Today I’m sharing a bonus project for our last Christmas class held this weekend.
We created this Joy Christmas Star. It could be a tree decoration or a gift tag. I used the Stitched Stars Dies. The star was inspired by Sara Douglass. You can see her version -> HERE.
It looks so lovely hanging on the tree.
I hope you all are getting your Christmas gifts and wrapping sorted. It’s crazy that it is less than a week.
Have a great day,
Jenny
Last night I had my Online Christmas in July class. You might have seen it advertised. I thought I would show you the projects. I won’t normally do that but I thought since I am celebrating Christmas in July this month – why not!!
In both projects I used the Star of Light stamp set and the Starlight Thinlits. This first project is a Christmas Hanger that you could maybe hang from a window or in the house somewhere, even in the tree! I have the photos and I have added a video further below. Go and check it out!
Here are a few close-ups for you to see.
Isn’t this saying beautiful.
This is the back of the sentiment. It’s good to have things on the back for when it spins around.
Just to show you how I attached the ribbon. I added some Fast Fuse Adhesive to the back of the star. Then looped over some Gold Taffeta Ribbon and stuck that down to it.
Add the Fast Fuse to the back of each star. You can loop around some Gold Thread and stick that down too.
If you would like to see this more close-up check the video out.
I think some different colour variations are in order.
I will post the other project tomorrow.
Thanks for looking,
Jenny
Did you enjoy the Christmas boxes I shared with you last week? I hope it might have inspired you. If you missed them just head back to the previous posts. I showed a different box each day for a week. Today I want to show you a Christmas Ornament I recently made.
I quite like all the curls on this. I found the idea originally on Pinterest. The directions for making this can be found here. (Just a note: It is in Chinese but it has photos and is fairly easy to work out).
This was made with the “Be of Good Cheer” DSP. I added some Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding and Lace to finish it off. I have been debating whether it needs a Christmas sentiment but I didn’t want to hide the curls. Maybe a little one down the bottom???
I hope your plans for Christmas are coming together well. Most of the presents here are wrapped. A couple of things I ordered On-line still haven’t arrived, so I think I will be making some ‘IOU’ tags.
Thanks for stopping by,
Jenny
On Saturday I went to the Stampin’ Up! Regional Event in Sydney. These days are always full of inspiration and awesome creativity. I wanted to show you some of the happenings. Silly me though was so busy chatting and checking out all the different demonstrations I didn’t take any photos of the overall displays!!!!!!! Still somehow I managed to take over 500 photos. Seriously how can one person take that many photos of paper and card!!! I think I have a problem! There was so much to take in and my head is buzzing with all the new ideas. I can’t wait to try them out. There were so many fantastic presentations by some very clever people. I want to be clever like them when I grow up!
I will show you some of the ideas I saw.
Check this wreath out! This was created by Sophie, one of the team from Stampin’ Up! This is created with various different flowers and then with buttons and bit added and all attached to a foam ring. It looked even more spectacular in real life!
Aren’t these stars gorgeous? They were created by Tania Willis. She will have a tutorial on her blog in the next few days on how to create them.
Look at these awesome ideas on using the Lattice Bigz die. These are fantastic. They were created by the very talented Teresa Dabrowski. (Sorry I couldn’t find a blog for Teresa).
Here is a close-up of one of them. This is cut from the silver Shimmer paper.
I think I will be making some of these this Christmas. How clever are they?? Little chocolates wrapped in the Lattice Bigz Die made to look like little puddings.
Apart from all the creativity, these events are fantastic for meeting up with stamping buddies. One special person I FINALLY managed to meet was my very loyal blog friend Lynda. Lynda has faithfully commented on my blog for over 3 years and we have swapped many a late night emails.
Thanks Lynda for all your encouragement and friendship over the years. Hopefully it won’t be so long next time until we meet again. x
Come and visit again very soon. I will show you my project I made for the display boards.
Until next time,
Jenny x
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