Christmas Card 2009

Well, I finally finished my Christmas card for this year. I'm about halfway through assembling all them. I was extremely busy this week cleaning the house and doing laundry for my Mom's visit.

I used the "Joys of the Season" Cricut cartridge. I love how the snowmen came out, but I had difficulty cutting out the saying “Merry Christmas” and the snowflakes. The font gave me some trouble becasue I was limited to size it for the card and when I would remove it the letters would rip and this is the main reason I have taken so long with these. I found out from Robyn at My Pink Stamper that I was cutting the saying too small and that’s why it was tearing. Thanks for your help Robyn. I appreciate it. Let's just say I had glue all over my hands and I am usually very meticulous LOL. The snow flakes were cut on thicker white sparkle paper and that was difficult to remove, so, I had to use my exacto knife for all of them. Let’s see 3 different size snowflakes + over 40 cards = not happy crafter.

Hope you like it.

Getting ready for a special visitor

This week we are going to be busy little beavers around here. My Mom is coming in for a week long visit this coming Saturday and we are so excited. Of course I have a ton of things to do while E is at work...cleaning, laundry, etc. Then we will be doing our Thanksgiving dinner shopping or we just might wait and take Mom to the Commissary here on post.

We cannot wait to have her here for Thanksgiving. E is so pumped up, they both get along so well and he has the cutest name for her...he calls her "Little Momma." Although there is not much to do here, she is very excited to do some crafting and sewing. Most of all we are looking forward to spending some quality time together. We will also take her around post, the National Infantry Museum, and to Columbus. She loves to shop...so that will be a no brainer.

I also have to finish my Christmas cards this week and I will finally post a picture of it. I have been having a little bit of trouble with them and with me being a perfectionist that doesn't make life any easier. LOL I am using my Cricut Expression and  the Joys of the Season cartridge. Everything I cut out came out great except for one of the phrases I was trying to cut out. I will explain more when I post the card.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!!

Alisha