Day 23 - Thank You Cards...

WOW! Has December flown by or what?! I can't believe Christmas is almost here! I bought my last Christmas present today!!

Something I try to do every year is send Thank You's out right after the holidays, but that doesn't always happen! This year I'm making my cards ahead of time so I have no excuse!

I created a design that would be easy to replicate so I can create a handful at a time!

The Lily Bee 6x6 Tiny Tablets are perfect for creating cards!

 

Lily Bee supplies:Patterned Papers: Jingle - Tiny Tablet
ABC Stickers: Jingle

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Day 22 - Joy Holiday Gift Bag

Are you counting down to the big day yet? Just three more sleeps till Christmas!

If you're not done your holiday wrapping yet, that's OK. There's still time and there's still time to create a quick holiday gift bag to wrap things up in as well.


I love wrapping with custom gift bags. First of all, gift bags are so easy to wrap with and they are very quick and easy to make. You can keep them super simple by just adhering some pretty patterned paper on the front of a kraft gift bag or you can add a little more pizazz by creating a fun holiday scene.


To create a scene, I always love to start with easy shapes. A house can be built with a square and a triangle but for this design, I've cut out some wavy snow banks and some triangle shapes evergreens. A star punch makes for a super quick tree topper. And I seriously love how all the tiny dots on the Jingle line papers looks like a pretty snowfall.


When you're working with numerous papers to create a scene, I like to adhere them to some coordinating scrap paper. By building the scene on the paper, you can get everything just right and then adhere the final piece to the front of the gift bag. This also lets you add some stitching details if you wish to.


The Lily Bee ABC Stickers are perfect for adding in a little holiday cheer sentiment.


Finally, top off your bag with some ribbon and embellishments you have on hand.

Lily Bee supplies:
Patterned Papers: Jingle - Merry and Bright, Tinsel, Frost
ABC Stickers: Jingle

Thanks for joining me for this holiday project and may the gifts you receive this year be joy, love and peace.

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Day 19 Rosette Christmas Tree

In getting ready for Christmas and the festive celebrations, I’ve been putting up little decorations here and there and everywhere around our apartment which also includes these cute and super easy to create rosette Christmas trees.

All you need to create this little tree is some of the Jingle Collection Pattern Papers, the insides of the toilet paper rolls, glitter, star pins (or any other items that you might want to deck the tree with), scoring board (optional but super helpful) and a handy trimmer...

I first started out by cutting strips of the various pattern papers in different thicknesses – ranging from 0.75” to 1.5”. Then using the scoring board, I quickly created the creases that I needed for the rosette flowers...

Once I had the completed all the rosette flowers, I applied liquid glue on the edges and sprinkled some glitter on the sides. Then I lined up the three different sized rosette flowers and poked the star pin through the middle (you might also want to apply some glue in between the flowers to help keep everything together). Next, I started working on the bottom part of the tree and found that the toilet roll was just the right size that I needed. Therefore, I cut a piece of the roll and wrapped some pattern paper around it before gluing it onto the bottom most rosette flower; finishing off my little rosette Christmas tree.

Hope this inspires to you create some of your own Christmas decorations and if you have already been creating them, would love to see what you’ve done. Thanks for stopping by everyone and wishing a you a super Merry Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!!
Piradee

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Day 18: A Quick Layout

As the days fly by and the countdown to Christmas gets closer, I find there just isn't a lot of time for scrapping.  I'm too busy wrapping gifts, shopping for those last-minute deals, and most importantly, spending time with family. But that doesn't mean I forgo creative time altogether - I just have to be more efficient at it!

For this page about Christmas joy, I selected six photos from the many that I've taken over the past few weeks. I didn't make this a big process - I just picked six horizontal shots that gave a good overview of some recent festivities.  I printed them 2.75" x 1.75".

Lily Bee Supplies:

Jingle Patterned Paper - Tinsel, Cranberry

Jingle 6 x 6 Tiny Table

Jingle ABC Stickers

Jingle Index Journaling Cards

Then I copied journaling from a recent blog post and edited it to fit on my page. This is a huge time saver!  If you don't have a blog post that works, you could always use something equally easy - lyrics from a Christmas carol, a child's letter to Santa, or a holiday recipe you love making.  The idea is just to use something that's already complete, so you're not starting from scratch!

So carve out 30 minutes to make a page today - I guarantee it will help you find the holiday joy!

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Day 17: Favorite Ornaments

Hi everyone-  It's Jenni here welcoming you to Day 17!  It's hard to believe how fast December is flying by!!!

One of my very favorite Holiday traditions is pulling out the box of ornaments from our storage room.   Our Christmas tree is very eclectic-- many mix matched ornaments that represent an event, milestone, travel destination, or memory.   It's almost as if each ornament has a story of it's own and I love nothing more than pulling out each and every ornament and "revisiting" those stories.  In the end our tree hangs with ornaments that tell many stories and memories-- and it truly makes my heart happy.

I thought today I would share with you a simple layout I made that helps me tell the "story" of our ornaments.  It will be great to look back at this throughout the year!!   The front shows 11 ornament photos that are punched with 2" square punch and placed in a grid.   I used the Jingle ABC stickers  to number the ornaments.  Instead of adhering the photos directly to the kraft cardstock, I actually trimmed a regular office supply file folder down to an 8.5" x 6.5" file and placed the photos on the front of the file folder.

I then covered the interior portion of the file folder with papers from the Memorandum line.   This gave me plenty of room to journal the background and stories of each ornament.  I LOVE that I have this written down and it can be passed down for a long time.

I actually photographed the ornaments last Christmas, and I am SO glad I did, because one of my favorite ones broke as I took down the tree last year.  I was heartbroken, but so thankful I at least have a photo memory of the ornament and now the story behind it written down.

I know you are super-busy right now, but this is just a friendly reminder to take photos of your ornaments on the tree!  This is a project you can complete well after Christmas and enjoy throughout the whole year.

Lily Bee Supplies Used:
Jingle: ABC Stickers, Mixed Cardstock Stickers, Mistletoe
Memorandum: Grapefruit, Payday, ABC Stickers,
Christmas Town: Night Divine, Chipboard Stickers.

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Day 16: Gift Wrapping

Hi, Katja here with another Christmas project for you. Only 9 days to go until Christmas Day, can you believe it? My kids finished school today for the summer which is another reminder that Christmas is very close. Yes, in Australia we have summer now, although you wouldn't know it at the moment with temperatures barely over 20 degrees here in Sydney. I suppose if we had 40 degrees we would also be complaining :)

I like to wrap my presents with some not so traditional wrapping papers sometimes. What better to use than the beautiful papers from the 'Jingle' collection, dress it up with some Origami folded 'Jingle' papers (shown to me by my 10 year old daughter!) and some of the 'Jingle' stickers and you have a beautifully wrapped present. Now you are wondering what's inside?...'The Smurfs' books. My daughter wants to be a Smurfette, what can I say?




Lily Bee Supplies:
Patterned papers: Jingle
ABC Stickers: Jingle
Mixed Cardstock Stickers: Jingle

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Jingle Collection Winner

The winner for last Friday's post giveaway is.....

Brittany, December 9, 2011 8:57 PM

Love this collection--and the gift card holder idea! Thanks!

Congratulations, Brittany! Please email me with your mailing info, fujiwife4 [at] gmail [dot] com. We'll have more giveaways coming soon!

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Day 14 - Christmas Memories Album

Hi there everyone! It's Lisa Day here today! I want to show you a page of my Christmas Memories album I'm working on for 2011. I'm using 8x8 divided photo pages and I'm loving how it's working so far.

Lily Bee products make it so easy to put together a page that is beautiful and sets the right mood!

I love the little ABC stickers added on top of the photos just for a little something extra. And the cardstock stickers add the perfect touch, don't ya think?!

And the index journaling cards are the perfect backdrop to add my journaling!

Lily Bee supplies:
Jingle - 6x6 Tiny Tablet, Cardstock Stickers, Index Journaling Cards and ABC Stickers

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Day 13 - Altered Christmas Canvas

Hi all! Kay here with a project inspired by the fabulous Christy Tomlinson. I am just starting to dabble in the world of mixed media, and thought the Jingle line would be perfect for a Christmas tree!



Here's a view from the side. I bought these 8"x10" canvases in a bundle of 8 canvases for about $10.



Again I used the Glitter Mod Podge. LOVE this stuff!



More details



Once more, here is the canvas.



Supplies Used:

Jingle Mistletoe
Jingle Merry & Bright
Jingle Peppermint
Jingle Spruce
Jingle ABC Stickers
Jingle Mixed Cardstock Stickers

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Day 12: Holiday Place Cards

Hey there! Hope you having a great time with our Holiday Countdown. Looking at these gorgeous projects has gotten me in a very holiday-y mood. And I'm usually grinchy until right before Christmas. :)

When I host a more, formal sit down dinner (I'm using formal very loosely here. I haven't been formal since high school prom, and that was eons ago!) I like to have place cards. You know the rule about not having couples sitting together, and doing a mixed boy-girl-boy-girl placement? I like that. Sorry, Couples Who Like To Sit Together! But it's just a better party if we mix it up a bit, and everyone is talking to everyone. That's when those place cards come in handy. Well, there are those people who sneak in the dining room and switch seating cards. You know who you are!

I usually just do a white card folded in half, but since it's holiday time, I decided to make a mini wreath with rolled paper. You've seen them everywhere, usually slightly bigger on a wall. The little version is really fast to make and it doesn't take a lot of paper.

What you'll need:

• Lily Bee 6x6 mini paper pad (I used a combo of the Jingle, Memorandum, and This & That pads)
• quick-drying wet glue
• pop up dots
• two-inch circle punch (mine is scalloped)
• 1.5-inch circle punch
• tree punch (or other shape)
• stamping ink
• pen
• glitter
• paper cutter
• scissors

How to:

1. Cut 4 sheets of the mini pad into quarters (the squares will be 3"x3").
2. Roll each piece into a cone and glue the edge to hold its shape.
3. Cut a 4" circle (it doesn't have to be perfect) to use as a base. Cover it with glue and start to stick the cones to it.
4. Punch one 2" circle and one 1.5" circle. Glitter the edges. Punch a tree shape, add an initial or name, ink edges, layer with pop up dots. Stick it to the center of the wreath.
5. Add glue to the edge of each cone and sprinkle lots of glitter.
6. You are done!

By the way, I never ever use glitter on my projects. But this was way fun! Never mind my entire work area is covered, and my kids went to school today covered in shiny sparkley bits. I'm calling it holiday spirit.

Thanks for stopping by today! See you tomorrow for another holiday project!

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Day 11: Holiday Gift Tags

Hi Lily Bee friends!  It's Jenni here today with a few quick ideas for making gift tags for your holiday gifts this season.

If you are anything like me, you may be in the middle of many different holiday craft projects and have scraps galore.   Well, how about using some of those extra small pieces of paper and making gift tags?   I found that using the Jingle 6x6 Tiny Tablet was perfect for this project!

I used Kraft tags by Ranger, but you can find tags like this at your local office supply store.  It's great to have a stack of these around for such things and they also are wonderful for scrapbook layouts!   I then used various scraps from my Jingle 6x6 paper pad, Jingle cardstock stickers, ABC letters, and journaling cards and went to town.  

I added a few extra items such as stickpins, border punches, ribbon, and twine.   I really enjoyed using the Jingle stamp collection as well.  I paired it with silver ink from American Crafts to create the snowflakes in the tag below. 

This last tag was the quickest to make, but it might be my favorite! I took three different square punches to create a stack of presents-- so fun!   It would be easy to repeat these designs with different Jingle pattern papers to create a handmade, uniform look underneath your tree.

I hope you are enjoying our 24 days of holiday inspiration!  And as you craft, don't forget to save your Lily Bee scraps to make beautiful gift tags!

Lily Bee Supplies Used:
Jingle: 6x6 Tiny Tablet, ABC Stickers, Cardstock Stickers, Journaling Index Cards, Clear Stamps

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Day 10 - Scrapping decorating the tree

Hi!  Kim here again to share with you another Christmas layout.  This time I chose to scrap about decorating the tree.  Again, I have taken a slightly different slant on the topic and have not actually included a picture of the tree at all.  Instead I used these photos of my son from several years ago helping me to pick out the ornaments to add to the tree.

I think he must have thought he was the tree the way he was holding it on his head!  That was what prompted the title "It's meant to go on the tree mate", which also forms my journalling.  The ABC letter stickers are just perfect for making a long title that doubles as journalling.

The photos are far from perfect, but he was just so uber cute at that age how could I resist using them?  So I simply printed them smaller so the poor quality was not so much of an issue.

 

I have also used the banner stickers from the  Mixed Cardstock stickers.  I love the banner stickers and I think they add the perfect finishing touch to a layout.

I have sprayed some mist across the green background paper to add a little extra interest.


Lily Bee supplies:Patterned Papers: Jingle - Spruce, Merry & Bright, Peppermint, TinselIndex Journaling Cards: Jingle
Cardstock Stickers: Jingle
ABC Stickers: Jingle

Hope you are having a wonderful leadup to the big day, spending time with family and friends and relishing your traditions!

Cheers

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