Category: holidays

• Layers // Advent Banner {Feeling Crafty/Photo Challenge}

  

  Can you believe Thanksgiving is just 10 days away? And that means Christmas season is only 11 days away! I created this Advent calendar banner and mini book for a class I’m teaching at my local scrapbook store (LSS) – Cool Scrapbook Stuff. I wanted to create a unique piece that was quite festive, would…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  November 18, 2013

  Feeling Crafty, holidays, Photo Challenge, scrapbooking, supplies, tags

  Advent, banner, Christmas, clothes pins, crafting, Dylusions Spray Ink, Fiskars circle punch, Fiskars scallop punch, jingle bells, kraft, My Minds Eye (MME), Postbox Red, ribbon, tag, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Vintage Christmas

• M Family Sneak Peek {Photo Session}

  

  I had a fantastic time with this gorgeous family of five yesterday! The love and joy they have as a family totally showed through! They were so fun to work with, and they didn’t mind getting a little dirty with the wet sand – making my job behind the lens so much easier! I’m blessed…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  November 17, 2013

  client session, Del Mar / Powerhouse Beach, holidays, photo session, photography

  5, beach, Christmas family photo, cloudy, family of five, joy, jump, silhouette, sun rays, sunset

• Christmas Tag {Feeling Crafty}

  

  I know, it’s not even Thanksgiving and I’m already thinking Christmas?! But I just wanted to share this cute  tag I made for a make-n-take at Cool Scrapbook Stuff this week. Are you getting ready for Christmas already, too? I’d love to see what crafts you’re working on, so please share in the comments! As…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  November 13, 2013

  Feeling Crafty, holidays, photography, scrapbooking, supplies, tags, Wordless Wednesday

  Christmas, crafting, EK tree punch, embossing powders, faux stitching, gift tag, handmade, Hero Arts, Magical background stamp, Stampendous JOY, stickles, Tim Holtz Distress Ink

• Thanksgiving / Gratitude Tags {Feeling Crafty}

  

  I know, I know, Halloween candy is still in the house, decorations are still up, costumes are strewn around, everyone’s on a sugar overload, and here I am blogging about Thanksgiving! I just had to share these cute “Beautiful Abundance” tags I came up with for Thanksgiving… Last year I made these “Thankful” tags and…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  November 1, 2013

  Feeling Crafty, holidays, scrapbooking, supplies, tags

  crafting, decor, gift, grateful, gratitude, hostess, journaling, memento, setting, table, tags, Thanksgiving

• Creepy //Skele-Yoga {CY365 & Wordless Wednesday}

  

  You’ve just been BA’d by a yogi skeleton balancing on a pumpkin : ) This photo was taken in response to the CY365 Prompt: Creepy. My 7-yr old saw the skeleton garland I bought and asked if she could have one of the skeletons. This is what I found her doing with him. Creepy and funny. The…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  October 16, 2013

  CY365, holidays, Photo Challenge, photography, Wordless Wednesday

  #CY365, creepy, funny, Halloween, pumpkin, silly, skeleton

• Halloween Tags {Feeling Crafty}

  

  Besides my IRL family and friends, I really do love the online communities that have become family too! One of those communities is my Scrap Happy family – an online community of crafters from all over the world. Occasionally we’ll have a tag swap, so I made these three tags to send to crafty like-minded…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  October 12, 2013

  Feeling Crafty, holidays, scrapbooking, supplies, tags

  artsy, blending, chalk, crafting, embossing, Halloween, Halloween tags, skeleton, slice design cards, Slice Elite, spider web, spooky, stamping, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, witch legs, word art