Christmas stocking

Well, it has been a while since my last post, but I have also been busy lately, so I have also been really bad at reading other peoples blogs.

I am happy to share with you that my creative new years resolutions part 1 is done 😁. I was able to finish the stocking for Isabella in time for her to get it for her birthday yesterday, so I am really happy about that, now I can get started on the next one...Nahhh, I think I am gonna wait a little bit before I do that, cause otherwise I will not be able to complete resolution number 2, the crochet blanket for Rebeccas bed.

But I am so happy that I finally finished this one, and Isabella had no clue, that I had been working on it, so she was very surprised and happy when she opened the present, it was totally worth all the work.

3rd Christmas card 2019

I got inspired by a card that was on Maja Designs blog, so I lifted it and made it in different colors, here is the result:

Materials used:

Maja Design paper – Joyous Winterdays 6x6 paper pack

Spellbinders dies – Matting Basics 6x6

Tonic Studios die – Winter Snowflake

Oval die (can't remember the brand)

Distress Ink – Vintage Photo

Ribbon and halfpearls

Merry Christmas

This is my 24th blogpost this month and even though I had not planned on blogging every day up to Christmas, it just happend that way 😁. 

With this post I just want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

Christmas gift tags

Christmas is getting very close now, tomorrow is the big day here in DK, and I am ready for it: all the presents are bought, the groceries are bought and the tree is decorated. All we need to do is to put ribbon and gift tags on the presents and put them under the tree, which my husband and I will do tonight after the kids have gone to bed. I made a few gift tags this year as well, some of them turned out really nice others not so much, but we will use them anyway:

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.