Deck the Halls!

My son has been ill this past week.  To brighten his day, I cut some paper ornaments and decorated a small tree for him.  I used some small felt snow flakes in white and red.  I added some red tinsel.  I also picked up some mini red lights but, hadn't added them, when I took this picture. 

The ornaments were made using the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder and silver gel pen.  You can get your Chomas Creations Gel Pen Holders from

I chose the ornaments from the Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge.  You can see a tutorial by clicking here!

I strung the ornaments on the mini red tinsel ribbon.  My son helped to decorate the tree.  It gave him a little Christmas cheer for his room.

I used two ribbons to tie around the base.  A wider red mesh ribbon and an off white ribbon with the words "Merry Christmas". 

He wanted to add the chocolate bulb ornaments to it but, they were too heavy to tie onto the tree.  We added them to the base of the plant by adding aluminum foil as a liner.  He put them for decor and I'm sure we will know he is well, when he decides to eat them. 

Hopefully, he is better when Santa arrives tomorrow.  Although I'm sure when he sees his new toys, he will perk up at least long enough to open them. 

Merry Christmas!

Gift Card or Money Holders!

Travelin’ Nana here, (aka Donna). We are in Florida now for the Winter. Much warmer than Kentucky was when we left there at -1 degrees.

Our challenge this week was Stocking Stuffers. I had a hard time with this challenge, but attempted something anyway. Please excuse the pictures, as I do not have a white wall or area to take pictures in the RV.

I made a Snowflake and Santa Hat that will hold either money or a gift a card, a Stocking to hold candy (couldn’t find those Mini Candy Canes here), and a Door Knob Holder that has a little envelop for money, a gift card, or a note.

Supplies:

Joys of the Season, Christmas, and Christmas Cheer Cartridges
Red and Blue Card Stock
Sparkling White Card Stock
Blue Patterned Snowflake Paper
DCWV Handmade Christmas Stack
Pearls, Bling, and Buttons
Glue Dots, Glue Pen, and Tape Runner
Christmas Ribbon
Red Bazzill Edge Strip
Graphic 45 Christmas Sheet
Small Green Envelope 1 ½ X 2
Foam Snowflakes



Recipe for Santa Hat:

Cut (2) Santa Hats at 5.70X5.47 height from the Joys of the Seasons Cart. Use Red Sparkly Card Stock from the DCWV pack. (flip flop one)

Adhere the two red hats together using tape runner with a glue dot here and there so they will stay together. (Leave the top open to fill.)

Cut another Santa Hat from the Sparkling White using the same sizes.

Cut the Ball and Cuff from the Sparkling White hat and adhere it to the front of the Red hat.

Adhere three Foam Snowflakes to the front of the red hat.
Stuff with money or gift card
Recipe for Stocking:

Cut (2) Stockings at 3.98X7.24 height or larger from the Christmas Cheer Cart. Use a piece of paper from the DCWV pack. (flip flop one)

Adhere the two stockings together. (Leave top open.)

Cut Bazzill Strip to fit across top area of stocking.

Add pearls.

Add Christmas Buttons down front.

Stuff with small candy canes.

Recipe for Snowflake:

Cut (2) Snowflakes in blackout mode at 4.91x4.65 height, using the Christmas Cheer Cart. Use Blue Card Stock. (flip flop one)

Cut (1) Snowflake out of the Blue Snowflake Pattered Paper the same size (don’t use blackout),

Adhere the Snowflake Patterned Paper piece to one of the blue card Snowflakes. This will be the front.

Adhere the front piece you just made to the other blue card stock snowflake to make the pocket.

Put Snowflake Buttons where all the cutouts are on the front of the Snowflake.

Adhere all but the top of the pocket with glue stick or tape runner.

Stuff with money or gift card.

Recipe for the Door Knob Holder:

Cut (2) Door Knob Holders at 7 inches height, from the Christmas Cart., using Red Card Stock. (flip flop one)

Adhere the two Door Knob Holders together except at the top of the pocket.

Use Graphic 45 cutouts and Green Bling to embellish front.

Adhere Dec 25th from Graphic 45 Sheet to front of a little envelop and tuck it in the pocket.

Tie Graphic 45 “Night Before Christmas” tag with Christmas Ribbon and adhere to top right of Holder.

Stuff with money, gift card, or note.

Snowman Ornament!

Hey everyone, Kristin from the Crafty Kitchen here. This week our challenge was to make a last minute stocking stuffer. This wasn't so much a stocking stuffer, but a last minute gift for family and friends. I wanted to make something quick and easy to give to family at a holiday gathering, and thought these snowmen ornaments were just perfect. I originally saw these on Momo's blog, but the funny part is I saw these same ornaments at Target and thought "I could totally make those!"

Recipe:

*Large Glass Ornaments

*Pledge Floor Wax with Future Shine

*Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter

*Martha Stewart Obsidian Pearls

*Red and White Pipe Cleaners

*Red Pom Poms

*Orange Glitter Paper

*Glue Gun

Best Friends Cricut Imagine Mini

Hello all!!  This is Carissa!!  Stocking stuffers are so much fun!!  My daughter loves to draw so this was perfect for her!  I also got the chance to use my new YourStory Photo!!  I made little books with about 10-14 pages in them...

Recipe:

Cardstock from stash

White cardstock

Strips of YourStory glue

YourStory Photo

Cut the cardstock to 3 x 6 and score at 2 5/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/8 and 3 3/8.  Cut the strip of YourStory glue to 2 3/4 inches long and then I cut the strip in half lengthwise to make it skinnier.  For the inside pages make 2 3/4 inch squares and score at 1/4 to make it easier to turn the pages.  It really helps!!

 I decorated the cover with an image from the Best Friends Cricut Imagine Art Cartridge.  Looks super cute!!

Have a great week!!!  Happy Holidays!!!

-Carissa

Tag Ornament with Doodlecharms!

A quick and easy tag/ornament is by using the Doodlecharms cartridge and the Imagine More Cartridge for the Cricut Imagine.  It's so convenient when you only need a white sheet of cardstock and the Imagine does all the coloring for you!

Don't forget, SweetSassyDiva is the place where it's all at!

Blessings!

♥Jasmine



Merry Christmas!

A friend of mine sent this youtube video to me and I thought it was cute and a clever twist.  If you click below, you can view here.  Or you can double click to view on the youtube site. 




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I hope that you are enjoying your Christmas whether it is a houseful of relatives or an intimate few.  I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas!

SweetSassyDiva

Christmas Cheer Gift Tags Tutorial!

Isn't this so cute!?  See video tutorial below.

I made these with Christmas Cheer and a really cool tool!

You can see that this is not your normal cricut blade housing.  It fits right where it normally goes though.  It uses a variety of color pens and gives you some alternatives to the cricut markers. 

For making my Gift Tags, I used the Silver Glitter gel pen.  I really liked how it sparkled against the red cardstock.

After using the Chomas Creations Mini Gel Holder and Silver Mini Gel pen for the detail, I replaced the cricut cutting blade housing. 

I cut the shadow feature of the ornaments.

Below you see how it will look after you use both the gel pens and then, cut with the shadow feature. 

I used these for gift tags and wrapped a present with some beautiful Ribbon.  To attach the tag to the present, use some thin red tinsel ribbon. 

VIOLA!!

Here is the video tutorial:


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Merry Christmas!