Holiday Tag

I was messing around in my craft room and came up with this new tag, created the tree in MTC software and cutout using my Cricuit Expression.

Altered Olive Jar

The challenge was Theme: Have yourself a GREEN Christmas and the Color Challenge for MPTS forum. I’ve been wanting to try my hand at altering a glass jar for some time now. I’ve kept old food jars of all shape and sizes and I knew right away what I would use. My husband came home last week with a new pack of coffee filters. I thought hmmmm….we’ll never use them all as we already had a pack that‘s been in the cabinet forever now. Well, much to my surprise I have a new use for them so I took the ones that were all bent out of shape to use for this project. He had given me some beautiful yellow roses with pink tips many years ago. I loved them so much that I decided to hang dry them and kept not knowing what I would do with them. When I seen the color challenge on the forum I just had to pull them out to use on this project. Killed two birds with one stone I thought, hehe.

First, I crumpled and tore the coffee filters, ink them with coordinating colors for the project. I used mod podge to adhere them to the jar and let dry. I then took another coffee filter and punched the edges with a lace punch. This gave it a distressed look as the filter kept tearing on the edges but I liked the look. It reminded me of antique lace so I went with the flow as now the project was taking on a life of it’s own. I covered the old lid with the laced edge filter and glued down with more mod podge. One the background was set I was ready to decorate the lid and jar.

I took a dried rose for the center and then I broke apart another to piece them into this one big rose to use for the top. I punched some paper flowers from green cardstock and used then as leaves. I also used some of the Recollection holly leaves I had laying around and intertwined them with the punched leaves. Once I was completed with the rose, I attached more petals, added buttons to the make the ruffle on the edge of the coffee filter and glued the lace trim in place.

I found some awesome ribbon in a scrap pile that I’ve had forever and it wasn’t enough to cover the jar. There was a gap just large enough for an embellishment to go in the center of it. Not sure what to do, I decided to use my trusty Spellbinder dies to cut a circle and scallop to stack,, they were large enough to fit the space. I then wanted to stay with a holiday theme project so I added the snowflakes for the center and topped them off with a pearl. Walla, it was completed.

I was so pleasantly surprised to find that the project was done and I love it. It’s so me……LOL.

Project items include:
Old olive jar
Coffee filters

Scrap ribbon and cardstock

Mod Podge (Mat Finish)

Ink UP Stamping Inks

Martha Stewart Snowflake and Lace punches

EK Success 6 petal flower punch

Spellbinders Nestability Dies

Recollection: Pearls and Paper leaves

Dried Flowers

Buttons

Door Wreath

I decide that in honor of the first snow fall in our new home I would make this wreath for the front door. Now, I realize I could have taken a little more time and made it a little nicer. Sometimes simple is better. I had all these ornaments from previous years so I decided to recycle them this year into something useful without spending money. The wreath I had for two years and never used it and the ornaments I've had for over 8 years. Wow, time flies the older I get.......lol.

Quilted Tree Skirt

My mom made my Christmas tree skirt this year and I just love it. She is a very talented seamtress who has recently gotten interested in quilting in the last year or so. I received this in time to use it in the new house and I was able to help her pick out the fabric that went into the shirt so it goes beautifully with my holiday decorations. She's in the process of making all of the grandkids thier own personal quilt in hopes that they will enjoy it and pass it down to their kids when they get older. She did an awesome job on this piece and I wanted to share this with my family and friends. The picture below shows it under my Christmas tree.

MPTS December HTCT Challenge #1 Tag

The challenge for tag was Vintage Christmas, glittered snow, poinsettia flower and some form of metal with a ribbon.


I picked the graphic for this tag from a vintage collection I’ve had for quite some time now. I chose to use the colors from the picture as the jumping off point for the color scheme of the tag. The poinsettia was a solid red so I used textured snow to cover the bottom flower and then glittered the snow using stickles. I wanted the flower to have more presence on the tag so I had a button I used for the center of the flower. Once I accomplished the first two objectives I decided to go for a total vintage feel by using glitter on the popped out tag by glittering it again with the icicle stickles. The glitter had a lot of gold in it so I chose to place jingle bells as the metal and hung them with ribbon. Once all the elements were completed and placed on the tag I made using scrap Christmas cardstock I’ve had for a few years. I then used the textured snow on the edges of the paper and glittered after drying.

Papers
Vintage Christmas Paper- Bo Bunny
Red and Teal Bazzill cardstock

Ink
Ink IT Up-White

Misc Items
Ranger stickles-Icicle
Making Memories- poinsettia flower
Dress it up- poinsettia button
Jingle Bell- unknown manufacturer
Offray Ribbon
Cuttlebug
Spellbinders/Nestability Die- Lg. Scallop Oval
Delta- Decorative Snow
Vintage graphic- artist unknown
Inkssentials Opaque pen- White

Stamp
G-Stamps series 37