12 Days (or so) of Christmas Cards

Hello,

Another Christmas Card for me to share,

The sled is a Silhouette file and I embellished with Tim Holtz's festive greens diecuts.

A little mini ornament and Tim's vintage skate charm add a little more dimension and interest.

12 Days (or so) of Christmas Cards

Hi, 

So I was inspired by the bokeh look of some pictures I saw on Pinterest. I wanted to try and replicate them.

I used the Tim Holtz snowflake and embossing folder set (love it!) along with his snowflake stamp set.

I then dug DEEP into my stash of stamps and found some circles and starbursts. 

I used milled lavender, faded jeans and white Stayz on inks

I am really happy with the result. Thanks for looking, see you next time.

12 Days (or so) of Christmas Cards

Here's some "heavy metal"  Christmas cards for you.

Sizzix embossing folders and the foil paper from Ranger. The card on the left has a Spellbinders EF.

I used Tim Holtz' 3D star and the holiday greens thinlit die.

These 2 were made the same, only using white paper and the Simple Stories line.

I really love the way they turned out. Same style but a totally different look.

12 Days (or so) of Christmas Cards

Hi again:
I did some retro Cards with the Bo Bunny "Candy Cane Lane" paper line.
These great little signs and the vintage ornaments are from the Silhouette online store.
I used Peacock Feathers, Festive Berries, Spun Sugar and Mustard Seed distress inks/markers to add color to the signs.
see you soon

12 (or so) Days of Christmas Cards

I wanted to start sharing some of the Christmas cards I made this year. the first one is a re-do of one of my favorite from last year.  The original was inspired by Jan Hobbins' configurations book she did for Sizzix. You can check out my original post here.

I used a different map paper this time but kept the overall design and color scheme the same.

Happy Christmas! Santa is coming soon.

Vintage Sled

Hi everyone:
Can you tell Christmas projects are my favorite things? I made this "vintage sled" a little while ago and it is hanging in my living room.
I wanted to buy an old sled off ebay, but then of course, I thought "I can make one"

I started by enlarging a silhouette cut file here to 12x24. Your can see the tape line where I joined the two pieces.
I then reinforced the sled with chip board and painted it

Next I added long rectangles of cardstock to create the metal rails and painted them silver. I actually ended up gluing silver tissue paper over them to add more strength to the base and give it a more aged look as well.

once the basic construction was complete, I decorated the front with vintage looking ornaments like these vintage skates (another Silhouette file) here

I made a lantern from one of my SVG kits (of course right?) this one is from the Camp Smore  Lantern

lots of wintery greens and a pretty bow complete the piece

thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  I hope you are enjoying all my rustic Christmas decorations.
See you soon...

A Gingerbread House with no Calories

Hi there,

We eat too much during the holidays, at least I know I do. I have a special treat for you. It's a gingerbread house entirely made from paper and glue. 

I made the Haunted Cottage  back in October, once that one was done, I thought it would look super cute done as a gingerbread house.You can check out the original design here: Haunted Cottage SVG kit

The paper I used was from Simple Stories. I love the bokeh look on the paper!

I made the "sugar sticks" with a skewer, Yes Glue, and seed beads

I added the cute little deer to the front porch and stamped my vellum with white pigment ink to give the look of sugar stained glass.  The candy canes?  Upside down "J's" cut on the Silhouette.

I found these great sticky "gum drops" at the Dollar Tree. I tinted some with alcohol inks.
Thanks for looking today, I will be back with some Christmas card projects