Unusual Pin-spiration for Christmas

Last week I whipped up a quick card for October Afternoon's Christmas message using this piece as my inspiration:

I pinned this image awhile back and loved the idea of the text-filled silhouettes against the solid background. I translated this idea to my card:

I used my Silhouette to cut a Christmas tree shape from the subway art text-print paper from the Make It Merry 8" X 8" paper pad:

and then cut apart the yellow text sticker from the Word Stickers sheet to form both the tree trunk and the label at the top of the card:

 
I added brad ornaments:

and a sentiment from the Little Flyers set:

When my tree was done, I stuck the two pieces of the yellow sticker to my black cardstock card base, added pop dots to the tree and adhered it to the card base, and I was done!

 

 

Recap of Mid-season Releases

With the winter Craft & Hobby Association trade show around the corner, I decided I would throw together a little recap of my favorites from the mid-season releases. In no particular order:

Crate Paper's Fourteen Collection

  
While I am not normally sucked in to Valentine's lines, they had me at the heart-shaped maps:

Echo Park's Photo Freedom Today's Story Collection

Love all the fun and colorful bits here, especially the maps and speech bubbles:

Studio Calico's Darling Dear Collection

My favorite piece from this line is the heart chipboard set:

 

Pebbles Family Ties Collection

 My favorite product from this line is the journaling and phrase cards book:

I've already seen some CHA sneaks starting and am bookmarking those to a Pinterest board. Stay tuned for my 3rd time around doing an armchair attendee week. I'll be blogging during CHA January 12-15 right here at Right Side Up. 

Check back here on Monday for some last-minute Christmas ideas!

Simple Packaging

This week is all about cards and gifts on the Pebbles blog. I used my Silhouette to create some fun embellishments to dress up packages wrapped in brown paper (cue "The Sound of Music"):

Christmas set:

Hanukkah set:

Be sure to check out the Pebbles blog all week this week for ideas!

 

Quick Update/Quick Project

We've been sick here on and off here since Thanksgiving. That put everyone a little bit behind the curve, except for Eli, who has somehow (knock on wood!) avoided both the stomach bug and the evil virus. Hanukkah was a bit of a blur so we're hoping winter break gives us that much-needed down time and family time. 

I contributed a gift card holder to yesterday's October Afternoon blog post. Here's my project, but be sure to check out the blog to see Lexi's fun project as well.

Will have another quick post tomorrow and am hoping to get back to more regular blogging over the break.

 

It's a Giveaway! An October Afternoon Giveaway!

I told you it would be worth your time to come back today! However, the giveaway isn't here, it's at write.click.scrapbook. Here's a look at the project I created to go along with the give.away.day., using October Afternoon's Make It Merry line:

So...be sure to click on over to write.click.scrapbook. sometime between now and Sunday and leave a comment on the post there to be entered to win a Make It Merry collection:

My Mind's Eye Guest Designer (and last week's October Afternoon Farm Girl Blog Hop Winner)

My Mind's Eye Guest Designer

Yup, that's me! :) I was thrilled to be asked to play with the Lost & Found 3 Oliver collection for Hanukkah. This line combines gorgeous and elegant blue, yellow, cream, and gray patterned papers and embellishments with touches of gold glitter.

First, I created a set of eight tags:

 

Using my Silhouette, I cut eight 3" wide tags from cream cardstock. I then ran several of the patterned papers from the 6" X 6" paper pad through my Silhouette, cutting out the number words and small banner elements. I added in stickers, dimensional stickers, buttons, and chipboard to further embellish the tag set. While I plan to use this to create a mini album once Hanukkah is over, these tags would also work as gift tags, a Hanukkah calendar, or could be used across a 2-page layout along with photos and journaling.

I had some small banner die cuts left over after I created the tags, so I used them on this layout. One of my favorite things about the Lost & Found 3 Oliver line are the embosed patterned papers. The blue quatrefoil and yellow hexagon 12" X 12" papers are embossed, perfect for adding a bit of texture and elegance to any project. Strips of these papers against the yellow damask pattern make me happy! It also makes me happy that I was able to have the curve of the "w" in my title lead right into the curve of my son's shoulder in the photo collage - love it when little details like that come together!

Be sure to check out the My Mind's Eye blog today for more information. Word on the street is that there's another special Hanukkah guest designer tomorrow, so be sure to check back for her work as well!

October Afternoon Farm Girl Blog Hop Winner

I know you're all also waiting on pins and needles for the announcement of the October Afternoon Farm Girl Blog Hop winner. So, without further ado,

Ruth said...
I definitely MUST get this line....we have a dairy farm and it would be perfect!

December 10, 2012 4:29 AM

Yes, Ruth, that means that you are the winner of the Farm Girl Tin Pins! Please email me your address at vmasket at comcast.net to claim your prize. 

Please Come Back Tomorrow!

"Why?" you ask. Well, because I will be linking you to a fabulous giveaway at write.click.scrapbook. Intrigued? Be sure to check back tomorrow!

Happy Hanukkah!

This week is all about non-traditional holiday layouts on the Pebbles blog. Just because Pebbles doesn't have a holiday line doesn't mean you can't use bits and pieces of other lines to great effect on a holiday layout. I combined polka-dot patterned papers from the Family Ties and Seen & Noted lines on this Hanukkah layout:

I die cut the line of numbers and the banner elements, adhered a sticker to the bottom of a photo printed as a Polaroid, added two blocks of patterned paper (one with the corner rounded and a semi-circle punched out of it), a sticker on a pop dot, and a journaling strip and I was done. Super easy!

Stay tuned in to the Pebbles blog for more holiday projects all this week and next week!

Be sure to check back here tomorrow for both the winner of the October Afternoon Farm Girl Blog Hop and for more Hanukkah projects I did as a guest designer for... (well, you'll just have to check back tomorrow to find out! :)). I might also be persuaded to reveal my super-secret foolproof latke recipe.