Day 6

Happy Day 6 of the 12 Days of Christmas project!!! Sorry mine is up so late, but today was one of those days! I hope you enjoy this little tutorial! It is one of my all-time favorite projects!!! I used October Afternoon Christmas paper and made the gingerbread pattern is my own creation!!!

Gingerbread Man Banner

Supplies Needed:
Chipboard
Cardstock

Patterned Paper
Border Punch
Ink
Jute
Ribbon
Buttons
Embellishments

1. Cut 3 stars out of Chipboard and Cardstock.

2. Glue cardstock stars to chipboard bases.
3. Cut stars out of patterned paper and then cut all the points off of the star as shown and distress with ink.
4. Trace the inside of the star onto your choice of corresponding patterned paper.

4. Cut ¾ inch strips of patterned paper and punch with a border punch and distress with ink.

5. Attach the border strips and the star points to each of the stars as shown.

6. Add stitching with a marker.

7. Trace Gingerbread Man onto Craft Cardstock, cut out, and Ink.

8. Embellish Gingerbread Men with ribbons and buttons. Glue to stars.
9. Add sentiment-I used Jillibean Soup Alphas to proclaim Joy to the World.
10. Add any embellishments of your choice.
11. String together with Jute and add ribbons and smaller cardboard and cardstock stars.
12. I am more than happy to share the patterns for the stars and gingerbread man-email me at klockart@msn.com if you are interested.

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Have a wonderful evening!!

Kristii

Day 5

Happy Day 5 of the 12 days of Christmas!!!!! Today's project is all about inexpensive, yet beautiful gift wrapping!!! I took a plain kraft sack that I bought in bulk last year at Target and covered it with some patterned paper, ribbon and lace.

Of course, I had to make a matching card:

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper: The Girl's Paperie Tinsel and Twig

Cardstock: PTI Rustic White; Bazzill Black

PTI Stamps: Christmas Friends and Wreath for all Seasons

PTI Dies: Victorian Lace Border and Ric Rac Border

PTI Felt: Pure Poppy

Memento Ink: Tuxedo Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger: Brushed Corduroy

Kaiser Craft Jewels

Kraft Bag, Lace and Ribbon from my stash

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you are enjoying these 12 days of Christmas posts!! I know that I am having a blast putting them together!!!

Wishing you a joyous week!!!

Kristii

Day 4

Merry Christmas and happy Day 4 of the 12 days of Christmas!!! Today is going to be a busy day shopping, decorating, and going to the Christmas Stroll in Bozeman!!! My hubby is off, so we are going to take full advantage of the weekend!!!

Today I am going to share one of my favorites from the past. This sweet little angel is very easy and fun to make!!

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper: Imaginisce

Wooden Bead: Michaels

Lace Angel Wings, ribbon, and pearls from my stash

1. Cut 2 pie shaped pieces of patterned paper.

2. Stitch together by hand or machine.

3. Stuff with batting or cotton balls.

4. Thread ribbon through the wooden bead and tie closed.

5. Glue the wooden bead to the top of the pie slice.

6. Embellish with ribbon, wings, and pearls.

Super easy and super cute!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you tomorrow for Day 5!!!!

May the Joy of the Season Bless your hearts today!!!

Kristii

Day 3

Happy Day 3 of the 12 days of Christmas!!!! I don't know about you, but I am a little tired today, but the fact that it is Friday totally energizes me!!! That's a good thing because the coffee pot stopped working today. No coffee??? No way! I am going to leave a little early this morning and head to the coffee shop for sure!

I decided to make some quick and easy ornaments for today's project!! I used my Cricut machine and the Joys of the Season Cartridge along with my PTI Tiny Treats Christmas Stamps to make these fun little baubles for the tree!!

Supplies Used:

Cricut Machine and The Joys of the Season Cartridge

Cardstock: Rustic White

Patterned Paper: The Girl's Paperie Tinsel and Twig

Stamps: PTI Tiny Treats Christmas

Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger: Brushed Corduroy

Glitter: Martha Stewart

Holly Leaves: Making Memories

PTI Button Twine

Buttons from my stash

Copic Markers

Chipboard

PTI Vintage Cream Twill ribbon

Kaiser Craft Pearls

1. Cut out the star ornament from patterned paper at 4 1/4 inches. I cut the top of the bulb off, but you can leave it on if you prefer.

2. Cut out a 4 1/4" circle from Rustic White Cardstock. There is a circle pattern on the Joys of the Season Cartridge. See page 79 of the Cartridge handbook.

3. Trace the circle out on chipboard and cut out.

4. Lightly trace the star on the Rustic White Circle and stamp your image in the center of the star area and color with Copic Marker.

5. Ink all areas with Brushed Corduroy Ink.

6. Glue the White Circle onto the Chipboard Circle and then cover with the patterned paper circle so that the stamped image shows through.

7. Trace outline of the star with a glue pen and add glitter.

8. Add ribbon and embellish as desired.

So fun and so very easy!!!

I hope you enjoyed today's project!!!

See you tomorrow for day 4!!!!

Hope you have a wonderful Friday!!!

Kristii

Day 2

Hi dear friends and welcome to day 2 of the 12 days of Christmas, Christmas Share Project!! Today I thought it would be fun to create a little gift ensemble for those who have friends with birthdays during the holiday season.

Avid Reader Ensemble

This little card has a fun little library pocket on the inside to hold all the goodies!!!!

I used the Girl's Paperie Tinsel and Twig papers, which are my favorite choice this holiday season!!! I also used Tim Holtz Distress Inks and my Ink Blending tools to add some color to the focal image.

Supplies used:

Patterned Paper: Girl's Paperie by Margie

PTI Cardstock: Rustic White

PTI Stamps: All Booked Up

PTI Die: Mat Stack 3 and Book Mark

McGill Punch: Pine Bough

Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger: Barn Red, Crushed Olive and Brushed Corduroy
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

PTI Vintage Cream Button and Twine

Thanks for stopping by!!!! May the true joys of Christmas Bless Your Heart today!!!

Kristii

Scrapping the Music #161

Hi my friends!!! I hope you are having a wonderful evening!!!

This week's song at Scrapping the Music is way fun to scrap!!! The song is Suds in the Bucket by Sara Evans!!! So many scrappable lyrics!!! I chose the lyric, "Pony Tail Girl".

Here's my take on the Challenge:

The photo is of my sweet daughter Bethany about 23 years ago...oh my does time fly!!! She is such a cutie with her pony tail sticking up...melts my heart every time!!!

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper: Webster's Pages Hollywood Vogue

Alpha: AC Thickers

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist: Coffee Shop

Glittered Stars: Memrie Mare

Thanks for stopping by!!!

I will see you tomorrow for Day 2 of the 12 Days of Christmas!!!

Joyfully yours,

Kristii

12 Days of Christmas

Hi there dear and very special friends!!!! Happy December 1st!!!! I hope the beginning of the Holiday Season finds you healthy and very happy!!! I am thankful for each and every one of you!

BethieJ over at Papertrey Ink suggested that we have our own version of the 12 days of Christmas and I thought it would be fun to play along!!! For the next 12 days, I will be posting ideas for Christmas goodies, gifts and decorations!! I hope you don't mind if I post a few of my favorites along with my new ideas!!! Check out the PTI forums for more ideas!! The people at PTI are amazing!!!!

Day 1:

A visit from the Jolly Old Head Elf Himself!!!

Here is a quick and easy tutorial to make your very own Santa Ornament:

Supplies:

Patterned Paper cut in a quarter circle:

Wood Beads

Curly Doll Hair

Pom Poms

Felt

Decorative Cording or Ribbon

Markers

Hot Glue Gun

Holly punch

Stickles

1. Draw a face on your wooden bead with a marker. It doesn’t have to be perfect as most of the face will be covered with the Jolly Old Elf’s beard.

2. Attach decorative cording folded in a loop to the top of the bead with hot glue. Make sure your cording is longer than the length of the Old Man’s hat with enough at the end to hang. (see picture for reference). Be sure to use your hot glue liberally so that the bond will support the bead.

3. Roll your quarter circle into a cone and glue with hot glue. Attach to the bead with hot glue.

4. Cut up the doll hair and attach to the bead in sections with hot glue.This is a very random process; keep adding hair until you like the results. Straighten a little piece of hair and add a little glue above his mouth and fill in his mustache. Trim beard as desired.

5. Embellish with a little felt, holly leaves and berries and a white pompom

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

See you tomorrow for more 12 days of Christmas!!!

Kristii

Computers and Challenges!!

For me to say "computers are challenging" is an understatement! I live on my computer. I facebook, blog, check my email, edit, design....you name it, I do it on my computer. However, when my computer gives me fits, I am totally at a loss! Over the past two months, I have managed to fry two computers and today, I have spent countless hours trying to salvage what was lost. An overwhelming task, to say the least! Finally, I have gotten to a point where I can at least post to my blog....sigh! You can be sure that I will be spending some time investigating computers and finding a computer that will fill my needs and hopefully not break down under the heavy load I put onto it! Until then, I am finally going to post a couple of challenges that I made cards for!

2 Sketches 4 You

This challenge has become my favorite over the past several weeks!!! I just love the sketches that Laura and Kazan post and this week's was no exception!

Laura's Sketch 66

This week I made a card using Tinsel and Twig from The Girl's Paperie by Margie, however, it is not a Christmas Card. I have a friend who I have been thinking about a ton and thought it would be fun to send a card to her. I got out my Copics and went to town!!! Way fun!!

Here's a close-up of the detail:

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Bazzill Red; PTI Rustic White and Stamper's Select White

Patterned Paper: Girl's Paperie Tinsel and Twig

Stamps: PTI Year of Flowers-Mums; Red Lead Paperworks Chickadee

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger Brushed Corduroy and Barn Red;

Memento Tuxedo Black

Dies: PTI Medium Scallop

Fiskar's Pinking Shears

Ribbon, Button and Floss from my stash

Copic Markers

Moxie Fab World Trigger Tuesday

It's Snowing Gingerbread

When I took a peak at the challenge, I thought...."snowing gingerbread", what can I do with that. However, after thinking for a brief moment, I thought....I can make my husband's birthday card using that trigger!!!! So I picked up my Sizzix Snow embossing folder and took a peek at Tim Holtz Tags of Christmas from a year ago and went to town!!!!

I dry embossed both the PTI Stamper's select and Blueberry Sky papers. Stamped and embossed the trees and the car then hand I cut them all out. I added some Sparkly Fluff to the trees and then punched out and glittered some snowflakes. I die cut a banner and stamped on the Happy Birthday message and wouldn't you know it?? I had the perfect masculine card for my husband!!! It was so fun to make and best of all, He loved it!!!

Supplies Used:

PTI Cardstock: Stamper's Select, Rustic Cream and Blueberry Sky

Grungeboard byTim Holtz

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

PTI Ink: Fresh Snow

Tim Holtz Ink by Ranger: Forest Moss and Crushed Olive

Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder: Black and Clear

Craft Lounge Sparkly Fluff: Sugar

Tim Holtz Stamps: Car and Trees

PTI Stamps: Border Builders

PTI Dies: Border Builders

EK Success Punch

Martha Stewart Glitter

I truly hope you have a wonderful weekend!!!

We will be putting up our main Christmas Tree!!! Whoo hoo!! I love Christmas!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristii

Inspiration from my Pantry

Hi there dear friends!!!! I hope this post finds you warm and toasty!!! We are in the freezer here in Montana!!! The temperature is -6 degrees now with the low forecast to be -16....brrrrrr!!!It really is gorgeous here with all the snow and now that we are on Thanksgiving Break and I don't have to go outside, I say...."Bring it on!!!" It will be perfect weather for baking and celebrating all that we are thankful for!!!!

A fellow PTI enthusiast, Ted, issued a challenge on his blog, Happily Ever Crafter and I thought it would an interesting challenge, so I gave it a try!!!! Here's the challenge:

You're going to go to your kitchen and find something (ANYTHING that's food or kitchen consumable related) and use that as your inspiration. Preferably, I want it to have a label or some brand or something on it so you can use it as your inspiration.

Here's my inspiration:

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to use a can of Pumpkin for inspiration. I wanted to make a card for my sweet co-worker and here's what I came up with:
I took the colors and the banners from the label and used those and the turkey to form the card around. The PTI Banner Builders worked perfectly for this project as well as the PTI Gobble, Gobble set!!!

Supplies Used:

PTI Cardstock: Rustic Cream and Kraft

Bazzill Brown

Inks: PTI Dark Chocolate

Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger: Rusty Hinge, Barn Door, Wild Honey, and Brushed Corduroy

PTI Stamps: Background Basics- Tin Types; Gobble, Gobble, Banner Builder Collection

Read Lead Paperworks: Vintage Worn Dot Pattern

PTI Dies: Gobble, Gobble; Banner Builder Collection

PTI Button Twine

Kaiser Craft Pearls

Buttons from my stash

This project was a bit of a challenge for me, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!!! If you want to get in on the challenge, stop by Ted's blog and check it out!! It was a lot of fun!! Thanks Ted!

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful evening!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog!!! I'm so thankful for all of you!

Kristii

Feeling crafty and a bit rosy...

Hi there dear friends!!! I hope this evening is finding you happy and warm! We are at 2 degrees on our way to heavy snow and -17 forecast on Tuesday night!! Makes me want to stay home, that's for sure!! I love the snow this time of the year, but the cold I could do without! Oh well, I will be singing Christmas songs as it truly is feeling a lot like Christmas!!!!

I worked on CPS #194 this evening.

Here's the sketch:

I really wanted to make a card with a vintage kraft background, and I wanted to play with my new Larger than Life stamps. I just love those stamps and I just had to try to make a Christmas card using them!!! I stamped the background of my card with Hero Arts Friends Stamp. I put together a couple of tags and stamped the Larger than Life Leaves and then my mind wandered back to Betsy Veldman's sweet little roses she made out of PTI felt a few months back. You can find her tutorial here. I made the roses just like Betsy's, but instead of sewing them together, I used a small punched circle as a base. Then I glued the rolled flower onto the base with Zip Dry.
The result is a little different for a Christmas type card, but I really wanted to get out of my box and try something new!! There's nothing like kraft with a punch of color.

Supplies Used:

PTI Kraft and Rusty Cream Cardstock

PTI Stamps: Larger Than Life, Library Card, Fillable Frames #9, Friendship Jar

PTI Dies: Jar Label, Fillable Frames #4, Mat Stack #4, Rickrack Border

PTI Felt Pure Poppy

Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate; Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger: Brushed Corduroy and Crushed Olive

Lace and Ribbon from my stash

Thanks for stopping by!!! Wishing you an absolutely wonderful week!!!

Kristii

CPS #193

Happy snowy evening and what a peaceful night it is!! Such a contrast from earlier in the day! We had a blustery afternoon which caused the electricity to go out in our little town. We sat for over an hour in the dark in the library this afternoon. It made for an unusual ending to a normal school day. It is kind of fun to have something out of the norm happen, and lucky for us, school was let out a little early!! Hooray! I felt just like a little kid again, excited to get out of school! Excitement was in the air for all that could be done in the extra minutes we found in our day! For me, it was a wonderful time to get out my scrappy goodies and spend some time having fun! I have not been feeling well all week, so scrappy time wasn't in the formula! So, I took advantage of the time and I will make sure that I get into bed earlier than normal. It's a win, win situation!!!

I decided to play with Card Positioning Systems sketch #193.

Here's the sketch:

and here's my take on the sketch:

Supplies used:

Patterned Paper: Girl's Paperie

Cardstock: Bazzill Red and PTI Rustic Cream

Stamps PTI: 2010 Holiday Tags

Stamps: Red Lead Paperworks Chickadees

Glitter and Ribbon: Stampin Up

Ink: Tim Holtz Barn Door, Crushed Olive, and Brushed Corduroy

PTI Button and Twine

Die Cuts: PTI and Spellbinders

I had so much fun using a mixture of goodies on this card!!! I want to thank you for stopping by my blog!!! I hope your Friday is absolutely Fantastic!!!

See you soon,
Kristii

Perfectly Pink and Snowy Greetings

Happy Tuesday evening my dear friends!!!! I am so happy to be home and back in the crafting mode!!! I pulled out my PTI stamps which always makes me happy!!!! Add a little pink to the equation and I am in crafter's heaven!!!!

Today I used Kazan's sketch #66:

Here's my take on the sketch:

Supplies Used:

Stamps: PTI Peace be Still and On Ice

Patterned Paper: October Afternoon and Webster's Pages

Cardstock: PTI Kraft and Rustic Cream

Ink: PTI Fresh Snow and Dark Chocolate; Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger, Brushed Corduroy

Fancy Pants Pom Pom Ribbon

Seam Binding died with Egg Shell Copic Marker

Kaiser Craft Pearls dies with Aqua Copic Marker

PTI Vintage Cream Button

CI Imaginations Paper Lace

Martha Stewart Glitter

EK Success Snowflake Punch

I was looking for a cream ribbon to embellish my card. I love using seam binding to embellish my cards, but my seam binding is a nice crisp white color. I am so thankful for my Copic Markers!!! A little Egg Shell makes a white ribbon nice and creamy. A little red ink leftover on your craft sheet while you are coloring, makes for a perfectly pink ribbon!!! I also needed a little more aqua on my card to enhance the background paper and so I decided to try my Copic Markers and see how they would die the pearls. I used a little aqua to color them and wouldn't you know it, I had the perfect pearls for my card!!

I had a blast making today's card. I just love 2 Sketches 4 You!!! It's just the inspiration I need to have a perfectly creative evening!!!

Wishing you a wonderful evening!!! Thanks for stopping by!! I appreciate you!!

Kristii