Twelve Days of Christmas--Project # 5

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HI friends! Are you enjoying all of our projects so far? I hope so! It is definitely starting to feeling like holiday season! Today I am sharing a card and a coordinating ornament or gift tag idea!

Lets start with one of my favorite card designs—I think it definitely falls into the ‘Good Card Design’ category as you can recreate this card with any dsp or die cut options!

The base is Real Red (its just screams classic Christmas) and in the top left and bottom right I stamped the little cluster of stars found in the Decorative Trees stamp set.

I created a first layer in Basic White where I die cut out a circle. Behind the circle I laid strips of DSP from the Take a Bow DSP in 1/2 and 3/4 wide strips. This is such a great way to use up DSP. I also ran this panel through the Snowfall Folder for a little extra touch.

I used the colors of the Take a Bow DSP to determine the colors of my two trees that I die cut with the Decorative Tree Dies. I just love these dies and have had so much fun creating with them this holiday season.

The dies have two sets of trees to choose from. The Garden Green treen in the front is one of the smaller tree options. The fancy layer that is on top of the tree is a separate die. You need to cut it and add it to the base tree, which is bigger. You then just use your snips to trim off the bottom section of the base tree! I was so happy to discover this as it made creating even more tree combinations a breeze!

Every year I make some sort of wood slice Christmas ornament or gift topper. I do hang these on my tree or tie them on a gift bag or use them on a gift. I love using a wood slice or tree cookie as my base. These are fun inexpensive gifts that you can use in a variety of ways. The coordinating card makes it a fun little gift!

To make this fun 3D tree for my ornament, I cut out 4 trees in Granny Apple Green. One is the base and three will be scored right down the middle of the tree. You could stamp on these 3 layers, like I did here, or even run them through an embossing folder for some texture.

I used the little star shapes from the Decorative Tree dies on these ones. Fold the 3 trees in half along the score line. Add some Tombow to the base tree and add one tree (one folded side) to the left half of your base tree, then add the next tree with Tombow to the back of the first tree and so forth, attaching the third tree to the base. I love when we can take a shape and make it 3D!

Because the Decorative Trees stamp set has the sentiment ‘Oh, Christmas Tree’ I knew that I had to use it on this project. It is stamped in Real Red ink with a spray of Granny Apple Green over top. I added a couple little banners from the Take a Bow DSP and a star from the die set.

I hope you are inspired to make a fun card and coordinating ornament yourself this holiday season!

Make sure you are checking Melanie’s blog on the days opposite of me so you don’t miss any of our awesome projects!
Thanks for joining in our 12 Days of Christmas Hop!

Twelve Days of Christmas--Project #3

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Hey Hey Hey! Welcome to my 3rd share of 12 Days of Christmas with Melanie and Brenda. We hope you have been enjoying our projects so far. Did you know at the end of this hop you will have 14 project ideas? Isn’t that amazing?

I have to admit, I am pretty obsessed with the Reindeer Fun Dies at the moment. In particular, the adorable, genius reindeer head that you can make.

I started with a base of Real Red and added a first layer of Basic White card stock. I then added a layer of DSP from the Reindeer Days collection. I used the largest die from the Stitched Dies in Basic White to be my base for my little reindeer.

The adorable reindeer is put together using Reindeer Fun Dies from the Holiday Catalogue. I used Pecan Pie for his face, Basic White for the behind layer and Early Espresso for the antlers. The wreath is in Garden Green to coordinate with the DSP.

The sentiment is from the Greetings of the Season stamp set which you can find in the online store!

Tomorrow you can hop on over to Melanie’s blog and see what she has to share for a holiday project.

Twelve Days of Christmas--Project 2 !

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Welcome to my second post of 12 Days of Christmas! Today I want to share a quick and easy holiday gift—A Take-a-Way cup with a fun label that you can fill with hot chocolate!

My kids and I love to drink hot chocolate and I often send some with them to school in a disposable cup (much easier than remembering to bring home a travel mug to your mom, haha!) and I often make some as gifts for my stamping friends. The Holiday season is busy so its fun to have inspiration for projects that don’t take up that much time!

 

I found these gold striped To Go cups at my local HomeSense and I took the sleeve that came with them and deconstructed it so it was flat. Then I traced it onto some of the Reindeer Days DSP to create my own sleeve.

I punched a 2 3/8 circle from Garden Green and ran it through the Dashing Designs embossing folder. The sentiment ‘Christmas is Better Together’ is from the Reindeers Days stamp set and is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White.

I used the heart die from the Friends for Life dies to cut out the sentiment and I was so happy it fit so perfectly around the sentiment. The gold bow (to tie into the lines on the cup) is from the Reindeer Fun dies and I snipped a couple pieces of Granny Apple Green card stock into little banners to add behind the heart/bow.

This is such a great, fun and easy project to give a little treat of hot chocolate, or fill the cup with chocolates or other treats.

Head on over to Mel’s Inky Fingers tomorrow to see what she has to share for holiday inspiration!

Twelve Days of Christmas --with Brenda and Melanie!

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Hi friends! Welcome to the third annual blog hop between myself and friend Melanie, from Mels Inky Fingers! For the next twelve days you can toggle between our blogs for some fun holiday inspiration! I will be sharing a mix of scrapbooking and card inspiration with you over the next twelve days on a rotating schedule with Melanie. I am so happy you are here and please feel free to leave me comments!

Of course I want to kick off our 12 Days with a fun scrapbooking project! I love to scrapbook and I am getting a jump on some holiday page designs. After Christmas I will be able to simply pop some photos on my pages and it will feel so rewarding!

Many of the scrapbook pages I am going to share over our 12 Days, use the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Paper found in the Holiday Catalogue. This is such a fun and economical way to scrapbook as you can create so many different layouts with the pieces found in this collection.

I started with a base of Garden Green (probably my favorite holiday green if I had to pick) and used a pieces of Real Red as a photo mat for a 5 x 7 picture.

This paper collection has a bunch of shapes that you can pop out and a sheet of six 4 x6 cards. I chose the card with the ornaments and actually fussy cut these out for the top right corner of my page. I stamped the little snowflake image around and under the ornaments using the Happiest Day stamp set. The phrase ‘Good Tidings’ is from the Sophisticated Sled stamp set.

A little Real Red & White bakers twine and some Gold Ribbon through the Good Tidings tag and some Peppermint embellishments finished off this little section of my page.

For the bottom section of my page, I stamped the same image again in the background and popped up the three ornaments from the collection. I added a bit of the Blueberry Bushel gingham pattern from the DSP underneath the top and bottom of my photo mat.

The sentiment is from the Reindeer Fun stamp set that I punched out with the Modern Oval Punch. A added a little more Red & White twine behind it and some more Peppermint Embellishments.

I hope this page inspires you to do some holiday memory keeping. Now its time to head over to Melanie’s blog to see what project she is kicking our 12 Days of Christmas off with! Click the image below to visit Mel’s Inky Fingers!

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Color Fusers--December!

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Hello friends! Welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop! I am really excited to let you know we have some new friends joining our monthly hop which means you will have even MORE fantastic projects to inspired you with a new color combination each month!

This month we are created with Pool Party, Orchid Oasis and Fresh Freesia. Now I will be the first to admit, I have not been using Orchid Oasis as much as I should ESPECIALLY after realizing how freaking awesome this color combo is!

As you may know, I love to scrapbook and this color combo was too fun to not try as a page layout—especially a holiday page layout! Who says this color scheme can’t be for Christmas?

I started with a base of Orchid Oasis and added a 4 x 12 strip of some retired Fresh Freesia DSP. I am really leaning into using this I have that are retired with stuff that is NEW so that I can encourage my own customers to use their stash AND pair it up with things they may have just purchased.

I also decided to use the Stars at Night Bundle for this page as I have had it for a while and it hadn’t really touched any ink! I love the big star burst in the background of the page!

My photo mats are in Pool Party and are also horizontal, which honestly, is not typical for me! But they work perfectly this direction so that I can have ‘Oh What Fun’ as the focal point for my page. The sentiment was really inspired by this fun color combo!

I cut the letters out with the Alphabet A La Mode dies and the Foam Adhesive Sheets. While the letters were still nestled in the Foam sheets, I used a Blending Brush with Pool Party ink over the bottom portion of the letters. I really love this look and its so easy to create two toned or even ombre colored letters for your projects.

I die cut a variety of the other star shapes with the dies in Orchid Oasis and Fresh Freesia. Some of the dies also emboss and then a couple of the solid shapes I ran through the 3D Basics Embossing Folder to give them a bit of texture.

I also used a couple sentiments from the stamp set, but I cut them up to make them feel different and I am really pleased with how they help tell the story of this page.

The Ombre Matte Decorative Dots are also perfect because they are offered in this collection of In Colors and a little tab of the Herringbone Ribbon (both from the Annual Catalogue) are awesome additions to the overall design of the page.

I really hope this page sparks some joy in you—it does for me! And I can’t wait to see what the rest of the crew has designed for you!

Up next is Sue Vine and I know you will be amazing by what she is sharing with us this month. Click on the image below to go directly to her blog!

You can always go backwards and you will be visiting my friend Melanie Hockin—Melanie and I just finished a 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop between the two of us which was lots of fun as well!

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