Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!! For Christmas, I made 9 of these Merry Christmas frames for family. They were done while caring for my sweet Mom who passed away on December 13th. She had been ill for a long time and the months that we all cared for her were difficult and heartbreaking. I am so happy that we did this for her so she could be at home when she passed. She needed around the clock care and our family took turns spending nights with her. Cross stitching these gave me something to pass the time during the long hours when she slept. I hope the family liked them! I also used my Cricut to decorate kraft bags bought at Hobby Lobby. They were filled with the cross stitch frame, some banana bread, Amish cinnamon bread, some crock pot candy and a whisk that was filled with Hershey kisses and had a tag that read We Whisk You a Merry Kissmas. I forgot to take pictures. My heart and mind was really not into Christmas this year!

Congratulations card

After seeing the great swing cards that Joy has made over on the Obsessed with Scrapbooking blog, I decided to try one out tonight. I needed a card for my son who will be graduating from the police academy Friday. There are several great swing cards all ready to be cut out using Artiste. Mine was cut out exactly like the one on Joy's blog. I also made a matching envelope using my Envelope Punch Board. The whole project was done in way less time than it usually takes me! I plan on entering this card in the Die Cuttin Divas challenge on their blog too.