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Thank you so much for everyone that send me their gorgeous Christmas cards. Sorry I didn’t post my RAK’s the last month and a half. I want to at least list the names of the wonderful people that CRAK’ed me. All the cards and well wishes were great pick me ups!!!

Allison Fillo
Allison Nolan
Barbara Tilden
Diane Ouellette
Debbi Acampa
Heike Neukirch from Scottland
Jackie Burroughs
Julia Pruett
Karen Hollis
Krista Driessen from the Netherlands
Lila Holgate
Linda Bullard
Linda Jenkins
Lori Marcum
Lori Tecler
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Williams
Michelle VanWiggerens
Monika Davis
Rhonda Faureau
Tina Phillips
Veronica Roberts

Have a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve!!!

This picture was taken on during our trip to Germany. I love that my boys still like to hang out with each other. I think it really shows in this photograph.

We were waiting on a train and both of them were sitting on a railing, looking like birds on a wire.

Another very simple layout.

The page base is a 6″ x 6″ piece of Kraft cardstock. The left hand side has a 3 3/4″ x 6″ piece of Outlaw Designer paper taped to it.

I sanded the edges a bit with my sanding block.

The photograph is cut down to 4″ x 5″ and layered with a 1/4″ bigger piece of Basic Black cardstock.

 The photo corner on the top left is punched out of Really Rust cardstock and sponged with Really Rust and Chocolate Chip to make it more rustic looking. I added five Antique Brass brads on top of it. I can’t help myself. I can’t leave those photo corners plain. They NEED brads.

I stamped bros with the Jumbo Outline Alpha on Outlaw Designer paper with Black Stazon and colored the letters in with Chocolate Chip Marker. The word was cut out and taped first on a 1 3/8″ black circle, then on a sponged Really Rust Scallop circle.

I added a ribbon holder with sponged Twill from the Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware on the left hand side.

Two stars were stamped in Chocolate Chip on Kraft cardstock, punched out with the small star punch and sponged with Really Rust and Chocolate chip. They were adhered next to the title and an Antique Brass Brad was placed in each star center. The star stamp is from the stamp set Wanted.

I made this little calendar for Rick for while he is in Qatar.

I sure hope he will have a desk to put it on.

Just thinking about Rick leaving, Rebecca is worried about missing him.

You will find a step by step tutorial on splitcoaststampers.

During the last week my neighbor came over with her little ones and was working on THREE Days to remember calendar for her family as Christmas gifts.

That got me going on Rick’s calendar again. Since I only have one week left, my next few Scrapbook Sunday pages will turn out rather simple.

I don’t think Rick will mind though. He will be glad to have some pictures of us to look at while in Qatar. Plus he will love that I put everyone’s birthday on the calendar pages. I don’t know how it is in your family, but here, if I don’t think of birthdays, our relatives don’t get cards and gifts. LOL

I made this page to be later paired with a page I had made earlier.

The page base is a 6″ x 6″ piece of textured Blue Bayou cardstock. The photo was cut down to 4″ x 5″ and layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Basic Black cardstock.

The designer paper is from the retired Holiday Harmony Designer paper pack from the Winter mini catalog. I added a double photo corner on the top right. The bigger corner is in basic black, the smaller one punched out of Designer paper. I topped them off with five Antique Brass brads.

I added paper piercing and a brad border to complement the matching page and stamped the dotted border from All in a Row on the top left horizontally and vertically of the picture.

The A from the Wild West Alpha was stamped in Soft Sky ink on a 1 1/4″ Soft Sky cardstock circle. It was sponged and layered first on a black 1 3/8″ circle and then on a sponged Blue Bayou scalloped circle punchout.

I stamped Austin over the A in Black Stazon with my Simple Serif Alpha.

I knew as soon as I saw the Spring/Summer preview brochure from Stampin’ Up! that I wanted the “A Little Birdie told me…” stamp set.

Amy Westerman made the most gorgeous cards with the Hero Arts birds and I was excited to see that the birds in this set reminded me of them.

Here is a quick 3″ x 3″ card made with the smaller bird.

I stamped the bird with Black Stazon on So Saffron Prints Designer paper and cut out it’s body.

Next I stamped the bird again in Black Stazon on a small metal rimmed tag.

I colored the background with Aqua Painter and Soft Sky and Certainly Celery Classic ink, taped the bird body on top of the stamped image on the tag and adhered the tag on a black scallop circle punchout.

The card base is a 3″ x 6″ piece of textured So Saffron cardstock folded in half. I cut a 1 1/2″ x 2 7/8″ piece of Bali Designer Paper, punched the two bottom corners with the ticket corner punch and taped it on the bottom of the card.

 Groovy Guava double stitched ribbon was tied around the card. The saying was stamped in Black Stazon.

 Quick and cute (I think)! I love this layout for 3″ x 3″ cards.

I made this card for today’s tutorial over on Splitcoaststampers.

The card base is a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ textured piece of Groovy Guava cardstock folded in half.

Next is a 4 1/4″ square of black cardstock.

For this technique I stamped my 4″ square of So Saffron  cardstock with Flowers from the set A Beautiful Thing out of the Spring Summer Preview Brochure.

First I stamped the solid flowers in So Saffron, then I stamped the matching outline flowers in Black Stazon ink. The cardstock still looked a little bare, so I stamped the circle stamp as well as one of the small circles randomly over the cardstock.

Next I used my 1 1/4″ circle punch and punched out three holes. I punched them so with each circle part of a big flower was gone.

Then I stamped the same flower three times with Groovy Guava and Black Stazon on Shimmery White cardstock and cut them out. Those cutouts were lined up with the flowers on the Saffron cardstock and taped underneath.

I cut a 3 3/4″ piece of Bali Breeze Designer paper and taped it under the Saffron cardstock.

A little ribbon, some brads and the saying from that set finish off this card.

Thank you all for your well wishes to me and my family. I really appreciate it. We are trying to enjoy our last weeks with Rick, although his remaining time is crammed with preparation work for his deployment.

I hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season! Big cyber hug and smiles

P.S.: I listed my retiring sets on my sales page. You can reserve them now and I will be able to sell and ship them after January the 2nd.