Joy

Hello all. Well Christmas day is over and I hope you all

enjoyed your day with family and/or friends as much as

I did. It is a beautiful time of year for me. I love to sit at

the dinner table and without my family notice, reflect. I 

look at how each one has change and as for my boys how

much they have grown. I love that my family is together 

and filled with love and joy.

Very soon another year will begin and we will be saying 

farewell to 2013. I know everyone will be wanting things

special for their year and I do hope you all get everything

you wish for. 

There will be a few thing I hope will go nice and smooth 

for my family.... I so want my mother to enjoy some good

health. Graeme (my husband) to have his wishes for the farm

come true. My beautiful boys Riley and Harley to enjoy life.

Riley in his final year of primary school and Harley moving 

into Grade 4. I hope they also get everything out of their sports 

they want. All my friends to prosper and enjoy good health.

Well that's my hopes, wishes and dreams for 2014 all roled

into one. But, right now I must get to bringing you my latest

creation. I have done this LO for the challenge at 

123 Challenge Bolg.  

The challenge was so much fun. I love the challenges at the 

123 Challenge Blog and this one is no exception. You are given

a color, word and technique. This is Decembers - 

  

This is the LO I designed for the challenge.

The beautiful chippie I have used for this is from Scraptopia and

also the Christmas handmade flower. I heat embossed the tree with 

gold  and red for the title. I handmade a couple of felt bows. 

The patterned papers I have used are from an older range of 

Graphic 45 Christmas papers - Christmas Past. Like all their 

papers they are just beautiful and I love to fussy cut my 

embellishments from them.

The rubons on both sides at the top are Kaiser Craft.

  

The photos I chose for this LO are from 2004 and it was my youngest

son Harley's 1st Christmas. He loved sitting in his bright red peddle car.

He was nowhere near ready for it but like all dad's and their son's presents

it was a must :) Riley was happy with his 3 wheel bike. it's all he wanted

from Santa.

The only other thing on this LO that I have not listed is the cute 

little deer just above. I fussy cute these from a very old Christmas

card. I thought they went well with the G45 papers. The reason I 

wanted to use something from one of the old cards is that they had

belonged to a very dear friend of mine, Marion Watson. Marion 

passed away in January and not long before she did I was given

many old cards she had saved. When she give them too me she said

they were for my scrapbooking and card making. 

I hope you like the LO and there are still a few days left to be able

to get a LO into the challenge if you want. Like I said it is lots of fun

at 123 Challenge blog.