Carole created this very vibrant Christmas layout, using the gorgeous Crate Paper North Pole Collection. Carole loved all the gorgeous, Diecuts and stickers, which she layered and created cute elements with. Carole also used Crate Paper North Pole Brads and Basic Grey swirl gems for something a little extra, and to give the Christmas feel.
It’s all in the details with Carole’s layouts, so enjoy some of her close ups to appreciate them all.
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The chipboard pieces in the BasicGrey Eskimo Kisses range make hand-made Christmas cards a cinch!
Kathie loved the little eskimo children, houses, and Christmas trees and has made a set of cards to house them.
Kathie has used white cardstock and patterned paper to create cute little backgrounds for her chipboard embellishments. She cut undulating cardstock hills and adhered them over the top of a patterned paper background. After outlining the edges of the cardstock with a fine black marker, she added the chipboard shapes on top.
Pink Paislee Glitter Stix adds a Christmas sparkle to these frosty cards.
BasicGrey Bling It Rhinestone Dots decorate these Christmas trees. Kathie's used dimensional tape to highlight a couple of the trees, which are made from simple triangles of coordinating patterned paper.
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Every day for the next few weeks we’ll be bringing you inspiration for christmas… in the form of cards, layouts, mini albums and gift ideas so be sure to check back regularly and see what our talented design team comes up with.
To kick it off Janine has used the stunning Scrapping Clearly Christmas Tree to create this beautiful album for her new born son. Janine loves to use Hambly Transparencies when working with transparent albums and she has also used the lovely clear border stickers which are also perfect to be seen from both sides of the acrylic.
Finally she strategically used the Hambly Christmas stickers and some hand-cut flourishes from the SEI Christmas Mint range to finish off the album.
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All of us at Aussie Scrap Source - both the warehouse and the design team - hope you are having a magical and memory-filled Christmas season. Here is some final beautiful Christmas inspiration from our design team to get the creative juices flowing.
Steph loves to mix things up and here she show how funky cute papers can be mixed with classic roses and traditional Christmas Images. The weight of the embellishments too is a juxtoposition of chipboard to sheers. This adds interest to the layout and draws the eye to the image.
This photo is a favourite of Donna's. It speaks volumes as far as she's concerned and deserved to be treated with pure simplicity. To achieve a page that was creative, christmassy & classic, Donna has combined several manufacturer's products - the main one being Technique Tuesdays Classic Tile Toppers. This frame-like star says "Christmas" without stealing the focus away from the photo itself. To add a little more festive charm, Donna has used Luminarte Pigment inks and Sparling H2O's to paint some golden colour around the edges of her SEI and BasicGrey patterned papers. The gold foil strip on SEI's Oasis 'Samarkand' blends perfectly with the gold paint and again reminds us that this layout is indeed Christmas-themed.
Jaimie cut a Christmas tree design from the BG Wassail Tree Lot paper, she machine stitched around the tree to give definition and then embellished with the Wassail Chipboard stickers and glazed brads. Jaimie used a calendar sheet from the Junkitz 6x6 calendar kit as a combination title and journaling spot to put down her thoughts about the first Christmas morning photo. Her simple tree design really sets off her page keeping the feel of the LO light and fun.
When it comes to the festive season, Jaimie loves Christmas decorations and goes all out in her home. This double page spread showcases some of the decorations and knick knacks that adorn her home.
Jaimie converted to B&W a sweet photo of her daughter playing with a santa hat. The cool tones of blue and silver of the BG Figgy Pudding range really gave the page a winter Christmas feel. The embellishments were a simple grouping of BG Figgy pudding sticker snowflakes, buttons and HS silver stars. Stunning photo and beautiful LO
NIcole decided she needed a whole little album to scrap last Christmas. She used this divine little "peek-a-boo" album by Tinkering Ink. She loves the mixture of chipboard and acrylic pages and most of all the little windows cut out of the pages. Each page invites the viewer to look at the next. She used Cosmo Cricket OH joy and Be Good papers and embellished with Cosmo Cricket rub-ons. They were a cinch to apply to every surface!
Nic slipped a Cosmo Cricket journal card in between the pages for her journalling. With the pre decorated cards and lines already ruled, the writing of events was quick and oh-so-easy as well!
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On any given day we're pretty proud of our design team, we think they have a range of contrasting and complementary styles and like to think that between them there's something to please everyone. Never more so than today - we have a bumper post full of fabulous Christmas ideas and inspiration to make the best use of both individual stamps and acrlyic sets. We love that behind all these ideas their individual styles are so radically and wonderfully showcased - grab a cuppa, have a scroll through and see what we mean.
Personalised gift tags are always fun to add to have, and Nic Howard shows us how to make a very easy version here.
1. Cut an 8x15cm piece of patterned paper - add embellishments to the top.
2. Make a fold at 7cm down, fold in half and create a pocket by putting one staple on each side. (The red is on the reverse side of my paper!)
3. Create an accordion with a 15 x 5cm piece of cardstock or paper. Stamp an image on to spare paper, cut out and staple to the top of the accordian.
4. Add accordion to pocket.
This idea is so quick and easy. You can use scraps after each project to create a quick pocket gift tag - if we did this with our scraps every time we'd have a fabulous stash to turn to every time we needed a gift tag. The pocket tags here are made with a variety of Sassafras Lass & BasicGrey papers, along with the Hero Arts Large Christmas Circle set.
Carole decided to create a pretty Christmas Babble and Box as a gift, she used Carolee Creations Christmas Fun Clear Rubber Stamps for embellishing, and Basic Grey Wassail pattern papers and stickers.
After stamping Merry Christmas onto some white Cardstock Carole used her Quicktuz Curls Goose Bumpz Embossing Diecut, and then cut around and 3D it onto red pattern paper. Carole also created some 3D stamped presents, and also created a hand cut flower for the centre of the gift box.
To create the Babble Carole punched out some hearts, and then layered them on the bottom of the ball, and for the top roughly teared some paper pieces, which where then stuck on with glue then Carole finished off the Babble with a ribbon around the centre, and a bow on the top.
Chris has very cleverly created these personalised wine glass charms using the tag stamp. She used Versa Color Lime ink for the stamping and Carolee's Creations Tiny Whoopsy Red Alpha Stickers for the names, finishing off the tags with some Heidi Swapp Tulle ribbon.
Chris has very simply stamped the gift tag image from the Sassafrass Lass stamp set onto white cardstock using black ink and then cut around the image. She then mounted it onto Scenic Route Roxbury paper and onto black cardstock. She punched a small hole into the top left corner and attached the Strano Miss Scarlet ribbon. A bit of Kindy Glitz and the project is complete and ready to attach to Christmas gifts.
For a very simple and quick to make gift tag, pick up some plain white label stickers from your local stationery store and using Lime and Cardinal ink stamp this great little stamp directly onto the labels. Draw a border around the edge of the label and add sparkle with some kindy glitz. Chris says the kids will love this gift tag activity!
Chris used the 'Merry Christmas' from the stamp set to create a background and greeting on this card. She also used the Queen and Co. solid felt with a Revolution Shape Christmas Tree Die Cut to create the felt tree accent for this card. Adding a little bit of kindy glitz to the tree to make it sparkle!
Again with thise card Chris has used the Queen and Co. solid felt with a Revolution Shape Ornament Die Cut to create the felt accents, she has then stamped just 3 stars to complete the Christmas feel to this card.
For a more detailed gift tag, Chris created these tags using the Revolution Ornament die cut. After die cutting the shape Chris mounted the ornaments onto the black cardstock for extra strength. She then stamped the beautiful dove image from the Sassafras Lass stamp set onto white cardstock using Versa Color Cardinal ink and then cut the image out and mounted it onto the ornament shape using 3D tape. She stamped the tag image the same one and attached it with glue dots.
And if you're wondering... Chris has put together this entire collection of Christmas items using the Sassafras Lass Holiday Bliss Clear stamp set!
Mel constructed this simple little gift bag idea by sewing two small pieces of fabric together, stamping with Hero Arts Christmas Message stamp and then using a dolly peg to hold the gift bag closed. A little Jenni Bowlin felt heart was adhered to the dolly peg to add a sweet accent.
Another idea for stamping on fabric bags is to use a StazOn inkpad (black) to stamp your image. Mel has used a sweet Christmas dove design (Holiday Doves) and once the ink had dried some small touches of acrylic paint were added on the wings and accents to give a lovely bright appearance to the bags. A bling brad was popped through the fabric to hold everything into position.
Starting with a concept she once saw on the Martha Stewart website, Nic F popped some delicious giant cookies in paper cd cases and then embellished with a strip of decorated paper from the Cosmo Cricket "Oh Joy" range. The possibilities for this idea are endless really, the one Nic saw initially was quite plain, but as she shows you here, adding a scrapbooker's touch, you can make them very appealing. Wouldn't these make a wonderful gift for a teacher or guest?
Create a beautiful set of placemats like this one by purchasing light coloured linen placemats (or sewing some quick plain ones) and stamp the border just as Nic has done here.
Nic easily created these custom made napkins and rings by stamping a plain coloured linen napkin with the snowflake stamps. She then cut a strip of acetate from a Hambly heavy overlay and covered that with We R Memory Keepers' flocked lace. Finishing off with a pearl brad to hold in place, Nicole created a unique addition for the festive table.
Nicole created this sweet bon bon by buying cardboard bon bons from a discount shop. She then pulled one apart as a template and traced it onto this Cosmo Cricket paper. She was able to quickly shape the bon bon then stamped the Jenni Bowlin label with a Fontwerks stamp.
Nic created all of these stunning festive ideas using Basic Grey's "Santa Baby" stamp set and a pad of Olive Green Stazon.
When it comes to creating those extra details at Christmas time like tags and decorations, there are only a few crafters that can realistically maintain a high degree of effort on each and every creation. For this challenge Donna set out to prove that you can create single little details in under a few minutes!
Each of these tags required little preparation, a reasonably small amount of product and minimal skill. In fact, Donna even got the kids involved and could now sit back and let them do all the work if she wanted to! The tags shown here work equally as well as Christmas tree decorations or gift tags. The same principle could be applied to gift bags, brown paper lolly bags or gift wrapping.
Donna has used her favourite Christmas stamps by SEI (Alpine Forest & Glitzmas stamps) & BasicGrey (Wassail Ornament stamps), applied a small amount of polished pigments by LuminArte to the stamp using a paint brush and stamped onto plain white cardstock.
After stamping a range of different designs and LuminArte colours, Donna has cut out the cardstock designs and stapled to plain textured art paper. It is a simple, but classic look.
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Here's a beautiful little idea that's not just memorable and decorative - it's also fast! Suz has breathed new life into six Deluxe Designs slide mounts (remember them!?) to create a little box by backing each of them with a single sheet of patterned paper and them up. She has filled the window in with her favourite Hambly transparencies, and printed simple 1x1" photographs of last christmas in two strips (though she realised later than you could probably go up to 1.5" for slightly bigger photos). She then stuck the two strips back to back so they are double sided, and folded them up inside her slide mount box.
The top of the box is finished off simply with a Tim Holtz Charm Fragment and some folded SEI ribbon. Suz plans to make more of these - one for each Christmas since her children came along. Right now she's not sure whether to turn them into a cute cube display for a shelf, or alternatively the finished box is no bigger than a christmas bauble - which means they would be small enough and pretty enough to hang on your christmas tree.
Suz's mother has a worn and faded notebook of recipes - handwritten by her grandmother and even her great grandmother - many of them wonderful old traditional christmas dishes. It's a treasured possession that no longer withstands the wear and tear of being out on the kitchen bench when actually cooking the recipes, and as Suz's brother lives in the UK he doesn't have access to the Notebook. So, when she came across this Photo Wallet from the SEI Preservation Series, she knew exactly what to do with it. She's in the process of replicating the recipes, adding photographs of the dishes where she has them, as well as scans of the original handwritten recipes to make it more meaningful.
The simple cover is made from Deja Views 'Home for the Holidays' patterned papers, the obligatory Hambly transparencies, and a touch of glitter and bling.
Caz decided to use the Basic Grey Wassail Card Kit as the basis for some pages in the album she is creating for Christmas 2007. Instead of mounting all the elements on a card she arranged them on an 8x8 chipboard page covered with Basic Grey Wassail paper and added in a few more rub-ons and chipboard from the rest of the Wassail range.
By grouping her photos for each Christmas occasion in blocks of 9 she is able to get 45 photos onto just 5 pages. None of the photos are special enough to warrant a whole page but each of them will hold a special Christmas memory for years to come. Caz is going to get her children to dictate the journaling which she will mount on the top and bottom of the photos in strip form. This way it is their memories that are captured and not just her own.
Here's what Chris had to say about creating this mini album. "If you're often put off creating mini albums because of the time involved in then I've got the solution for you! This absolutely adorable 3x3 raw mini album from We R Memory Keepers took me less than 2 hours to create. I wanted to create a brag book for my Mum for Christmas containing some of layouts I've created throughout the year. I printed the layouts out to measure approximately 3x3 on my home printer and then popped them
straight into the page protectors that come with this mini album - too easy! Then it was just a matter of jazzing up the raw cover of the album. I've used the Scenice Route Roxbury range of fabulous Christmas colours, added one of the gorgeous Heidi Swapp glitter flowers and a couple of Hero Arts buttons. I've tied the album together with Heidi Swapp white tulle ribbon. Inside I've attached a little gift tag that I stamped using the Sassafras Lass Holiday Bliss stamp.
Now that you've seen how easy this mini album is to create there's no excuse not to whip up a couple to give as gifts this Christmas!"
Carole says that this was why she started scrapping in the first place - all the gorgeous and cute embellishments! Here she has used a Basic Grey Half Pint Chipboard Book that she has cut into different sizes to shape her Christmas Album. Carole then embellished the album with the gorgeous and very cute We R Memory Keepers Christmas Punch outs on which she used pop dots and foam tape to create depth in the album. She also incorporated the beautiful Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Magic papers and Journaling stickers, which suited perfectly.
Carole created this album as a present to someone very special, and we have no doubt they will love it. So under the tree it goes!!
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As her kids have already started the 'How many days till Christmas?' question and because Caz doesn't want to be caught by surprise that it is a week before Christmas and the lights are not still up like last year, she decided to make a Christmas countdown board to sit on the antique sewing machine near her front door.
She had been dying to have a play with the new BasicGrey Wassail products and was pleased at how well they fit in with the decor of the rest of her house. Caz created number cards which attached to the top of the board with hinged rings and the kids can simply flip one card over each day.
By the way, in case you need to untangle your Christmas lights, there is now exactly 6 weeks (only 42 days) left.
Carole created a couple of Christmas Decorations with the SEI Holly Lane pattern papers, ribbons and diecuts. The colours to the pattern papers are so vibrant and just beautiful for Christmas decorations, but they would also be lovely for Christmas gift tags and gift wrapping papers.
Carole created the wreath by cutting out a piece of chipboard shaped into a circle and then cutting out the centre, using the range of SEI Holly Pattern papers Carole cut out the patterns and then layering each piece over each other to form a wreath. The second decoration was created using the SEI Holly Lane Diecuts.
Looking for a tiny gift idea then how about these cute little lolly purses that Chris has created. Chris saw this idea on a tutorial by Angie Kennedy Juda (thanks Angie!) and thought they'd be perfect to place on the Christmas table this year as a little bomboniere for her guests. Since creating these little purses Chris's 10 year old daughter has decided she will also make some to give to her school friends instead of candy canes this year.
They are very easy to make and are the perfect craft activity for children 8yrs and older. To create these samples Chris has used Scenic Route Roxbury papers, Strano Miss Scarlet ribbon and Queen & Co. sequin and brad. And in the spirit of Christmas, the lovely Chris has supplied a tutorial so that you too can create them - you can find it here.
What a fabulous idea personalised snow globes are! Chris picked this one up at Harvey Norman ($9.95) and has made it even more personalised by decorating it with some left of Scenic Route Roxbury papers and some Strano ribbon. Chris has also used a Scenic Route chipboard sticker 'together' and if you check the close up pictures you will see that Chris has also rubbed a couple of tiny snowflake rub-ons directly onto the snow globe. The snow globe has room on the other side for another picture.
Need to put together a secret santa gift on a budget? Chris saw this easy to make origami box on Nicole Heady's blog (thanks Nicole!) and has put together an example using the Scenic Route Roxbury papers, chipboard pieces, cardstock stickers and some Heidi Swapp glitter flowers and tulle ribbon. Chris has also put together step by step instructions for these, so you can all make one too! Click here to see. Place some chocolates inside and your secret santa gift is complete!
Other ideas for this box include: A gift for the teacher, filling it with some yummy home made goodies, or a gift to keep aside for those visitors that drop in at Christmas time that you weren't expecting.
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