8 Christmas Projects from the Design Team

How do you get in the mood to start on your Christmas projects?

You're getting "MUFFIN" for Christmas

DT Marlene used the Apron Boxes and filled it with muffin mix and baking goodies then turned it into a "pun" gift with her gift tag:
You're getting "Muffin" for Christmas.

 The perfect food gift for your friends with a sense of humor and a love of hot from the oven treats. Shop for Apron Boxes here.

 

DT Debb DeFord played her favorite Christmas music while she worked on Christmas projects in July.  "It's not too early to start planning your projects. The supplies are already filling up the craft stores." And it sounds like she enjoyed every minute of it.

Debb made up one of the Rudolf Paver Favor Boxes...

See more at Clicker Sisters Gallery

  Here's the full lineup of Christmas Paver Favors
done by DT Shirley...

See more from DT Shirley at Scrappy Sam Designs

 Merry Christmas Card

DT Marlene at Scrapping Cookie used the card shape from Sunflower Greetings Set and the Poinsettia flower from the Poinsettia Christmas Card to make these Merry Christmas cards.  

 

 

Full Cup Treat Holders with M&Ms

 Full Cup Treat Holders are a quick Christmas treat holders for coffee and tea lovers.
by DT Debb at Clicker Sisters Gallery

Christmas Gift Tags

  

DT Marlene used the Sweet Winter Faces Toppers and turned them into one piece gift tags by using only the front of the tags adding "To" and "From" to them. 

 Mouse Ballet Slipper in Felt

 DT Shirley fell in love with the new Mouse Ballet Slipper from the Nutcracker. She did her's using felt and gives really great photo instructions on how she went about that. See all those details at Scrappy Sam Designs.

 Snowman Soup Holder

Filled with a hot cocoa packet, marshmallows, candy cane stick and chocolates, DT Marlene from Scrappin Cookie used the Snowman from the Christmas Belly Boxes

Santa's Boot Gift Box

DT Tracy made this adorable Santa Boot using polka dot papers and added Poinsettias and a gift tag to one side.

By DT Tracy at Idea Closet

By DT Tracy at Idea Closet

Find over 100 more ideas and inspiration for a Merry Christmas and winter weather at

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7 Christmas Papercraft Projects from DT Shirley

During our Christmas in July I wanted to share all these wonderful projects from Christmas's Past that were done by our Design Team member Shirley @ Scrappy Sam Designs. 

Ice Skating Bears

What I always love about Shirley's projects is the imagination that goes into her designs. The patterns seem to be the jumping off point for her and then her imagination kicks in like in her Ice Skating Bears. This wintery skate uses the 3D Skate and Skating Bears.

 
Ice Skating Bears



Christmas in July Snowglobe Ornaments


She often uses a combination of files to create something new like the snowglobe ornaments where she used
The Birdhouse Trio
Snowman Winter Welcome



 
Ice Skating Bear Snowflake card


Adding one of the Ice Skating bears to the front of the Gentle Snowflake shape card gave her a very wintery and unique Christmas card.


Frosty's Top Hat

With Frosty's Top Hat she saw the possiblity to turn "Uncle Sam's Hat Box" from the 4th of July into a wintery hat box.
 




Gingerbread Babies


Shirley added the Gingerbread Babies digi stamps to the circle easel card from the Easel Card Collection.


Snowman Box


The stacking snowman box was made using the box from the Creepy Crawlers Trio and resized.


Snowman Easel Match Box

The Sweet Nugget Matchbox is doubled up with the Snowman's Friend Easel Card adhered to the top.

Visit Shirley @ Scrappy Sam Designs

to see more of her clever ideas.

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on Facebook for this week of Christmas in July.

 

3 Christmas Shape Cards by Shirley

It's Christmas in July at My Scrap Chick!

 

For my project I made three Christmas shape cards. 

Holly Jolly Christmas Card

Merry & Bright Christmas Card

Winter Wishes Christmas Card

I designed my cards in Design Space. I grouped all the pieces of each card together and sized the card so the card base measured 11.5 inches. The finished cards range from 5.25 to 5.5 inches tall.
MATERIALS
Printed cardstock: Old World Winter Stack by the Paper Studio
Plain Cardstock by Coredinations
Glossy cardstock in white, red, green and black (source unknown)
Cream & gold pearlescent cardstock by COLORBOK (for candle)
Christmas trims
Various gems (Jots)
Coordinating inks
Foam squares
Glue

All the pieces were inked with coordinating inks. The cards were put together with glue and/or foam squares to make the titles pop. Gems and Christmas trims were added as accents.

I love these cards; they are so easy to make and turn out so beautiful!


Give them a try!

Thanks for stopping by!

Shirley
Scrappy Sam Designs

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Inspiration from Christmas Past

Sharing these special projects by the design team from a Christmas past during our Christmas In July week at myscrapchick.com

 

 Gingerbread Man Shape Card

This is such a sweet card by Nancy @ The Nickel Nook 

"He'd make a cute decoration too, wouldn't he?
He just needs a bunch of friends around him!"
Gingerbread Shape Card

 

 Christmas Ornament Card

Here's another wonderful card by Nancy where she plays with her new "Opal Magic Paint". If you want to learn how she did this just visit her blog post here at The Nickel Nook and she will walk you thru the steps.

Snowman Christmas Shape Card

The snowman, tree and snowdrift were attached to the base with foam tape to give the card some dimension.

"This was a fun, easy card that is so cute!"

See more details from Scrappy Sam Designs 

  

 The Nutcracker Set becomes Shape Cards

Sue turned the paper pieced characters from the Nutcracker Set in to these beautiful shape cards for her family. She shares all the "how-to's" in her blog post @ Sue Stamping Stuff.

I loved the Nutcracker card so created a new one that is already to go with all you need to make the new Nutcracker Shape Card below.

 

 

 3D Poinsettia Christmas Ornaments 

Shirley @ Scrappy Sam Designs used 3 different files to create these gorgeous Christmas ornaments. I think they would look lovely too strung along as garland on the fireplace mantel.

Poinsettia Blooms 3 D

Nesting Scalloped Ovals

Botanical Leaves

 Santa's the Bomb

Marlene aka Scrappin Cookie from the DT is the brain child behind our Bath Bomb Gift Box design. These have been a fun design to create and you can expect to see a few more for other holidays.

 

Christmas Sleigh

This beautiful sleigh and all it's beautifully decorative touches was done by Els @ The Art of Els Schutte

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Valentines and Sweet Tea with Shirley

 

You're going to love the sweet Valentine treat box and easel card by Shirley from Scrappy Sam Designs.

 

Sweet Valentine Heart Top Treat Box

Heart Top Treat Box by Shirley @ Scrappy Sam Designs

"It will be Valentine's Day before we know it, so I made this cute little Heart Top Treat Box. I used Heart Top Treat Boxes & Tags from My Scrap Chick for my box. I also used an older image from Magnolia and a scalloped oval from Cricut. The main part of my box is 5 3/8 inches tall (excluding the heart closure at the top)." ~Shirley 

Tea Time Easel Card

 

Tea Time by Shirley @ Scrappy Sam Designs

 

"I find a good cup of tea so relaxing on a cold January day, don't you?  I made this sweet little easel card using Teapot Card and Envelope and an oval easel card base from Easel Card Collection." ~Shirley 

 

Thank you Shirley!

 

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Puffy Heart Candy Gift Box

When all you have to give is

"your heart and a little bit of chocolate"

this will be the perfect candy box.

 

 The Puffy Heart Candy Box is super easy to assemble and holds a lot of candy. It's also very quick to assemble.

 



When finished the box measures 6.5" wide x 5" tall and approximately 2.25" thick at widest part. It holds 8 pieces of the yummy Lindor candies.

It takes only one sheet of 12"x12" card stock for the box itself and it's all one piece other than the panels. The self closing tab on top folds over and slips into the slot in back.

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DT Shirley from Scrappy Sam Designs created the puffy heart below and added some beautiful touches. Take a look....

 

Shirley~ "I fell in love with this Puffy Heart Candy Box  from My Scrap Chick and knew I needed to make one for my granddaughter."

 "I decided to make a double bow for my box. I simply stacked a smaller bow on top of a larger one."

           

 "I decided to put a cute Cupid's Cloud image on the back of my box."

                                                                       

"I started by duplicating the heart mat and making it slightly smaller, then attached the image to it. I colored the image with Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers and added accents with gel pens and a glitter pen."

 

"This is how the finished box looks from the side..."

I liked how Shirley thought to glue the bow to the closure tab, making it the front of the box. Then when she added a colored digi to the back it was seamless. Smart thinking.

 

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Fall Paper Crafting Inspiration

I know the sunflowers in the garden are now gone, all their remains raked up and stuffed in black bags. Winter is at the door but.... it's still November. Thanksgiving is not yet here. Some days I still sit on the porch without a coat and soak in the warm sun. So in my world  I will still celebrate Fall. Just because I can.  

 

Until I see those actual cold white flakes of snow covering where the sunflowers grew or until I've enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast with family, you will still find signs of Fall at MyScrapChick.

 

 Banana Bread Gift Box...

Julie planned to make some small banana bread loafs to give as gifts.  She used the sunflower included with the file and added a cute gift tag to the box handle and tied it with twine and attached it to the box handle with a small metal clip.

 

by Julie @ Julie's Creations - From My Heart To Yours
Svg cutting files used: Bread Gift Box

 

 Fall Bracket Book...

Nancy cut the base pages from kraft cardstock. Then she down-sized the page just a bit, and added a layer of cardstock to each side in Fall colors. See the rest of the details on her blog of how she put this altogether. 

 

by Nancy @ The Nickel Nook
Svg cutting files used: Bracket Book

Fall Leaf Party Pennant

Harvest Treat Tag Printable

 

 

 Fall Word Book...

"This file comes with all the layers, leaves, and labels
displayed in my album!
It's such a fun one to put together!"

Be sure to see all the photos of her beautiful inside pages.

 

by Nancy @ The Nickel Nook
Svg cutting files used: Fall Word Book

 

Sunflower Greeting Card Set...

The Sunflower Greeting Card Set includes svg cutting files for a card, a tag and tag pocket, plus the gift box.

 

by Shirley @ Scrappy Sam Designs
Svg cutting files used: Sunflower Greeting Card Set

 

 

I love fall. Sometimes I feel like one of those trees that just has to hang onto a few of those last orange and red leaves. I'm just not ready to leave this season of colors. Or the warmth of the sun.

 

Happy Fall, Ya'll!

 

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