Christmas Project #1: In Progress
On Saturday I had a chance to start working on one of my holiday projects while hanging out at Scrapbook Fever in Salem. This one, a Night Before Christmas card spinner, was a great one to work on during a crop because I only had to focus on one small area at a time. I am about half way done...
So what in the heck is it? The base is an Altered Trading Card holder from 7gypsies that you can find here. I used these cards and decorated the front and back of each one with some of my Christmas supply stash (a little bit of this + a little bit of that) and adhered a line or two from Twas the Night Before Christmas (googled it and printed out this one).
Here's a close up look at the ones I have completed so far (font for poem is Adler):
In addition to the cards I added in some transparent pages that I just cut to size.
Played around with red embossing glitter.
Fun project - totally something that you could work on bit by bit as we get closer to the holiday season. It's also a great way to play with all those little pieces of stuff in your holiday stash or your scrap box. I will show more samples as I finish it up.
Can't wait to have it completed and put it up with the rest of my holiday decorations right after Thanksgiving. Merry. Merry.
















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Love it Ali! I can't wait till Christmas gets here, because I love all the excitement in the air and the giving hearts of people around the world.
Keep up the GREAT work Ali. I love seeing what you create.
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Oh wow! That is sooo cool. I totally LOVE your work!
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Super cute!
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great idea! I was planning to use mine for my Shimelle's Christmas Journal class this year!
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i love this *so* much! love the nostalgia of your cards... simply darling :)
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Fabulous idea!!! I LOVE it!!!
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wow, add me to the list of ten million that love it!hmmm I might have to try my hand at that one!
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*sigh* I want to be like you. This is KILLER.
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i am so doing this!
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i collect the night before christmas items - this is wonderful - could you put it in a format that could be printed or copies for those of us that would never make it to any of your classes? thank you
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Ali~ This is so beautiful. Totally amazing! =)
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Amazing is right. I absolutely love this idea.
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WOW! Ali, thanks for the inspiration! Do you think I could skip Halloween with my Grade 1 class and move right into Christmas?
Thank you for sharing this amazing idea!! I printed the poem and am going home to go through my Christmas scrap stash right now!!
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Awesome Ali! I love this project. Your
pages looks so great. I was looking at paper and embelishments, I recognize a few.
Which holiday embellishments are your favorites right now? Jess
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OMGOSH love LOVE LOVE THIS!!!!!
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I have saved the fronts of Christmas cards we've received for YEARS, just waiting for some project to use them on. And now I think I've found it! Thanks so much for your inspiring idea!! Blessings, Patricia
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DARLING project, Ali!
Just once, I want to be the person that comes up with these creative inventions!!
I may have to find the time to try this one!! It would make a great gift, huh??!!
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As I dont do ATCs I was wondering what excuse I could use to buy this - now you've given me an idea. Thanks!!
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This is really beautiful Ali! What a great idea! Kim
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woah! That is one seriously cool project!!
Looks completely gorgeous! :o)
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