Three Christmas Projects from Stephanie

Hello Bloggers

Stephanie has been very busy making Christmas Projects - 2 Cards & a LO featuring her granddaughter.

'Is everyone working on their Christmas cards? It’s Stephanie here today to give you some more inspiration to get those cards done. I used white cardstock for my background cut to 10” x 7” to make a 5” x 7” card when folded in half. My next layer is a dark pink piece of cardstock cut a bit smaller than the background paper. I’ve used my distress tool and distress ink on all of my papers. I cut a piece of the “Christmas Flowers” paper for my next layer and then cut that into strips approximately 1” to 1¼” and spaced those evenly across the pink cardstock. I then cut out one of the Angels (I love these Angels)from the Christmas Angels paper and matted it with some dark burgundy cardstock and then wrapped some twine around the left side of the angel picture and tied a bow with it and glued that layer down. I took a small piece of cheese cloth and glued that down onto the bottom left corner of the card. I took one of the large burgundy flowers and two of the small Latte paper roses and glued them down as shown in the picture. I cut one of the NOEL sayings from the Christmas Angels paper and matted it with a light green cardstock and used some foam pop dots and added it to the top right corner.'

Materials used from Meg’s Garden

Paper – P6362 Christmas Flowers

               P6366 Christmas Angels

Idyllic Burgundy Flowers

Small Latte Paper Roses

Other items used

Vintage Photo distress ink

Foam pop dots

Dark Burgundy cardstock

Dark Pink cardstock

Light Green cardstock

'I used a green cardstock for my background paper cutting it 10” x 7” to make a 5” x 7” card when folded in half. I then cut a 4½” x 6½” piece from the “Christmas Flowers” paper which I distressed and inked with Vintage Photo distress ink. It’s kind of hard to see in this photo but the top right corner of the paper and bottom left corner I rolled the paper back a wee bit. For my tree I used the “Christmas Greetings” and “Christmas Plaid” papers. You can find the tutorial to make the tree on MsLiberty25’s you tube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wics8OwRaos

I fussy cut a couple of the small flowers from the “Christmas Flowers” paper and used foam dots to pop them up on either side of the tree and added a little red star jewel from my stash to the top of the tree. The little sentiment on the bottom of the card is also from my stash. To finish the card off I cut two small slits on the fold of the card and threaded some ribbon from the inside of the card to the outside and tied a bow. I think this little tree would be cute to add to the inside of the card also so that when the person opens the card the tree would pop open!

Materials used from Meg’s Garden

Paper – P6362 Christmas Flowers

               P6361 Christmas Greetings

               P6365 Christmas Plaid

Other items used

Vintage Photo distress ink

Foam pop dots

Star gem

Ribbon

'I am also sharing a layout I did of my granddaughter using the beautiful new ‘Tis Christmas Time paper collection. For my background paper I used the “Christmas Plaid” paper which I distressed with my distress tool and some Vintage Photo Distress ink. I also used one of my punches and punched the bottom right corner and top left corner of the paper. I cut a piece of the Christmas Flowers paper 3” x 3¾” and a piece of the Christmas Angels paper (from the left side of the paper) 5½” x 3½” which I distressed and inked. I glued these two pieces on to the center of the background paper laying the longer piece beside the smaller piece but placing it so that the top left corner of the longer piece just over laps the bottom right corner of the shorter piece. I then took a piece of the 4.8cm lace which I colored with some Fired Brick distress ink and attached it down the middle of the paper.

For my photo I matted it with some burgundy colored cardstock that matched the flowers in these papers. Then I added some used cardboard from my stash to the back of the matted photo to pop it up on the page and placed it down over the lace as shown. I added a Prima resin heart and wings above the photo. I added a couple of fussy cut flowers from the Summer Bouquet papers from Meg’s Garden (I love this paper for fussy cutting) and placed them on either side of the photo using pop dots. I took a piece of cheese cloth from my stash and placed it along the bottom of the photo. For the rest of the flower cluster I used burgundy paper flowers, white Azaleas which I added Fired Brick distress ink here and there on the petals, and some small latte paper roses. I also added some green holly leaves, green stems and white velvet leaves from my stash. For my title I cut out one of the “NOEL” sayings from the Christmas Angels paper and popped it up using some cardboard and used some stickers from my stash for the year.

Materials used from Meg’s Garden

Papers – P6362 Christmas Flowers

                P6361 Christmas Greetings

                P6365 Christmas Plaid

                P6366 Christmas Angels

                P6336 Summer Bouquet

L2976 4.8cm Lace

3098bur Burgundy paper flowers

White Azaleas

Small Latte paper roses

Other items used

Prima resin heart & wings

Cheese cloth

Green holly leave & berries

Green bud stems

Number stickers'

You have been busy Stephanie - 3 great projects - well done. Love all the fussy cutting & the embellishments. Thanks for the link to the tutorial on the Christmas Tree.  Great idea for cards & other Christmas projects as well as table decorations.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com