Made by Karla

With the end of 2013, I got to thinking about all the craftiness I surround myself with the entire year. I thought I would show you my favorite products, projects and general crafty stuff. Since it's 2013, I'll give you the top 13 in no particular order. My top 13 of 2013 1. Fox Wood Chips by Freckled Fawn . Don't own them, but love them! 2. The Adventures of Glitter Girl 3. DCWV's Vintage Collector stack 4. Coffee Mini Album 5. DCWV's Travel Adventure stack- Cause I love to travel 6. My Artisan Explorer Machine - Small but mighty! 7. Glitzy Glitter stack 8. This Card 9. This arrow die 10. Creative Medium 11. These Alphabet Stickers 12. DCWV's adhesive fabric stack-I even use it in my typewriter! 13. Stately Circles Dies Can't wait to see what's next in 2014! Best Wishes for the...

Every year we stage Christmas photos with the dogs. They don't mind too much cause they get a treat after :)   I had this LO ready to go. I just had to add the picture.  Merry Christmas! 

This used to be a mint container. I usually upcycle mint and gum containers for my husband who collects little things here and there. Especially when we travel. This one happened to have this cute little saying 'Have a Blast.'    This would make such a cute gift card holder for any travel buffs like my husband and myself. My sister has a lovely way of expressing herself and calls me a 'crazy travel person.'     In here, I'm keeping these interesting flowers we found in Scotland which I had never seen before. They  remind me of the trees in The Lorax :)  You could write a cute little message on the tags.  I used the 6x6 Burlap stack to line the box but the new Burlap mat stack would be great too.   To give the top some texture, I added a strip of the new yellow canvas mat stack and frayed the ends a bit.  This is Travel Adventure, one of my favorite new stacks...Cause you know, I'm a 'Crazy Travel Person.' Lol ...

Oh oh! I hope I didn't just jinx myself!  I made all these cards in one evening. I cut my favorite tags and borders out of the cut apart sheets and used my favorite patterns for backgrounds. I added some bling to the tags and mated some elements in the Holiday Glitzy Glitter paper to give them some....glitz! ha! Christmas Made Stack Christmas Memories Jolly Whimsy I used the 180 Christmas and Winter Stack to make the envelopes.  Love the lighter weight paper for this!    

...so this is not the perfect shot we were hoping for. But it turned out pretty darn nice anyway!  We were freezing by the river Thames just trying to get 'THE shot' (you know the one where the wheel is a blur and you can see the blue lights as a circle)...anyway, This is as close as we got before we called it quits!  I really enjoyed our time together and it was nice to see the hubs enjoy his passion & hobby (photography).  One really cool thing I like about this LO, is that I typed the journaling on the Adhesive Fabric stack. It turned out cool. I'm gonna be doing that more often!  This is Travel Adventure & Adhesive Fabric 

Living in southern california, I've never had a 'white christmas' so I like to make cards with snowflakes and winter themes :)  There are a ton of ways to make 'snow' on a card but I really found this to be super easy.  I used pearls for snow and bling for tree ornaments.    I tore some paper on the bottom and the white edge is perfect for the 'snowy ground' effect.     This is Christmas Made    and DCWV Bling 

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates :)  This is us a few years ago at Animal Acres    Turkeys love being petted. They're so sweet.    I've been vegetarian for a few years but the hubs likes his meat. After a visit here, he's much more into skipping meat once in a while.  This year, we'll be cooking a Soy turkey for the first time,  I usually just skip the turkey altogether but I saw this at my favorite Vege food supply  http://www.vegeusa.com/   ...so I'm gonna give it a try. Mine comes with vegan stuffing and gravy.   What's going on for thanksgiving at your house?

Welcome to Day 2 of the DCWV and Clear Scraps blog hop! You should have come from Britt's blog: http://pinkpapercrowns.blogspot.com Thanks for making it this far!  On to the project... I might have a LO or 2 about Christmas....Why? I just never get around to making more of them! The Holidays are usually too crazy and then I get into doing LOs of just ever day stuff or travel pics... and the holidays just get forgotten.  This year, I'm ready! I'll have the album pre-made, I just have to stick on the pictures and add some journaling! I used this 8x8 tabbed acrylic album from Clearscraps to create a Christmas mini that is ready to go.  The papers are Christmas Memories with a little bit of the Christmas and winter Diecut stack, the Christmas basics 6x6 & the Burlap stack. I love clear albums because I like to see the layers through the clear pages.    I folded the 12x12 papers in half and cut them to create pockets for ...