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Ahhhh, the holidays are almost over...now what?

So, were your holiday happy?  We had a wonderful Christmas and now I'm looking forward to the new year.  I always like fresh starts!

Here are some layouts I did for Imaginisce with the new Sweet Cheri line.  In case you "need" the banana cupcake recipe, you can get it here.

 

You can't see it very well in the photo, but I machine stitched around the whole layout with my handy dandy sewing machine.

 

Supplies:  Cardstock, Letter Stickers- American Crafts; Patterned Paper, Stickers, Rub-Ons, Stamps- Imaginisce; Letter Stickers- SEI; Bling- Heidi Swapp; Adhesive - Glue Arts; Ink- Colorbox; Thread; Punch - Stampin' Up

 

And here's one with with my sweet niece:

 

 

 

Supplies: Cardstock - American Crafts, Bazzill; Patterned Paper - Imaginisce, Little Yellow Bicycle; Stickers, Rub-Ons - Imaginisce; Cricut Expression - Sweethearts cartridge; Adhesive - Glue Arts; Font - CK Typewriter

 

And here's a layout with my new little nice on her birth day (she's less then an hour old here):

 

 

I took strips of paper and pleated them and then sewed over them.

 

 

Supplies:  Cardstock - Bazzill, American Crafts, Wausau; Patterned paper, Flowers, Stickers, Brads (iTop) - Imaginisce; Rub-Ons - Imaginisce, American Crafts; Punch - Stampin' Up; Cricut Expression - Winter Woodland Cartridge; Adhesive - Glue Arts;Thread; Ink; Date Stamp; Ribbon
   

Sponsors: Imaginise, Glue Arts, Provo Craft
 
 

Finally sharing some Christmas gifts I made

We had an awesome Christmas!  I loved having our family over and all the warm fuzzy feelings that go along with this wonderful holiday.  Here's a photo of my little niece...isn't she adorable in her Christmas outfit?  Love it!

 

Well, since my family could see my projects online I've held off on sharing them with you until now.  Please ignore any wonky photos...some of them I had to take inside at night.

First off, I made a few mini-albums.  This first one has those baby tags from Elle's Studio where you can record highlights through out baby's first year.  The album is a little one I got in the 1$ spot at Michael's a few years ago.

 

  

This one was another inexpensive photo album that I just embellished to jazz it up a bit.  I added the trim on the outside and then made a title page...simple and easy.  :)

  

 

 Then I made a little ornament/magnet with the Tilano Ornamento Kit...the glass is really thick so it's hard to photograph, but it looks cute in person, trust me.

  

 And lastly I used my Cricut to personalize some Pyrex by etching it.  It took under 10 minutes from start to finish & it makes me want to do more.  This is another object that's hard to photograph, but you get the idea.  

 

 Well, I think that's it.  Hope your holiday was a great one!!  Now on to New Years!

Sponsors: Tilano, ProvoCraft

Holiday Links I love

Since I'm so busy with all the hustle and bustle of Christmas I thought I'd share some links of things that have caught my eye online the past couple of days.

I love what Mel did on this card!!  She has a great tutorial about it on her blog about it too.

 

 

You all saw how I cut fabric with my Cricut Expression for my Christmas banner, but did you know the Slice cuts fabric too?  Check out Little Birdie Secrets and see her cute Christmas towels.

 

 

Loving this modern wreath that Pickles made...there's directions on the site, wink, wink!

 

  

I love how Amy made these holiday napkins with a bleach pen!!  

(photo removed per Amy's request...please stop by her blog to see these, they're great!)

  

Here's a fabulous card Melis made.  It reminded me of Spark!  You have to read what she wrote in this post too, especially you adoptive Moms...brought a tear to my eyes.  ;)

 

 

 And of course I love these gingerbread houses by Not Martha, how could you not!  :)

 

 

Oh, and be sure to stop by When Creativity Knocks for a vintage post card ornament tutorial.
 
 
 

 

Holiday Banner

 (click on photo to see it larger)

When I was at the Polka Dot Whimsy Holiday crop this was one of the projects Michelle had for us to work on....I took my pieces home then last week I finally put it together.  I cut the letters out of fabric on my Cricut which was really fun to do since I hadn't cut fabric with it before.  I just ironed on some Heat'n Bond on to the fabric and then had my Cricut do the rest.  After the letters were cut I just ironed them on to the felt triangles.  I then sewed the triangles onto a long strip of fabric and then embellished.  

Supplies: Fabric, Felt, Cricut cartridge - Winter Woodland, Buttons, Thread

Sponsor: Provo Craft

  

Christmas Scrapbook Layout

I finally got the chance to scrapbook these old photos.  I really stink at scrapbooking holidays...for some reason I don't enjoy doing those as much as scrapbooking every day things. 

 

I love these Imaginisce poinsettias, you get a lot in a package and they shimmer!  Can't wait to use these on some other projects.

 

 

 

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill, Stampin' Up; Patterned paper, Flower, Rub-Ons - Imaginisce; Brad - Karen Foster; Stickers - Making Memories; Ink - ColorBox Cat Eyes; White pen - Signo; Punch - Marvey; Adhesive - GlueArts Glue Glider Pro, Foam; Font - Comfortaa

 

Sponsors: GlueArts, Imaginisce

 

Christmas Treat Box

Fist off...Merry SITSmas!!

What's SITSmas you ask?  SITS is a group of bloggers that support each other & today we're hoping around from blog to blog for SITSmas.  So, welcome ladies!  Thank you for stopping by!

Secondly, here's some little gift boxes I made.  I think I'm going to fill them up with candy or maybe hot chocolate/tea.  I learned how to make them from this tutorial...try it out, they are a quick, cute project!  I love how the ribbon ties all the way around the box and through the lid.

I put a transparency behind the oval cut outs, and on this one I put a rub-on saying on the transparency (I filled this box up with paper so you could see the saying) and I also decorated the lid a bit more.

 

I love how these patterned papers have shimmer on them, so I added some Stickles to a doo-dad I made for the lid to go with the paper.

 

 
 

Supplies: Card stock - Bazzill; Patterned paper, Rub-on, Sticker, Ribbon - Imaginisce; Punch - Stampin' Up; Adhesive - GlueArts Glue Glider Pro, Foam; Stickles; String; Transparency

Sponsor: Imaginisce, GlueArts

Handmade Paper Christmas Ornament

I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit now that it's finally cold here in So Cal...ok, not really cold-cold compared to where most of you are, but for here it's cold.  :)

Here's a Christmas ornament I made last nigh. It's fairly simple to make, but you do have to pay some attention to what you are doing so it ends up being a circle.  -Don't ask how I know that. ;)  

I used my Cricut to cut out twenty 2" circles out of Imaginisce's Polar Expressions paper, then folded each one into a triangle shape and glued the edges together with my Glue Glider Pro.  I then cut out some holly leaves out with the Winter Woodland cartridge and glued on some little red pom-poms. And lastly I Glimmer Misted the whole thing.  My finished ornament is about the size of a baseball.  

Now, I just have get the rest of my decor up!

Sponsors: GlueArt, ProvoCraft, Imaginisce

Some of my Imaginisce projects and more!

First off...I thought I'd share with you some Imaginisce projects I've been meaning to post.

This first one is a scrapbook layout I did of my cousin and his boys.  My cousin is getting his pilot's licence, so I know sharing his passion with his children is important to him.  I took this photo of my layout a while ago, and since then I've put it in a frame so I can send it to them.

 

Supplies: Patterned Paper - Imaginisce; Letters - Jillibean Soup; Bling - Prima; Journaling card - Elle's Studio; Rub-on - Glitz; Adhesive - GlueArts, Beacons 3 in 1; Felt; Thread; Label Tape

 

 

And here's a mini book I made with a mixture of zoo pictures...some of them from when my brother and I were kids!

 Supplies: All Imaginisce products...including using some of the packaging I up-cycled for tags; Cricut; Adhesive - GlueArts

 

 

And lastly, here's a card I made...I love that stamp, it says "friends for life".  :)

  

Supplies: Patterned Paper, Flowers, Brad - Imaginisce; Card Stock - Coredinations; Embossing Plate - Cuttlebug; Stamp - Unity; Bling - Basic Grey; Thread; Adhesive - GlueArts; Ink - Cat Eyes

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 Secondly....I'm featured on Debby's Dare today for the first day of her 12 Days of Home For The Holidays series, so pop on over and say "hi"!  (A little birdy told me there are some giveaways going on over there right now so don't dilly-dally!)

 

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Lastly...stop by When Creativity Knocks and check out their holiday cards using rick-rack. 

  

Sponsors: Provo Craft, Imaginisce, GlueArts

Vintage Fabric Flowers and Fabric Topped I-Top Brads

Kelly McCaleb taught a workshop at Spark and in it she showed us how to make these cute fabric flowers out of vintage fabric.  This is the shirt I made in class.

 

 
 

I am also making a sweatshirt for my niece (I'm almost finished!) and added a i-top brad I made with fabric to the center of a fabric flower and to the zipper.  Even though the brad is on the zipper pretty securely, I think I'm going to sweet talk my father-in-law into showing me how to solder them together so the i-top brad wont fall off.

 

Here's a close up of the flower, I just poked the i-top brad through the center of the flower and then opened the backing up and pushed it down into the backside of the flower. 

(Sorry the color is off quite a bit in these pics, I took them at night)

 

For the zipper pull, I just put the i-top brad through the center of the zipper pull and then tweaked the backing so that it wrapped around the zipper pull and tucked the ends behind the head of the brad.

   
  

Sponsor: Imaginisce

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Wishing my American friends and family a very happy Thanksgiving...hope you have an enjoyable weekend with the people you love and may God's blessings upon your life be your focus this weekend.

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy