Christmas decor

On my Christmas break I have had time to play a little in my crafting corner. In the beginning of December I bought some Christmas stars at a local grocery store. They were a little plain, but I had an idea for how to decorate them. I made 2 poinsettias out of 3 mm foam, die cut some poinsettia leaves out of parchment and cut out some silver pine branches. I used dies from Spellbinders and Marianne Design. Finally I decorated with some red frosted berries, which I also bought at the grocery store. This is the end result:

This is my last blogpost of 2017 so I wish you all a Happy New Year. See you in 2018.

A Christmas layout

A while back I made this Christmas layout. The picture is a from 2008 and is one taken by a photographer for our Christmas cards that year.

I have used papers from Maja Designs Christmas collections "A Gift for You" and "Home for the Holidays" and from "Vintage Frost Basics" plus some white cardstock. The 2 chipboard baubles are from Scrapiniec. I have used dies from Sizzix, Crealies and Precious Marieke. I used gesso and a stencil from Carabelle Studio for the scripture. All edges are distressed and I have used some silver thread, silver star half pearls and silver Stickles for decoration.

Here are a couple of close ups of the layout:

Christmas gift tags

I also made several gift tags this year:

The bottom ones were really easy to make, I used some Dixi Craft toppers and a die from Nellie Snellen (the same die I used for almost all of the tags), and I was able to get two tags out of every topper. On some of the tags I added snowflakes and trees.

Christmas cards 2017

Merry Christmas !!!

Wauw, where did December go? It went by really fast in my opinion. But I shouldn't be too surprised about that, since I get that feeling every year ☺.

I managed at the very last minute to make my last Christmas cards in order to get them mailed in time to arrive before Christmas. Here they are:

I have used all kinds of different brands of paper and dies for my Christmas cards.