Countdown to Christmas - 4 days!! with MCCR

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What a perfect theme for today since we are getting hit with our first snow storm here in Ohio!

Today with My Cricut Craft Room, we are doing a winter theme!

I made these gift card holders using Teresa Collins December 25th.

I cut all the different snowflakes at 2 inches. I covered the holder on the left with Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap and the one on the left with Tim Holtz Tissue Tape. Added a little bit of stickles and they are done!

I love these quick easy but beautiful techniques. 

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!!

~Liz

Countdown to Christmas - 14 days!! with MCCR

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OMG, only 14 more days! I better start my Christmas cards soon!! lol.

Today's theme with My Cricut Craft Room is to 

Use a Licensed Cartridge!

I have been trying to stick with a Christmas/Winter theme for this month's projects so Hello Kitty Friends was a perfect choice!

These are more gift card holders made for the office craft show using Stampin Up's Top Note Die. 

Both cricut cuts are cut at 2.5 inches. Pretty small to work with, but my holders were small. Ideally I wish these would have been closer to 3.5 inches to make it easier. The snowman wasn't bad, but hello kitty was lots of little pieces. But of course she came out wonderfully.

I hope you enjoy and this gives you some motivation to pull out the carts you forgot had Christmas stuff on them!! 

~Liz 

Non-Traditional Christmas with Just a Scrappin

Welcome back!

This week with Just A Scrappin' we are doing

Non-Traditional Christmas Cards

no green and no red!!

Love it! I didn't do a card, I made a gift card holder. Lots of those again this year. 

The base is cut from Stampin' Up's Top Note Die. You fold your paper in half and line is up so that the folded edge is inside the cut line (so it doesn't cut) and you get a cute little folder. Just remember to make a pocket for the inside! 

I decided on a neutral color pallet for my card. The stamps are from Stampin Up, Dasher and Christmas Greetings. I stamped them in Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink and used the same ink to ink the edges of the cream cardstock. The square with Dasher on it is also glimmer misted in Crocheted Doily (though it is hard to see in the picture). I added some brown fiber and ribbon from my stash and a piece of Cappuccino twine.  Add 3 dots of gold stickles and we are done!

I hope you join us in this week's challenge!! Have a great weekend

:)

~Liz

Gift Card Holders - Final Round 2011

Hi everyone!

For my final Gift Card Holder post, I am posting all of the non-Christmas ones my mom and I made. But never fear, at the end of the post I do have a Christmas related project too!

 Here is yet another favorite of mine. I know I have so many! I created these 2 holders with love/wedding theme in mind. I just LOVE this white on white wedding dress. A better picture is below. It is from the Cricut Wedding Solutions Cartridge. I will be using this on all of my future wedding cards!

Without realizing it when I made these holders, I love this technique. I stamped the abc small background stamp from Stampin Up! and cut into a square. Then I cut that into 3 panels and off-set the middle one. I liked these so much I did the same technique on my Christmas cards!

And these ties are just too cute! Don't you agree? And of course mom had to do her roses on something!

As promissed here is a Christmas project!!

For the same handmade gift exchange that I made the reindeer wrapping for the glittered ornament, my mom one of her wonderful frames. She has made this many times over but  I hadn't seen a Christmas theme one before. I LOVE it so much, I even requested one for myself for Christmas :)



And again you get to see mom's roses. And that is what I call them now whenever I refer to them.

"Mom's Roses"

Later this week I have my Christmas cards to share with everyone before I send them out

~Liz

Gift Card Holders 2011 - Round 2

As promised here are some more gift card holders with another one of my favorites!

I love baker's twine. It is the perfect accent when ribbon is just too much or too girly. I have seen similar twine covered items in magazine and other blogs and knew I wanted to try this out. Funny how both of my favorites this year use the Stampin Up ornament punch!

I punched my ornament from red (above) or green (below) cardstock. The color choices are so that if the edges don't quite get covered it would blend with the background. I ran it through my (or should I say my mom's lol) xyron FACE UP. It really didnt matter for this shape but for other shapes it would. I needed the top to be sticky.

I don't know how others have done this, but I started at the outside and worked my way in. I figured it would be harder to try to figure out where the center was to start. I just took my twine and started at the bottom point and using my fingers and occasionally some tweezers just kept going in circles. I did take a little bit of time but I LOVE the end result and will definitely be doing this again. Maybe in an upcoming class? Hmmm......

:)

I also love this ribbon folding technique I saw on Tim Holtz blog way back when. You have seen me use it on other projects if you have been following me all year.

 Some of the DCWV paper is so pretty all I had to do was add stickles! The one in the upper right is a perfect example :)

The law office I work at has a heavy Jewish population so we make sure to include some Jewish gift card holders every year as well. I really liked the way these turned out this year.

Still some more to go so check back tomorrow for more goodies! And see what lovely frame my mom made for the handmade Christmas gift from the crop party!

~Liz



Gift Card Holders 2011

Hi all!

It is that time of year for all things Christmas :)

My Mom and I participated in our job's entrepeuner show again this year and made more gift card holders! You can see some of last year's here. 

I have a lot more pictures this year and want to give a little info on how I did some of these so I'm going to spread this into a couple of different posts.

This is one of my favorite ones this year. For the ornament on the right: I took Tim Holtz tissue tape and stuck it to a non-stick craft mat. I used alcohol inks to color it red. I pulled the tape off the mat and tore the edges to fit onto a white panel that you can see in the picture below (upper left holder). I punched out the ornament using a Stampin Up punch. I used the punch piece on the holder above and the negative below! For the negative I just put a piece of gold cardstock behind the image and used a gold Krylon pen to edge the panel and the holder. 2 items from 1 great technique I saw in a magazine :) Definitely going to be doing that again!

I loved the way all of these turned out and everyone else must have too because we sold out!!!

More Christmas holders to come next week! Hope to inspire everyone to work on their Christmas cards (if you are as behind as I am!)

~Liz

Gift Card Holders

I feel like it is has been forever since I have made a scrapbook page! I keep working on all kinds of "projects" which are just as fun :)
I mentioned in my last post about my job's entrepreneur show. Every year my mom and I make some kind of cute gift card holder that we sell for just $1. Dresses up those plain gift card gifts into something just a tad more special. Here are the ones we have completed so far this year. No two will be the same!

And here are what the insides look like. They have a pocket for your gift card! 



And here is my lovely mom. I was told I MUST make sure to say I have not done all of these on my own. Of course I haven't! In two nights, together, my mom and I have completed what you see here :)

I also wanted to say, that over on facebook (there is a link to your right somewhere) my "Scrapbook Ministry" page is hosting their first challenge. It is a color challenge to use fall colors. You just have to be a fan of the scrapbook ministry and upload a picture of your crafty project. A random winner will be choosen. What will the prize be? Not sure yet, but some sort of goodies from me :)

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

~Liz