Party Decorations

Hi!

Have you ever thrown a surprise party?

My hubby turned 60 in February and I 

decided that I should have a party for him.

The kids helped me so much with all the prep,

it's hard to do the prep when you live in the

same house with the person you are 

having the party for.

My daughter in law, Sara and I 

got together several times to make decorations

and plans.

Here are some of the decorations we made,

she with her Cricut and me with my Silhouette Cameo.

I printed pictures to put up around the party space.

This is of Dave at Cliffs of Moher, Ireland.

Here are a couple of young Dave, in Elementary or Middle 

School on the right and his senior picture on the left.

Our wedding picture.

A recent selfie that he took.

Us together for a portrait,

probably around 1986 or 87.

With his Mom at our wedding.

One of his famous Halloween costumes.

Me with Sara and our Happy Birthday banner.

Cheers to 60 Years

Our #2 son, Jaryd's best friend Brian, turned the 

6 upside down during the party so it said

90 years. Such a joker!

Thanks for the laugh #2

Sara made some really nice cards to label the food.

Sorry you can't really see them, they were so cute!

I'm glad you came today so I could share the fun 

we had making and throwing the surprise party for 

Dave.  He was totally surprised and we had a great time

with about 30 family and friends.

Come again soon,

you never know what you'll find at 

Kristie Kreates.

Naughty or Nice?

Welcome to the QKR Stampede Blog Hop!

If you just happened upon the hop, you'll want to start at the beginning.

If you have come from Gemma's blog you are on the right track.

Today we are all working with the same image and the theme is

"Santa is checking it twice."

Be sure to leave comments on all the posts in our hop, there will be winners from 2 "mystery design team members" who will win this wonderful digi image.  There will also be a grand prize winner chosen from the comments on the QKR Stampede post.

Now on with my post.

For my post today,

I'm sharing a layout that I made of my daughter's 1st Christmas. 

You can see I'm a bit behind on my scrapbooking,

since she is now 22 yrs old.

QKR digi 24240

I have just started to use digital images recently and this is one of the first ones that I have used.  I have to say that I really loved working with this digi stamp.  I could adjust it to the size I wanted for my layout, I used Flexmarkers (alcohol ink markers) and the printed image didn't smudge at all.

The rest of the images I used on this layout were done with unmounted red rubber stamps.  They are all from QKR Stampede.

"Decorations" (#9411)

Colored with FlexMarkers, the ornament is covered with Glossy Accents

"Pine Sprig" (#15702)

Colored with FlexMarkers and the bells were also covered with Stickles.

"Holly" (#15071)

Colored with FlexMarkers, bling was added for the berries.

I didn't have red bling, so I used a FlexMarker to color them.

I hope you have been inspired to use some stamping on your layouts. 

They can add so much and make wonderful embellishments.

Now I'm sending you off to see what

Joann (Sassy Raggedy)

has to show you.

Now don't forget to leave some love along the way,

someone is going to win,

maybe it will be you.

QKR Stampede

has a lot of other wonderful Christmas themed images

in both unmounted red rubber and digital format,

so be sure to pop in and see what you might like.

 

I hope you'll stop by again soon!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!