Christmas Decorations

These photos were taken earlier this month in areas around where I live.Thank goodness for my iPhone, I can just get it out of my bag and snap away.

Portraits of Me

 

These 2 photos were taken on the 9th December 2012 at my retirement party. One of my ex-students Alex took them with my camera. They are my favourite portrait photos I have of me in a long time.

Card Holder

Products needed: 14 wooden pegs painted, 14 chipboard circles, 14 bling gems, 1.4m ribbon, 1 ring for the top and a brad to secure the ribbon on the ring, 2 different patterned paper to cover one face of the peg and the chipboard circles, letters to spell Merry Christmas.

Close up

With cards attached.The wind has been blowing through the window and the card holder has been swinging but none have fallen off. Yippee.
I am renting at the moment so I am limited where I can hang this card holder. The ideal place is on the wall and the cards hang flat against it. I can feel a Happy Birthday Card Holder coming on.

Christmas Card Holder

I used the Cuttlebug to emboss this chipboard card holder  that is attached to a wooden peg.

Christmas card Holder

Christmas peg for the tree to hold cards onto the branches.

I painted the wooden peg and then added patterned paper on one side of the peg. I then punched the red scalloped shape and added it to the peg. I used the Sizzix holly die to cut the holly shape out. The bling from Kaisercraft was adhered over the holly and 3 punched circles were inked and then adhered.

I was sick of the cards falling from the tree when a breeze went through. These pegs hold the cards nicely to the tree and also act as a Christmas decoration. 

Christmas decorations

Kaisercraft paper and bling.

Christmas Bauble

The same shape as before but this time after Cuttlebugging it I inked the raised image and teamed it with a Kaisercraft bling and a Cropworks bow.

Christmas Bauble

A different shaped bauble to Cuttlebug with my new Sizzix Christms tree embossing folder. The paper is from Kaisercraft as is the bling.

A close up on the reverse side of the bauble.

Christmas Decorations

A Cuttlebug Decoration. The shape has been cut out of chipboard that has been bugged and inked. The sentiment is a Cuttlebug sentiment.

This one is the same shape as the above one but has been coved with patterned paper and embossed and sanded. The sentiment is a bugged sentiment on patterned paper.

Christmas Decorations

These decorations I made using my Cuttlebug. They are hanging proudly on my tree.

Christmas Decorations

I have used my new Christmas Sizzix embossing folder to emboss the chipboard. I then painted it with a silver dabber. I embossed paper with a Cuttlebug sentiment and rubbed the silver paint over it. Kaisercraft bling and Bazzill ribbon complete the bauble.

Sizzix Christmas

This Christmas decoration was made using a Spellbinders Die and then embossed with my new Christmas Sizzix embossing folder called Holiday Elegance. I inked it with Evergreen Versa Color and then put Kaisercraft bling in strategic spots. The 2 ribbons are from Cropworks.

Cuttlebug Christmas Decorations

I cut out the bauble shape in chipboard and glued gold wrapping paper on either side. When the glue has dried I ran it through the Cuttlebug with an embossing folder. Then sanded it to show some white. I put a hole at the top and threaded gold elastic through it and knotted it to hang on my tree. I then adhered a gold ribbon bow to the top.

Close Up of the bauble.

I made this bauble the same way as the previous one. I used a different embossing folder and bow. I used Kaisercraft gems to add that sense of bling to the bauble.

From my Window

This is the view I get from my lounge room window. Not only do I see Australian native plants like  Grevilleas  but the native birds like the Rosellas sing and eat the nectar in it. Sounds and looks great.

Check out the Rosellas there are 2 of them chirping away and feasting on the nectar. 

Kaisercraft Cards

2 simple cards using an old patterned paper from Kaisercraft.

I used the Cuttlebug and a folder to do the sentiment. Everything else is Kaisercraft. Notice one of my new Santa mugs.

Weaving with the Cuttlebug

Cuttlebug cardstock and cut into strips.

Adhere the bugged strips at the top of a sheet of cardstock to secure. Then cut strips of different cardstock of various colours and sizes and weave under and over the bugged strips. Make sure you weave unevenly so you can see the bugged strips underneath.

The finished weave  which is adhered underneath the strips on all the ends. This is the size of a card front of chosen dimensions.

The finished card. The sentiment has been bugged with the Cuttlebug and embossing folder and the sentiment has been cut out. The tree was also bugged one way and then the other to give a crossed over appearance. I cut the tree by using a triangle and a rectangle. The star was punched.Then everything was inked using a Versa Color Ink Pad.

Native Grasses

After the rain.

Before the rain.

These native grasses are in our rental property and they looked amazing after the rain with the drops of water hanging off them.