Holiday Card Trio

Hello and happy Friday:

I can hardly believe that Christmas Day is one week from today.  I whipped up these lovely shadow box Christmas cards designed by Carina Gardner which can be found in the Digi PlayGround store.  I am going to use these as thank you notes for holiday gifts that I will be lucky to receive.  I had fun playing with Stickles and Liquid Applique to take my cards to another level.  Samantha Walker is having a card challenge on the Facebook group and these cards would be perfect to participate with.

Multi Ornaments Shadow Box Card

Santa Shadow Box Card

Christmas Tree Shadow Box Card

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Hot Cocoa Treat Box

Happy Monday everyone:

Anita here with a winter themed gift accented by beautiful The Twinery twine.  I made this hot chocolate set and used some awesome twine colors to accentuate the box which I kept pretty plain.  I used the following five colors:

Be sure to check out these awesome colors as well as so many others at The Twinery store.  Hugs, 

Polar Bear Gift Tin

Hi Everyone:

Happy Tuesday.  I made an adorable Polar Bear gift tine using two different cut files from Digi Playground including: Polar Bear Hug Gift Card Holder by Jennifer Rush and the December Kit of the Month by Jamie Cripps and I used the snowflake and love banner from the snowman.  

Isn't this so cute.  This is for my brand new daughter-in-law who loves Frozen.  I made two of the gift card holders and cut off the bottom part to put it on the front of my tin.  Be sure to check out the Digi Playground store for these and other wonderful files.  There are so many to choose from to make your gift giving during this holiday season extra special.  

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Santa Card Set

Hello Everyone:

For those of you who celebrate Christmas I made a set of cards and a gift box to hold them in.  I just love Christmas and Santa is a hero of mine.  I love the way that you can use The Twinery twine to highlight and just elevate your project to the next level.  I used five different Silhouette cut files for this project and am loving how this set came out.  Here are the cards one at a time and the box.

I used some Maraschino twine to make a simple box on this card.

I  used some Gold Shimmer twine to elevate this card with a triple tie and bow and his belt.  I used two sided adhesive on the belt to adhere the twine.

I used the Gold Shimmer Twine again for a triple bow on the handle and a small bow on the buckle.

This card is so adorable and a cute Maraschino bow at the top was the perfect accent.

Lastly, I made a pom pom on a fork for the top of my Santa hat.  I wrapped the twine around the fork tines near the handle.  I wrapped mine six times.  Then I cut a piece of twine about 8 inches long and threaded it between the middle two twines on either side of my wrapped twine and tied it in a knot.  I slid it off my fork then, cut the loops and fluffed my pom pom and viola magic pom pom and so easy.

Be sure to check out The Twinery store for all your holiday gift accenting twine.  

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Thankful Silhouette Knife Tool Tutorial

Hello Everyone:
I hope that those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a great one.  I love looking through the Digi Playground store to see what other uses I can find for cut files.  I found this Weave Bracelet by Minilou and knew that I was making holiday breads for our local food pantry and wanted to be able to decorate the breads.  I used the bracelet cut file and worked with it to make a band to put around the bread loaf.

I took the bracelet cut file and put it on my mat.  I then chose the knife tool and cut the end of the bracelet with the side you put the tab into off.  I wanted two layers to my band so did the same to both files.  I measured my bread so that I knew how many of the bands I needed to cut.  

1. Ungroup your files

2.  Delete what you don't need

3.  Click on the knife too

4.  Place start cut at top of item to be cut and drag arrow down

5.  Use select tool (arrow at the top of your left side tool bar) to cut

6.  Move cut piece away

You can also use the eraser tool if you find that your line is not perfectly straight.  You can use the cut lines on the mat on your screen to guide you as well. 

Here is a close up of the band. 

 

I used the cut file called Thankful short envelope bag by Jamie Cripps for the top decoration.  I know that Thanksgiving is over but this would be a fun way to decorate your winter holiday gift breads.

Be sure to check out the Digi Playground store for these and many other wonderful cut files.

Hugs,

Bun in the Oven

My husband's cousin married the most wonderful lady this past spring and they are expecting their first baby this winter and this adorable card with the cut file designed by Jennifer Rush and you can find it here.  I used some vintage Doodlebug Design papers and embellishments and am so excited with how it came out.

  

Be sure to check out this wonderful cut file along with many other fun ones at Digi Play Ground.

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Outside the Box Card Maker Magazine Guest DT

Hello Everyone:

I am thrilled to be guest designing today for CardMaker Magazine.  I decided to have some fun looking through my old CardMaker magazines and found a really fun card and tutorial for tea-bag folding in the Spring 2015 issue.  The card is called Welcome Baby and is on page 75 of that issue with easy and clear directions on page 72, all by the fabulous Sharon M. Reinhart.

My friend is a big baseball fan and she roots for the Kansas City Royals and in honor of their amazing World Series win I decided to make a tea bag folder baseball.  This is a congratulations card for her in honor of their win.  I used Home Run by Doodlebug for my card.

The ball was so easy to make and this is a side view so that you can see the dimension the folds gives to your projects.

Supplies Used:  Doodlebug Home Run patterned paper and embellishments, Bazzill cardstock, Tea-Bag Folding technique by Sharon M. Reinhart.

Hugs,

Anita

Fall Is In The Air

I hope that everyone is enjoying the colors of fall.  I love using my twine for different things and used it for my background.  Think of the color combinations that you could make.  I ran the cardstock through my Xyron to add adhesive and then adding the twine was so easy.  I used ten strands of each color.  I love how pretty it came out.  It doesn't add excess bulk to my card either.

Here is a close up of my embellishments.  Be sure to check out The Twinery store for these and other wonderful colors.  

   

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Paper Issues Crop Weekend projects

What a fun weekend I had playing along with the Paper Issues crop.  I completed ten projects so far.  You will want to play along if you have time and can find the group on Facebook called Paper Issues Friends and Fans.  You can ask to join.  There are some really cool prizes.  Thanks for looking and have a great day.

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Handmade Holiday Blog Hop

I am starting to get so excited for the holidays.  My son started a new job and I am going to give this to him to give to the test track car drivers who work with him.  I had such fun creating it and embellishing it with The Twinery twine.

For this project you will need approximately six bags of fun size candy.  You will need to purchase a clay pot, a round Styrofoam ball and a tree shape, some acrylic paints to paint your pot, a 1/4" wooden dowel and a glue gun with extra glue sticks to adhere all that yummy chocolate.  I used six different colors of The Twinery twine on my project and just love how festive it came out.  You can see the colors below.

You are going to want to paint your pot and then glue the round styrofoam ball into the pot.  This will help it be more stable.  The candy weighs a lot when the tree is full.  I took the dowel and cut it down to the right size.  I pushed the bottom of the dowel up into the tree until I felt it was high enough to be secure.  I then made a hole in the ball in the pot and pushed the dowel into the ball.  I did put some hot glue around both openings in the ball  and at the bottom of the tree for added stability.

You are going to start the fun part now with hot gluing the chocolate onto the tree.  I used the top flap of the candy bar to put my glue and held it in place until it was set.  I used high temp on my glue gun to make sure it would adhere well but was careful not to melt the chocolate.

Here is the tree all decorated.  I used ribbon stiffener to wet the twine and then wrapped it around a round kitchen tool.  I let it sit overnight and pulled it off into this lovely spiral the next day.  I used some fun Doodlebug Sugarplum stickers to embellish my tree further.  Thanks for looking and happy holidays.

Hugs,