Just wanted to post a few christmas layouts
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Altered Wood Frames
Same technique for these. I used BasicGrey products for all frames.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Basic Grey
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
GINGERBREAD
I have fallen in love with gingerbread. I bought a house shaped scrapbook and decorated it to look like a gingerbread house. Martha Stewart has great candy stickers. I lkied the results so much I decided to give the real thing a try. I had a gingerbread party for MOMS Club. All the kids decorated little houses. It was easier to make the houses than I expected. I got all the "blueprints" and recipes at www.gingerbreadlane.com 

Creative Gift Wrapping
Well after you have made an awesome homemade gift, you do not want to forget to wrap it!! Here are a few alternatives to wrapping with regular old wrapping paper. I dug into my scrapbook stash for these...


For this first one I actually made wrapping paper out of photos. I cut several photos, glued them to a 11x17 sheet of paper and made a clolr copy of the sheet. The end result is wrapping paper with your photos on it. Wrap it around an inexpensive paper mache box along with ribbon and pattern paper and you have a great gift box that can be used forever!!
This one is another paper mache box wrapped in pattern paper. I use decoupage to adhere it to the box. I used 5 different ribbons for this wrapping, and wove it to create a unique look.
This final one was super simple. I used a plain paint can from the hardware store, placed a few ornaments on the handle and cut out pattern paper to put on the front.
Homemade Christmas Gifts
This second ornament was a little more difficult. but is still very inexpensive. I simply drew a butterfly template onto thin cardboard, traced that template onto a pattern paper and glued the pattern paper to the cardboard. I folded the template slightly in the middle to make the butterfly appear to be flying, and hid the ribbon on the back so that when it hangs on the tree that ribbon will not be visible. For a finishing touch I again added gems and glitter.
For this final ornament I used a Acrylic Stamp Block, which can be purchsed at any scrapbook store in many different sizes. I adheared a photo to the back, added some rub-ons and gems. I used a hot glue gun to adhere the ribbon along the sides of the block.
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