Candy Cane Seeds

For our There She Goes challenge this week we'd like to see your Season of Giving themed cards and projects.  TSG offers so many different stamps, and SEVERAL of them feature things that are perfect for this challenge.  It is also There She Goes (Again!) Week, and we are featuring THREE gorgeous stamps sets.

Holiday Tags

Ho Ho Ho

No Peeking

For my project, I used the No Peeking stamp set and Just for You stamp set and dies to create a tiny vile of Candy Cane Seeds.  

The seeds were then delivered to my children by our family's Elf on the Shelf, Holly.  The kids were to plant the seeds into a pot of sugar also brought by the elf.  

The very next morning they work up to find that Candy Cane's had popped up exactly where they had planted the seeds the day before.  :)  

The Trendsetters went all-out this month and made some really spectacular cards, tags and other projects... Take a look HERE and then add your own.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Elf on the Shelf

Starting last year, I started the Elf on the Shelf tradition for my family.  And although some folks might find them a tad creepy or annoying little things who go and tattle-tell to Santa....here in our house they are an enhancement to the season and keep the excitement of Christmas going each day.

When I first brought up the idea of Santa sending an Elf to visit with us, Nathan and Brooke started fighting right away as to whether it should be a boy or a girl elf.  Knowing that someone would be disappointed, Santa decided to send us twin brother and sister elves....Holly and Jolly!  :)

Holly and Jolly take turns visiting us starting the weekend after Thanksgiving.  They kick the season off in style by bringing a bit of the North Pole with them to sunny Florida with their "North Pole Breakfast".  (You can see my post and photos from last year....HERE)

Knowing that lots of moms out there are looking for ideas to do with their elves, I thought I'd share with all of you Holly & Jolly's 2011 Adventures.  

I hope you and your family are enjoying the Christmas holiday!!

Elves Make Christmas Happen

Did you know that each month at the Ribbon Carousel we give one winner who participates in our challenge their very own ribbon carousel?  And we always make it easy to play along.

This month our theme is

The Holidays

Last year, my little family began the Elf of the Shelf tradition.  I was writing down ideas that I had for our elves on little scraps of paper or post it notes all over the house.  They easily would get lost or thrown away and I was tired of frantically look for them late at night.  This year I decided to be more organized and create a little notebook for jotting my ideas down in.  

I started with a notebook that I found in the $1 bin at Michaels.  I covered it Bazzill Peanut Cluster cardstock and Echo Parks, Seasons Greeting designer paper.  I fell in LOVE with Pixie Elf Lucy from CC Designs and was in luck that I could get it as a digital image. I wanted it to be make it larger so it would be in scale with the size of the notebook.  After coloring with my Copic markers, I then cut the image out and popped it up with foam tape.  The sentiment was computer generated using two different fonts but I don't remember which one's they were now :(  I added some zigzag machine stitching and the last bit of my favorite Satin Pleated Ribbon from the Ribbon Carousel.   

Copics Used:

Skin: E13, E21, E00, E50 (Cheeks R02)

Hair: E47, E44, E43, E42, E41

Shirt: YG99, YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91, YG21

Trim: E43, E42, E41

Stockings & Hat: E18, R39, R37, R35

Jingle Bells: Y26, YR24, Y17, YR31

 I hope my creation has inspired to you play along with us this week at the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog,  Remember, your creation can be anything you'd like, just be sure you use ribbon, bakers twine, lace, thread...(anything that comes on a spool) on your card or project.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

It's a Holly & Jolly Christmas

  

Hi Everyone, I'm back as promised today, to share with you some photo's of my family's North Pole Breakfast.  This is our first year doing the Elf on the Shelf, and a few weeks ago I explained to the kids that I needed to write Santa a letter asking him to send us an Elf.  There were lots of excitement, questions, squealing and finally bickering about whether to ask Santa for a girl or a boy Elf.  Since no one could decide...Santa sent us TWINS!!  LOL  A brother and sister team of Elves that we named Jolly & Holly  :)  Jolly and Holly will take turns coming to visit and reporting back to Santa.  

Jolly visited us first and he brought with him lots of goodies and prepared a yummy North Pole Breakfast to start our Christmas season off with a bang!!  :)

First he made everyone some delicious Eggs & Bacon for breakfast.

(Melted white chocolate, a yellow M&M, and two pretzel sticks)

Nathan quickly requested this for breakfast EVERYDAY!!  LOL

A tin full of Snow covered Donuts

As well as some ice cold Snowman Milk 

In the background you can also see marshmallows and individual mini loaf pans 

with warm Triple Chocolate Bread...tastes like Brownies!!

A postcard for writing our Christmas lists to Santa

And inside those Chinese take out style boxes are everyones Hallmark Christmas ornaments for this year.

For years now everyone has got a new ornament each year for the tree...but now the Elf's' will be bringing them to us along with a North Pole breakfast since that is the same day we will be decorate the tree!!  :)

Everyone was still in their PJ's!!  :)

The kids LOVED it!!


And now each morning we will need to find our Elf's (Jolly & Holly) as they will be somewhere different in the house each day when they come back from reporting to Santa at the North Pole.

Sunday - Holly was found joyriding in Barbies convertible...but at least she wore her seat belt!!  LOL

Monday (today) - According to Nathan, Jolly must have used his magical powers on Tigger & Eeyore so that he would have friends to play Candyland with.  He even noticed that Jolly won the game!!  LOL

 I don't know who's having more fun...the kids or ME!!  LOL  (Oh the magic of Christmas!!)  I have lots of fun ideas planned for Jolly & Holly and I will be posting them each day on my Facebook page.  If you'd like to keep up with their adventures...and be my friend :)  then please send me a friend request by clicking HERE!!  :)  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed a little peek into the Ramlakhan household!! :)