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Showing posts with label happy happy christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy happy christmas. Show all posts

20 December 2016

Terrific Tag Tuesday: Merry Christmas!


Hi All! Welcome to the final installment of the Kraft-y Hearts Terrific Tag Tuesday Blog Share. If you haven't already, be sure to hop over and see what the amazingly talented Lynn Darda has to share with you today at From My Bungalow.

Now on to today's project. So when is a tag not a tag? When it's also an envelope! Let's take a look:


So today's tag is fashioned after the library pocket you used to find in the back of books that housed the lending card.

I used heavy black cardstock for both the tag and the card, and rounded the top corners of both. I layered both the tag and the card with papers from Close To My Heart's Happy, Happy Christmas My Crush pages. Then embellished the tag with black shimmer ribbon and snowflakes cut from white glitter paper. I also added a white eyelet to the top and finished it off with black shimmer ribbon and red and white bakers twine from my stash.


For the card, I added a sentiment to a Happy, Happy Christmas Picture My Life card and attached it to the front of the card. The sentiment is from the Very Merry Stamp Set and is stamped in Black Archival ink. I added a couple of snowflakes to the front that I punched out of white glitter paper.

Here's another look at the front of the card:



To finish off the inside of the card, I stamped a sentiment from the Very Merry Stamp Set in Sea Glass ink onto White Daisy cardstock and layered it onto the black base.

Here's another look at the tag with the card:

And that's it! I hope you enjoyed this tag-not-a-tag! Now I'm off to make a few more for friends and family. Don't forget to hop over and see what Lynn has for your inspiration at From My Bungalow.

Have a wonderfully creative holiday season!






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09 December 2016

A Little Joy Decor


Hi All! Just wanted to share a little home decor project with you today that I created using a Mini Clipboard by Tim Holtz. I use these little clipboards in my altered art projects a lot because the clip is completely removable making the board a cinch to cover.

For this little piece, I used leftover papers from the My Crush Happy, Happy Christmas collection by Close to My Heart to cover both the front and the back of the board. I added a sentiment card from the Happy, Happy Christmas Picture My Life cards, and then went to town on embellishments.

I began by adding Cranberry Striped Twill Ribbon to to board and then created a flower-bow from loops of the same ribbon, layered with loops of jute ribbon from the Rustic Home Ribbon Pack by Close To My Heart. I finished off the flower-bow with a metal button from my stash. I then cut a variety of greenery from Fern, Ponderosa Pine (a retired color), and Cranberry Cardstock scraps using the Tim Holtz Holiday Greens Mini Thinlits die set. I layered the greens and berries sprigs behind the flower-bow using a little Liquid Glass at the very base of the stems. I punched a snowflake from the same paper with which I covered the board, and attached it to the sentiment card with a glue dot. To finish everything off, I added Diamond Stickles to the snowflake and Christmas Red Stickles to the berries. I also added a little jute ribbon to the top of the clipboard just for a little somethin' extra.

Here's a collage of close-ups showing the details:


And here is the clipboard once again:


Hope you enjoyed this little home decor piece and are inspired to give altering these little clipboards a try. (For more inspiration, see this post.)

Have a wonderfully creative weekend!






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15 November 2016

Merry & Bright


Hi All! Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop featuring the Happy, Happy Christmas Album Bundle by Close To My Heart. If you've just arrived from the always-inspiring Lynn Darda's blog, From My Bungalow, you are in the right place. Now on with the inspiration!



During the month of November, Close To My Heart is offering a special that includes a beautiful red My Legacy Album and enough paper, cardstock, and bling and the instructions to create five 2-page 12x12 inch scrapbook layouts. All for 10% off the retail price. This is actually a HUGE amount of product, so we in the Rose Blossom Blog Hop Crew decided to see what else we can make with the leftovers and supplies from our stash. Let's take a look....

I had this cute little heart frame in my stash that I picked up at one of my local craft stores for $1. I decided to use some of the My Crush Christmas pages that I had leftover from the layouts to alter the frame and make it into a home decor piece, complete with a shaker window. The acetate that I used to cover the heart and create the window is from the Happy, Happy Christmas overlays set. I used stamps and dies from the Woodland Wishes set to create a little rustic scene and then finished the whole thing off with jute ribbon from the Rustic Home Ribbon pack. The shaker elements are a combination of the Cool Breeze mix by Lucy's Cards and Attic Findings by 28 Lilac Lane. I also added some White Enamel Accents and Diamond Stickles by Ranger to the trees, snowflakes and heart frame around the window, and shimmer using the CTMH Shimmer Brush to the deer antlers for some extra bling.

Here's a collage of close-ups:
And here is the project once again:

I hope you enjoyed this little winter shaker frame. Now hop on over and see what the amazing Morgan Vogt has for your inspiration at TweetScraps.

Have a wonderfully creative week!






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