 
Just a note to wish you all a Merry Christmas, friends. Thank you all for your sweet wishes and kind friendships over the year. Today is a day of rest, worship and family for me – pure bliss. I wanted to post today to let you know how much you all have meant to me this year. I’m grateful to be able to do what I love and in the process meet and get to know many of you who stop by. I hope to encourage you all year long and without a doubt, you all encourage me. I’m taking stock of the past year of journeys and preparing to launch into a new year. I do that with the confidence of knowing that with prayer , friends and focus, the journey can be accomplished one step at a time. In the mean time, celebrate and have fun with your families today!
Thank you! Merry Christmas!!
Stamps: Quietfire Design – Christmas Eve was a Night of Song
Paper: Neenah Class Crest – Natural White – 80lb smooth card stock, Gold Poster Board
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: Amazing Paper Grace Dies, Spellbinders Emeline Treillage Die and Spellbinders Graceful Corners One, PL-001 Platinum™ Die Cutting And Embossing Machine with 8.5″ Platform, T-001 Tool ‘N One™
Merry Christmas sweet friends!
Hi there sweet friends, today is an extension of my Special Paper Touches post from yesterday. (It’s also known as Project Homecoming Daughter.) Today, I’m spinning up some Holiday Bags to go along with sweet paper touches for dessert on Christmas Day. Do me a favor, click HERE to see what I started with, and then click HERE for a little surprise :-) Okay, I could not resist. Not what you would normally expect from me?
Holiday Bags are the Icing on the Cake
This is an well used die that many of you already have. In fact, it’s something I reach for all the time when I have a small gift to present. I loved dolling this bag up to hold her last Christmas 2017 gift. I used the Favorably Simple Gift Bag to create a bag that matches the decor of our upcoming dessert extravaganza. Last week I figured out I would need several more to hold cookies for some ladies that always keep my cup of coffee filled at a local breakfast diner. With Christmas closing in, I picked some pretty holiday card stock to make things move along quickly!!
I had the same dies on my desk for an extended period of time and I wove them through several of my Christmas projects. I found myself reaching for the Angled Fold and Go Flowers because it looks so much like a holly leaf and also used it for a Poinsettia look. Again I reached for Bella Rose Lattice Layering Frame – purely as a partial embellishment. Finally, I reached for Vintage Pierced Banners for the sentiment on the matching card. In addition Quietfire Design stamps saved the day!
For those of you who are new to the blog, some time ago I made a video showing how the bag goes together —–> HERE. I’m partial to the elegant versions of the bag, but the cute versions are just right for happy occasions and little ones!
Stamps: Quietfire Design – Merry Christmas Background, Christmas Eve was a Night of Song (small sentiment)
Paper: Neenah Class Crest – Natural White – 80lb smooth card stock, Gold Foil Cardstock, Bazzill Pomegranate Splash, Coredinations Evergreen,
Ink: Versamark and Gold Embossing Powder
Accessories: Amazing Paper Grace Dies, Favorably Simple Gift Bag, Angled Fold and Go Flowers, Bella Rose Lattice Layering Frame, Vintage Pierced Banners, PL-001 Platinum™ Die Cutting And Embossing Machine with 8.5″ Platform, T-001 Tool ‘N One™
I’m blogging over on the Spellbinders Blog today with the cute versions of this bag —-> HERE. I hope to see you there!! In the mean time, please have a heartwarming, heart tugging, memorable Christmas!! I’ll see you soon!
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Ever since they were in grade school, my kids knew I was the mom that loved the special paper touches. When they were doing their science projects I hauled out all the die cutting machines to make um… encourage them to crank through crisp, readable letters. You would not be wrong if you imagined that my kid was the one who had decorative corners in each edge of their science fair project. Today I’m using Bella Rose Lattice Layering Frame and Angled Fold and Go Flowers for the little details!
I have a small dining room table in this empty nester stage of my life but one of the supreme joys that I experience whenever anyone comes to visit is the special touches that I can offer when we sit down for tea, when we sit down for dessert, on the pillow in their guest room. Ten minutes – that’s all it takes moreover, the memory lasts a lifetime.
My daughter is home for Christmas this year and I planned a dessert afternoon where she and I can sit, have coffee and savor our time together. Let’s be honest, this event will last less than an hour but I’m already looking forward to it. How will I ever tempt her to sit for minute? Well, this time I have a tantalizing frozen dessert and I also planned to make it lovely occasion by snipping a couple of my favorite dies for the place setting.
Special Paper Touches, Yes Please!
This is a super easy project, no magic, just cutting – I’m including a picture of what everything looks like before assembly and from the backside.
- Make small poinsettia from my Angled Fold and Go Flowers (hint, hint, this week I’ll show you how I used it as a holly leaf!) I’m the impatient kind, so I used hot glue instead of glue. Add two leaves from the same set to add volume.
- From gold paper, cut one Bella Rose Lattice Layering Frame. By hand, fold it in half and inserted a piece of card stock cut to 4-7/8″ wide 6-1/4″ tall. Instant pocket! Printed off your dessert menu, layer it on gold paper and inserted it as well. Use glue dots on the top corner loops to secure the pocket.
- Make a napkin ring from the ovals in the Bella Rose Lattice Layering Frame with the flower inserts, cut in half like a half moon. Back the cutouts with the appropriate colors for the flowers and leaves. Adhere it around your silverware and napkin for a napkin holder.
Now don’t you feel like a star? That sweet piece of loving took less than 10 minutes and you never know whose heart it might tickle!
Never underestimate the worth of the kind gesture inherent in a small handmade gift :-) Recently I attended an annual Christmas party with a group of papercrafters that I’ve been with for the 18 years. Our December party is the highlight of the year and is full of special touches. Each person makes an unique craft to give to the other 11. Yes, it’s just paper and small inexpensive knickknacks but they are my most treasured gifts of the year.
Stamps: None
Paper: Neenah Class Crest – Natural White – 80lb smooth card stock, Gold Foil Cardstock, Bazzill Cherry Splash, Coredinations Evergreen
Ink: None
Accessories: Amazing Paper Grace Dies, Bella Rose Lattice Layering Frame and Angled Fold and Go Flowers, PL-001 Platinum™ Die Cutting And Embossing Machine with 8.5″ Platform, T-001 Tool ‘N One™
Thanks for peeking in today! Merry Christmas friends and don’t forget the special paper touches!
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Thank you so much for your sweet words,Becca! I think you give much more to us than we do to you, but I am on this side of the blog. Lol
Merry Christmas to you & your family, and wishes of joy & blessings for the new year.
Good morning and Merry Christmas! Just beautiful, thanks for sharing such beautiful work!
Happiest of blessings to you and your family… thanks for all you share with us all the time…your such an awesome blessing to all of us! Paper hugs…
Good morning Becca and Merry Christmas to you and your family! You taking time from your family and wish us a Merry Christmas is special in itself but what you give us all year long is a true blessing and Thank you is only two little words but come from my heart! Love you lady!!
Hugs
Ann
Merry Christmas! Wishing you and your family a blessed day. Thank you for inspiring me this year with your beautifully created cards and gifts. I have enjoyed seeing what you have made this year. I have enjoyed creating cards using your dies, too. Take care.
Merry Christmas Becca and the design team. I so enjoyed your works of art this past year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS,Becca!!! Your card for us is LOVELY! Just as you are! THANK YOU for sharing ALL of your talents with us & for blessing US this past year, & years past! MANY CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS to you & yours!!!! ;)
Merry Christmas to the most talented individual I know. Looking forward to another year of your amazing paper creations.
Unto Us A Child Is Born…. Thank you.
May you be as blessed as you have blessed.
Merry Christmas, Becca. What a beautiful message on your card today. It brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for being the ever constant beauty in my world. May God bless all of your plans and multiply your success.
Dear Becca….enjoy your family and the rest and peace that comes with knowing we are safe in the Lord! I want to again say a BIG thank you for the card I won two years ago…it was perfect timing as I was care giver for my husband and it was such an encouragement -(Jim slipped to Heaven Oct. 26, 2016)…I still have the card and treasure it! You won’t know this side of Heaven how much you touch lives!
Have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year dear one!
Paper Hugs,
Jan Castle
Another lovely card wishing you and your family all the best this Christmas and good health and success into the new year.
Merry Christmas Becca, have a fabulous day and thanks for sharing!!!
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lyndaxxx
Merry Christmas to you dear sister! So love the inspiration to create beauty that God has put into your heart and the wonderful generosity to share it with us – May your hear be filled with His Light and Beauty as you worship Him and celebrate His birth! Sure hope there will be card-making in Heaven! heeheheh!
Blessings for 2018 from Auckland New Zealand!
Becca what a super effort you have put in this year !
You have shared so much with us and to get together
your team of creative ladies to also share with us is fantastic…..
Thank you for all you do and share !
It’s now time to share with your loved ones take time out with
them and enjoy the blessings of the season and the love that
comes with it .
Happy Christmas to all your followers hugs Pam X
So precious! Just like you! A Merry and Blessed Christmas!!!!
Becca,
thank you so very much for all you share, you are so inspiring! I am so grateful to have found your great site. Wishing you a very, very Happy New Year.
I hope it was the Merriest of Christmas’s for you and yours, Becca! I know that 2018 wukk be another super creative year for you and hope that it’s also a Happy and Healthy one. Merry Christmas and thanks for all your inspiration.
Beautiful Christmas gift boxes, frames, cards, etc. – the dream team and you Becca have created a glorious presentation! I was overwhelmed as I viewed each of the past weeks offerings and am in awe of each one of you! May the new year bring to the team fresh new inspirations, appreciation and revelations to enjoy, create, and embrace. Hugs Dianne aka the kardlady