We bring you a veritable treasure trove of christmas magic in this bumper post - and it's only just the beginning of our ideas and projects for celebrating this christmas in scrappy style.
Carole just loves Christmas so anything she can create early is always a bonus. Carole used Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Magic products to create this gorgeous Wreath for her front door. She used the The Medallion 12x12 Lace Cardstock for the Wreath, which she cut the middle out of, and then embellished with baubles and flowers made from the patterned papers.
Carole also used the beautiful Favourite Felt Shapes, snowflakes and swirls. She also incorporated some felt accents to the center of flower which she made by cutting out strips and snipping the sides of the felt with the scissors and rolling them up to create little buds, and some cute little pom poms, and glitter.
For the final touch Carole added a gorgeous gold bow - SEI Holy Lane Ribbon, and a cute little stamped bird from the Spring Fling Clear Stamps.
Caz created these cute candle wraps from the Holly Lane range by SEI. Some of the papers already have beautiful foil accents on them so Caz just layered strips of the paper and added in a few more foil stripes using double sided tape and the foil sheets from We R Memory Keepers.
Heidi Swapp bling and a layered flower creation finish them off nicely. The candle wraps can be slipped off when the candle burns down too far and slipped onto a new candle. They would make great Christmas presents for teacher, neighbours etc.
There's not much that says Christmas like red and white - as shown in this layout by Nic Howard. Basicgrey Wassail has gorgeous soft tones for the base of this layout and then Nic has added black cardstock and Heidi Swapp letters for contrast. A single photo adorns this layout, with most the detail in the sprinkling of BasicGrey Ambrosia buttons and Queen & Co pearls. You'll also notice Nic's signature curling on the various layers of papers, creating a layout that is simple, yet detailed.
Suz highlights just some of the stunning papers from BasicGrey's Mistletoe & Pear 12x12 paper pad with this layout of her children on Christmas Morning. Though the photo was so beautiful she couldn't resist blowing it up, she has framed it with strips of patterned paper and a touch of Hambly transparency to reflect the rainbow in her daughters dress.
Scrapping Clearly Acrylic circles have been backed with more of the BasicGrey and then embellished with rubons and Suz's newest obsession - Pink Paislee's Pixee Stix - glitter tubes that come in 15 amazing colours.
Here Suz has used the decidedly cute Deja View's Flurries & Frost range of patterned papers, die cut tags and transparent glitter stickers. She has combined this with Queen & Co felt fusion on which she has doodled flourishes simply with a black pen, and Love You More gem brads.
Finally, a couple of Christmas cards. Inspired by one she saw in Craft Business magazine, the design is stunning in its simplicity - a cut out section of a half triangle is simply folded over to make the other side of the tree. You need a double sided patterned paper to make one of these simply, and BasicGrey's Fruitcake is perfect.
Suz has embellished her 'tree' with more DejaViews glitter stickers, Queen & Co Jewels and attached a glittered Queen & Co star at the top. The sentiments is actually a white SEI iron on from the Holiday Hoopla range - which she has Glimmer Misted and inked for that gorgeous rich brown colour.
Another gorgeous Christmas card design, this is a three-folded card that Suz has created from BasicGrey Mistletoe & Pear papers and embellished with her perennial favourite - Hambly Screen Prints transparent stars. A Grungeboard bookplate has been GlimmerMisted, and Suz is happy to report that the Grungeboard withstood heat from the iron just fine as the sentiment is another from the SEI Holiday Hoopla pack. Suz used a LuminArte Radiant Rain dauber to change it to a beautiful bright red once it was ironed on.
The final touches included inking the edges of each fold, glittering the edges of each of the stars, and borders of beautiful Jenni Bowlin rubons.
