Mini albums - my new favourite things!

For Christmas this year I just wasn't sure what to buy my Grandma. I have pretty much run out of ideas on what to buy her. So I decided to make a mini album for her. I made it 6 x 6 using card stock. I managed to use all things that I have in my stash at home. She loved it and I definately plan on making more of these albums in the future.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Well it is Christmas Eve. I of course don't feel ready. I still need to make a few mini albums and I am hoping to get one done tonight and then the other I don't need until the 27th. Talk about waiting until the last minute.

This year for the teachers gifts I found some little paint cans while shopping in the states. I have never seen them around here in my local scrapbooking stores. So as soon as I saw them I knew they were the ones I wanted to alter for the teachers gifts. I filled it with hot chocolate, chocolates and a gift card for each teacher. For the first time I attempted to make a paper bow for the top of 2 of the cans and I really like how they turned out.

So here are some pictures of the altered cans. Wishing each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas!! Enjoy your family, friends and food!

APOS Blog Hop - December 23, 2009

Well this is the first ever Blog Hop for A PILE OF SCRAP! I am so excited to be a part of it. If you are not sure what a blog hop is I will give a brief explanation. You hop your way from blog to blog and post a comment in their post. At the end you will be directed to the APOS forums where you will post saying you have done the whole thing. Just an FYI there are 6 blogs that you will need to go check out so make sure you don't forget anyones. Everyone at APOS would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas!!!

PLEASE FOLLOW ALONG THE BLOGHOP AND MAKE SURE TO LEAVE A COMMENT AT THE END OF EACH DESIGNER'S POST FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A FABBY SCRAPPY PRIZE!

So we had the choice of 2 sketches that the talented Cori-lyn came up with for us. We could do either the card or layout or both if we wanted to. I chose the layout to do and had a lot of fun with it. After you check out my blog head on over to Candace's

My layout

November Design Team reveal

Well yesterday was the big day over at APOS for our design team reveals. I was given the great paper "Jolly by Golly" by Cosmo Cricket. It is so versatile and could be used for anything (not just holiday layouts or cards). Our task this month was to create cards and tags. Now I want to say I am not a professed card maker but had lots of fun this month coming up with things. I did make all of mine Christmas cards and tags but only because I needed to get more done to send out.

So here are the pics of my cards and tags. Hope you like them!