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Winter Tree

Today I'm sharing a project that I created for the 7 Gypsies Blog a while back with 7 Gypsies' ATC & Photo Display, and they're featuring it today on the Gypsy Blog. I actually created this winter tree for a Christmas display, and used it with my holiday decor, but I am leaving it out for a few months yet as the pale blues and silvers are perfect for winter decor after the holidays.It sits on my kitchen window pass through, and I love to sit and have a hot cup of tea and look at its prettiness! We need a little sparkle and glow in January, here in Ohio, when we've removed all other traces of the holidays and taken down the trees, lights and decorations. It serves as a reminder to me that even in the midst of winter, nature is abundant with beauty. I used the tiers of the display as branches and hung ornaments and tags created with papers from the Carolina Flocked and Hudson Valley Collections from 7 Gypsies. I also used these Princesca dangles to resemble glittering ice, and lots of silver and blue ornaments found on shopping jaunts.

I also received a very nice introduction on the Pink Paislee blog yesterday. If you get a chance, check out the other DT introductions, there is some serious talent on that team!

Off now to do some much needed organizing and de-cluttering in my art studio. I've set up another desk in the room and am frequently joined by my eager little miss, who keeps herself busy with scissors, glue stick, letters and lots of pretty papers to cut and paste! She's working on a mini menu for her American Girl doll (she received Marie-Grace for Christmas) and takes her everywhere! Happy crafting, hope you get time to create something lovely this weekend!

 

7 Gypsies Holiday Projects - Comfort and Joy

Today I want to share a couple of projects being featured over at the 7 Gypsies Blog. I decided to use the mini librarie drawer to create a few hostess gift kits for the holidays. I always love the idea of the container being a gift in itself, and the mini librarie drawer is certainly a wonderful gift and a lovely vintage style container that will be cherished by the recipient.

The first drawer brings out the warmth of the wood and has the more traditional holiday tones of red and green. I filled it with gifts for a mini Christmas tea: two small teacups, shortbread cookies and tea bags packaged in wax paper and tied with baker's twine, silver teaspoons tied together with baker's twine threaded through a button, a mercury glass votive, gourmet lollipops from Hammonds and a luxury soap (which I added for the color). You could include hot chocolate packets as well with miniature marshmallows. A miniature dollar store nutcracker and holiday picks add festive color and warmth.

 

The second drawer has a different color scheme - more of the silvers, whites and pale wintry blues associated with winter. I altered the front of this drawer with flocked Carolina paper and adhered the faceted button with hot glue to the knob. I then filled the compartments with orgnaic black cherry tea, a handtowel tied with 7 Gypsies ribbon and embellished with a tag made from Savannah paper and a 7 Gypsies sapphire dangle, plus a button embellished with paper tape. I also added a bar of luxury honey almond soap and lotion and a holiday pick in wintry white. The recipient can remove the gifts and then set the drawer on a vanity table to hold vintage glasses filled with beauty items such as cotton balls/cotton swabs, lipsticks, makeup/compacts, mini spritzers or perfume bottles for an attractive and functional vintage display.

Keep these ready to go with you to those holiday parties, for a hostess gift that is sure to delight and please! The mini drawer and other 7 Gypsies products can be found at http://www.sevengypsies.com

 

 

7 Gypsies Holiday Card

Hop on over to the 7 Gypsies Blog - they've been featuring all sorts of lovely holiday projects lately and will continue to do so the rest of this month. Here's a quick card and matching envelope set I made with papers from 7 Gypsies Savannah and Lille Collections and other bits and bobs from 7 Gypsies. The diecuts (with the exception of the 7 Gypsies "Bois De Villemoisson" tag, are from Papertrey Ink, including the felt diecut flower die. I'm having trouble linking in Typepad, otherwise I'd link to all the supplies, but here's a list. Everything used is from 7 Gypsies or Papertrey Ink.

Supply List:

Savannah Paper - Liberty

Savannah Paper - Wright

Lille - 2 sided paper, Crazy Love

Naked Envelopes - Kraft

Lille Paperclip Dangle

Binding Ring - Ring Dangles

7 Gypsies Tags - Vintage

Tag Dies from Papertrey Ink

Poinsettia Die from Papertrey Ink

Felt from Papertrey Ink in Linen

Stamps from Papertrey Ink

Vintage button

 

 

 

Coming off the sugar rush...

***UPDATE*** Sorry, just realized I am not supposed to post my librarie drawer for awhile yet, to allow the magazine to remain fresh. But you can get a glimpse of it here: Scrapbook Trends

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Be sure to check out the new kits at JBS Mercantile at midnight tonight. This month's kit contains Jenni's annual addition to her Red and Black Extension and it's oh SO lovely! And you won't want to miss the gorgeous holiday themed project kit either - I'll be sharing my creations soon.

I am not much of a published paper artist. I don't submit to magazines as I simply don't have the time and I confess I am in a place where I just enjoy creating for its own sake. Nonetheless, I do understand the thrill of being published, and it was indeed a thrill when Scrapbook Trends Magazine emailed me asking to use this project that I created a while back for 7 Gypsies, featuring the Mini Librarie Drawer. Pleasant suprise turned to all-out excitement when they advised they were going to feature it on the cover! I had to email the Gypsies who still had the project. They informed me that a few of the elements on the front of the drawer had gone missing during their use of it. Fortunately, awesome Janelle Smith was able to work some Gypsy magic on it and re-created the missing parts and shipped it off to the publication in time to meet the deadline. I was gobsmacked when I walked into Hobby Lobby and saw it on the magazine rack, staring back at me. I hope you don't mind my sharing it with you - it so rarely happens that my work turns up in print, so when it did, and on the cover to boot, I just couldn't resist sharing it here! The first two photos show my original project. You can see the minute differences on the magazine cover. Thanks for letting me bask! ;)

And thank goodness we're coming down off the sugar rush! I think it's been Halloween for over a month in this house, and I am glad to see it go... we have enough candy to last us until next year, probably (if we still have all our teeth left)! Hope you had a wonderful Halloween with the kiddos! Enjoy your week.

 

 

JBS Holiday Projects

I am still at play with some of the add-on kit goodies from last month's JBS, plus I wanted to start doing a little holiday crafting - I know it's only September but December gets here so fast and I never have enough handmade cards ready so I am doing them earlier this year. The first one is a handglittered halloween card, using the vintage page from last month's JBS kit. I ran the sheet right through the printer and then added glass glitter by outlining the shadowed part of the font with Ranger Inkssentials Matte Accents - the fine tip applicator is perfect for detail work. The font I used is Shadowed Germanica.

Next, a few holiday cards using JBS Bingo cards. I love the versatility of Jenni's bingo cards. They're so easy to dress up and look great plain too!

The sunburst effect was done with a stencil from a past JBS kit and Jenni's new Ranger Dabber Inks in stick candy and cough syrup, plus her new Christmas themed chipboard buttons. The vintage holly leaves and jingle bells are from Papier Valise.

And finally, this sweet little minibook which I covered in burlap and lace trim.

JBS Gallery Update

Here are a few additional projects I created for the mid month gallery update at Jenni Bowlin Studio.  I loved this kit and creating with it was so easy!

This layout, called Sunday Afternoon was made with items in the add-on kit - the lace hambly rubons went on like a dream.

These cards were inspired by images on the Design Sponge blog:

 

 
   

 
  and finally, I created this little gingerbread man ornament with a papier mache ornament from Hobby Lobby, and an empty Maya Road chipboard tin for packaging. A complete supply list and instructions can be found in my gallery at JBS:

Seven Gypsies Projects

 
I finished a few projects recently for the Gypsy Journal Blog. The first one uses the Victoria Book Board Covers - I made a simple wall hanging with Seven Gypsies Victoria Gaffer Tape, Victoria Book Board and some Seven Gypsies ATC Decoratif Chipboard glittered up with silver glass glitter. I love the combination of French Blue and Coral and will use this in my holiday decor.

 
The second project is a small wooden box that I covered in Barcelona patterned paper, and fitted with Seven Gypsies elastics that I ran through the sides of the box and threaded onto a button. The metal trim edging the box is also a 7 Gypsies Product. I then used the  elastics as "laundry lines" to clip mementos to.

 
 
 
And here's a little peek at something gingerbread-ish and holiday-ish I created for Seven Gypsies -- they should be revealing it sometime soon...

Here's today's holiday image, enjoy!

Lovely Little Paper Bags

I love the beauty and simplicity of a plain brown paper bag, it has so much potential. These Naked Inclusions Paper Bags from 7 Gypsies are so delightful. Their size makes them easy to dress up quickly with stamps and bits of paper and trims. Mine shown here also use glittered up chipboard frames and letters from Tattered Angels and the stamped sentiments are from Pink Paislee. These would be great to fill up with treats. Mine will hold letters to Santa that I'll compile and place in the bags for our holiday book this year.

Have you ever been to the Norwegian Pavilion at EPCOT? I love going there, grabbing a pastry from Kringla Bakeri og Cafe, riding Maelstrom and browsing in the shops afterward. I always enjoy seeing the gorgeous Nordic patterned sweaters and outerwear from Dale of Norway selling at the Norwegian Pavilion. The memory of those patterns inspired these little holiday chipboard birdie ornaments I created for the JBS Inspiration Blog this month:

 

Many of you wrote to me last year to express your appreciation for the holiday music on my blog. I love it too and am trying to wait until just before Thanksgiving to switch to my holiday playlist. I don't want to tire of it too soon, lol!

I'll leave you with a vintage image of Christmas Past - have a wonderful Monday!