Merry Christmas EVE 2012 and I hope you all are having an AMAZING Day! I wanted to share with you this Christmas Eve how proud I am of my grown-up daughter, Donna.... Being a Mother is a complicated thing... not just the "being" but the crazy quilt of emotions that go along with it... and if you think that these emotions go away after your children grow up and move out... your would be WRONG!
Last year when my grown-up daughter surprised me with a gift of "family" by flying in her brother and his new family so we could all be together for Christmas for the first time in over 10 years I thought my heart was full... But when I came into the kitchen that Christmas Eve to see her beaming in front of our traditional Christmas Eve Appetizer spread.... which she pulled together all on her own.... (Looking like a little "Mini-Me" GRIN)... I thought My heart would BURST! And for me THIS is what Christmas is all about... Food, Family and LOTS of laughing.
I used the myStamp Box Sigh Gush Gasp stamp set to whip up this layout and I want to share a couple of tips with you: I actually made a "frame" with my stamps on a large stamp block rather than try to line up each word individually... which allowed me to space and center my words perfectly before I stamped. It also allowed me to stamp them all at once so I could then use white embossing powder and my heat gun to really make those words pop.
And another little trick of mine ... I now use my copic markers to edge my photos and mats instead of ink... It is quicker, easier and less messy; it dries instantly and I have EVERY color at my fingertips! And I especially love the look of a photo edged in black.
MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS Everyone!
May your Holiday be filled with Food, Family and Lots of Laughter
We were away over Christmas...so I missed this. But swooning over it now! Apparently I need a bigger stamp block!
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