schmooze: verb

 

 

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Frosted Designs - On the 7th Day of Christmas

7 sparkly snowflakes
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge #50 Snow
Little Scrap Pieces - Challenge #21 I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

I'd like to take a momment and schmooze with you...I loooooove shaped cards, I do, I do! lol I love seeing them, making them, thinking about them...if I was Dr. Seuss, I'd write a poem about them. They are fun to hold, fun to open and the best fun is in creating them!

 I hope that in the picture below you can see the snowflakes on the acetate better.

DCWV - Shimmer Stack ( still my favorite! )
Cricut - Doodlecharms cartridge, p. 84,( stretched in Cricut Craft Room to a 4x6" shape )
Reminisce - Snow Globe Rub-Ons ( snowflakes )
Ranger - stickles, Frosted Lace ( small accents on snowflakes )
snowman sticker, ribbon, holly leaves, acetate - misc
Pebbles - rub on sentiment ( placed snowflake rub ons onto acetate window )
American Craft - Slick Writer ( outline of shimmer Globe )
Faber Castell - Pitt Pen, Gelatos ( used Gelato's to color base card stock, Pit pen for holly leaf outline )
Helmars 450 ( to adhere bow )
Helmars Tape Runner  ( to adhere ribbon )
Aleene's Tacky Glue
Craft-T chalks ( to add shading for Holly leaves )
 

bowled over: transitive verb

to impress

( interesting fact: this word was first used in 1867 )

 

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We have had a wonderful week so far, Chrissy has shown us oodles of hand made ornaments to create, Heather has a fantastic tutorial on how to make a biased apron and Melissa supplied us with fabulous ideas to stuff those stockings and I showed you how to make a great girlfriend gift!

 

So now, we are starting week 2 and Chrissy will be showing some Home schooling ideas that includes a Christmas theme! How clever!

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Tag..you're it!
( I use to hate this game when I was a child,  could never catch anybody!! )
But noawadays tags are all the rage, some have as much attention to detail as a card and after you have wrapped those gifts, don't forget to finish them off with a beautiful hand made tag that says..."gee, you are special to me...see what I made for you?"

 

I know a lot of my bloggy friends love to make tags, and you can get inspiration from these BEAUTIFUL Christmas ones by:

 

Anne ( Toy Soldier, and Snow is Falling ) ....from Julie ( Merry Christmas )....from Mel ( Wish, Holiday Wreath, Santa Love, and Peace on Earth ) from May ( Joy, and Christmas Heart ) and from Meggy ( Santa is on his way ).

 

So you have lots of wonderful goodies to look at and get inspired from. Do take a moment to look around their blogs, they make so many wonderful projects, I know I am always bowled over by them!

 

And here are a few of my tags that I sell at the Art MoB:

( on the back of each tag is printed with a "To:" and a "From:" )

 

 Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination, p. 57

hand sewing

Ranger's - stickles

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Reminisce - white pen

epoxy letters - misc.

 

 Cricut  - Stretch Your Imagination p.55

Really Reasonable Ribbon - ric rac, white ribbon

Reminisce - white pen

Tulip - puffy paint

 

Cricut - Doodlecharms p. 127

red pen,googly eyes, trim, cotton ball - misc.

Really Reasonable Ribbon - red ribbon

Craft -T - chalk

Ranger - stickles

entering my gift tags in:

Pan Pastels - challenge #47 Gift Time
Pin and Tack - challenge #4 Anything Goes
Little Scrap Pieces: Make it Sparkle Challenge