Love and Traditions

A little layout to pull on those heartstrings...awwwwwwwwwwwwww

Ingredients:

Papers, Brads: Imaginisce ** Stickers: Dymo, American Crafts ** Other: Cosmic Shimmer; Uniball Signo; Pearls

And here is one I created for the recent {{Cosmo Cricket Blog Challenge}} to scrap about a Holiday Tradition. Well the only tradition we hold up every year, is to make sure that our wine rack is filled to enjoy some lovely evenings, snuggled up on the couch with a glass of wine in hand....bliss. And the other is that we always have a German/English combined Xmas meal. Yesterday we enjoyed a crackling pork roast with sprouts, carrots, roast potatoes and a very rich and creamy sauce. Some of the pork crackling was a bit charred but for our first attempt ever, we were mighty pleased!

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Ingredients:

Papers: Cosmo Cricket - Jolly by Golly "Borders"; Jolly by Golly "Elements"; Earth Love "Remember" ** Stickers: Cosmo Cricket - Jolly by Golly; Jenni Bowlin - Alpha's; Making Memories: Date ** Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket - Earth Love Button

Still having two days off work because if a holiday (such as Christmas) falls on a weekend, we get the following working day/s off work. This year Boxing Day and Christmas Day fell on a Saturday and Sunday so we get Monday and Tuesday back - Good hu?

Have a Spooktacular Day

Whilst everyone is busy unpacking their presents and indulging in a little a lot of food drink, let me quickly share this card with you which I am entering in the recent {{I Love ProMarkers #46}} and 

{{ Passion for ProMarkers #80}} challenges. 

Yup, I love my ProMarkers for sure :) and I love my 

{{Some Odd Girl}} digi images. This spooky fella was the October Freebie from SOG and I keep saying it again and again - grab those Freebies while you can because some of them will remain an exclusive. So be quick to get your hands on {{Deery}} for this month.

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Ingredients:

Cardstock: Papermill ** Papers, Brads: Imaginisce ** Other: Pearls, ProMarkers, Cosmic Shimmer, Zig Millenium Pen

I totally suck....

...at making cards these days.

Honestly, this is not a post to generate comments to pick me back up - neither is this meant as a pity party. I just have to face up to the fact that my cards are anything but great lately. I am truly "carded" out.

Why? I have no idea as I enjoy making cards but recently I started to dread them - it takes me on average THREE full days to make one card. I used to be able to create them in three hours for crying out loud and now the first two attempts generally end up in the bin.

The mean thing is that I really WANT to create cards, especially when I see gorgeousness like {{this}} or {{this}} - how can you not want to do something similar? But then I just sit their surrounded by my stash and end up looking at it in contempt.

Look, look - this is the only thing I could come up with for an over 70 year old dude for his birthday....that is not even cool for a 7 year old...

Cardstock: Bazzill ** Papers: Imaginisce ** Stickers: October Afternoon ** Punch: Fiskars ** Bling: Kaisercraft

And the next one just feels like there is something missing - this is my third attempt at a holiday card and I am still not happy. Maybe I just have the November blues...hmmm

Cardstock: Papermill ** Papers: Imaginisce ** Sticker: Cosmo Cricket ** Digital Stamp: Some Odd Girl ** Pens: ProMarker

Regardless, the holiday card will be entered into the following two challenges:

Get Sketchy #64 - Sketch

Creative Inspirations #47 - Anything Christmas/Winter

Tell me, what do you guys do when you are unhappy with about every single card yo create? I really appreciate any suggestions you may have for me.