Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a
wonderful christmas
and I hope the new year
brings joy and
laughter to you!

Fun & Fast Gifts

This month will be a flurry of activities
and crafting time may be very limited.
But if you would like to make a
few gifts that are small, simple, and
inexpensive these may inspire you.



Wedding Favors are super cute,
but don't have be used just for weddings.
In this case I've decorated the little
tin boxes with Christmas paper and punched
out matching circles to make the
tops of the bottle cap magnets.
My Cost: $5.99 for 17 tins
{Clearance at Michael's because one was missing.}
Regular Cost: $12-16.00

The CD Ornament is my favorite.
It's fast and super simple.
My Cost: 5 for $.49
{5 for $.49 Clearance at Target}
Regular Cost: 5 for $3.00

And the easiest of them all was the
Clipboard with two strips of paper and a
wonderful die cut using the Cricut Stretch
Your Imagination Cart.
My Cost: $1.00 each
{Michael's find during the summer}

Paper was simple too!
Totally usage 3 Sheets of paper
1 card stock, 2 pattern.
Total Projects completed 8.
3 Not shown they were used
as prizes for the CD class.

I hope this has inspired you all
in more ways than one with crafty
ideas and shopping methods :).

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays.

Juju Bee's Very Merry Blog Hop Winner

Our Blog hop had a fantastic
turn out, thank you ladies!
So it's time to announce the
winner of the Chipboard stash!

Drum Roll Please!

The winner is:
Lisa808

Here's her comment:"My favorite Christmas song is It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. I like this because it gets me in the mood for decorating."

Congrats Lisa, please email me your address @ craftasticlife@hotmail.com.

Juju Bee's Very Merry Online Crop

Well, our online crop is over and I have
quite a few projects to share from the fun!

Year in Review Challenge:

Shake It Challenge:

The Thankful LO Challenge:

Shape Card Challenge:
Jamie's Card Sketch Challenges:



Oh and this dear friends was something just for fun!

Erin shared the tutorial with me and i just had to try it!

It's about 16inches in length and it's so neat!

Check it out here

Thank to all who were able to join us for this fun event.

I'll be announcing the Blog Hop RAK winner later on today.

Juju Bee's Very Merry Blog Hop!

Welcome to JuJu Bee's
A Very Merry Blog Hop & Crop!

If this is your first stop pleas go back
to the beginning at the Juju Bee's Blog to begin.

We are celebrating our 2nd Anniversary and
this Festive time of year and invite you to join
us in a journey Buzzin' through the DT's blogs.

First I'd like to show you a couple more projects
I've completed using the last month's kit.
Now that these two are done I literly
only have snippets of papet left :).




For more ideas, fun challenges, games, and prizes
please join us in the FORUM for our Online Crop.
There is so much going on and we are always looking
for some more friendly faces to join us.

Now for the goodies!
Leave a comment here telling me your
favorite christmas song and why you'll be
entered into a drawing for the RAK below.



My favorite song, hmmmm, I LOVE "I saw mommy kissing Santa Clause." I just think it's cute! But I think my all time favorite is "Pretty Paper" by Willie Nelson.

Thanks for stopping by today. Please head on
over to DT Bee Jamie's blog for your chance at
even more scrappy goodness and to
check out what she's been up to!