It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas:
Last Minute Inspiration from our Design Team!
Hello, Friends!
Can you believe we are just 15 days away from Christmas? I bet your homes are all looking cozy and festive in preparation for the Big Day! If you're still trying to get Christmas tags, cards, or presents ready at the last minute, our fabulous design team has some great inspiration to share with you here today!
Michele has used the tiny dots paper from Retro Christmas Digital Paper Kit to make this elegant Pink Poinsettia Card. She layered the dots paper with a panel from our Merry Christmas Vintage Scraps and I love the soft effect this created.
When you're short on time, these Vintage Scraps are a fabulous resource for cards, gift tags or Christmas tree ornaments. The double-sided Merry Christmas Creative Scraps can be best
described as wonderful vintage to adorable retro. This is a colorful
collection of Christmas themed images and sentiments. The sheet includes
22 great images printed on a medium weight cardstock. We still have some of these available in the online store, and best of all they are on sale!
So many of us give and receive gift cards or cash gifts during the holiday season, and it's always nice to have a way to "dress up" the gift. Ginny has a great idea for making a pocket card that is stuffed with adorable tags. The images are from our Creating with Retro Christmas CD, and the pretty blue and white papers are from our Creating with Vintage Patterns CD. I love the way the pops of red in the clothespins, flowers and burlap string pick up on the cutie pie image! This little project really is "snow much fun!"
Sandy has reduced the price on the Retro Christmas CD, as well as on the Vintage Christmas CD. She has also created a super bundle deal where you can get both the Retro and Vintage CD's at a special low price. These are such great resources to add to your crafty stash as they contain dozens of beautiful digital papers, templates, card sentiments, printable images, ephemera and more! You simply choose the paper or image you want to use and you can print it out on your home printer, sizing items just the way you like. Or, you can use them to create digital layouts, Christmas letters, e-cards and more! Even though the price in this photo says $26.75, the actual sale price for both CD's is only $22!
Both CD's have great Christmas tags and Post Cards that allow you to make an almost "instant" card. Michele used some of the tags from Creating with Vintage Christmas to make this super sweet vintage Christmas card. I love the rusty jingle bells tied onto that gingham bow!
I think interactive cards are soooo much fun, and I just love this great Pop Up Box card that Shantaie made using beautiful papers from the Creating with Vintage Christmas CD. This would be so pretty displayed on a Christmas mantel or side table. The snowflake stamps are from our Vintage Christmas Digital Stamp set and Shantaie cut them out with her Silhouette machine. This is such a stunning project, and I hope you'll pop over to Shantaie's BLOG to see how she put it all together.
If you haven't seen our Vintage Christmas Digital Art Stamps yet, you will want to check those out in the store. They are gorgeous! This has been one of our most popular clear acrylic stamp sets for years, but now that we've introduced them in Digital format, we think you are going to love them even more! The images are now considerably larger than in the original set, giving you lots of options for larger sized cards, layouts and mixed media projects. And, you can have them in your hot little hands as soon as you order them, as they come via a digital download. No waiting! You can order them now and get your craft on today! How great is that? There are 18 images and sentiments in this beautiful vintage set.
Shantaie also created this pretty Vintage Santa tag using a lovely Santa image found in our Seasonal Image and Journal Notes booklet. I love the way she used a gold foil doily to frame our jolly Santa image, and that white poinsettia is the perfect accent piece! This festive tag would look great hanging on your tree, and would make even the smallest gift really special!
You can find our Seasonal Image and Journal Notes Booklet ON SALE HERE along with the rest of our Heartwarming Vintage Booklets. These are such gems, and contain beautiful vintage images, journal notes, and sentiments. They would make fantastic stocking stuffers at their clearance price of just $2.95 each! Or get a bundle pack containing 9 Booklets for just $19.99!
We get so busy making everything ready for the holidays that we often forget to take a moment just for ourselves. Sheila reminds us of how important it is to refresh our own spirits by creating beautiful moments in this soft, feminine digital layout. She used digital papers from our Creating with Vintage Christmas CD along with her own beautiful photography. Wouldn't this stunning project make a great screen saver on your computer?
I love to hang handmade Christmas ornaments on the tree, and these cheery tags Ginny made with our Retro Christmas CD would be fabulous tree ornaments! She used the tag images from the CD along with pretty papers and the result is very merry, indeed! You can find all the details on her lovely BLOG.
Sometimes, a card is so special it is a gift all on its own, and this shimmery, sparkly card Ginny made combines papers and images from both our Retro Christmas and Vintage Christmas CD's. I love the fresh color palette and pops of glitter, don't you? You can read all about how she made it HERE on Ginny's Blog.
Wow! What amazing projects from the team! It makes me want to break out my Crafty Secrets supplies and get my craft on! Since we have our house on the market, it's been challenging to create, but I have some goodies that I'll be sharing here soon.
In the meantime, I'd love to invite you to play along in our December Linky Challenge and Blog Hop. We have a beautiful digital paper and image for you to use in your creation, or just use any Crafty Secrets goodies that you have in your stash. Create a card and link it up on the Crafty Secrets BLOG by midnight PT this Sunday, December 20th, and you could be the lucky random winner of a $25 Digital Shopping Spree in the Crafty Secrets online store. You can find all the information HERE.
I'll be back next week to announce the winner...and to share more inspiration from the team!
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you were inspired, found some great last minute Christmas ideas and some great gift giving ideas, too. If so, I'd love to hear from you in the comment section below.
On behalf of Sandy Redburn, this is Kathy Clement/DT Leader wishing you JOY and CREATIVITY!
