Woodland animals

Hi Everyone!

A few weeks ago I bought a magazine called Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts.  I have seen copies of this magazine in JoAnn Fabrics and at Barnes and Noble.  This particular issue of the magazine has a lot of fun ideas in it.

One idea that I liked is on page 58.  It is called "Nature's Charmers" and they suggest you use adhesive-back white birchwood paper to create the animals and the tree. 

Well, I didn't have any of that paper, but I did have paper that I bought at JoAnn's that is 8.5" x 11" and is called 110 lb kraft paper.  This paper cuts easily with scissors.

There are patterns in the Pattern Pack at the back of the magazine for each of the animals and trees.  You enlarge the animals. 

I made a fox

and a bear.

I also made the doe,

the squirrel, and a tree.

I haven't made the deer with antlers yet.

They look great displayed on my kitchen window sill.

Have a nice night!

Christmas Cards Day Two

Hi Everyone!

As promised I am back to share more Christmas cards with you today. 
 

I repeatedly stamped a pine branch stamp around the edges of some white tag.  Then I added some pine cones here and there.  The sentiment was created with a Hero Arts stamp.  Then I ran the tag through a Cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder.

First I ran a piece of parchment paper through a Cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder.  Then I paper punched some trees.  I cut off the paper punched trunks and used woodgrain paper to create some new ones.  The dotted tree is adhered to the paper with foam tape.

 

I like the simplicity of this card.  I stamped the 3 trees onto patterned paper.  Then I used a Lawn Fawn puffy clouds border to create a snowbank.  I ran the paper through a Cuttlebug Season's Greetings embossing folder.  I added a star brad to each treetop before I adhered my paper to a blank card.

Will be back tomorrow to share more Christmas cards.

Enjoy your day!

 

Christmas Cards Day One

Good Morning!

Every year I create some Christmas cards with a knitting theme in memory of my mother who always knitted our hats and mittens.  This year I was thrilled to learn that Lawn Fawn has created a paper line called "Knit Picky."  I chose to use that paper for some of my cards. 

 

This card is one of my favorites.  The ball of yarn and knitting needles were cut with some Memory box dies.

 

 

I used a Sizzix stocking die to create the stockings on these cards.

The stocking on this card was stamped with a wooden stamp from Rubber Soul.

The layering paper on this card isn't from Lawn Fawn.  It was in my stash.  I used a Sizzix mittens die to create the cutout mittens.  The small stamped mittens were created with a stamp from Lockhart stamps. 

I hope that this cards inspire you to create some of your own.

Have a great day!

More Gift Tags

Good Morning!

Brr!  It's cold today.  Okay, you're right.  I heard you say, "What do you expect, it's December in New England." 

December it is.  In our home that means Robbie and I bake lots and lots of cookies.  So far we've made chocolate truffles and Nana cookies.  Nana cookies are molasses cookies that my grandmother always made for us. 

I shared photos of gift tags the other day and today I'll share some of the others that I photographed that same day. 

I heat embossed the sentiments with glittery red embossing powder.  Those adorable hats are stickers.

A snowy scene on tags.  The snowflakes are buttons.  The snowmen are stickers.  The trees are made of wood.  I sprayed the trees with Maya Road Evergreen Metallic Mist to make them turn green. 

I used a snowflake embossing folder to emboss the layering papers on these tags.  The penguins are adorable stickers.  The stores had such cute stickers this year.

The trees are brads from Eyelet Outlet.  I used Lawn Fawn's Puffy Clouds border dies to create the snowbanks.

 

 



 

The reindeer were paper punched.  The sentiments are washi tape.

Have a great day!  Stay warm!

Gift Tags

Hi Everyone!

My paper crafting life has been busy, busy, busy.  I told a friend of mine, busy is good, but it's nice to finally have some time to write a post for my blog.

A few weeks ago I found some large kraft tags in a local store and knew I "needed" them.  Sometimes I use tags as "tags" on packages and other times I use tags as the background for little scenes I create for my cards.  I own several tag dies, but I still buy some pre-cut ones from time to time. 

I purchased the 3 packages of 12 tags each that the store had in stock thinking that I would have more than enough of them.  Was I ever wrong.  I ended up using one of the tags as a pattern and now this season I have created about 100 tags. 

I sold or gave away many of the tags before I photographed them, but I took pictures of the ones I finished today.

I ran the background paper and some white metallic tag through a snowflake embossing folder.  The full snowflakes are attached to the tag with foam tape to give the tag dimension.  The tags that I cut in half are adhered to the tag with Scor-tape. 

The belt buckle on the Santa suit tag was created with the pull tab from a can of Diet Pepsi. 

 

The three dimensional Santa stickers on these tags are the cutest stickers I have ever seen.  I found them at Michaels.  I used Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Border Dies to cut the snowbanks on these tags and many of the other ones I created.

The gingerbread person on these tags were created with stamps from PaperTrey Ink's "Holiday Button Bits" clear stamp set.  The sentiments were created with Washi tape. 

I used Cherry Metallic Mist from Maya Road to add color to many of my Maya Road letters.  I ran my letters through my Xyron X Maker to put adhesive on the back of them. 

That's it for today.  Marie and some of her friends are coming here tonight for a Pinterest Craft Party.  I'll share the projects they are going to make another day.

Have a great night!