Songs of the Season

This is the time of Christmas music and even though I am Jewish I must admit that I still enjoy some Christmas music.  This week at Frosted Designs our challenge is to be inspired by those songs of the season.  It doesn't necessarily have to be a Christmas song, but use a holiday song somewhere on your project this week.  For my song I used winter wonderland as inspiration for a Holiday card.  I went with lots of blues and whites to look cold and added lots of Stickles to look like frost and icicles.  Working on this was a lot of fun, but I have to admit that now I have the song "Winter Wonderland" stuck tight in my head.

Family

This week at Frosted Designs we have a great word challenge going on.  We challenge you to use the word "family" somewhere on your project.  For my project I created a layout using an old photo of my grandmother, great grandmother and great aunt.  The photo was taken sometime in the mid 1940's.  I am currently working on a few heritage layouts so future generations don't have these photos sitting in a pile without a name to go with all the faces.  I used mostly Graphic 45 papers on this layout and created the bling flourish with my irock.  

Winner and Ribbons

I want to thank everyone for participating in our blog hop and for sharing your favorite holiday traditions with me.  First off let's announce our winner of the RAK on my blog.  I am sorry it is a little late in the day, but I was home sick today so I kinda spaced it out.  Better late than never right?  OK so the winner is.....

Kim!  Kim said - Hi Cassie, Let me see I love traditions and I think one of my favorites is Christmas Eve going to church and then back to the in-laws and when we get home we read "The Night Before Christmas" even when my kids got to be teenagers they still wanted to do that and they got there very own special ornament for the tree. That way when they move out they all ready have there own collection 

Kim please contact me at cschissell@yahoo.com and I will mail you your prize.

Now on to this week's challenge.  This week at Frosted Designs your challenge is to use ribbon on your project.  This week I created an altered canvas as a Hanukkah gift for a friend of mine.  I used two types of ribbon, both sprayed with glimmer mist, to give this project some depth and some extra color.  

Holiday Blog Hop!

Frosted Designs is Hosting it's very first Blog Hop today to celebrate the Holidays!  You have got to check it out and play along to have a chance to win a great prize.  Make sure you start the hop at Frosted Designs and follow along the correct path to get the right sentence to email to Diana and enter for a chance to win a prize!  Also if you didn't get here from Angela's Blog then you skipped a step.  After you leave here you should head over to Fern's Blog to get the next piece of the puzzle.

Now for the word!  Here is the word that is part of the phrase you need to email to Diana at danica4us@yahoo.com for a chance to win the prize.

 

You also have a chance to win an additional prize this week from this blog.  I have this great prize package to give away to one lucky winner.  All you have to do is become a follower of this blog and leave me a comment telling me what your favorite Holiday tradition.  If you are already a follower then great!  You are ahead of the game.  Just leave me a comment!  The winner will be chosen on Friday 12/10/10  by random.org.

This week we also have a great challenge going on at Frosted Designs and it is a really easy challenge for all your holiday projects.  Use glitter on project this week.  If you finish the challenge this week and link it Frosted Designs then you will be entered again to win the grand prize pack for the Blog Hop!  I chose to make an altered jar this week to fill with homemade Hanukkah goodies for my family's gift exchange.

Blog Hop Coming Soon!

Head over to Frosted Designs this Friday December 3rd for our very first Holiday Blog Hop!  Can't wait to see you there!

Gift Box Tutorial and Thankful

This week at Frosted Designs we have a few exciting things going on.  First thing is that I created my very first tutorial today.  It is to show you how to this gift box.

Head over to Frosted Designs to check it out and learn how to create your own.  If you are interested in the recipe for the cookies please check out my husband's and my food blog.

Second our challenge this week is to make a project about being Thankful.  Being that the week of Thanksgiving is usually a very contemplative time for me I chose to create a layout about what I am thankful for.  I have a photo of my husband and then there is some hidden journaling as well.  Head over to Frosted Designs to see what the rest of the design team came up with and let us know what you are thankful for this year.

Distressing

This week at Frosted Designs we have a great Challenge going on.  You are challenged to use distressing on your project.  Distressing is one of my favorite techniques and there are so many ways you can distress a project.  I used inking, misting and I also used the edges of my scissors to rough up the edges of the grunge paper I used.  On top of distressing I also used this week's sketch on as a guide for my page.  It was a really fun sketch to work with and I am very happy with how my layout turned out overall.