Now that the hustle and bustle of the Holiday Season are over there is time to catch up.  I usually always post my favorites projects on my blog and my favorite project this Holiday Season was my Jingle all the Way ornament.

3D Book Gift with Amazon Card

I made a cute little birthday gift for a special little niece of mine.  I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the 3D book shape #24130 by Lori Whitlock.  I have used this shape a couple of times before because it is such a fun shape to put an Amazon book gift card into.  On this particular gift I also included a panda bookmark, the gift card and some panda stickers.  I also used shapes #40574 Panda by Miss Kate Cuttables and shape # 13614 Happy Birthday by Samantha Walker.  The panda shape is 3D as is the Happy Birthday shape.  My picture will not do the 3d part justice but it came out really cute and I just love this 3d book shape.

March Tim Tag

The March tag was fun to make and I really loved the technique of using the tinsel ribbon to back a shape.  I did not have the tattered banner die so I had to go to my Cameo stash of designs and I really liked the banner I used and decided that it would be fun to repeat the tinsel technique.  I cut the little eggs from the same Tim holiday paper as the background.  I really love tinting the ribbon with Distress stains.  Thanks for looking and I love sharing so leave a comment if you like.  Happy Easter!

I did my Tim Holtz February tag today.  I think I like this tag the best of all the others I have made.  I did not have much of the original materials on hand that Tim used so I had to make due with what I had.  Lately my goal has been to use my Photoshop elements more to make it more fun for me so when I can I use it to make things like the Queen of hearts into something I can use in my scrapbooking.  Another kind of funny anecdote is that I do have those lovely labels that Tim used on his tag and I searched high and low in my scrapbook room for them but could not locate them anywhere, someday they will show up...  I did luck out with the embossing folder of the Queen of hearts it was on sale at Joanne's when I went there on Friday our "snow day"!  I was lucky to get it quite reasonably.  Oh well off to do another project and watch Downton Abbey, enjoy!

A fun little piece I made to put on the mantle in our living room.  I was inspired by a blog posting that I think was on the Silouette website.  It took a while to make and the letters are not the easiest pieces to glue together.  I do like the whimsy of the piece and it really looks nice on the mantle.  It is funny when you don't even have an idea of what to do until you find that inspiration piece.  I found this really cool ball ornament garland when I was out shopping last weekend and that was the inspiration for the colors that I used.  One might say that I have an over abundance of paper in my scrapbook room but I can usually put a project together with only what I already have, the question would be: Where did I put that?  Happy Holidays!

An Advent calendar that I made with my Silhouette Cameo.  I used the round box, print and cut tickets, holly leaves and the little bow shapes.  It is made from Joann's cardstock and SEI Christmas paper.  The glitter paper is made by Stampin Up and it cuts the best on the Cameo.  I have had some trouble cutting with the thicker versions from the big box craft stores.  We are going to put mini candy canes and candy kisses in the boxes for the kids at school in the library homeroom to have one day at a time.  The kids seemed to be excited with the countdown idea and many of them have enjoyed the entire bulletin board.  The wreath sets on one of the double doors with the slogan "Open the door to knowledge, Read"  Luckily there are 15 students in the homeroom and 15 days of school some things just work....Happy Holidays to all!

November Tim Holtz Tag

Since October kicked my butt, I didn't get a chance to do the October tag but made the time to do this month's tag.  I followed the technique but substituted a Gina K stamp as I didn't have the Tim stamp to do the wheat with."Thankful" was made with a stencil that I created with my Cameo a tool I can't live without anymore it is simply the best digital cutter out there.   I also used the colors of distress inks that I have on hand and also the distress stains that I currently have as I am trying to build my distress stain inventory and only have about 10 so far.  Hopefully that will change LOL!  I also used some CTMH burlap ribbon, as I love that stuff it is amazing and I love the stuff.  I substituted core paper for my leaves with glassine paper and used my maple leaf punch to make them.  I then crumpled them and used some distress ink and perfect pearls on them.  The acorn is one from Jolee's that I love, the set comes with glittered pine cones also one of my favs.  Hope you enjoy my tag this month as I had a blast creating!