Christmas Advent Wreath

YAY!! Countdown to Christmas is well and truly underway. To make December even more special than it already is our uber talented Louise has created a humongous advent wreath using Kaisercraft's delicious "Letters to Santa" collection.  Pop over onto the site for instructions:

Naughty or Nice?

Naughty or Nice by Design Team Member Karen Leahy:

Nothing screams traditional to me more than Santa and I loved the photo of my husband trying to sneak a look at Santa’s book listing who was naughty and who was nice. The Bo Bunny Tis TheSeason papers were just perfect for such a traditional Christmas photograph. 

Instructions:

I started by edging the gorgeous wood grain paper on the back of the Ornaments paper with thin strips cut from the striped back of the nostalgia paper to make a red and green border. Although I carefully mitred the corners to keep them neat I didn’t like the way the stripes met and so I made small corner pieces cut from a square of red cardstock, inked, folded and attacked with small dark green brads. 

 

For the frame I mounted the picture onto bright red cardstock and then added a border of candy cane baker’s twine using double sides tape. The packaging of the paper pack was so gorgeous I just had to use it, so I cut the title block saying Tis the Season out and used it as a tab for the photo frame mount. To echo that circle I cut one of the roundels from the numbered sheet of paper which said ‘Absolutely no peeking’ and just begged to be used on this page. I mounted it on some of the red cardstock and on some of the dark green that was the reverse side of the numbers sheet and finished it with a baker’s twine bow to tie it in with the rest of the frame before adding it to the frame on foam pads. 

I cut lots of strips of the different papers and used them as banners beneath the frame. This is a great way of using up scraps of paper. You know I never throw ANYTHING away!  I then added the frame on the top. 

I added some word strips, a cut out title from white  and red card and finished it with one of the chipboard Santa embellishments. 

Get your TIS THE SEASON collection here at Charmed Cards & Crafts

69 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS!!

Started panicking yet? ;)  Fret not dear friends because we have your crafting needs fully covered. Yesterdays post showed you examples from the Kaisercraft design team working with the stunning Frosted collection. Today I want to show you some from the Silent Nightt collection:

 

 First up is a beautiful traditional card fromTatiana Yemelyanenk:

 

Anita Bownds shows us a stunning card and layouts she has created:

  

Collette Mitrega created a festive tag and gorgeous layout:

 

 From Terhi Koskinen:

 By Rikki Graziani:

 

 

 

 From Kylie Kingham:

 

by Sonia Thomason:

 

 

By Evgenia Krapivina:

Wow right? Totaly fabulous work from the Kaisercraft team!!! Thank you for inspiring us ♥

Pop over here and get your Silent Night goodies :)

 

70 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS!!!

Yep, only 70 days to Christmas. Time to start getting ready, if you haven't already, and how better than creating some beautiful Christmas projects :) We have some gorgeous new Christmas collections in the shop, from Graphic 45, Kaisercraft, Bo Bunny, Craftwork Cards, Marianne Design and Sweet Dixie. Click on the link for our dedicated Christmas grotto.

Here are some beautiful projects using some of the new Frosted collection by Kaisercraft:

This beautful layout was created by Collette Milrega:

The following amazing projects were created by Sonia Thomason:

 

Stunning projects from Kylie Kingham:

 

A serene layout by Alicia McNamara

 

Two beautiful cards from Kirsten Hyde:

Festive tags  and layout from Anita Bownds

 

Amazing festive tag from Tatiana Yemelyanenko

 

Wowsa! Totally fabulous work from the Kaisercraft team there. Pop over here and get your Frosted Supplies :)