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A Little Christmas Gift

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You never know when you might need a little Christmas gift. Here’s one I finished up today. I filled it with candy cane kisses. I used a template for a trapezoid box that I picked up from Mirkwood Designs. She has a bunch of neat templates there, although I found the trapezoid shape to be somewhat annoying for putting a band around the middle since the sides aren’t perpendicular. I knew this when I decided to use this template, but it didn’t dawn on me until I was getting ready to adhere the snowflake band. That’s why you see a slight gap at the edges. I made this little gift with three challenges in mind: All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #57 which is all about gift ideas, Paper Pretties challenge to use punches, and Pink Elephant Challenge #90 to make a winter wonderland card/project/layout. If you haven’t noticed, I’m really digging the Baja Breeze/Whisper White/Real Red color combo for Christmas projects. Maybe you’ll see some projects in a different color combo, but no promises.

Trapezoid Christmas Gift Box

Stamps: C.C. Designs Christmas Around the World
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Real Red
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon Real Red; The Twinery Maraschino; ultrafine white glitter; velcro closure
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; liquid applique
Punches: Martha Stewart Snow Flurry; Stampin’ Up Tag and Small Tag

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Cowboy in Training

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Welcome to another round of Texas Tuesday, for Texas inspired crafty goodness on the first and third Tuesdays of every month. I think a number of the posse are making Texas themed Christmas cards, but I decided to go a different route today. I used Mojo Monday Sketch 168 to make it, so since the sketch was revealed yesterday, you know I didn’t plan very far ahead for today’s post.

Cowboy in Training Card

Stamps: Bugaboo Stamps WOC in Training
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Parisian Breeze
Ink: Dell printer
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 5/8″ striped grosgrain ribbon Baja Breeze; Robin’s Nest cowboy dew drops
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic E00

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the posse’s creations: Libby, Mark, Betty, Danielle, Tina, Karen, and Geeta.

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Another Christmas Tag

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This tag is for my youngest nephew, Trevor. It meets the requirements of this week’s Our Creative Corner Challenge to make a tag. It also meets the requirements of Prairie Fairy Friday Challenge #40 to use buttons and bows. Although, I’m not completely sure of the time cut-off on the Prairie Fairy challenge. And it meets the requirements of the Diecut Dreams Christmas Club Challenge #45 to use a die cut. This time instead of hand-writing the name and year, I ran it through the printer and I have to say, I prefer the more professional look of printed type. I really like how it turned out, even if I wish I had only used the border punch on the potion of the top piece that overlays the image panel.

Trevor's Christmas Tag

Like the last tag I shared, I used liquid applique and glitter to give sparkle to the tag. Be prepared, there might be a lot of liquid applique used on my Christmas tags.

Close-up of the Sparkle

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Holiday Tag Team
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Baja Breeze
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Dell printer
Embellishments: navy organza ribbon; The Twinery Maraschino twine; Liquid Applique; ultra-fine holographic glitter (on top of Liquid Applique); Stickles Icicle; Papertrey Ink Holiday Mix Vintage Button; eylet
Tools: Nestabilites Labels Four; Martha Stewart Snow Flurry border punch; Stampin’ Up markers; atYou Spica clear marker

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A Christmas Tag

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Since I decided not to hand make Christmas cards this year (don’t worry, I’m sending out a picture card instead), I thought I would make handmade Christmas tags. At least, I plan to make them for all the kiddos. I’m going to put 2010 and their name on the tag, and I thought it would make a good embellishment for a quick Christmas layout after the gift is opened. This first tag is for my nephew Dawson, the oldest of my nieces and nephews. Since I used a C.C. Designs image, it meets the requirements for the All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #55 to make a tag.

Dawson's Christmas Tag

And here’s a close-up of all the sparkle.

Tag Close-up

Stamps: C.C. Designs Christmas Around the World
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Real Red
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: green grosgrain ribbon; The Twinery Maraschino twine; Liquid Applique; ultra-fine holographic glitter (on top of Liquid Applique)
Tools: Nestabilites Labels Three; Stampin’ Up markers; atYou Spica clear marker

Now to wrap his gifts so I can attach the tag.

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An Imaginisce Birthday Layout

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I picked up the Imaginisce B-Day Bash paper pack and coordinating embellishments at the scrapbooking convention I went to with Kristy in September. I thought it would work great with all the kids’ birthday parties. So I ordered some prints from my niece’s first birthday party from ScrapbookPictures.com, a new photo site I tried out for a digital scrapbook project I am working on.  I had wanted to play along with Imaginisce’s monthly sketch in October with these pictures, but I ended up being too busy getting ready for Jessica’s first birthday party. I think this November sketch worked better with the pictures though, so I’m kinda glad I didn’t have time. What do you think of my take on the sketch?

Imaginisce November Sketch

My Take on the Imaginisce November Sketch

I decided to do a coordinating second page for the rest of the pictures I deemed scrapbook worthy. And then I wondered where there was room for the journaling. You might look at this page and wonder “I don’t see any journaling.” Well, I’m sneaky like that. That little red rectangle with the present hides the journaling that will pop out like a jack-in-the-box. That space wasn’t big enough for all I wanted to say (thank you blog post on said party for providing what to say) and so I got creative. What do you think?

Coordinating Layout

Close-up of Journaling Sneakiness

Cardstock: Bazzil white and red; DCWV caribbean
Designer Paper: Imaginisce B-Day Bash
Stamps: Stampabilites Sophie Alpha Upper & Lower
Ink: Stampin’ Up Craft Whisper White
Embellishments: Imaginisce B-Day Bash chipboard stickers and rub-ons; The Twinery Caribbean twine; DMC white floss; Stickles yellow; dimensionals
Tools: Martha Stewart Balloon punch; Nestabilities Classic Ovals Large

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