Christmas 2013 - December Daily

Today I am sharing a Christmas 2013 Scrap Book made using Paper Phenomenon's "December Daily" from 2012 which was a free offering at the time from Kathy Orta, the creator of Paper Phenomenon.  Thanks Kathy!!!

The actual directions call for 12 pages but when I completed those and put them into the book, the cover/spine was not big enough to fit all 12 pages.  So I took it all apart and I decided to only use 6 pages, which turned out to be more than enough for my 2013 Christmas photos, and I increased the hidden hinge from 1/4" to 1/2".  When I was all done adding my photos the cover and spine were still almost to small but I made it work...lol!

I used the Christmas paper collection from Echo Park called "Reflections Christmas".  I also used lots of Bazzill Cardstock, Black - Raven, Red - Maraschino, Green - Ivy, and Beige - Wheat.  I didn't keep all of the packages of embellishments I used but I know some were from Michaels Recollections, BoBunny, Teresa Collins, Jellibean Soup, Bella Blvd, Heidi Swapp and Echo Park.

Look closely and you can see lots of tags and inserts to pull out that also contain photos and journaling!   Enjoy...

This is the front cover...can you see the slight bulge in the middle?
It's almost to small for all the pages and photos!
Thank goodness for the closure to hold it all together!!!

This is what happens when you undo the closure...it just all pops open...lol

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Double Fold Winter Christmas Card

Good Afternoon!

I have a card to show you today that I call a double fold card.  I cut a piece of card stock 6" x 12" and then scored and folded 3" from each side into the middle.  The finished size is still a 6" x 6" card and it looks really cool when you open it up.  I've used Winter from Saturated Canary again and a 6x6 paper pack from Memory Box.

Here it is...enjoy...

Front of card

Opening the card!!!

Card fully opened!

View of tag and post card!

Close-up of Winter colored with Copics!

My Card Recipe:
     Digital - Winter by Saturated Canary
     Stamps - Christmas Icons & Christmas Tags by LOTV, Bright Spirits by Verve, Giving and Receiving
          by Penny Black
     Paper - Bazzill White and Mistletoe 6x6 paper pack by Memory Box
     Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts (some white edges are painted with BG70 and E41)
     Paper Punches - Branch, Alpine Snowflake, Large Snowflake and Glacial Snowflake by Martha
          Stewart
     Metal Die - Christmas Stacker Tree by A Cut Above, Dainty Duo by Dienamics, Leafy Branch by CC
          Designs, Lovely Fence, Bloomy Tag & Spruce Tree by DooHickey, Classic Oval Large and Small by
          Spellbinders, and Label Eight and Decorative Label Eight by Spellbinders
     Inked Edges - Vintage Photo Distress Ink
     Sparkle & Shine - Stickles Star Dust and Glossy Accents by Inkssentials
     My Stash - Ribbon and Pearls

Colored in Copics:     Face E0000, E00, R01     Eyes E43, E23     Lips R20, R22     Hair E43, E44, E59
Blue B53, BG70, BG72, BG75     Brown Uggs E23, E25, E27, E29     Beige E41, E42, E43, E44
Snow B0000     Outline C00

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

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Nikki - Season's Greetings

Hello friends...hope you had a great Tuesday! 

I'm so happy to be back at my crafting desk coloring the day away!!!  It's sooooo fun and relaxing for me...

During the last couple of months I acquired quite a few Saturated Canary Digitals that I have not colored yet so after organizing, labeling and filing them I finally sat down and pulled out my Copics and started coloring.  Today I finished a card using a digital called Nikki.  I really love her cute little skirt, her scarf, gloves and that great big bow in her hair!  She is the cutest Ice Skater ever!!! 

Yea, I know... it's another Christmas card, but I made it in blues instead of reds and greens!  I need about 30 cards for next Christmas so I have to keep making them throughout the year.  I will be making other cards too so, stay tuned...

Enjoy...

Front

Inside

My Card Recipe:

     Digital - Nikki by Saturated Canary

     Stamps - A5 Verses Set 10 & Christmas Icons by Lili of the Valley and Sparkling Season by the 

          Greeting Farm

     Paper - Bazzill White and 6x6 paper pack Poppy Finch by Memory Box

     Flower - Prima

     Paper Punches - Doily Lace Punch by Martha Stewart

     Metal Die - Label Stacklet 3 & Make a Snowflake Set of 6 by Taylored Expression, Border Frostyville

          by Memory Box and Carousel Bird Cage by Poppy Stamps

     Inked Edges - Vintage Photo Distress Ink

     Sparkle & Shine - Stickles Star Dust, Recollections Snow Embossing Powder and Glossy Accents

          by Inkssentials

     My Stash - Ribbon and Pearls

Colored in Copics:     Face E0000, E00, R01     Lips R20, R22    Grey Shading C00

Blue/Green BG10, BG32, BG43, BG45     Blue B21, B23, B24     Ground/Ice C00, C1, C3  

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See you again soon...

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James Bear Deck the Halls

Good Morning!  I've finished another "late" Christmas card today...I'm still making them for next Christmas!  This one is using the James Bear Deck the Halls stamp from Lili of the Valley, you can find them HERE.  The card shape is made using a large die from Go Kreate which you can find HERE.  I love their dies because they make die sets large enough for a nice 6x6 card, but you do need to have a Grand Calibur by Spellbinders to cut them out because the dies are to large for the Cuttlebug.

I am still using the Homemade Holidays 6x6 paper pack...I have enough paper left for one more card I think!!!  Amazingly I was able to make 5 different cards with this one 6x6 paper pack.  I LOVE these paper packs because they are already color coordinated for me and some, like this one, have little card tags included.  So much faster than trying to decide on my own papers one by one...

Here is my card for today...enjoy...

Front of card

Inside the card

Close-up of Copic Coloring...Bear is done with dots instead of strokes!

My Card Recipe:
     Stamps - James Bear Deck the Halls by Lili of the Valley, Bright Spirits by Verve and Christmas
          Mini Icon Tags & Christmas Sentiment Tags by Lili of the Valley
     Paper - Bazzill White & Read, 6x6 Paper Pad Handmade Holiday by Simple Stories
     Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts & Petaloo
     Paper Punches - Snowflakes and Garden Trellis by Martha Stewart, Leafy Branch by CCDesigns
           and Vintage Leaf by DooHickey
     Metal Die - Label Stacklets 2 by Taylored Dies and Nesting Circles & Nesting Scalloped Circles
          by Lifestyle Crafts.  The card shape is made using a large Frilly Square #2 by Go Kreate.
     Inked Edges - Distress Ink Vintage Photo
     Sparkle & Shine - Stickles Star Dust and Glossy Accents by Inkssentials
     My Stash - Ribbon and Pearls

Colored in Copics:  Bear - Dotted E30, E31, E33, E35     Blue - BG70+BG18, BG18
Red - R24, R27, R37, R39     Yellow - YR20, Y21, Y11     Green - YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97
Grey Shading - C00

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a Great Day!

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Christmas Cookie Jars

Hello again!  Here to tell you about another Christmas item I made.  This time it is Christmas Cookie Jars.  I made about 10 of these jars and my daughters and I gave them as gifts.  My granddaughter also gave one to her teacher along with a snowman she made and a batch of the cookies that were the same recipe as the jar ingredients. 

I did find one of the recipes on Pinterest but the others were from a Betty Crocker Cookies in a Jar Book I found at the grocery store.  After layering the dry ingredients from the recipe I closed the jar and added a bow and some jingle bells.  I printed out the "Additional Ingredients" and the "To Prepare Cookies" part of the recipe, mounted it on some pretty Christmas paper, added some little Christmas tags and some snowflakes and tied this to the bow on the cookie jar.  You can't see this but I also added a set of measuring spoons to each of the jars just for fun.

Extra note:  If the ingredients do not completely fill the jar just crinkle up some wax paper or plastic wrap and set onto the top of the ingredients to keep them from moving around and getting mixed up inside the jar.

Here are a couple of the jars I made...

Front of jars look like this

 

Side view of "Christmas Cookies in a Jar" mix...can you see the crinkled plastic wrap at the top?

 

Side view of "Prancer's Peanut Butter Cookies"

 

 

Here is the Recipe for the "Christmas Cookies in a Jar" that I used...

 

1 qt. glass jar

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup packed brown sugar

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/8 teaspoon baking soda

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 cup quick-cooking oats

1 cup dried cranberries

1 cup white chocolate chips

 

Additional Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

 

 

Directions:

1. In a 1 qt. glass jar, layer the sugar and brown sugar, packing well between each layer.  Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; spoon into jar.  Top with oats, cranberries and chips.  Cover and store in a cool dry place for up to 6 months.

 

2. To prepare cookies:  Pour cookie mix into a large bowl; stir to combine.  Beat in butter, egg and vanilla.  Cover and refrigerate for 30  minutes.

 

3. Drop by tablespoon full 2 inches apart onto un-greased baking sheets.  Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until browned.  Remove to wire racks to cool.  Yield: 3 dozen

 



My granddaughter and I made each of the cookie recipes before I made the jars just to be sure they were yummy!!!  And yes these are!!!

 

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Bottle Brush Christmas Trees

Good Morning and Happy New Year!

I haven't posted in a while because it's been so busy around here...I'm so ready now to get back to my crafting!  I did however finish a couple of Christmas items that I am going to post today.

The first one is a few of the Bottle Brush Christmas Trees I made.  I found these on Pinterest, of course!!!  I Love Pinterest it's so addicting and fun to search.  They have so many clever ideas for Holidays, Parties, Recipes, Clothing...almost anything you can think of.

Anyway...I saw these trees and had to make them...so I made four, three silver and one gold.  The picture is just the three silver trees of which one is made with silver, blue, green and white, and the other two are made with silver, pink and white.  The gold one was made using gold, red and a tiny bit of green, it's very lovely but my daughter took it home before I could get a picture of it!  All of the items came from Michaels Craft Store except the silver and gold bottle brush trees, they came from World Market.  All of the items are hot glued onto the tree.

Here is  a picture of the silver trees...

My Recipe for the Bottle Brush Trees:

     Hot Glue Sticks

     One Bottle Brush Tree from World Market either in silver or gold.  They come on a round wooden stand which I cut small enough to fit into the tea light holder.  Then I hot glued it into the tea light holder cup.

     One Tea Light Holder Cup in either silver or gold.

     Small and Tiny Christmas Ornaments in your chosen color scheme.  I used 10 small ornaments, 7 extra small ornaments and 6 tiny ornaments.

     I also used...20 silver and white berries cut from some Christmas sprigs, 10 metal pieces consisting of flowers, a snowflake and a butterfly, 5 clear mini bead balls and 5 pearl beads.  One silver tree has a string of pink tiny pearl beads wrapped around it and the gold tree had white tiny pearl beads wrapped around it.

Please note that the amount of items you may need will depend on how you want to decorate your tree...this list is just what I used for one tree.

Thanks for stopping by...

 

Happy New Year!

 

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Christmas Stocking Card

Good Evening to you all!

I've been so busy decorating, shopping, wrapping gifts, planning Christmas meals, playing Dragon Vale (oh I know that doesn't have anything to do with Christmas but it is so much fun to play) and browsing through Pinterest for Christmas ideas, that I haven't had much time for crafting...

I had originally planned on making Christmas Cards for family and friends this year too, but well... I've run out of time so maybe next year hahaha.  I did however find some time today to finish a little Christmas Stocking Card that I will save for next year.  I was inspired by a card my mother sent us.  It had the cutest Christmas stocking on the front of it.  I had bought some cut out stockings, which were just the right size; at our local Michael's Craft Store awhile back so I used one as a stencil for cutting out my card.  I cut a heal and toe piece and a cuff for the top of the stocking.  I also cut out a bunch of snowflakes and covered them with Star Dust Stickles to make them shine.  I layered large and small snowflakes together, added a pearl to the middle and attached them to the stocking cuff.  The cuff paper already had snowflakes on it so I just added the ones I made onto those.  The Joy tag is a pre-printed tag from the 6x6 paper pack I used.  I don't know if you can tell or not, but I added Glossy Accents to the letters to make them stand out.  I haven't put anything on the inside of my card yet, I'll probably wait to do that until I know who I will be giving it to.

Soooooo here it is...enjoy!

Front

Peek of Inside

My Card Recipe:
     Digital - Snowman Top O'The Mornin by Whimsy Stamps
     Stamps - Christmas Mini Icon Tags & Christmas Sentiment Tags by Lily of the Valley
     Paper - Bazzill White & Handmade Holiday 6x6 paper pad by simple Stories
     Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
     Paper Punches - Alpine & Aspen Snowflakes by Martha Stewart
     Metal Die - Snowflake by DooHickey
     Inked Edges - Distress Ink Vintage Photo
     Sparkle & Shine - Stickles Star Dust and Glossy Accents by Inkssentials
     My Stash - Ribbon & Pearls

Colored in Copics:  Snowman BG0000, C00     Cheeks RV0000, RV00     Top Hat C5, C7, C9
Blue BG18 + 0 Blender     Red R24, R27, R39     Brown Bird E30, E31, E33    
Yellow Beak Y21, YR24     Green YG93, YG95, YG97     Grey Shading C00

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Winter and a Snowman

Good Afternoon!

Today I have a christmas card I finished  using a Saturated Canary Digital called Winter.  I thought I was going to send hand made Christmas Cards this year but...I have almost run out of time so probably will send out store bought cards instead.   :0(  

I've seen so many other diy crafts I want to work on so my card making is way behind...I am going to continue making Christmas Cards as time allows and will post them as they are done.  I'll keep them all for next year and hopefully by then I will have enough made to send to everyone on my Christmas Card List!!! 

So here is my card for today, hope you like it!

Front

Inside

My Card Recipe:

     Digital - Winter by Saturated Canary
     Stamps - Merry Wishes by Verve Stamps and Christmas Sentiment Tags & Christmas Mini Icon
          Tags by Lily of the Valley
     Paper - Bazzill White & Red, Festive 6x6 Paper Pack by Authentique
     Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
     Paper Punches - Ribbon Loop by Martha Stewart
     Metal Die - Card Shape is Frilly Square #10 by Go Kreate, Leaf Branch by CC Designs and
          Snowflake by DooHickey
     Inked Edges - Distress Ink Vintage Photo
     Sparkle & Shine - Stickles Star Dust, Glossy Accents by Inkssentials and Ranger Liquid Pearls
          White Opal
     My Stash - Ribbon, Lace, Pearls

Colored in Copics:  Hair - E53, E35, E37     Face - E0000, E00, RV00, RV11     Eyes - BG0000
Red - R22, R24, R27     Green - YG03, G21     Yellow - Y32, YR21, YR24     Brown - E42, E43, E44
Snow - BG0000     Grey Outline - C00

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3D Snowman Card - Teddy with Penguin

Hi and Good Afternoon,

Today, as promised yesterday, I am posting my second 3D Card.  This one was a bit harder than the first because it required so many more 3D layers but I really like how it turned out.  I again used the Shape EZ Snowy Ball Card from Whimsy Stamps.  I love these Shape EZ Cards...I'm going to pop on over to there web site and buy some more!!! 

Here is my card for today...Enjoy,

Front

Side so you can see the 3D effect

Inside

My Card Recipe:

Card Template - Shape EZ Snowy Ball Card by TLC with Whimsy
Stamps - Teddy with Penguin & Christmas Sentiment Tags by Lily of the Valley and Very Merry
     Christmas by Hero Arts
Ink - Black Momento
Paper - Bazzill White and Handmade Holiday 6x6 Paper Pad by Simple Stories
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Petaloo
Paper Punches - Snowflakes are Martha Stewart Aspen, Artic and Glacial
Metal Die - Christmas Stacker Tree by Dees Distinctively A Cut Above, Spruce Sprig & Bon
Voyage Foliage & Vintage Leaf from DooHickey
Inked Edges - Distress Ink Vintage Photo & Stormy Sky
Sparkle & Shine - Stickles Star Dust and Glossy Accents by Inkssentials
My Stash - Ribbon, Doily and Pearls

Colored in Copics:     Bear - E30, E33, E35     Red - R24, R27, R37, R39
Grey - C4, C6, C8    Orange - Y17, Y39     Snow - B0000     White Shadow - C00, C2, 0 Blender

3D Instructions - By Mariska Van Der Veer found in the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine dated December 2011 - Issue 5.

3D Background Under Pieces is Copic W5
3D Pieces were outlined using Copic W10
3D Glue is made by OLBA and called Lijm Kit...I bought this from Whimsy Stamps

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Lighted Christmas Presents on My Porch

Hello again!  I have a second post to share with you today...

I really love to decorate for Christmas so I wanted to show you the new front porch decorations that I recently finished putting together.  I saw something similar on Pinterest and had to have it.

I LOVE PINTEREST!!!

Anyway...I purchased a set of lighted presents from Bed Bath and Beyond (using my 20% off coupon of course).  Then I removed the existing ribbon and bows, which were quite ugly, so I could add my own.  First I rewrapped new ribbon around each present.  Then I wired together some red and white Christmas flowers, and a green pine & pine cone sprig that I purchased from Michaels Craft Store.  I made three different sizes, (small w/1 flower, medium w/2 flowers and large w/3flowers) one for each present.  Then added red and gold ribbon bows, that I made, to each of the flower/sprig bouquets and placed one on the top of each present.  The bouquets are removable for storage and the presents will stack inside each other to fit right back into their original box for storage after Christmas.

I also purchased the artificial tree behind them from BB&B (using another 20% off coupon...love those coupons lol).  It came with white lights and pine cones attached and it sits inside a dark brown urn shaped pot.  I added a few red ornaments from Target and this is how it all turned out!

What do you think?  I really love them! 

Front Porch Tree & Presents

 

Presents Only

 

A Close-up of Largest Present Topped with Bouquet

 

Thanks for stopping by...

 

See you tomorrow with another Snowman Card...

 

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3D Snowman Card - Bundled Little Snowboy

Good Morning to all!

I have been very busy putting up all of my Christmas decorations this past week!  The house looks great, presents are wrapped and only a couple more gifts to buy...yeah!!!  Now that that's done I can continue on with my Christmas Projects.

I have a Christmas Card to show you today that I did a couple weeks ago.  It is my first try at 3D card making.  I saw some samples in the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine dated December 2011 by Mariska Van Der Veer.  She has some amazing stuff on her web site, sendingyoualittlesmile.blogspot.com/.  Check it out...such beautiful work! 

Anyway I made my card using the Shape EZ Snowy Ball Card by TLC at Whimsy stamps.  It turned out so cute that I made a second which I will post tomorrow!

Here's my first 3D Card...I really love it...hope you do too!

Front of Card

See the 3D Effect

Inside of Card

My Card Recipe:

     Card Template - Shape EZ Snowy Ball Card by TLC with Whimsy
     Stamps - Bundled Little Snowboy by Whimsy Stamps, Christmas Grungy Messages by LOTV
          and Giving & Receiving by Penny Black
     Ink - Black Momento
     Paper - Bazzill White and Handmade Holiday 6x6 Paper Pad by Simple Stories
     Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Petaloo
     Paper Punches - Snowflakes are Martha Stewart Aspen, Artic and Glacial
     Metal Die - Christmas Stacker Tree by Dees Distinctively A Cut Above, Spruce Sprig & Bon
          Voyage Foliage from DooHickey
     Inked Edges - Distress Ink Vintage Photo & Stormy Sky
     Sparkle & Shine - Stickles Star Dust and Glossy Accents by Inkssentials
     My Stash - Ribbon, Doily and Pearls

Colored in Copics:     Snowman - BG70, BG72+0 Blender     Red - R24, R27, R37, R39
Green - YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97     Pink Cheeks - R00, R20     Orange Nose - Y39, YR04, YR07
Outline - C00     Brown - E31, E33, E35     Grey - C4, C6, C8

3D Instructions - By Mariska Van Der Veer found in the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine dated December 2011 - Issue 5.

     3D Background Under Pieces is Copic W5
     3D Pieces were outlined using Copic W10
     3D Glue is made by OLBA and called Lijm Kit...I bought this from Whimsy Stamps

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