25th Dec - last day of the 25 Days of Christmas - NAVITY scene

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25 Days of Christmas,

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and every day in December.  As this is the Last day of our 25 days of Christmas - I thank Erica for allowing me to be a part of her Seasonal Team and can't wait for 2012 for much more creativity as she graciously accepted me to be on her DT. (oohh so excited!!)  I thank everyone for their nice comments and hope you left them on everyone's else's!  Please it is never to late to go back and see the past 24 days of creativity and a season of Joy, faith and happiness!

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Merry Christmas!  Today I celebrate the BIRTH of Jesus!  What a blessing his birth has given to me.  Today, I wanted little to no frills, just a plain view of what Jesus and his birth represented.  I hope that I display that for you today.  My inspiration for today's Home decor as I was singing and Worshiping in church this past Sunday, this song just stood out at me as I stared at the words and thought THIS WAS PERFECT!

Creating these awesome Home Decor was using the cartridges; Inspired heart cutting out the Nativity Scene at 8.85in H.  The Star was created using the cartridge; Christmas cut out at 16.41in H.    More directions, info along the pics below.  The back board is a piece of thin cardboard bought at Hobby lobby, I covered it with Silver paper using 3in strips. (it only took 2 strips).  I inked around the edges using silver ink pad.

Printed via my computer I typed only a few verses that pertained to the "light". 3 verses total.  Printed on white cardstock that was first inked all over using the gold ink pad then printed. Tore around the edges and re-inked using the gold inkpad.  Wanted the "old' effect.

oops on the side view.  I used the Christmas cartridge as this was a suggestion from another blogger and it was awesome.  I used the contour hide feature to hide the Christmas tree as I only just wanted the star.  Using the Icicle Stickles - I coated the top layer of the star and used pop dots (2 levels high) to give it depth off the board.

here is the partial song to The First Noel.

side view of the star before it was stickled...

wanting a simple yet not frilly look to the wonderful event, I used gold and silver poinsettas from the company Prima Flowers called Holiday Metal. So pretty aren't they.

Wishing you and your family a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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18th Dec - 25 Days of Christmas - ELF - home decor

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Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects a day.

Don't forget to stop by Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.   We are almost done - 1 week left - never to late to go back and see the previous creative projects!!

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didn't think was going to be as hard as it was..  trying to pick an elf was even harder :)  So here today is my Home Decor.. Elf style.

I first took cardboard and cut out the letters J, O, Y at 11.29h & 11.06w (don't they sound like HUGE letters) from the cartridge Tis the Season from CM and at the same time using my Imagine, I had printed the "paper" on there using the Santa's village.  (I so love my imagine!!)     my lil Elf was created using the RGB. 255  -220 - 177 for the elf body with my favorite cartridge; Jolly Holidays.  his clothes were printed again using the Santa's village.  I love the way imagine cuts the fine details!   For the ball on his elf hat is using the Snow marker and then heat embossing it.
Peachy Keen Face pk 943 (funshine face parts) was used on this cute elf - 

The Stampin Up twill tape  the widest width is 1 1/2" and perfect for a hanging like this.

shiny shoes, cuffs and hat is a compliment of glossy essentials.

a small piece of ribbon with words is sitting perfectly on this letter.

See that... #1 Elf   - I'm convinced Elfee wrote this! 

Elves rule.. Who wrote that????  LOL   perhaps Elfee our elf did..

17th Dec - 25 Days of Christmas - BAKING

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Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects a day.

Don't forget to stop by Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.

Please head on over to see more inspiration and creativity over at:

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So here we are BAKING and mmm.. I made cupcakes today with a very special birthday in mind... JESUS!!  I hope you like..  We are having the women of the church get together and this is my "snack"...

Creating HB JESUS is using the cartridge Base Camp and the Imagine cartridge Santa Village to change the colors of the letters.   baby Jesus and the saying "Wisemen still adore him" was created using the Winter Frolic cartridge.  New Testament cartridge was used to make the bible verse Luke 2:11.   (more details will be under pictures)

baby Jesus was created with the Winter frolic and the hay and manger using the Imagine cartridge Snapshot Nature on the Imagine machine. 

 I also drew his eyes and mouth with a marker, much easier than the cut outs!   RGB code R: 255 G 220 B 177 was created for Baby Jesus face, body and the background

1st Dec 2011 - 25 days of Christmas - Christmas Theme

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Doris used A Child's Year - Joys of the Season - Wrap it Up and Holiday Cakes Cricut Cartridges to create this Home Decor!  

I love Christmas and the possibilities of creating something new and different and to either keep it or give it as a present.  My vase will be a present before Christmas for my daughter. My project today is making Home decor.  How did I come up with this, you ask, We were in the general dollar store recently looking at the decorations and this had a vase with a few Christmas bulbs in it. (I think someone opened a pkg and dumped some in there) - a lighbulb went off...

Inside the vase is silver and gold bells and red shiny bulbs along with cut strands of silver & gold ribbon.

BELIEVE is cut using A Child's Year at a total of 5.29 in Height and 1in in width.  Joys of the Season is from Wrap It Up cartridge cut at 3.24 in both in H & W.    Holiday Cakes cartridge was cut for the snowflakes - cut at 3.94 h & 4.87w.   This has a cluster of snowflakes which are simple yet awesome!

The vase, bells, and bulbs are all from the Dollar General.  Twine gold and silver are from Stampin' Up!  The

Using ICICLE from Stickles added a lot of UMPH to the snowflakes and to the vase and around the rim of the vase as well!  What do you think??

A plain vase with gold & silver bells and red bulbs from the dollar general store was dumped into this pretty plain vase.. BUT not for long...

jumped ahead a little... this is the end of the making...  I used stickles to enhance the white Vinyl words.  See the gold & silver ribbon inside the vase.  The snowflakes shiimer with the stickles too.

plain ol joys of the season, but not for long as they get a little bling of stickles too!  The bells off of the word is stckled too!  A brad makes it a 3d pretty look onto the ribbon.

I love this look and might use this for my blog hop in Jan. (picture it perfect)  Need a better photo shoot though :)

all done-  I hope you like it and have enjoyed the pictures I have taken :)