3rd Quote of Christmas

"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."
~Theodore Geisel

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due: January 5th

~Tara~

4th Quote of Christmas

"We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give."

~Winston Churchill

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due: January 5th

~Tara~

5th Quote of Christmas

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.

~ Charles Dana

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due: January 5th

~Tara~

6th Quote of Christmas

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given, when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

~Joan Winmill Brown

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due: January 5th

~Tara~

7th Quote of Christmas

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

~ Harlan Miller

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due: January 5th

~Tara~

8th Quote of Christmas

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
~Ada V. Hendricks

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due: January 5th

9th Quote of Christmas

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

~Charles Dickens

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due Date: January 5th

~Tara~

12 Sales of Christmas ~ weScrap

Are you a member of WeScrap? Do you get our email notifications and newsletters? If so, then you already know about our HUGE 12 Days of Christmas Sale going on right now!! If not, then hurry up and register so you can start getting exclusive notices and begin buying the featured products at near wholesale prices!!!

Todays feature is some wonderful Maya Road Chipboard Mini Scrolls Set for only $2.19 a tin!!!







Conditions of this Sale:-- One product per day will be featured at drastically reduced prices for the 12 Days prior to Christmas. They will remain available at their sale price until Midnight EST on December 25, 2009... at that point, all PM's must have been submitted. Please keep in mind that these prices are first come first serve with regards to what we have in stock.-- Orders will NOT be processed directly through the store; this offer is available exclusively to our members who PM Sarah (sarah_n) with their agreement to purchase the said item(s). Feel free to PM Sarah as the products are featured, or on the last day of the sale. Please remember to include your full name and shipping address in your PM.-- All orders will be shipped after the sale is over to save on shipping costs for customers potentially interested in more than one item.-- No other discounts can be applied to these reduced prices; including DT codes, coupon codes or the use of gift certificates.-- All payments will be processed by Paypal ONLY.



Happy Shopping!

~Tara~

10th Quote of Christmas

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

~Burton Hillis

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or card to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

Due Date: January 5th

~Tara~

11th Quote of Christmas

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree".

~Roy L. Smith

Challenge: Use any of the featured Quotes on a layout or carc to earn a ballot for this months draw. Email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn your ballot.

~Tara~

12th Quote of Christmas ~ Challenge

One of the things my friends have asked me to do was post the 12 Quotes of Christmas. I did this for a site I was a DT for last year and I have had some email requests to do it again this year. Unfortunately, I am no longer on the site but I will gladly post them here.

I will post 1 Christmas quote everyday for 12 days. Feel free to use any of them on a card or layout. If you do, please email your creation at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn a ballot for this month's RAK. 12 Quotes means 12 chances at ballots!!

Here is today's quote: "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." ~Norman Vincent Peale

~Tara~

Challenge #1 ~ Sketch

I had a great sketch to work with this week at LCOM. My friend Beth Sears created a fun, hand drawn sketch. Here it is:

I created a layout of my lovely twin girls, Emmy and DD. I used the newest MME paper kit called Life Stories. What a fabulous kraft kit.

We had an amazing sponsor this month. Tanya at Let's Capture Our Memories gave us each some Zva Creative Gems to work with. I am in love with these. So lovely and girlie. Head on over to the store and see the great collection: LCOM Store. They look and feel like Prima but are much more cost efficient!!

Challenge: Use this months sketch as the foundation for your next layout and email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca to earn a ballot for this months prize. THEN..... hop on over to the LCOM Sketch Blog and link it there for another chance to win a prize!

Due Date: December 31st

Happy Scrapping!

~Tara~

Wanna Win Copic??

I am sorry that I have been absent for a week. My youngest daughter has been suffering with a bladder infection that sneaked into her kidneys. We have been in and out of the hospital and fighting this nasty thing. She is finally on the mend and the worst seems to be over.

Now we can get back on track!!

The first thing I want to tell you is that weScrap has taken over the CCAS Blog and we are now starting to post on it again. I have a great Limited Edition Christmas Kit up for grabs. All you have to do is leave a comment to win. You have until the 31st of December to comment. How easy is that? Just look at this yummy kit:

The second thing I want to share with you is that I am hosting a Card Tag over at weScrap. We will be basing this tag on a sketch and I have my friend Teresa helping me out. We will be racing against eachother. This is a great way to get another Christmas card done!! Hop on over and sign up to play. You can sign up here: Card Tag Sign Ups.

Do you want some incentive to play??? Everyone on the winning team will win a Copic Marker!! These are fab to use on cards. If you've always wanted to one this is a great way to win one. Hurry because the game starts on Monday. :)

I will be posting another challenge in the morning. Look for it and play along for another great prize.

~Tara~

Winner of the Sizzix...........

What fun we had this month. I loved all the wonderful entries and reading all the comments you girls made throughout the month. I want you to know that I read them all!!

I promised my daughter, Paige that she could pick the winner. Unfortunately, we drew the name after dance and it was too late to take a picture of the process. But, she was still thrilled to pick the following winner:

Mia!!

Congrats Mia. Please email me at thynner5@yahoo.ca with your mailing address so that I can send out your amazing Sizzix Texture Boutique!! What a wonderful thing to have sitting in any craft room. It's so cute and charming!

Another round of challenges begins tomorrow and I will be picking out another prize as well. Hope you will all continue to play along.

~Tara~