Fleur de Lis Ornaments

These Fleur de Lis Ornaments were made using the shapeabilities die.  I got the directions for this from here and then changed them a  little.  I found it easier to cut the burgundy paper an extra time and then glue it together on the white paper.  I added stickles to the ribbon spool and obviously used different brads in the center.  They are reallly pretty and as much as I hate to admit it, really easy.  Try them!

Tags

I think tags are one of my most favorite things!! Love tags.

 Frosty kisses was cut and shadowed from the Cricut Winter Woodland carts; the blue background was run thru my cuttlebug.

This tag was cut and shadowed from the Cricut cart A Child's Year - everything on that cart is just so sweet.

House Mouse Christmas Card

A buddy of mine sent me this cute little House Mouse stamp (thank you Lisa!!) and it makes just the cutest card.  I colored with my copics, used prima flowers and wreaths from my stash.  I inked around the inside of the card with an Ink Dot.  Seasons Greetings was cut from the Cricut cart Winter Woodland.

Gruffies Christmas Card

I just love these little guys.  This was colored with copics; the blingy tree on the right is from Basic Grey.  There is lace from my stash, and the remainder of the embellishments are just cut from leftover Christmas paper.

Tilda Christmas Card

More Christmas Cards!

On this card, I used a MS punch for the snowflakes and silver smooch on the poinsettias Tilda is holding.  I'm afraid the silvery smooch doesn't show up well on the picture.  This was my first time using Smooch and I love it.  It is a sharp silver that really stands out.  The remainder of the card was colored with copics.

Christmas Cards

Finally, I've been able to start on my Christmas cards.  Well, I only have one done, but that's a start, right?

I used the wonderful Graphic 45 Christmas Past paper for the front of the card.  I kept it fairly simple because the paper is so pretty.  I made the rosette and it has a button in the middle of it.

GIBBS 5

My box to my partner in the Cricut GIBBS 5 swap has reached her, so I can now post some of her goodies.
Phew - this is a long post!  Be patient with me!

Rosette - another TH die; the title was printed from my computer, and the snowflake punch is MS.

It's very hard to explain this technique.  I'm making another one for my niece's new baby (due to arrive any day!) and I will take pictures as I put it together - it will be easier that way.  In the meantime, I'll try to explain.  I tore out a page, then gathered 5-6 pages still in the book together and glued them together by taking the torn out page and pasting over the edges of the 5-6 pages.  I used Yes Paste and it worked wonderfully. 

I printed out the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and mounted it on paper with torn edges.  The reindeer were cut on my Cricut with the Joys of the Season cart.

The remainder of the poem printed out - on torn paper.  The flowers and leaves are prima.

I used stickers from my stash for this page; I also machine stitched in a zig zag pattern around the picture boxes.

"Tis the Season" stamped on the bottom.  Snowflakes were punch from a MS punch.

I loved this vintage looking paper and just didn't want to cover it up.  I used a pre-made rosette from my stach and cut the scalloped circle with a nestabilities die run thru my cuttlebug.

These boxes were decorated with scrap ribbon.  I also put red dots around the sides of all the squares.

This is another sheet of paper that I didn't want to cover too much.  The ribbon is from WM and I love it - delicate and very pretty.

Embellishment from my stash, and edges inked and layered paper.

This page has a pocket for various Christmas tags.  The purple block is punched with a MS stamp.

This is just a really pretty piece of paper decorated with "falala" which was purchased at Michael's last year.

Another page that I left pretty much the way it was.  The scallop cut from the nestabilities die run thru my cuttlebug again, and the sparkly green circle frame is from Making Memories.