Ready??????????????

Congratulations Bobbie!!!!!
Posted by: Bobbie | December 16, 2009 at 05:51 PM   Please email me with your mailing address and get ready for some fun.

I did another project for The Allyscraps Blog.  Please check out the other lovely projects on their blog also--they have a great design team and guest designers, like Morag Cutts--you should see her last blog post project.  It's a sweet little Christmas countdown calendar using my favorite Eskimo Kisses by BasicGrey.  It's the cutest!

My project is a sparkly Christmas stocking filled with sweet little winter time goodies.

The stocking is made from chipboard and covered in beautiful paper from Fancy Pants.  The little snow guy is part clay and part styrofoam and the star is paper mache.  I plan to draw up a pattern and write up the instructions for the stocking part, so if you want the template, please request it in the comment section of this post.  It may take me a couple of days to get it off to you, but I'll get them out asap.   
 
One more thing... this is up for sale at The Scrappy Gourmet.  It's so much prettier irl...sparkly little touches too.
 


Merry Christmas everyone!
Linda  
 
 

December's mystery

Okay, does December go faster than any other month or what?  Ten days until Christmas Eve and I am not ready.  I wonder how December does it?  I mean really, it's got to be one of the great mysteries of the world how the days get shorter during this month of the year.  Maybe part of it is the cold and less hours of daylight... I do tend to lose energy after the sun has set which means fewer hours to accomplish stuff. 

Anyway, I'm feeling a little put out about it and may just have to ask for a pardon this year from Christmas.  Only for a week or so... but then, maybe that wouldn't be enough anyway because I'd blow the extra days by napping too much.  Oh how I love to nap in the winter under a nice warm quilt. ;-)  Well, enough complaining... I need to get back to work soon. 

Things got a bit delayed on this next project, but it should be up for sale at The Scrappy Gourmet.  

This sweet little Maya Road house box album set is covered in Melissa Frances papers.  Of course you'll use lots of one of my favorite embellishments-- silver pipe cleaners-- plus other pretty trims found at The Scrappy Gourmet store.  Also included are those Kaiser Kraft Rub ons.  You'll get plenty in the kit to do other projects too.

The pages are simple and sweet with room for your favorite Christmas photos.
I haved loved those pretty papers from Melissa ever since I first saw them and can't get enough of them at Christmas time.


 Since I brought up time and the loss of it, I have to show you what I have been working on while I am waiting for an hour before one of my son's Hockey games.  He does warm ups and gets ready for his game, I do this:

I have an obsession with my mom's old photos.  Photos of grandparents, my mom as a child, my sisters and myself when we were young..... I just love and cherish them so much.  I try to use them when I can in layouts or minibooks, but I decided to put my favorites in their own book so that they are all together.  I can't wait until it's all done.

I'm using a mixture of scrapbook papers and supplies, fabric, old buttons and lace, lots of stitching, beads, and trinkets. Those laces are all from a 98 year old friend of my mom's.  Some of them are from her travels to places like Sweden and Germany.  Lucky me!
The scrapbook papers and embellishments are from the new BasicGrey "Origins" line, Cosmo Cricket, Bo Bunny, and My Mind's Eye.  Love. love. love!
 
In my last post, I mentioned a GIVEAWAY!!!!  This time I want to give someone the opportunity to WIN one of my kits.  Remember this?


Leave a comment on this post and you will be entered into the drawing to win this kit which includes a 12 page 5x7" album, all of the trims and embellishments, plus instructions and full color images of each page for easy assembly.  All that you'll need is your own Christmas memories in photographs.

I will draw a name on Friday, December 18 (this week!) and will post it the same day.  Good luck everyone.

Merry Merry everything!
Linda
 
   

You can tell it's December!

Yes, it's definitely December because I've got so much to do..... not only because of Christmas preparations, but this is always a busy month planning for the Winter CHA show.  Scrapbook manufacturers are rushing to get together new product and they need plenty of samples to "wow" the retail merchants.  

I don't have all of my decorating done yet either.  I wish that I did... but I am close.  If  I didn't feel the need to cram a few hundred bulbs into every open nook and cranny of the house maybe I would be.  I love it though.  I love the lights and the sparkles that fill the house and the smell of a real tree.   Every year when I open the boxes filled with decorations, I feel a little rush of excitement. 

I plan to have a few things to share soon, but wanted to pop in to ask you to head on over to the  Allyscraps blog.  I am the guest designer for the month and they sent me some fun product from their store to work with.

 This is just a small portion of my project for the week.  I used some Maya Road chipboards and beautiful Fancy Pants "Christmas Magic" product from the Allyscraps  store.  This product is gorgeous and really has a magical quality to it.  The Christmas Magic rub ons are my favorite!  So if you can, please head over to see the rest of the images of my project at the Allyscraps blog, then visit their store for some great product lines.   

Well, I'm off to work on more decorating.  I will be back soon and will be offering up a little giveaway next time, so stop by in a few days to see what it is!

Have a peaceful holiday season,
Linda