Christmas in July week!

I figured I would make a few things to "celebrate" Christmas in July, so here is the first.  I used the glitter technique known from many sources, and used Snow Angel with printable vinyl to print out three items for the front.  The flat front ornaments from Michaels are the best choice for these.  The glitter is all from MS iridescent super fine multi pack.  They just need some ribbons, and they are ready to go up on the tree.  These were a super simple, cute way to kick off the week, I thought!  Thanks for visiting today.

Christmas star bag

Another from the SVG Cuts set, this is really easy too!  They do a great job of putting these SVG's together to make them super simple to assemble.  This is the star bag from that set, and I decided to leave off the "Joy" banner and make it out of a cardstock with words on it instead. 

The tag was cut from Winter Frolic at 2.5"x1.6", and I added some small adhesive gems to the tree to give it a little bling.  The paper was from DCWV Tis the Season pack, and I really liked the non-traditional color scheme.  I believe my Mom is going to use this for giving a gift card, and it is the perfect size for it.  A little tissue paper and it will be ready to go!  Thanks for visiting today.

Another Christmas gift box

This is another in the set from SVG cuts that also included the double gift bag below.  I really, really like this set, and it is easy, despite the mistakes in folding you can easily see on this one, lol.  It was definitely a test run, and I have some playing to do with the siazing of the scalloped layers, but all in all I think it turned out OK.  I used DCWV patterned papers, with the one for the base of the box being from last year's "The Christmas Stack" and the scalloped layer patterns from this year's "Tis the Season".  I used plain white and hit it with the CB Divine Swirls for one of the layers, and finished it off with some adhesive gems. 

If you have MTC and want this set, go here, to find it.  That's about all, so thanks for visiting today!

My turn, finally! Lol

I have been dying to try these Christmas bags and boxes from SVG Cuts for a couple of weeks now, and finally had some time last night!  This is one of only five adorable patterns, and I didn't really do it justice.  I'm not entirely happy with my selection of patterns and embellishments, but I was so excited to just try it that I didn't put a whole lot of thought into the details, lol. 

Anyway, this was all done on 12x12 paper and the overall bag is 9" high and 5" wide.  The inside area of the bag that would hold a gift, etc, is 4.5" H x 3" W, so it's a good size.  If a company ever makes 12x24 Christmas or holiday patterned paper, you could make this even larger, but oh well (hint, hint someone!!!).

SVG cuts broke this down into 2 pieces, and it was really easy to put together - I highly recommend this set for anyone with MTC or SCAL.  The patterned papers are from DCWV new Christmas stacks this year and I got them from Michael's.  The stickles are uneven, but again....rushing in my excitement to get it together, lol.

Hopefully I can get the rest of these done this weekend and show you more.  So much I want to do, so little time!  Thanks for visiting today!

Finished MTC print and cut project!

Whew, I can't believe that it has been almost a week since I've posted!  I have been putting in so many days and hours at work, I am EXHAUSTED!  Literally - I have worked every day since last Sunday, the 14th.  I have yet to get a day off since then, so crafting hasn't been happening much lately.

I was able to crank this out last night, though, and I think it turned out OK for being thrown together in literally 5 minutes!  I used a printable set from Treasure Box Designs, and how cute is she?!?!  I also got a stamp set from Scrappy Moms, and I LOVE how perfectly this picture went with the sentiment!  So, I printed her on the MTC mat at 5.5"x4.5".  Once I saw it, I knew it was too big for a card, so I had to get my brain working to figure out what I could do.  I ran to Wal Mart and got a $1.00 cheap picture frame, and used only the easel back of it to make this.  I covered the easel with a 5.5"x7.5" mat from American Crafts Merrymint pack from last year, then I used a 6.5"x8.5" piece of green, cut the square out of the middle, used an SU! lights wheel stamp, the Scrappy Mmoms stamp for the sentiment, and that was it!

I don't have a picture of it, but I also cut out extra layers of just the bear and made her dimensional.  Maybe I will try to get a picture of that later to illustrate, but basically I printed out the entire image, then adjusted the settings in MTC so it would only print and cut out the bear parts.  I then used pop dots to layer her face, arms, and feet!  Have I mentioned how much I LOVE MTC?!?!  Lol!

Ok, definitely going to try to get a picture of the dimensional aspects up, maybe with some screen shots of what I did in Make the Cut to achieve this??  Anyone think they may like to see that??  Thanks for visiting today!

Do you see what I see??

I just thought this was so cute!  I know you can't tell, but there is a lot of dimension within the box itself.  The hills are each staggered and pop dotted at different depths, with some inking for extra emphasis.  The sheep are from Paper Doll Dress Up, and the font is Plantin, I think.  The background paper is from Joann's, the star is from Joys of the Season, and the hills are just hand torn.

When I saw this picture, i realized that they needed something done with their ears (lol), so I put a piece of black behind each cut out so you couldn't see the stars through them.  Oops!!  Anyway, I thought it was a cute, simple message for the upcoming holiday season!  Thanks for visiting today.

Another shadow box

This one is the snowman from Doodlecharms, cut at 5" tall.  I hand tore some white DCWV glitter paper and pop dotted the middle protion to give it the 3D effect, as well as pop dotting the snowman with double the dimension of the snow "drift".  I know this picture isn't the best, but I had to use my cell phone camera, since my regular camera is currently 50 miles away at my boyfriend's.  OOPS!

Anyway, I also etched snowflakes onto the front of the glass - can you see them?  The title is from Winter Woodland, and for the blue background, I just used a Q-tip and dabbed it ont the ink pad, then the paper in random fashion.  So, what does everyone think??