Daisy D's Christmas Line by Lisa L.

Daisy D's Christmas Line has a classic feel reminiscent of my childhood Christmases.  I decided to use the line to do a Christmas Movie Night gift tin.  I went to my local hardware store and picked up a new paint tin for just a few dollars.  Using the Christmas papers, accessories and library pockets from this line, I decorated my tin using Making Memories metal glue.
 

The "Admit One" tickets that came with the line worked perfectly.  I tied to the handle some red twill, blue and green and green and red polka dot ribbon.  I cut out a circle of paper for the lid and used rubons to spell "For You" from the KI Memories Tatoos line.  Two little tags that say "Santa" and "gift" are attached with a blue safety pin to the ribbons.
 

But I didn't stop there.  I had lots of little scraps left that were crying out to be used.  The library pocket and library card made a great gift card for inside the tin. 

On the card, I listed everything that was in the tin:  1 gift certificate to a movie store, 2 types of candies, 1 bag of popcorn and
2 hot cocoa packages.  Then I used a decorated a cd case  with scraps of paper and the photo slide mount that came with the set and put "Peek" on it. I added a Christmas tree button from my "stash" and blue ribbon.  The gift certificate was placed inside the case.   Not only is the tin fun, I'm certain the night will be too.

 

I was inspired to create this Christmas Joy Jar with scraps leftover from the Daisy D Christmas papers.  I picked up a little glass mason jar at the dollar store.  I took a strip of paper and rounded it into a tube shape and popped it inside the jar.  It unfolded itself and lined the jar so that the pattern could be seen on the outside.  I added red twill and a little red tag.  Then I thought up 12 Christmas activities that were in the true spirit
of the season.  For example:  making a gift for someone, donating to a charity, watching a Christmas movie as a family, etc.  I typed the activities out and mounted them to scraps of coordinating paper. The tags are inside the jar.  Beginning December, I'm going to allow my boys to pick one every couple of days.

 

This project goes one step further.  I made up a 12x12 layout.  As each tag is drawn and completed, the tag goes into the pocket of my layout.  I am also going to journal and add pictures of our activities.  And the red twill and jar tag will become the title of the layout.   Altered item to meaningful activities to a beautiful 12x12 memory layout.
 

The Christmas Envelope Book Kit from Daisy D is so much fun to put together. I formed each envelope and bound them into a book.  I added rubons to all of the little envelope tags.  Each tag has a saying like "Love one another" and a coordinating picture on the back.  I added some coordinating index tags
and letters.  I made a side closure using red cording and a button hole snap.  The ornament will be hung by the ribbon at the top.  I also pinned 4 little mini tags to the ribbon with a teeny safety pin and adorned the front with a "Believe" Tag and bright red candy brad.  I cannot wait to hang this on the Christmas tree and have my family and friends take a peek when they visit.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

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Christmas Love and Naughty or Nice by Emelyn M.

These new Basic Grey Blitzen papers are so pretty and classic for Christmas pages.  I used them for both a formal family layout and a fun layout for the kids.  As a bonus, the new Daisy D die cut letters matched wonderfully with the paper!  I also used the Wild Asparagus ribbon from their Christmas line.  I added Around the Block soft charms, Lil' Davis chipboard letters, and Making
Memories embellishments to finish off my layouts. 

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Book of Quotes by Emelyn

This Christmas I plan making gifts for my special friends.  I used (2) 6x6 Canvas Concepts
canvases for the covers of the Book of Quotes.  I used black cardstock to form the accordian pages
and decorated the layouts with Basic Grey Blitzen papers.  I typed out the quotes and used various
Making Memories embellishments for my accents. 
 

Christmas by Jen K.
 

In my Home for the Holidays layout, I used the new All My Memories Christmas line.  I used the double sided Deck the Halls paper as the background, and tore the paper just to break up the page a bit.  The Deck the Halls Herb Notes cardstock stickers were great accents for the page.  The Christmas wreath on the page is a handmade quilled piece. (not by me...LOL)

In my very first vintage layout, Christmas 1951, I made a very simple and quick layout using the new Daisy D's Vintage Christmas card paper to accent these old photos of my mother opening gifts on her fourth Christmas. I used some red ribbon to give the page the effect of a Christmas present just waiting to be opened, and accented it with a small gift tag, and a cute brass tree charm.

Christmas Photo Blocks with BasicGrey Blitzen - Every once-in-a-while, a paper line comes along that just inspires me to do something wonderful with it.  Something special that will be seen daily instead of being stuck in an album.  The BasicGrey Blitzen line did this for me.  After seeing the photo blocks done by Donna Downey in her Photo Decor book. I knew I wanted to do something similar.  My husband, a carpenter, screwed and glued scraps of 2 x 4's together to make me 4" blocks.  I used Mod Podge to adhere the paper to the blocks and then took some of my favorite photos of the past five Christmases and converted them to black and white.  I used some Making Memories Charmed Frames, Charmed Shapes, Eyelet Words, and Metal Words that I've had for two years to embellish the blocks.  I'd thought this was going to be a huge project but it was actually very simple and took only about two hours from start to finish.  I left some of the sides blank so that I could add pictures of Christmas this year.  I can see doing many more of these blocks in themes for each season. 

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