Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Christmas in July!
Happy Holiday’s! Only 6 months to go until we’re swimming in red and green. It might seem far away but every year I make 6 homemade Christmas gifts for my siblings so the clock really starts ticking right about now. I’m knee deep in ideas, preparations, patterns and projects to get started on. I figure if I do one a month between now and then I should be good. I have the Christmas music playing in the background now, just to get me in the holiday spirit! What about you? Do you have Holiday projects you start mid-year too?
Need more holiday inspiration?
Mistletoe Napkin Rings
Quilted Christmas Cards
Holiday Bracelets
i’ve been working on a project inspired by ali edwards (thank you ali!)
for the last few years she has put together a “december daily” album, pre-making pages and then journaling and adding pictures throughout the month.
We wanted to start featuring a few artists in our blogging community and today we’ve chosen Debbie Fisher! Debbie is a creative machine! Her fun projects and cards are always inspiring me. I love that she can take a simple notepad and make it so much more. Debbie was wonderful enough to create the adorable Candy Cane Candle for us by just recovering an exisiting candle jar. It is such a cute idea. (great for those last minute gifts!)
This is a super fast project and adds festivity to a holiday table. The kids and I made up a set of 8 in under 20 mins. It’s nice to sit down on a hectic week like this a just do something special with the kids too.
Yeah, I’m noticing that the albums are getting bigger and bigger each year. Each album packed with more content then the last. This one is an 8×8 Chatterbox Album. I have a lot of pockets for TONS hidden journaling or extra pictures and instead of this just being Christmas or the week of Christmas, it turned out to be the entire month of December. There is a vintage/classic theme to this album that makes it the most true to my real-life holiday style. So this one reflects the most of my personality then any of the others. This album could NOT have been made without the MONO Glue Pen. There are teeny-tiney homemade embellishments on every single page that wouldn’t have worked with anything but that.
This is a blank layout. Just add your pictures after the holiday. It’s super simple and requires just a few minutes and supplies. I think the best part of this layout is the great metal embellishments. I just punched the cardstock and threaded craft wire, adding a few random Christmas beads then at the end I slipped on a monogram charm. I used MONO Metal Liquid Glue after it was all put together so that everything would stay in place and I wouldn’t be losing the shape or the other embellishments.
This little quilt inspired 4×4 card I made a few years ago. I had to make over 50 of them! I made about 24 for my family cards that year then had to make another 30 for Company Christmas Party invites. Thankfully they pull together pretty fast. I love sewing in my scrapbooks and on my cards. I think it gives added dimension and texture. Whenever I sew I always use MONO Adhesive runner. It doesn’t gum up my machine and I’m never worried the adhesive will pull through on the threads.
This album is a lot bigger than the first two years but, then again it was our son’s first Christmas so we were a little camera happy. It’s a 6×6 accordion style album and the inspiration on this book was those vintage glass ornaments. Continue Reading
This is a fun centerpiece that kids is absolutely gorgeous and makes kids proud to have displayed on the Holiday dinner table. Continue Reading
