Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you all the blessing of Christmas, and I hope you have the good fortune of spending time with those you love this holiday season. We have all our family gatherings on other days so today we will be spending the day with friends and all the lovely people at our local soup kitchen.

I created this frame using a wonderful piece of word art I found as well as the Classic Christmas digital paper pack from Kindred Creations.

Scarf

I came across a lovely scarf on this blog and I decided I would try and make myself one, and while I was at it I could whip one up for my niece for Christmas as well to go along with the gift card I got her.

I only used a single layer of fabric because I felt it would be quite thick and only suitable as a winter scarf and I thought the flower detail was too pretty to hide under a coat.  I rounded the ends of the 8" wide fabric before ruffling it.  I added 13 flowers (only because that's what I could get out of the remaining fabric).  I hand sewed the flowers and added 3 silver seed beads to the centre.  I then sewed them to the scarf making sure to keep the stitches at the back of the scarf neat and tidy, and starting and finishing my work on the back of the flower. Frankly I'll admit I was lazy and tried washable fabric glue and when I hand washed it 4 flowers fell off, but I also noticed that the flowers looked crappy after coming out of the wash.  Although I had already noticed that they looked a little limp and the tops were falling down when I lifted the scarf up.  To remedy that I took some no-sew seam tape to attach the flowers to the scarf further.  The flowers right now look a little flat from ironing on bits of seam tape, but they should puff back up a little.  I only attached them in two or three places.

Retro Christmas Tree

I have a new card to share with you.  Kindred Creations Scrapbooking has two new digital kits out today, Retro Red Christmas Tree and Retro Green Christmas Tree.  These packs are wonderful for the digi scrapper, but also those who don't mind printing out their own paper, which I did.  I also used the Ornate Merry Christmas Title which I changed to a green colour (although the greens appear quite black in the photograph).  I cut the image out using a Spellbinders Labels 17.  I layered the Red Tree Top paper over white and dark green card stock and stitched them together.  I also took a strip of Green Retro Trees paper and stitched it across the lower half of the card front.  I then added the image using foam adhesive and finished it off with some Kaisercraft clear jewels in the top right hand corner.

Shaker Easel card

I started by creating an easel card base from white card stock.  I layered the front and inside with blue card stock and patterned paper from a Pebbles Inc. Snow Fun 4x6 pad, which were stitched together with a sewing machine.  I printed the window image on brown card stock and the winter tree on white.  I cut out the window image and coloured the winter tree image using Lyra artist pencils adding in some fluffy white clouds.  I added some acetate to the window panes, then a double layer of foam adhesive around the window frame.  I added a little bit of decorative sand in the middle before adhering the winter tree image to the back.  I also added a little bit of glitter to the the corners of some of the window panes fro a frosty effect.   I then adhered this to a decorative mat I cut using a Spellbinders Labels 17 and Pebbles Inc. paper and adhered it to the top of the easel card.  I then cut some decorative elements from blue card stock and the Spellbinders Parisian Accents dies.  I added a few jewels to the to the top.  I then printed out the gift tag in dark blue, attached it with some blue embroidery floss tied in a bow and added some little silver bells, and a snowflake made from two die cuts, and some glitter.
For the inside I printed the let it snow sentiment in light blue and matted it in light blue.  I then placed it on top of a dark blue card stock pendant with a narrower light blue version just underneath using foam adhesive.  I centered this on the inside and used it to keep the easel propped up.  Lastly I added a few jewels along the top of the dark blue pendant.

Let it Snow

I love this advent colour combo for Christmas cards.  I started with a 8 1/2x4 1/4" white card base.  I added glitter to the edge of the card front.  I then took a scrap piece of card stock and wrapped it in metallic blue gift wrap and adhered it onto the card front. I added a strip of purple glitter card stock, and purple and clear jewel border.  I printed the let it snow digi image 3 times in a blue colour, went over it with a glue pen and blue glitter.  I added them to the front of the card using foam adhesive.  I kept it clean and simple with all that bling going on because I felt it would have been a little over the top if I had a lot of detail and layers along with the the eye catching bling factor.

Woodland Trees

I chose to keep this card clean and simple.  I started with a white card base and rounded the edges.  I added another layer of red card stock which I covered with two patterned paper which I stitched together before adhering to the base.  I printed out the digital stamp and coloured it with Lyra artist pencils and Sansodor.  I added glitter to the snow on the ground and punched some circles from red metallic card stock to cover the ornaments on the tree.  I matted this with more red card stock, stitched around it and adhered it  to the patterned paper using foam adhesive.  I wrapped these layers with string that I glittered using white paint as my 'glue'.  I added a button to the string and tied the ends in a bow.  Next I cut decorative corner from metallic red card stock using a Spellbinders Parisian Accents die which I adhered under the image in the top left hand corner.  I printed out the Happy Holidays Sentiment and cut it out using a Spellbinders Labels 17 die and cut it in half inked the edges green and added some metallic card stock circles before  tucking it under the image.

Vintage Postcard

I started by printing out some Kindred Creations digital papers Rainbow stripes and Damask.  I distressed them and layered them and sewed them together.  I printed out the postcard in green, stamp in red and Birdies Housework.  I matted the postcard with red card stock and stitched the layers together.  I added the coloured birdy tot he top left hand corner and the postage stamp ion the top right hand corner using foam adhesive.  I then wrapped the base with gold ribbon then mounted the postcard slightly angled on top.  I then tied a bow using the bow easy from the same ribbon adhered it to the bottom left hand corner, added two red roses, two leaves and a bunch of die cuts cut using the Martha Stewart twig punch.  Lastly I added some gold liquid pearls along the bottom of the postcard.