BBTB Telephone challenge

A couple weeks ago a new set of digital stamps called Christmas Daily came out at The Cutting Cafe (http://www.thecuttingcafe.typepad.com/). I just thought the images looked pretty cool for scrapping a Christmas page or two. Then as I read the post I realized that this set was about something bigger than a page or two. It was about a whole album to document the month of December. I thought this would be a great gift to give my daughter as a rememberance for her two girls, my beautiful newest granddaughter Paige (3 mths.) and her sister Payton (3 yrs.). Especially, since it is Paige's first Christmas. I spoke with my daughter today on the telephone and only told her that I needed her to jot down something on the calendar for each day until Christmas and take a picture of the kids doing Christmasy things like decorating the tree, hanging the stockings, etc. I told her it was really important that she not forget each day and she would find out why on Christmas day. Of course, she is a busy mommy and I will have to call and make sure she doesn't forget every day. We will be traveling to Ohio to spend Christmas day with our granddaughters. I can't wait to give them the finished album.

For this page I have lots of different elements that came together to make the whole page. I'll try to get them all down here. The telephone cut came from Cricut's From My Kitchen cartridge. I cut it from a patterned paper from DCWV Christmas stack from last year at 2 1/2" and shadowed with brown kraft paper. The Bitten By the Bug challenge this week was to use this cut. I added some small black rhinestones to the dial part of the phone for a little bling. I thought it was the perfect page element to add to the sentiment "Received a call from Grandpa and Grandma today". This sentiment and the word December came from the Christmas Daily set. The number 10 was cut from Cricut's new Designer's Calendar cartridge. This cartridge is one of my new requisitions from Black Friday shopping. I love this cartridge and know I will be using it a lot. Of course it has the months of the calendar and numbers both boxed, liked the one I used and in circles. You can also cut number words and one of the feature keys cuts names of events (one for just about any holiday you can think of). It also has images for each holiday. A groundhog for Groundhog day, a dragon for Chinese New Year and so many more.

I printed this sentiment right onto my patterned paper that came from Cosmo Cricket's Gal Friday pack. Perfect for journaling since the lines are already on it. I backed it with a red cardstock that already had the punched edges. It came from my scrap bin so I don't remember who makes it. The stamped flourish is from Inkadinkado's Pattern Play holiday set. I'm teaching a papercrafting class at JoAnn's using this set. Tomorrow I will post pictures of my samples from the class for everyone to see. I inked the stamp with a Colorbox chalk ink in black and maroon. I was really happy with the way this page came out. Now only 15 more pages to go. I better get busy. I hope no one fell asleep before they got to the end of this post, it is a long one.

Please take a moment, if you can, to go back up to my top post (http://bugnme.blogspot.com/2009/11/remembering-our-countrys-servicemen-and.html) because it has an important message about how we can all make sure our military servicemen and women can have a little better Christmas as they serve our Country.