Just A Little More Christmas

 So how was your Christmas? Is your tree down? Decorations packed away? Mine are but only just...

 I did find some time this Christmas to make a few gifts. These ornaments were for my 5th/6th grade Sunday School class and for an ornament exchange with some wonderful friends. 


I meant to take photos of the ornaments I rec'd but forgot and now they are  packed away. 

These are some tags I made for my stamp club members. I borrowed the idea from Vickie, Its A Stamp Thing.  The glitter is the fabulous silver glass glitter, stamps are from Stampin' Up!™ Bells and Boughs, Serene Snowflakes and Greeting Card Kids. I used blender pens and Stampin' Pastels™ to color the images. I think I need to make some more of these for next year.

Christmas Tags

 I made lots of these simple little Christmas tags to sell at the Apple Festival-a craft show that benefits Missouri Baptist Children's Home. The tag on the bottom was cut with the Two Tags Sizzix die from Stampin' Up!™. The snowflake was cut using the Northern Frost Sizzix die from Stampin' Up! I used some metallic string from my stash to wrap around the scallops and some retired Stampin' Up! colors (Kiwi Kiss, Taken with Teal, Ruby Red).  
  I am not sure why but I didn't sell all of them this year like I usually do-I thought these were better than last year but...? Maybe I can give them as gifts???? 

Dasher Christmas Tag

Look it's Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. Donder??? Is that correct? This little gem of a stamp is called Dasher but you could add a little red nose and call him Rudolph; he won't mind!
Dasher was stamped with Versamark™ and embossed with silver embossing powder. I added some of that lovely waffle paper and of course some of the new silver glass glitter found in the Holiday mini. (only $3.95 a jar!)
The snowflake is the negative image from the Snowflake Punch that I simply cut around and embossed with silver embossing powder. It is actually a piece of Whisper White.
Now originally I did not plan to add the snowflake but I smeared glue on the front of my tag so the snowflake was strategically placed to hide it. I did not take a photo of the back but there is a piece of Basic Gray card stock glued on the back with "to & from" stamped. This is one of the Christmas tags we will be making on Friday!! See what you are missing???????

Christmas Gift Tag Tin

How about a quick & easy Christmas gift idea? The container is a skinny tin from Stampin' Up! ($.99 from the online clearance section) that I covered in Real Red textured card stock. The tags are either 3x3" or folded Top Note die cuts. I used paper from my scraps to decorate the tags. The words Christmas Gift Tags were printed using my inkjet printer. This would make a great last minute gift; however, you probably would want to give this before Christmas so the tags could be used for wrapping!

Glittery Ornaments

I am not sure where my week goes. I know that I am busy most of the time but honestly I think I will start keeping an hourly log and log in what I am doing each hour. . .well maybe not-I might find that I am spending too much time at the computer or watching Stargate & Alias. Every Monday I am sure I will post on my blog more often, participate in more online challenges and meet deadlines. Guess what!! Never happens! Actually I do meet most deadlines but as for posting more often??? *SIGH* Well maybe this week . . . . .


These are just a few of the Christmas ornaments or gift tags I have been making. Last Christmas I purchased several of the Stampin' Up! Country Living kits when they went on sale and set them aside. These are some of the ornaments we will be making in the girls Christmas ornament class. I also have some larger ornaments that we will be making in the adult Christmas ornament class.




The three ornaments in the middle are photo ornaments. They would make great gifts and are just the right size for a school photo. You can keep them as tree ornaments or use them as an embellishment in a scrapbook. A Bible verse would also fit in the frame. These could also be used to decorate wrapped packages as a gift tag and then be hung on the tree-a gift tag that doubles as a gift! It is hard to tell in the photos but there is lots of glitter!!!!!!

Christmas Tags

Here are some Christmas tags I made. I used some leftover bits & pieces of DP with a few stamps and punches. The top note tags were a CASE of tags from Kristen's blog. I made them mainly because I wanted to play with my new Big Shot & top note die! However they turned out rather cute!! I might add a little glitter here and there just for fun!!! I am never sure how my photos are going to line up when I upload them. I actually wanted the photos at the top of this post at the bottom but I am tooooo busy to correct it so . . .

I have been without my heat gun for a week because I left it at church. I really wanted to do some heat & stick with glitter on a couple of these but I will have to wait. I think we are going to make a few tags at stamp club this Friday!!