Hello!
Can you believe Christmas is almost here?! Every year for our Christmas dinner, we have Christmas crackers, and this year, I decided to make them! I had a lot of fun doing this and am pretty sure they'll be functional when the big moment comes to pull them apart.
Here they are!
It really wasn't too hard to make them, especially since I used the Favor It Box 8 die from PTI. You can, however, make crackers without a die by using toilet paper rolls and wrapping paper. For this project, I used Lily Bee paper (Christmas cheer) and die cut all my pieces at once to make for easy assembling.
Once everything was cut out, I glued all the pieces together, including the snapper. Here are all the little goodies I stuffed the crackers with (chocolates, candies, gold crowns, jokes, and a little key chain (not pictured):
And voila! I tied the ends together with some red ribbon and cut off the extra snapper ends. Here are all 9 of them that I made:
And one individually:
And there you have it! Homemade, functional Christmas crackers!
I'm going to enter this into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Christmassy.
And the Paper Crafts December 2012 Gallery Challenge.
Thanks for visiting today!
-Lizzy
Hello!
Today I wanted to squeeze in one more Christmas card before the Young Crafters Unite challenge ended tonight.
Today I made my first shaker card. I've been wanting to try to make one for a while now, but I don't have a die cutting machine. I know what you're thinking-- "but I've seen you use die cuts before..." And while you're correct in that observation, I've done it by borrowing my mom's machine. For today though, my sweet friend let me borrow her big shot for a few days... yippee! So, naturally, I needed to make a shaker card while I had the opportunity!
This was super fun to make and, actually, not too hard either! I used Lawn Fawn's Winter Bunny, Sweet Christmas (trees), and Let it Snow (sentiment) to make the card. I colored the bunny with copics and added xmas red stickles to his scarf. The trees are paper pieced. I used patterned paper for the background and some white paper to make hills. The hills are lined with crystal ice stickles. See how sparkly everything is?
Here's are some pictures of the shaker in action:
The sentiment is stamped in gumball green ink (SU) and I used some lawn trimmings to "tie' the sentiment to the card.
I'm also going to enter the card in the Paper Crafts December 2012 Gallery Challenge.
Here's one last photo:
That's it for me today! Thanks for visiting my blog today!
-Lizzy