Paper + Punchers = Pretty Wreaths

Card for the Retiring High School Principal

 

The principal at the local high school retired recently, and I was tasked with making a card from some of the employees. A picture of the school went into Photoshop, and after a round with glue and paper, this was the result.

Christmas Cards

Years ago, my mom and I started making 3D cards. I quickly grew bored with those, though, but not with card making. These days I make all kinds of cards, and these are some of my recent ones.

With this one, I had a lot of fun with rhinestones and my snowflake puncher.

 

A piece of scrapbooking paper and some gold snowflakes go a long way.

 

A template? What template?

 

I'm going through an owl phase.

Cute santas from Panduro Hobby.

 

Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like Santa's stomach.

Wreath of holly on door.

And wreath in window. This one is made of snowflakes.

 

 

And finally - a card on a stick. Bon appetit.

 

Gift Tags

Making your own gift tags is easy. I've used a flower punch and made some tags from scrapbook paper. Dead easy but more personal than what you buy at the store. 

 

 

 

Bookbinding

I saw this amazing tutorial one day and decided to try my hand at bookbinding. It's so much fun and extremely easy to make some really personal books. I'm planning to give away a few for Christmas.

 

 



 

I pretty much use whatever patchwork fabric and scrapbooking paper I have. Old ribbons and stickers. For the blue one beneath, I actually used part of the dress my grandma wore for her birthday 22 years ago. So it's very easy to make them personal.

 

 

 



Apple Tea Light Holders

I saw this somewhere once - on Pinterest maybe, I can't remember - and then last weekend when I was suddenly in a bind concerning table decorations, I thought of it. Luckily I'd just picked apples, so it was easy just to make holes for the tea lights. Very fitting for a fall time dinner table.

Owl Hat

I found a cute crochet owl hat pattern online, but when I tried it out, it didn't make sense. Or I didn't make sense. Not sure which. So I developed my own. Kind of. I made this, but I didn't write it down. The old of-course-I-can-remember-this-later issue. LOL But at least I got this little cutie out of it.

 

I could make it once, so I can make it again, right?