Valentine's Day Mantel

Hello all!
So I finally have all of our Christmas decorations down and put away and now everything is bare and sad looking. So I decided to get a head start of some Valentine's Day decorating!

This heart banner I made using a tutorial I found through Pinterest HERE

I used this card from the Kraft Edition of Project Life to put behind the 4. I also added some ribbon to the top of the jar.

I used some old scrabble times and glue dots to put in this frame. 

I put one of our engagement pictures in this frame and added a ribbon to the candle. 

I also put up this Willow Tree figurine. This is called Promise.

This banner I made with just some scrapbooking supplies. 

The red and white polka dot cards are again Project Life cards from the Kraft Edition. The alphabet cards are from a pack of cards from BazzillBets. Old cards that I don't even think are available anymore. 

So there we go! 

(If you want to check out how I decorated the mantel for Christmas and the Fall, check that out HERE and HERE)

Project Life: December Edition

Here it is! The last month of 2013.

I can't believe I stuck with it all year. Those who know me personally, know I have a tendency to start something and not finish it. 

I had so much fun doing Project Life. I'm so glad I did it and can't wait to continue on this year. It's a good feeling knowing that even though I haven't been "scrapping" all my pictures, they are still organized in an album. The simple embellishing and decorating are just enough to satisfy my creative side. :)

So here we go!

Week 50: (Left side)

For the title card this week I used an image I found on Pinterest. Obviously this week was when we started decorating for Christmas.

I had Chase write out a list of things he might like to get for Christmas. It still cracks me up that he put socks. :) 

(Right side):

Very simple side using mainly paper product.The "20 days left" card is a printable I found HERE 

Week 51 (Left side):

This side is about the first real snowfall of the season. It was so bad they even cancelled church that Sunday. (It was more because of ice not the snow) So the boys were pretty excited to go outside and play in it. 

This could be one of my favorite cards I've made for PL. I just love how it turned out. The yellowish/greenish pattern on this layout is actually washi tape. It's my first time really experimenting with it and I LOVE IT! :)

The blue printable was found HERE

(Right side):

This side was super simple. I just added 2 different cards. The funny face one I drew an arrow on and the blue one I stamped on a Christmas tree using silver ink.

Week 52 (left side):

This is the first spread that I only used a Project Life kit to make my cards. I don't think it will be something I'll do again, but it still turned out OK.

This week wasn't really a Christmas theme so I thought it would be a good time to try it out. It definitely made the process go faster because I could just grab a card and go. 

This is the Kraft Core Kit. 

OK Now these next couple spreads are all from within a couple days. I knew I would have way too many photos of our Christmas get togethers to add to a regular spread. So they each got there own spread.

Christmas Eve:

Christmas morning:

( I wish I could find where I got the green and red Christmas printables but I can't)

The other Christmas themed embellishments are from many years ago.

Christmas afternoon/evening:

We went to my dad's side of the family (Over 30 people) and then in the evening we went to Ben's side of the family. The little cut out the cradle is from a Christmas card we received many years ago. 

I used a ChicTag to add a little journaling. 

The red snowflake is an ornament cut down a little bit.

Cookie making and gingerbread men/train making.

This little card is an Artist Trading Card from The Paper Studio and the tag is from K&Co.

New Year's Eve/last page:

I used cards from the Kraft core edition again.

The "snug as a bug in a rug!" tag is actually a rub-on that I just rubbed onto white cardstock and cut it out.

I added some date stamps to wrap up the year!

So there we go! 2013 is in the books. (No pun intended!) 

I'm working on a title page for my 2014 album now. So excited to start a new year!

Christmas goodness

Hello and Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday.

And now that Christmas is over....I'm finally getting around to sharing some of the Christmas decor around our house. haha

I'm just going to throw out some random pictures. No rhyme or reason: 

The boys' tree

 Our tree

Our new ornament for this year

 2 different Villages

Wreaths in both windows in the living room

Basket of Christmas books

Christmas sheets 

fireplace mantel

3 of these stockings are homemade.  2 by my Grandma and 1 from a good friend of ours.

We each have a little snowman bell that has our names on it. :)

Merry Christmas!

New Fall Mantel

Hello again! 

It's that time of year again. My FAVORITE time of year! 

I changed up my mantel yesterday and I have to say I'm really loving it!

Check it out:

I really didn't use much to change it up from my summer mantel. The only thing I bought was that cute little pumpkin. 

I also found this cute fall printable HERE

I used some jute to hang this rustic house number I found at Hobby Lobby last year. I've always used the number 4 to represent the 4 of us :)

Then I took out the turquoise book and added the cream book on top of the stack.

I got this beautiful jug (?) at Hobby Lobby a couple years ago. 50% off, of course. ;)

Then on this side I used the candle holder I had before and just wrapped it with some fall leaves that I got at the dollar store last year. The pumpkin on top used to be my mom's if I remember right. 

So that's it! I went back through my pictures and found this one of my fall decor from last year:

Stay tuned! I've been working on projects :)