Merry Christmas!!!

Ok, I know I haven't posted much, but I have been crafting, I promise!! Here's what I've been up to with the Cricut cartridges noted:

Making tags:

Winter Frolic Penguin - LOVE penguins this year!

Winter Frolic Deer to match my $1 Target pail

Making ornaments with my girls:

All ornaments (above and below) were made with the new product, Glitter It (grabbed mine at Hobby Lobby)

and white Cricut vinyl.

Thanks Momo, for the great snowman ornament idea!!!

My kids had a blast making these and are so proud of them!

Making Snowman soup kits:

Snowman from Christmas Cheer

And making MORE tags:

Gingerbread Man from Jolly Holidays, Penguin & Snowflake from Winter Frolic

Ornament from Winter Frolic

So, now you know what I've been up to in addition to the many holiday outings of the season. I have had so many photos to edit!! Of course, I've been hanging out on blogs a lot, too. There has been some great ideas out there! Thanks to all of you for your inspiration as always!

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011! I will be riding the rails to beautiful Colorado next week, so I will be back to tending my blog in the New Year! Blessings to you all!!

Chapel Buddy Christmas Treat Bags

Phew! What a week it has been! I am SO HAPPY it's finally the weekend!! My work has been so busy and now with preparing for the holidays, I am running both day and night!! I had my daughters' Christmas band concert, my work Christmas party, and a mom party all this past week, and throughout the week I was sneaking out getting shopping in when I could. So again, PHEW!

I've managed to get a little crafting in lately, though. Tonight I finished off these treat bags for my daughters' chapel buddies at school. We remembered those adorable Kindergarten and 2nd graders for Halloween, so how could we not do something for Christmas?? Here they are:

I assembled these treat bags with the help of my Target and JoAnn stores. The treat bags and pencils are from Target's dollar section, and the candy canes are from their holiday section. I also added Gingerbread kid shaped notebooks and necklace kits from JoAnn's dollar section. Gotta love those dollar sections! They get me EVERY time!

I made these simple bag toppers using my red cardstock, a stapler, my decorative corkscrew scissors, the gingerbread kid from Cricut Jolly Holidays, wiggly eyes and Stickles (for the buttons). I just love the Jolly Holidays cartridge!! There are so many cute images on it.

Okay, I do have more to post, but as my wonderful friend, Bonnie in Louisiana would say, it's time to head to the mattress ball! I have a serious date with my pillow. :)

Have a good, productive weekend all!