HOLIDAY VACATIONS

Hello my friends

I am taking vacations from the blogging land until the 27th.

 I will be browsing the web when I can, but not really posting on this blog.

I wish you the best. 

Enjoy the holidays along with your loved ones.

My Christmas Cards 2010

I realized I was pretty late with the cards so I had be fast making them. ;p
The poinsettia is from Winter Woodlands, the sentiment from G-Studio clear stamp, the ornament border from a set I have at home called "All Decked Out" and the red tapes are from Martha Stewart.

Love you all!
 

From Millan.Net

STOCKINGS GARLAND

Glad I am not the only one having days like yesterday, lol. It was awful...I was so edgy, grrr!

Anyway....we went to the play. It was short but cute. T wants to be a theater director and this was the first play she wrote and directed. It was about a senior being dumped on prom night via text messaging. Imagine that one!

Kuddos to T for her big accomplishment. Last night was her night and all the glamour that comes with it. I was so proud of her.

Anyway, I have been making this garland bit by bit since last week and, I finally finished it today.

 I want to share it with you. It is now part of my holiday decorations in my living room.

I might try to sell it on Etsy too. It came out so very pretty and I had a smooth ride with it.

 STOCKINGS GARLAND

you can make it as long as you want and the stockings any size you want to.

These ones are 5 inches high

 I used Simply Charmed for the stockings, image #35 on the overlay.

A view from the side and remember you can click on the photo for a larger view.

Here is a collage of every single one. 

They were embellished on the back too in case I wanted to use them on a doorway.

The holly leaves (image #10) are from Winter Woodland and so are the poinsettias (image#9).

The ribbons are from my stash and I used thick chipboard for the base, patterned papers are from 

Cloud Nine and the textures cardstock from American Crafts. The last stocking you see in the collage was stamped with a script rubber stamp on kraft cardstock. I then used my red glitter pen and went over all the berries on the patterned paper. The center of the poinsettias were made with a whole punch using DCWV glitter cardstock and so were the one berry on the holly leaves. You already noticed the inking.....I love inking. I mostly used the brown inks for it.

Have a good weekend and if you have time check out

TIM HOLTZ 

12 tags of Christmas. 

I have to try the first one, even I am loving them all. He explains everything so well. I never went to his site much but today I subscribed to his feed because I do not want to miss his work ever again. 

I think we have a bit in common.

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Just for the records:

I entered it at "cooking with cricut" challenge

http://cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/2010/12/challenge-7-and-25-days-of-cricut.html 

HARVESTING TAG

This tag is for a challenge at 

http://olivejuicestudio.com/

for a chance to win a Wall Decor Cricut cartridge.

Please, visit Kim and have fun participating.

I have called my tag

Harvesting

(Did I say already Autumn is knocking at my door?, lol).

This tag is from the

Winter Woodland cartridge

you can find it on page 46, cut at 

5 and 4.75 inch tall.

(remember you can click on my photos for a bigger view)

Below you will find the requirements for the challenge:
(COPY AND PASTED FROM http://olivejuicestudio.com/

"The Dirty Details:
1.  Your project must include a stamped image – it can be a rubber, clear or digital stamp image OR it may include a clip art image.
2.  It must include at least one Cricut cut.
3.  It must include fiber, a ribbon or fabric somewhere in the project.
4.  It must include at least one piece of bling – such as a bead, pearl, gemstone, glitter, etc.
5.  It needs to include at least one patterned paper.
This challenge can be anything – a card, scrapbook page, tag, altered item, home decor, repurposed/recycled item, etc.  The deadline is 11:59PM, August 31st, 2010.
This contest will be based on a drawing of all participants who enter.  The winner receives a Cricut cartridge courtesy of Memory Miser!"

These are some supplies I used

Let's start from the beginning:

1-The tag was cut with American Crafts textured cardstock; one time in the deep red and then on beige.

2-The beige cardstock was then colored with those paints you are looking at from Yasutomo and I purchased them in a not so local scrapbook store. They have a nice shine to them and I really love them. I do not have any of those nice misters but this set do its job well. 

3- I then used my Cuttlebug to emboss it with my Perfectly Paisley embossing folder.

4- I have tons of stamps: cheap ones and not so cheap but not as expensive as SU brand (I do not own any SU yet) but this is the second time I use this sunflower from the dollar clear stamps. Isn't gorgeous? 

5- I do not have Copics but Marvy Uchida markers I got at M's once for $5 in clearance. I used the yellow, brown and orange one for the sunflower and then I used the copper Yasutomo paints to give them that deeper and shiny color to them.

6- I took one of my dollar wooden stamps and stamped three leaves with green ink and I used the green Yasutomo on them too.

7-I used another dollar clear stamp for the sentiment and added a small faux jewel from my stash.

8- I added that beautiful button from my button's box.

9- I forgot I had to used patterned paper so I made a button using the Martha Stewart button punch and added some twine and used the same twine for the holder and...

10- Now, that tag hangs on one of my kitchen cabinets. Phew! I do not think I ever explained my projects in so much detail...lol.

Hope you like it and get inspired to make some tags for this coming season. Use them in homemade goodies, hostess gifts, presents, your garden harvest and more.
A couple more pics I forgot to add:

Have fun and I love you all!

A HOLIDAY TOWER

I used the Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge.

It cut at 7-3/4".

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS CARD

This one was inspired by a card I saw in a magazine.

The card base is 4-1/2" x 12", score at 3-1/4" and 7".

Cut two white small rectangles (2" x 3-3/4"), cut one more at 2-1/2" x 4-1/4".

Cut two lime green rectangles (2-1/4" x 4") and a thin strip 4-1/2" long (optional).

I embossed my card and attached all rectangles as seen on the photo, add sentiment and embellishment.

The Holly Leaves are cut from Winter Woodland Cricut Cartridge.

Thanks for looking!

INSIDE OF CARD