Christmas Paper Crafts

Wishing you all a most wonderful Christmas, eating holiday food, engaging in family traditions, and visiting family and friends!!

I finally got the courage to try my hand at one of these.  There are some.  The ones out there from other artists I've seen just made me swoon.  Mine not so much, but I learned a few things about the technique.  One, next time I'll use a fresher/newer book.  I used an older book which makes the pages a bit too delicate and the piece can get crushed with time, so a newer book will keep it looking fresh and crisp.  Two, you layer the cones on top of each other in neat rows instead of randomly as I did.  Use a glue gun to adhere the cones for quick work.

This one I will be gifting for Christmas.

I also finally decorated these trees which I had purchased last year for Christmas.  At first I had planned to all 3 in the same style.  I quickly changed my mind because it just seemed boring to me to do it that way.

 

 

The one thing that brought them all together was the glittered buttons on the bottom

This is a very cool idea for me being a night owl and otherwise unencumbered for New Year's Eve.  You might want to check it out too.  Sounds like a lot of fun.  I just found this blog through my Google alerts and it's super cute and pack full of inspirational paper crafts.  Go visit Paula's Palace and join in.

All Night Craft Along

 

 

'Till next time,

Techniques, Victorian Ornaments, Labels to Organize and a free Ezine

Watch soon for a review on an item from CSN Stores.  I'm still enjoying the desk task chair from CSN I reviewed previously.  As many of you know, CSN has many wonderful and useful items on their retail sites.  Is there anything you need for the holidays for your home?  How about barstools?  Well, needless to say they have it all to get your home ready and pretty for the holidays. 

 

I so wish I had a group that could get together near me to create such as Kelly Rae has. Well, I would even organize one if personal things weren't in the way right now.  If you are interested in something like this yourself, Kelly Rae wrote a very helpful post, here:

Kelly Rae: if your soul is calling, listen

Here are some other neat stuff I found elsewhere in blogland:  We're so lucky to have these generous folks sharing freely their amazing talents.
 

Julie from Belzerdesigns.typead.com has various techniques which I found terrific and shows you on this video

Victorian Ornaments made with broken or recycled glass ornaments.  I thought this video was awesome.  

And speaking of Christmas theme creations, just wait until you see this awesome and FREE ezine.  Just awesome!!
Inspired Ideas

If you have lots of Distress Inks by Ranger, they provide these very helpful labels to get you organized

Free Labels To stick on Ink Pads

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.  Thanks for stopping by again.  Don't be shy and leave me a comment. I'm hoping to buckle down and create some stuff in between cleaning my house (YUK!!!!) this weekend.

Giveaways all the way around

Here are some images for you to use on your personal projects.  Enjoy!

Source: Greenpaper typepad blog

  

 

 Here is our Christmas tree in our family room and the other one in our porch with real snow all over it.

We're getting quite a storm in PA today

This is an homage to my late father in law and parents.  They're always missed especially at the holiday times.

And for more possible freebies

Sassafrass Stuff is celebrating 100 posts with an awesome set of goodies for a giveaway.  Go and enter now.

'till next time,

Nelly

Blessings

To all my blog friends,

As my Italian family would say: Buon Natale or
Merry Christmas and all the best to you and yours as you celebrate your holidays.

New Tags

Ho ho ho! Stamped over music sheet.
Paper flower and button in center

I'm not a winter person at all. Hate it, actually! So this year, I'm adding a little spring in my Christmas tree. heheheheeee.

Loved this image, except when you look at the Santa really close, he looks rather scary.

This cute little girl was cut out with my large scalloped punch, treated the edges with glitter and a little bit of bling.

Here's another glittered card. Love the look of glitter!

Christmas Tags & Charms

Hi everyone -- Here are some other tags I've made for our Christmas tree. I'm having fun doing these although for a while I wasn't motivated to make anything. I love using the mixed media. Here are the first ones I posted.

For this second one, I used a card and items I got from a sweet blog friend. Debra from Muses & Mysteries sent me the stamped card, dragonfly and plastic beads among other wonderful things.

The charms below, I purchased from Michael's to use on my creations. I thought they were a great deal and lots of selection. Love the copper ones and the crown the best.

Thanks for stopping by,

Closer & Closer To Us

Christmas is getting closer, folks! As always things really move quick & hastily around this time of year. For the past couple of years, we made a decision to slow down, simplify. And so this year, mostly out of necessity and because its just smart for us, we're taking it easy. No scheduling overload, no gifts overload, no expensive gifts or unnecessary expenses. After all, what is the reason for the season, right?

Here are some tags/ornament cards I've made in the last few days to decorate one of our Christmas tree which will be our first Victorian-inspired tree. It'll have pink lights, pink glass balls, pink fiber and these. I'll post others as I finish.

The handle on this one was from a gift bag that broke. It made its way to my work table and it clicked! I could use that as a hanger. It truly happened that way.

I used the large scallop punch I just recently got for this one and a broken ponytail holder (the pearls). The background is package tissue from the $ store, which I love, by the way.

I got inspiration from Alice W. at Romantic Thoughts for this one. I loved heir and I kinda like the way mine turned out. These will all go on one of our Christmas trees.
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Stop by Ink In My Paws , Nola is having a giveaway that can't be missed and neither can't her blog. She's a very talented lady. The recent visits from deer are cool too.

Blessings to you all,

Thanksgiving & Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a great holiday with your loved ones. How much of your Christmas shopping have you done? Need some other things? Here are some of my items for sale.

Clipboard with pen

Consider purchasing one of-a-kind, handmade items. Here are some of my items for purchase, of course there are so many more wonderful treasures out there in the blogsphere and websphere which are unique and special. Click these pictures to link you to my store. Many more items there too.