GRUMPY GRANDMA CREATIONS

Jul 24, 2015

Welcome to Day 1 of the

Get ready for some great ideas that you can start creating now for Christmas.

Along the way today, you'll find card and gift ideas, a scrapbook layout page or two and even a couple great decorating ideas. We hope this hop gets you in the holiday spirit a little early this year.

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Now on with the hop!

You should have arrived here from

La-Vie's Blog

Welcome to my Blog and Grumpy Grandma Creations.

I hope you are having a great time and enjoying everyone's hard work. It is hard to believe we are halfway through the year and Christmas is just around the corner! UGH!!

Since I have a double birthday party to plan and two more weddings on the horizon I decided to go back and pick some of my favorites from the past year.

First up is a Kiwi Lane inspired layout. I LOVE Kiwi Lane, and it is always my go to for scrapping my granddaughters books. The big reason I love them is I can use the hoard of printed paper stacks that seem to accumulate on the shelf.

(you know you are guilty of this too!)

Don't be intimidated by Kiwi templates they are super easy and most of the time I cut an embellishment on my Cricut and add that to it. So the cost for scrapping a double layout is minimal. Once you try them you will want them all!

Believe it or not I traced around some cookie cutters for

the star and ornament for this page. I made my own templates by tracing old cookie cutters onto $1.00 Tree cutting mats. So if you just can't afford a whole lot of Kiwi Lane you can make some of your own. I embellished it with some sweet little chipboards and 3D gift bags. Knowing me those came from Big Lots :)

I should probably change my name to "Cheap Grumpy Grandma"!!

My second contribution is a card I made for the holidays this past New Years.

I have given up sending out Christmas cards. With one son still in the military and no one ever being home at the same time for a group photo I wait till after the holidays when life quiets down, then I send out "Happy New Year" cards.

This is a side step card. I previously posted this on Card A Day Challenge Blog (I so encourage you to follow this blog the ladies give such great inspiration!) I can't remember who I got the card template from. The Snowman,cocoa cup,and baby its cold sign are from Miss Kates Cuttables

I used the "Print to Cut" feature for the Cold sign because those little snow flakes just would not cut on any paper or setting.

The happy new year sign is from Cricut

This is ALL Paper and since I buy it by the pound and it has no Mfg I can't tell you where it comes from.

Your next stop is

Diana's Blog

I hope you enjoyed my portion of the blog hop today!

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if you like.

Don't forget about day 2 tomorrow!

Here is today's hop line-up in case you get lost along the way.

Theresa ~ http://scrapsbygracie.blogspot.com

Card A Day Challenge Blog ~ http://cardadaychallenge.blogspot.com