A Very Vintage Christmas!!

Happy Wednesday Friends!!  I'm almost done with my decorating & will be finished with it all tonight--then the clean up begins, packing boxes away & the not-so fun stuff, lol!  After this week & weekend I just might collapse for a few days, hee hee--Saturday is my Holiday Open House (details below) and then Sunday we are making a huge Gingerbread House at our local golf club resort which is always fun!  And don't you just love the Hallmark Channel during the holidays--so many cute & festive movies to watch, we have it on every nite (I've even converted the kids & now they watch too, lol)!  I can't wait for this weekend's "Debbie Macomber movie called Ms. Miracle"on Hallmark--love her books, always so happy!!

What kind of holiday plans do you all have this month?  We have a few dinners and I'm hosting a ladies cocktail hour and one weekend we're going to National Harbor to the Gaylord Hotel/Resort to see "ICE"--a ice & winter wonderland all handcarved by artisans from China so we're excited about that!!

NewsBitz:

-Make sure & scroll to the end to see some Holiday Picture Funnies of my 2 doggies, they're sure to give you a lil' giggle!! :o)

-I will be having a Crafter's Holiday Open House this Saturday, December 5th at my home from noon until 5 pm!! If you are in the area & would like to come I'd love to have you---just a fun way to meet other crafters nearby, chat & have some holiday sweets! I will be having a Mitten/Hat Giving Tree, so if you'd like to bring a hat and/or mittens for a child under age 12 that would be fab! I will be donating all of them to the local Shelter for Domestic Violence Sufferer's Children! I will also be having some fabulous raffles (gift certificates & stamps to all your fave stores) If you think you'd like to come just email me and let me know, and I can send you my addy!! It's sure to be a fun time--so just drop by for an hour or three!!

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A Vintage Christmas

I was so excited to get all the new holiday stamps in from Diana at Magnolia-licious from the "So Snowy, So Jolly, & Mistletoe" Collections.  So today I've created 2 projects for you using the same vintage color schemes.  This first card uses the fabulous Magnolia holiday patterned papers and this cute "Jolly Wreath Tilda" HERE.  I distressed all my papers with Ranger's "Old Paper" Distress Ink (a must have color) and used my MS border punch to create the lovely border. I just so love that old-fashioned music paper--me lovee it, hee hee!

Tilda was colored with Copics and then I added "Vintage Christmas" Flower Soft to her holly wreath--love the colors of this mix.  I created my bow with my Bow Easy, added some Stickles and some pearls (in Chino color) to finish it off.  I just love the feel of this holiday card!!

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December Magnolia-licious Sketch Project

So this month's December Magnolia-licious DT Sketch project is to create projects that are any shape but a square or rectangle & hosted by the very talented Cheryl Rowley!!  So I wanted to do something a lil' holiday festive so I  printed out a Christmas Tree clip-art image (that I resized in Photoshop) to use as my template--the card is attached at the top fold with Scor-Tape.  I covered the cs tree with some patterned paper by Memory Box--I just love these papers!!  I used this cutie pie "Unwrapped Tilda"--isn't she a real sweetie and perfect for perching underneath a fabulous Christmas Tree!  I attached her to the tree front with dimensionals.  The tree got a garland & bow topper of crinkly ribbon, some gold ornaments using Gold Bella Baubles and I used my stardust Stickles to glitter the dp circles up as well.  The sentiment is from PTI's "Holiday Tags" set and punched out with my SU Word Punch.

She got colored with Copics (E43,E41,E40,G99,G94,G40) and the reds I used were R29,R24,R22,R20 & to darken the reds a bit to match the darker red in my papers I went over the R20 with W3.  Of course she got Stickle-fied--gotta have some bling on Christmas right?!!

Now make sure and head over to the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog HERE to see the rest of the DT's fabulous Shaped-Cards and to find out how you can join in the fun!!

And I leave you with a few holiday pics of my doggies---yes, I do like to torture them a bit for my own enjoyment, LOL!  They just dread me pulling out the Santa hats, hee hee!   I'll have some fun pics of my cats dressed up this week too--I've got a Santa outfit for them this year that I just know they'll LOVE (not)!! LOL

This is my Baylee (the baby at 2 years old)--she HATES anything on her body so she had to put on her sad face, hee hee!!

 

And this is my Casey (she's gonna be 9 in January)--she's used to it by now & just puts up with me now--she's saying "Just take the dumb picture lady so I can go back to sleep"!!!