2016 - Isabelle Christmas Ornament

2016 - Smith Family Christmas Ornament

Christmas Tree Waffles

Isabelle loved making green waffles with sprinkles for Christmas this year!!

2016 - Christmas Craft Ornaments

This year, Isabelle made Christmas Tree ornaments with thumb prints to hang on our tree and give as gifts for Christmas.

We made salt dough with green food coloring, 

and dipped her finger in red paint to make the  ornaments.

She loved putting them in the Christmas tree!!

Gingerbread Houses

Isabelle made her first gingerbread house today at the Waukesha Public Library.  They read a story, sang a few Christmas songs, and then everyone got to make their own gingerbread houses with milk cartons.  She loved decorating the outside and eating marshmallows!!

Christmas Cookies at Grandma's

This year, Isabelle helped make Christmas cookies at Grandma & Gido's house.  She loved frosting the cookies and, of course, eating as many as she could.  We loved watching her mixing and waiting for the cookies to bake.  I have become much less of a perfectionist when it comes to cookie decorating over the last few years!!

Isabelle's 1st Christmas Stocking

Isabelle's first Christmas stocking made by her Great-Baba

And here are the Klowaks with their stockings!!!

2015 - Isabelle Christmas Ornament

2015 - Smith Family Christmas Ornament

Christmas Blanket

 Christmas blanket made by Grandma Carla when DJ was five years old - DJ helped with the pinning and sat by Carla when she was making it.

Isabelle loved cuddling with grandma and playing peek-a-boo!!

Library Christmas Party

 Isabelle made Christmas ornaments at the Lomira library for the Christmas party.

And we got to decorate Christmas cookies with Theodore!!

2015 Christmas Cards - Set #2

 Second batch of Christmas cards this year:

2015 Christmas Cards - Set #1

Finally found sometime over Thanksgiving weekend to get my Christmas cards done!  My friend Courtney came over and we had a crafting weekend.  I haven't done a lot of crafting, so it was nice to get all of my stamps and paper out!!!

I always make my own cards for Christmas, but this year they included a picture of our daughter Isabelle - almost a year old.  And, I was able to use my new Christmas stamp for the inside:

Here are all the cards I made - with a few close ups:

2015 - Christmas Craft Ornaments

 We spent Thanksgiving making some Christmas ornaments with the Smith family and Isabelle.  

And we made some for the puppies!

We used the instructions on this website: http://www.craftymorning.com/salt-dough-puppy-paw-print-christmas-ornament/

A Very Merry Christmas to You

Here is the second card that we made over at my December card making workshop with the residents at the Luther Manor Retirement Community:

 

We used the cute little images from Stampin' Up's No Peeking stamp set and I made a bunch of different banners with holiday saying to go with.  One of the residents even made four different cards!! I love how she used silver sequins on the tree :)

Bling it On Christmas Tree

Here is a card I made for the December card making workshop over at Luther Manor where my friend Samantha Hansen is the life enrichment assistant.

The residences had lot of fun making holiday cards for their family and friends and putting the rhinestones on the tree kept them busy :)

Here are some of their wonderful creations:

Christmas Cards

 Finally found sometime to sit down and send out Christmas cards.  It's been a super busy last couple of months with work, grad school, and craft fairs!!!  

And, of course, Hannah had to help too :)

A Minion Christmas

Ahh this card was so much fun to make!!  This is the second holiday minion card that I made this year. These little guys are just way to cute I had to make another one!!  I ended up using a lot of different stamps sets for this one.  I may have gotten a little carried away ;)

Click on my post from yesterday for details on my original minion post.  I also have a tutorial on how to make the minions out of the Stampin' Up Owl Punch.

The santa hat is from Newton's Nook Designs Frozen Friends:

The sentiment, Christmas tree, and star are from A Wee Christmas by Fresh Squeezed Stamps.  The cute little lights are from Lawn Fawn's Peace Joy Love stamps.

And I pulled out one of Newton's first stamps Wagon of Wishes for the presents under the tree.

Making this card reminded me that Christmas is just 10 days away...so much left to do!!!