Easy Holiday Ornament and Gifts

Hi All!  Practical Scrapper Laura here today!  I absolutely
love holiday crafting.....don't you?  One of the things that
I'm a fan of is taking simple items, and creating gifts or home
decor.  This ornament is super simple, but would make a great
gift, package decoration, or pretty addition to any tree:

To think it started out with grabbing a dollar store type ornament and
a few random embellishments from my stash:
  

I added an American Crafts rhinestone brad to the Tim Holtz
metal charm, and then wrapped it with a small bit of tulle:

I punched circle from BoBunny paper, and inked around the edges
with Black Soot Distress Ink, then I glued the circle to the snowflake,
and the deer to the paper using Glossy Accents:

In this pic above you can also see how I strung the tulle thru the
crystal bead charm, and also used it to attach the "25" to the
ornament as well.  Here is another view of the attached pieces:

The finishing touch at the top was a pretty bow, with some tinsel
twine, and an American Crafts sparkly button.

Don't be afraid to pull out some miscellaneous items from your
stash and just create....you never know what you'll come up with!

Happy holiday crafting.....and thanks for stoppin' by!

Christmas in a Box

Here is a Tim Holtz Configuration Box that I decorated using some of my favorite things.
I love altered art, Tim Holtz, and Melissa Frances.  I call this my Christmas in a Box.

 I usually cover the configuration boxes with paper or Tim's tape, this time I painted one all one color.  I used Melissa Frances paper, cards, trees, tinsel, lock, key, and glitter.  I used Tim Holtz for the mini star, snowflake, bottle, #25, clock, light, stickers, metal embellishments, and I use glossy accents to hold it all together.  The taller dark green tree is a misc. tree from the craft dept. along w/ the one star outside of the box.  Have you ever decorated a configuration box?  This is also the first time where I actually removed several of the boxes.  I plan to do another one for craft room.. just need the time.  I hope you enjoyed my Christmas in a Box.  Both of my girls still BELIEVE in SANTA, so I made this for them.  

Practical Scrapper, Kimberly Congdon (Scrap It Girl)  

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Altered Art Frame & Toothpicks

Up today at Practical Scrappers we have one of our brand new design team members, Kimberly, to share with you an altered art frame.  Please give her a warm welcome as she shares the first of many projects to come.  Without further ado, here is Kimberly...

One of my favorite things to play with is a frame or a home decor project.  My LSS just started to carry these wonderful easel frames.   I couldn't wait to decorate one.  Here is a photo of the supplies I used and the naked frame.

I used all Glitz Design Products from their Vintage Blue Collection.  I also added 3 toothpicks, since I wanted to add a little something to yesterday's post regarding Frugal finds.  Please check out yesterday's post too.  The other products I used which are not pictured:  2 Maya Road mini Spools, and Tim Holtz distress tea dye ink, faded jeans distress stain and his dies.

Here are a few photos of my finished frame.

The tooth picks worked out perfectly for my homemade banners!  

Practical Scrapper, Kimberly Congdon (Scrap It Girl)

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