Happy New Year

Happy New Year's Day and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. We had a great new year's eve celebration with our son & his family.

We typically celebrate my husband's birthday and then just have some family fun for the rest of the evening.

My daughter-in-law, Joellen, made a fab dinner. We started with a great salad- lump crab cakes and ended with pasta and an awesome bolognese sauce. Dessert was my husband's favorite -  chocolate mousse peanut butter pie.

We had such a relaxing evening with them. We played some games and then watched a little TV and the happenings in Times Square. We then spent the night.

It's always nice to wake up with our grandsons in the morning. Al usually takes one of them out for breakfast and a little one-on-one time. This year it was with Ethan. He is the youngest and of course he just loves the individual attention.

We watched the Penn State -Florida bowl game. Unfortunately, our Penn State team lost. We came back home around 6:00.

Our son in California sent us a baby pic at midnight and a text wishing us all a happy new year. In 5 days, I will be holding our new bundle of joy.

My card for today is one that I made for 4 challenges.

1.  The Waltzingmouse blog sketch challenge was a great one. I haven't played along with this one for awhile. But. I loved the envelope look of the sketch.

2.  Speedy's friends challenge blog wanted us to use something new. My designer paper is new. It's Stampin-Up's "deck the halls" collection.

3.  The cute card thursday blog has a "thank you card" challenge.

4.  Phindy's Place challenge blog also has a "thank you card" challenge.

My cherry cobbler layer is embossed with the cuttlebug folder "Kassie's brocade".
The" thanks" sentiment is from Verve and the frame is Waltzingmouse "vintage labels 4" set. They are designed to work with spellbinders labels 4.
My ribbon treatment is cherry cobbler seam binding. That completes this card.

Hope your holiday was a good one. Let me know what you did to celebrate. I love reading your comments.

card recipe:
stamps; verve, waltzingmouse
paper: su kraft, always artichoke, cherry cobbler, deck the halls dsp
ink: cherry cobbler
accessories: seam binding, nesties labels 4, cb ef