Number 10# and done!!!

Yes, I am done! I did a little happy dance and then promptly showed my husband the whole album.  So without further a-do, I will show you the last page of this album that’s a year over due! 

Very simple and easy to put together.  I’m still using that 2009 DCWV Christmas stack with a little of 2010 stuck in there.  The card stock is Core’dinations.  The sentiment comes from Winter Frolic which I’ve not had a chance to use much with being sick.  The trees are from the Christmas Solutions cart.  I love this tree.  I continued with faux gold stitching to bring continuity to the album. It’s done!  I am so excited.  The tags came from Winter Woodlands.  This cart has some beautifully shaped tags if you haven’t checked it out.  Now for some close-ups and the tags.   Oh, and did I say I’m done?

I can’t wait to get this off to my daughter.  We’ll see how long it takes her to get her pictures in it!

Page 8—Can I get through it?

Two more pages and I can hand this long over due album to my daughter!  I can’t wait to do so.  She’s waited patiently for so long.  So Amy, one more page done and two more to go!  Yea!

A simple page with not a lot of adornment but I think that’s OK.  The paper seemed to me to be enough.  I kept using the gold faux stitching on the photo mats as I have through out the whole album.  The tree on the pocket holding the tags is from the Solutions Christmas cart.  I have to confess that I measured incorrectly when I cut the tree and had to snip the top little curly cue off.  The paper is from the same sources as I’ve used throughout the album.  The title is cut from Storybook and Alphalicous and welded with my Gypsy. 

The tags are the special part of this LO.  The tag comes from  Winter Frolic and the gift is from Joys of the Season.  The jewels are actually brads that I’ve had a long time. I got the ribbon two years ago at Hobby Lobby.  I also used some green Stickles on the bows. 

I love these tags!  I know my daughter will too. 

What do you think Amy?

Family—another lO for Amy’s album

Yep!  Another page LO for that album.  I’ll have it ready next time I see her.  I know she’s going to be happy about that. 

I like the contrast between the beige and red in this LO.  The poinsettia cut is from the solutions Christmas cart that was part of the 6 cart download for Gypsy owner last December.   I really like the elegance of this cartridge.  The paper is from the 2009 DCWV Christmas stack. Family is from Ashlyn’s Alphabet at 1” inch and using the script feature. 

Hmmm I didn’t notice that was blurry when I took it, but I was very tired and I was in the process of coughing up a lung when I took the picture, so I guess it’s possible it slipped by! 

Well, that’s better! 

Pretty!

I have to admit these are some of my favorite tags. They are so sweet.  The tag comes from Winter woodlands and so does the poinsettia on the tags.

Every once in while I like to pull out my Fastenater stapler.  The idea of it is always better than the reality.  Still I can’t bring myself to get rid of it.  I love those decorative metal staples. 

The back of the tag is nice too.  This is from Winter Woodlands—I think. 

Have a great day all you fellow paper crafters! 

Another Word 12x12

I’ve got another 12x12 canvas for you!  This one was inspired by the reason for this season and all the names given Him in the scriptures.  I think it turned out great and love the elegant look of it. 

I don’t have a tutorial for this one.  I used the same procedure as for the Thankful  one I did in November.  After I was finished I brushed some very light and scattered brush strokes of gold paint.  Nice! 

With the help of my Gypsy, I laid the whole 12x12 piece out on one mat fitting all the words on it and adding the star and corner pieces.  It really helps to design it this way first and then move the separate elements to separate pages to cut them. I used Designer Calendar’s script font which has no capitals for the red words and Winter Wonderland for the word Jesus.  The star is from Christmas Solutions and I blocked out the tree that is included in this cut.  The shadows of the word Jesus and the greenery in the corners is a very deep green . 

I used 1 sheet of green patterned paper for the background and one sheet of gold dotted paper for the word Jesus from one of this year’s premium DCWV Christmas stacks per I used for the word Jesus.  The center of the star is a sheet from the DCWV’s Glittered stack and the other papers are all Core’dination Cardstock. 

For this project you will need:

1 12x12 artist’s canvas

Mod Podge

6 different papers including 3 full sheets

gold paint (I used Folk Art.)

Tools

Cricut

Gypsy

Designer’s Calender

Christmas Solutions

Winter Woodland

Paint brush for painting the Mod Podge

sponge brush for the Gold paint.

Here some more photos of the project. 

 

 

Christmas Décor—via my Cricut!

Every year I try to add to my Christmas decorations with a few new ornaments and some new things I make.  This does not even include the additions to our Santa, Nutcracker, and snowman collections that our family and friends add to for us. 

As I started thinking about what I wanted to do for this year, this idea came creeping into my brain.  I’ve been wanting the Christmas Noel solutions cart every since it came out and then it was discontinued and despite my efforts to buy it or get it with Cricut reward points I never got it. 

Was I ever happy when Provocraft announced that the Christmas Solutions cart was going to be part of the free download of carts to Gypsy owners.  Yippee!  I’ve been waiting to use those angels.  They are so beautiful. 

I picked these frames up from Walmart a couple of weeks ago with this project in mind.  They are 5X7s and I removed the little mat and glass that was in them.  I think they were $2.50 a piece.  The gold paper in the background is from my stash.  I Cuttlebugged it with the Victorian embossing folder.  I laid the paper in the folder sideways since it was 5x7 and too big for the A2 embossing folder.  Then I turned the paper and did the other end of the paper. 

After I embossed the gold foil paper, I wiped it lightly with my white ink pad and then gently wiped off the excess ink. This took away the super bright quality of the gold paper.  The angel were cut at 6.5” from the Christmas Solutions cart, and I flipped one of the angels so that they were both pointing into the middle picture.  They are cut from DCWV white cardstock.  I inked the edges with a silver ink pad and a cosmetic sponge and then sprayed them with Tattered Angels gold mist.  I wished you could see how much this added to the the little pictures.

The words are from Opposite Attracted using the upright feature and welded with my Gypsy and were cut at about 2” and from this beautiful red velvet paper I bought a few years ago.  So lush and beautiful.

I used pop dots to attach the angels to the embossed gold foil and then popped the words on top of the  angels.  So pretty! 

I love how they turned out.

 

Here they are hanging on my wall. 

I think they make quite a nice addition to my decorations this year.