Christmas Project #1: In Progress
On Saturday I had a chance to start working on one of my holiday projects while hanging out at Scrapbook Fever in Salem. This one, a Night Before Christmas card spinner, was a great one to work on during a crop because I only had to focus on one small area at a time. I am about half way done...
So what in the heck is it? The base is an Altered Trading Card holder from 7gypsies that you can find here. I used these cards and decorated the front and back of each one with some of my Christmas supply stash (a little bit of this + a little bit of that) and adhered a line or two from Twas the Night Before Christmas (googled it and printed out this one).
Here's a close up look at the ones I have completed so far (font for poem is Adler):
In addition to the cards I added in some transparent pages that I just cut to size.
Played around with red embossing glitter.
Fun project - totally something that you could work on bit by bit as we get closer to the holiday season. It's also a great way to play with all those little pieces of stuff in your holiday stash or your scrap box. I will show more samples as I finish it up.
Can't wait to have it completed and put it up with the rest of my holiday decorations right after Thanksgiving. Merry. Merry.
I feel all Christmasie now. OK... is that a word LOL Thanks for sharing your project... love it!!
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Beautiful. Love it, and it totally gets me in the spirit of the season.
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What an absolutely amazing idea!
Thanks for your constant flow of inspiration :)
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I am sooo amazingly inspired right now! This is simply beautiful. I am already brainstorming about making at least 2 of these as Christmas gifts-- one with a Christmas story similar to yours and one with Bible passages for a friend who would really enjoy that.
Thanks you so much for the wonderful idea! Its not often that something strikes me so much that I literally ache to leave work to go home and work on it-- but this has done just that for me.
Thanks Ali! You never cease to amaze me.
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Ali, it's absolutely beautiful! Totally makes me want to run out and buy a spinner and make one right this instant!
Corinna
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Thank you for the perfect Christmas gift idea! my dad has over 200 different night Before Christmas books and my parents go all out for the holidays AND i am trying to make allof my gifts this year - this is PERFECT! What a good idea! thank you for sharing!!
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LOVE THIS! Also love the idea of using past Christmas photos that "Jennifer" mentioned! Just ordered the card holder and plan to use all these ideas on mine! Thanks for the inspiration!! :-)
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WOW---this is just stunning!! Gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing Ali, and can't wait to see the rest!
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Love the project!! What size are the cards? They look about 5x7 in the pics. ~~Jackie
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this is so beautiful!!!!
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Stunning Ali... gorgeous stuff.. loving that 7 qypsies holder! Great idea! I think you have 111 people now that was to "borrow" your idea..LOL
Dorrie
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Yum, yum, yummy!
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love this!!!!
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Way too cute!!! TFS
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WOW!!
Ali,
You've given us enough time to make one of these for a very special friend :) What a great keepsake for years to come!!
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wow.
you just keep coming up with great ideas.
i love it.
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just ordered this....can not WAIT to get to work....you are brilliant!!!
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BEAUTIFUL! What a great idea, I am going to try this. Thanks.
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What a great idea! I bought one a while back and I am planning to make mini scrapbook pages of pictures of family and friends and have it sit on my desk at work!
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Ali,
truely you are amazing...thank you for sharing. Your creative genius never ceases to amaze me.
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wow!!! i think that's all i can say lol. you are so crafty and super talented. sure gets me into the christmas crafting spirit.
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awesome!! i am making one for my DH. he is transferring jobs and we will be apart for a bit of time.
thanks for the inspiration! rock on Ali!
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LOVE it Ali! You Rock :)
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LOVE it Ali! You Rock :)
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Love it, love it, love it!
Hugs,
Tracy Marie
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