Ho Ho Home Baked Goody Container

Good Bitten by the Bug 2 Monday!  BBTB2's challenge cut of the week was selected by my design team sister Joanna and is the Santa from the Winter Frolic cartridge.  As I am currently planning my baked good gifts for my neighbors, I am also planning packaging for the baked goods.  I am planning to use large crafting paint cans as their size will allow for greater volume. 

The Santa was cut using design studio at 2.5 inches so he would fit nicely on this lacy nestability.  I cut the base Santa in black and the remaining cuts in either red or white cardstock.  I assembled the Santa with glue, using a Copic skin tone marker on Santa's face and cheeks.  I added a gemstone as Santa's cherry nose.  The toy bag and belt buckle were cut in black glittery cardstock.

I cut all five of the lacy edged nesties in pink cardstock.  Santa was attached to the second to the largest nestie. 

The paint can was covered in a blue on blue pattern cardstock purchased from Darcie's.  Using white cardstock scraps and a Spellbinder's large border, I cut the bottom edge border using my Spellbinder's Grand Caliber machine.  The border was then glued to the can.

I found a 1.5 inch diameter snowflake stamp in my stash and decided to add stamped snowflakes to the printed paper.  Snowflakes were also added to some of the pink nestie cuts.

Using a piercing tool and hammer, I pierced the can and attached the large jeweled snowflake brads. The pink nesties were also added around the can.

The top of the can was trimmed in blue, white and silver ribbon, then trimmed out in silver peel offs.  Silver peel offs were also attached to the bottom edge of the can.

Additional ribbons were tied to the handle and for the photograph only I added holographic shred to the can.  In real life the can will be lined with Christmas print food wrap and will contain home baked goodies for my neighbors!

BBTB2 Deck the Halls & Ornament Layout

Happy Bitten by the Bug 2 Monday!  This week's challenge cut is a "two-fer".  My lovely design team sister Jeri selected a two part challenge, Ornament 1 or 2 *and* the Deck the Halls phrase from the Winter Frolic cartridge.  There were sooo many possibilities to use these cuts that I was almost overwhelmed by the challenge. 

At first I designed a Christmas card using ornament 2 and the challenge phrase, but then I realized that I was in the mood for a layout.  My ventures in paper crafting began with scrapbooking and I still love to create scrapbook pages.  For this 12 x 12 scrap page I started with a blank base page of light, light pink cardstock.  To the blank background I added the cricut cuts and Christmas morning photographs of my children.

The Deck the Halls phrase cut was created with three cuts:  A smooth white cardstock shadow layer, a red metallic base layer, and silver metallic top layers.  I did not use all of the silver cuts because I liked the contrast of the red metallic on the white cardstock.  

The looped edge full page was designed in Cricut Design Studio.  I placed the loop edge border from the Cake Basics cartridge, welding four sets of loops together.  I copied and pasted the row of loops until I had four rows.  Using the "Turn 90" degree turn button, I turned three of the rows so that the loops all faced outward.  I then welded the loops to a 9 inch round edged square from the George cartridge.  Using a full sheet of SEI paper, I cut out the loop edged mat.

Next I cut out three Christmas ornaments, two from Winter Frolic and one from Joys of the Season.  I cut the shadow layer of all three ornaments in smooth white cardstock.  I used scraps of SEI, Bo Bunny, and Bazzill cardstock to cut the top layer of the ornaments.  A circle from George was placed inside each ornament, but was NOT welded.  The circles cut out and made windows for the photos.   

If you use the cut file - which is available to download from the side bar with the title "Deck the Hall & Ornament Layout" - you will see that there is one page which contains all of the metallic silver cuts.  I actually cut two of the scalloped frames on a different page so that they could be cut in red and green metallics.  They would have looked nice cut in silver also. I trimmed the top of each ornament with ornament print ribbon.

To assemble the page I began by attaching the looped matting to the light pink base.  I then added the large silver frame.  Next I affixed the Deck the Hall phrase into place.  And finally I added the three ornaments to the layout.

Be sure to go by BBTB2 and check out the amazing projects the created by the Design Team.  These women are FABULOUS designers!!!

You know, I am not sure that my children would appreciate that I placed Christmas morning photos on my blog for all the world to see, but I won't tell them if you don't!!

Dreaming of a White Christmas

I have a quick little card to share today, White Christmas.  This card was created by combining elements from the WINTER FROLIC cartridge.  I used the White Christmas word phrase, cut in several layers, the triple circle accent cut, and the stars.  Using Design Studio, I welded the word phrase shadow cut to the circles to create a shadow base on which to build the top of the card.

I cut the top two word phrase layers white bazzill cardstock, the bottom layer in light blue Core'dination cardstock..  The circles were cut in SEI winter blue cardstock.  I used tiny pop dots to build the layers, at times cutting the pop dots in half to fit behind the tiny letters.  The stars were cut in two different types of metallic silver paper; the base layers in a flat silver and the two accent top cuts in a lined texture silver. 

I mounted my card topper on a rectangular mat of black metallic. The bottom mat is the same flat silver that was used to cut the stars.

The card was finished with icicle Stickles on the word Christmas and on around the circles.  There are also icicle dots on the blue circles.  The word WHITE was highlighted with a mixture of icicle Stickles and waterfall Stickles.  I swirled the two colors together to give the word WHITE a frosty cold feeling.

The card is finished with a length of blue snowflake ribbon with a little bow.  The ribbon is distributed by Michaels.