Christmas Ornament

 

Christmas Ornament

 

 

 

 I have seen a number of these around the web. I loved how they looked so decided to try it with my CTMH products and stamps. I cut my pieces using the Artiste and Art Philosophy Cartridges.
Here we go on how to put one of these together.

1. Cut 20 times shape E9+shift+3D object on page 79 at 3" with the Artiste cartridge. I then  stamped all of these with the matching Ornament stamp from the Oct SOTM " Very Merry Christmas" using Cranberry ink.
2.The next layer I cut an ornament shape this time with the Art philosophy cartridge. It is on page 47 C7+shift at 2 1/2"cutting it 15 times. Then using a small stamp from the "Family Love" stamp and  Olive ink I stamped it a number of times until I had completely covered the shape. 
3. After all the shapes are stamped you score down the middle of each shape except for 5 of the 20 of of the first shape. These five are going to be the base to build the ornament on.
4. Then taking the remaining 15 shapes of the Cranberry shapes  glue  3 of the shapes together. Do this with all the pieces making 5 groups total. 
5. Do the same thing with the Olive shapes again putting 3 pieces together for one group and making a total of 5 groups.
6. Cut a 1" x 12" strip of B&T paper. Score every 1/2". Accordion fold and bring the ends together making a rosette.
7. Now to start putting it together take the 5 Cranberry ornaments that you haven't folded. take a 1 1/4' circle of CS and attach each of the ornaments with the stamped side facing down evenly around the circle. The sides of each ornament should touch.
8. Attach each of the 5 groups of Cranberry ornaments on top of #7. You are gluing on top of the non stamped side.
9. Now take Red tulle and cut some squares about 4 x 4. Put your finger in the center of the square and using the hot glue gun attach in between each ornament shape.
10. Cut 5 12" pieces of Hemp. Fold the piece of hemp in half and in half again and knot at at the end. Do this for each of the 5 pieces. Use the hot glue gun again and attach the knotted end in the center if each cranberry ornament.
11. Hot glue each Olive section in between  each of the Cranberry sections standing them up somewhat. You need to hold them in place until the glue has set.
12. Add the Rosette to the center of the Ornament.
13. Glue a Bling button to the center of the Rosette. Add a large Pearl to the center of the Bling Button.
14. Add Pearls to the tips of the Olive Ornament sections.
15. Using the Crop -A-Dile cut a hole in the center of one tip of a Cranberry section. Cut a piece of seam binding ribbon and knot for your hanger.
16. Cut a 2 1/2" circle with White Daisy CS and stamp a sentiment with Black ink. I used a sentiment from C1510 Merry & Bright stamp set.

This picture shows the back side of the ornament.

Try making one of your own with the tools you have. You can make them any size using it as an ornament or a package topper instead of a traditional bow.

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A start of my Christmas Cards

Well I finally got started making my Christmas Cards. I have two to show you now and will be back with more.

My first card was made using a Card Kit from CTMH. It is called the Pear & Partridge Card making Kit. It has a beautiful stamp set included along with the Pear & Partridge paper, some beautiful tan ribbon and red sparkle gems. I made mine just a bit different. I added some Prism Glitter to the ornaments. The colors used were Cranberry, Olive and Cocoa. It is a very simple card but I think stunning and elegant as well.

The second card is a Twisted Easel Card.

I used the same papers from the kit above. I stamped with Versamark a little deer from the stamp set "Warm Memories" and then embossed it with "Pirate's Gold" embossing powder. The ribbon is the CTMH seam binding ribbon and I colored it with Cranberry Re-inker. I love this ribbon because you can use it as it is or color it any color you want to match your project. I even got out one of my tools I haven't used in a while. You have some like that too , right??  I love this tool I just forget about it some times. It is my "Bow Easy". It makes the best bows ever. So I took it out and made a double bow to add above the oval with the deer in it.

I don't think it shows up in my picture but with this style of card you can put a Battery Tea Light behind the vellum part of he card and it lights up your image that is on the vellum. I want to make more of these with different images. You could have a tree, an angel, a small stocking etc.  It is a fun change on the regular Easel Card. I also used the Apron Lace Fiskars Border Punch along the left edge of the Cashmere CS piece.

Hope you enjoyed these cards. Come back to see some more Christmas Cards over the following days and weeks.

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A Pumpkin for your Thanksgiving Table

I am so sorry for the delay in getting some of my posts up in time for Thanksgiving.  But I decided to post them anyway. If you like them you can save the idea for next year and be some what ahead of yourself.  This project originated from http://inkspirations4u.ning.com/profile/MadelineMorcelo.  Check her site out. When you are a member of her site you have access to the directions.  I thought it was so cute and because it is larger in size it does work perfectly for your table centerpiece. It is big enough to have a presence but not to big to take up to much space.

 I used the "Flirty" paper from CTMH. I also used the "Fall Harvest" stamp set also from CTMH.

I also want to show you another style of a pumpkin only this one is much smaller and can be used as a place card at the table. I am going to make these for next year. I used the same paper and the September SOTM called "Fall Favorites" for the leaves. The banner is where I will be writing each persons name.  This is also a pattern from Madeline Morecelo.

This year for Thanksgiving I made some Favor boxes for each person. I used the Artiste Cricut cartridge to cut the pieces or the boxes. I used New England Ivy CS for the Scallop top and bottom and Barn Red CS for the box itself. To decorate the top I cut a 1 1/2" x 12" strip of Flirty B&T and scored it every 1/4" across the strip. Then accordion folded it and brought the ends together to make a Rosette. For the pumpkin on top of the Rosette I used the "So Grateful" stamp set. I added a leaf with a sparkle form the Brown & Tan assortment and made a bow with Chocolate Waxy Flax. To finish it off I stamped "Thanksgiving " on the banner using Barn Red ink. You could also use these as the place card and add the persons name on the banner instead of the word Thanksgiving. In my case I had some Turkey's I had made for the Place card so used my boxes as just favor boxes. I put some mixed nuts, a wrapped in B&T paper mini chocolate piece and some "Acorns" that I made in the boxes.  The acorns are made using a Hershey Kiss, a mini Nutter Butter cookie and a Butterscotch chip. They are so easy to do. You melt a few of the Hershey Kisses to use to put each part together. The Hershey Kiss goes on the bottom, spread a little of the melted chocolate on the flat part of the kiss and add the Nutter Butter cookie. Let that set until solid. So I did all my pieces like this first. Once they are solid take the small Butterscotch morsel and add a little of the chocolate to the flat part of it and add to the top of the Nutter Butter cookie. So when you are done you have the butterscotch chip on top, then the cookie and then the Hershey Kiss.

 Inside of the box.

 My Turkeys and the completed Box.
 For my Turkey's I added a small tag with each persons name on it and attached it to the side of the hat. I made them with the Create  A Critter Cricut Cartridge.

Singing Reindeer

Now isn't this just the cutest little Singng Reindeer you ever did see? Thanks so much to many talented  crafters on the web.  I saw it and just had to make one too. This is the link to one of the crafters  I saw in my search. http://stampowl.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html She also has ather link on her blog that yo can see the basics of how to make a Pyramid Card.
You can also find this on Splitcoaststampers and Pininterest. It can made into a card too by adding a slit to insert the panel instead of gluing them all . That way it can be folded to mail. I made mine as a decorative element to place in my home when I get all my Christmas  decorations out.

 I plan on making some more Reindeers to join the choir. Wouldn't that be cute to have a little choir?

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Scarecrow Basket

As you can see I am well into making different Fall and Halloween Projects this year. Here is another one I am calling my Scarecrow Basket.

I really liked the Sept. CTMH SOTM stamps set. It is called Fall Favorites. A Scarecrow is one of the stamps you get in this set.

I used a combination of tools to color my scarecrow. I first stamped him with the Saddle Pigment ink. I let that dry before coloring or you can heat gun it . I stamped it on a piece of Colonial White CS
3 1/2 x 4 1/2. I matted it with Barn Red CS cut at 3 3/4 x 4 3/4. These two CS pieces were inked with Cocoa ink. I used the alcohol markers, watercolor pencils and the waterbrush. The pumpkins were cut with the Art Philosophy cartridge and leaves were made with the Artiste cartridge.

I made the tag "pick o the patch" I cut a 3" scallop circle from Barn Red CS and Olivia B&T paper. I also cut a 2 1/2" circle from Colonial White CS. Ink all of these pieces with Cocoa ink. All cuts were from the Art Philosophy cartridge. I stamped the image on the Colonial White circle using Cocoa ink. Then using the watercolor pencils and waterbrush I colored the image. I layered the two 3" Scallop circles together with the Barn Red CS on the bottom and added the image on top.
*(I added the Barn Red CS to give some stability to this piece.)

To make the pumpkins I cut both 3" scallop circles and 2" scallop circles to get the small and large pumpkins with Sunset CS and button C1 with the Art Philosophy cartridge. To give them a little dimension I stamped a leaf and vine image from the stamps called "The Present" with Sunset ink. I made each pumpkin with 8 scallop circles.I folded each one of them in half. While still folded glue all of them together one by one ending up with a stack. Before closing the last two ends I inserted the stems of my leaves. The leaves were cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge using button B4 cut at 1.5" and 1.75" and Ne England Ivy CS. I stamped the matching leaf image from one of the stamp sets that came with the Art Philosophy cartridge with New England Ivy ink and used Cocoa ink o the edges.

I found a metal container in my stash that I thought would look good for putting all my pieces in. I put some filler in the bottom first. Then I took a few different green CS pieces and ran them through the paper crimper. Then I took my Martha Stewart fringe scissors to cut them all apart. I used that across the top of my container. To place the Scarecrow and tag images in the basket I used Bamboo sticks. I attached one to the back of each piece and cut another Barn Red CS piece to cover the stick. I cut a 1 1/2 x 4 3/4 strip for the back of the Scarecrow and a 1 1/4 x 2 for the tag. I inked the edges with Barn Red ink and folded them in half. hen I took Scor Tape and adhered them over the stick on the back of these two pieces. That gave it a completely finished look from all sides of the basket. Finally to finish it off I took some of the Burlap ribbon and tied it around the container with a bow at the front and added some spirals to the leaves. I took some chocolate waxy flax and wrapped it around a pencil to make my spirals. The waxy flax holds the spirals nicely.
I think it looks really nice with my Fall Banner that I posted earlier. What do you think?

*( I have a supply list at the bottom of this post) I hope you enjoy this project and give it a try with the items you have in your craft room.

The vellum votive covers shown in the picture were made years ago with a wooden Halloween CTMH stamp set. I had stamped the images with Smokey Plum ink on the vellum strip. Then took markers and colored the images from the back side. That way from the front it is a sutle coloring and when the votive is lit you see the image beautifully. Maybe next year I will have time to make some new ones to add to my Halloween and Fall decorations.

Supply List
1. Fall Favorites SOTM
2. The Present stamp set
3. Sunset, New England Ivy, Barn Red, Olive, and Colonial White CS
4. Cocoa, New England Ivy, Sunset inks and Saddle Pigment ink
5. Alcohol Markers in Cranberry, Indian Corn Blue, Olive, Autumn Terracotta, and Honey
6. Watercolor Pencils
7. Waterbrush
8. Chocolate Waxy Flax
9. Score tape
10. Olivia B&T paper pack
11. Bamboo sticks
12. Burlap ribbon
13. A basket of some kind
14. Hot glue gun
15. Martha Stewart Fringe scissors

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