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Visiting Santa

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On Friday, our playgroup met up at the mall to visit Santa. Millie went first and at first she was okay sitting on Santa’s lap, but then she got upset. Jessica went next and I thought she would scream bloody murder when I tried to put her on Santa’s lap, but she surprised me. She didn’t cry when I handed her to Santa. She didn’t cry when I stepped a few feet away out of way of the camera elf. She didn’t cry at all. I couldn’t get big smiles out of her, but she did great. I was so proud of her. Parker was the last of our playgroup to visit Santa and he had such a serious face the entire time he was on Santa’s lap. I have to say the Barton Creek Mall Santa is awesome. He has a real bead and he is so great with the kiddos. He tried so hard to make them smile. He had this little reindeer stuffed puppy and some sleigh bells and Christmas books. I would definitely recommend him if you’re in the area.

Jessica and Santa

Jessica Smiling Up at Santa

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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Tag #3

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Normally, I don’t like to do more than one blog post in a day, but I had planned to get this posted yesterday, but didn’t have time and today’s the deadline for the challenge.

Today’s tag was made for my niece, Aspen. I had a lot of fun with this tag, even if I did have to stamp it three times and I still had a tad too much pressure in some spots. Oh well. I followed my friend Lori’s suggestion and waited a day before heating up the liquid applique and it did allow for a more uniform raised look. I also added some glossy accents to the ornaments for dimension. Today’s tag meets the requirements for the All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #56 to use snowflakes.

Aspen's Gift Tag

Stamps: C.C. Designs Christmas Around the World
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Baja Breeze
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Dell printer
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 5/8″ striped grosgrain ribbon Baja Breeze; Robin’s Nest early dawn dew drop; eyelet
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; white gel pen; Inkssentials Glossy Accents; liquid applique

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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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