Easy 2 Step DIY Cinnamon Stick Candle Gift Tutorial
I think this might just be one of the best gift ideas. Not only it is beautiful, but it is cheap to make, takes only 2 steps to create and it is easy to customize depending on the occasion.
Of course, you could create these for yourself. We love using them as table decorations when we invite family or friends over on special occasions.
You can image what beautiful aromas these candles have – I love the smell of cinnamon sticks!
Easy 2 Step-Only DIY Cinnamon Stick Candle Tutorial
Find below the steps to show you how easy it is to whip up these beautiful candle gifts.
Supply List:
1 x Unscented Candle
1 x Packet of Cinnamon Sticks
Jute Twine
Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Optional: Ribbon, Lace, Star Anise, Baby Cones etc.
Instructions:
Step 1: Heat up your glue gun and simply stick your cinnamon sticks onto the candle with some hot glue. Repeat until you have covered the whole candle.
Step 2: Cut off a long piece of the twine and wrap it around your cinnamon sticks a few times, before tying it in a bow.
And that might possibly be one of the quickest and easiest DIY gifts that you have ever made!? And how effective does it look!
Now how about we show you how you can add some beautiful variations to this candle. You can easily theme it for any special occasion.
Idea 1: DIY Gift Idea for Valentines
Use a red candle instead of the white. Use a red bow to tie off the cinnamon sticks. Super easy, super sweet and perfect for that someone special on Valentine’s day.
Idea 2: DIY Gift Idea for a Birthday
Take your basic candle idea one step further. Use a lovely colored candle in the center. Follow the tutorial above, but instead of tying a bow with the twine, think about adding some knots instead. Then add some beautiful Star Anise. You can simply use your hot glue and glue them onto the decorated candle.
Idea 3: DIY Gift Idea for Christmas
Step up your game with these simple additional extras. Use a lovely soft cream colored candle. Surround your candles with cinnamon sticks. This time tie it all together with a beautifully soft piece of lace.
Embellish the candle with 2 Star Anise and one baby cone. Super elegant and perfect as a Christmas DIY gift.
Now, all you have to do is to prepare it for gifting.
I love pairing up the candle with a few other bits and pieces, such as a nice packet of bath salts, or a gift card to a cooking store or a voucher for a spa treatment. Simply wrap it up in brown paper, tie it together with some twine.
We love using our die cutting machine to simply whip up some beautiful die cuts. You can stamp a birthday message on the die cut, punch a hole at the top and add it to the twine as your birthday card.
These are fabulous, aren’t they? We are so might chuffed with this idea and I hope you love it too.
Till next time,
Samantha xxx
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Posted on November 21st, 2018
15 Newborn Baby Scrapbook Ideas for Baby’s First Album
So you have a new addition to the family – congratulations!
If you are one of the lucky parents, you might even have some time to whip up some sweet baby scrapbook layouts. But I bet the brain might be a bit tired and you might be struggling to come up with some baby scrapbook ideas.
That is okay, we totally understand!
In this post, you will find 15 fabulous baby scrapbook page ideas to help inspire your creativity. Our designer, Jolene, has three beautiful daughters, so whilst our post is full of baby girl scrapbook ideas, you can easily use the same principles and features for baby boy pages (just used some boy papers and embellishments – easy!).
Your baby’s first scrapbook is a truly important one, so don’t rush the process, allow your time to play until you are happy with the placement of your photos and all the elements of the baby scrapbook pages.
15 Newborn Baby Scrapbook Ideas
Find below 15 baby scrapbook album ideas. I’m not sure which is our favorite scrapbook baby layout that is featured below, but if you have one, we would love to know which one you loved the most in the comments below.
#1 Welcome Baby Girl Scrapbook Page
I think the ‘welcome baby’ scrapbook page is always the hardest one to make. Not only because your baby is probably covered in blood and amniotic fluid, but also because there is so much emotion attached to the photo.
Jolene says that this photo was a bit ‘gross’ in color, which is why she reverted to a softer black and white photo. She tried to add ‘pretty’ with the spray of flowers. I think it sets off her baby daughter beautifully.
#2 Baby Girl Scrapbook Ideas: Recording Details
I love this layout because all it does is focuses on the details. A sweet layout to give a perception to how teeny tiny those sweet baby feet truly are. Make sure to record the details of your baby, because they grow up so fast and before long these moments will be forgotten.
#3 Baby Scrapbook Page Ideas: Mummy and Daughter
Don’t forget to grab a photo of yourself with your baby. The best moment to do so is when your newborn baby is fast asleep. Tip: If you find that your papers or cardstock feel to ‘hard’ for a baby layout, you can always soften them up by dry brushing some white paint over the top.
#4 Baby Scrapbook Pages to Record Sibling Moments
Absolutely in love the way that Katie is staring at her new baby sister her. Make sure to record those new sibling vibes – even if they aren’t so pleasant. Describe the feelings and the emotions to make the layout even more sentimental.
#5 Baby Book Ideas Scrapbook Pages to Show the Size
Back to showcasing your new baby’s size. Think about grabbing photos that clearly give proportion to your baby’s size. Jolene used Lily’s dad here and his hands helped to tell the picture of how teeny tiny Lily truly was.
Those red flowers on the layout were created with scalloped circles. You can easily create scallop circle die cuts with a manual die cutting machine, such as the Cuttlebug Die Cutter. Simply snip down each scallop and roughen up the petals. Layer them up and add a brad, pearl or some bling in the center.
#6 Baby’s First Scrapbook: Baby Holding Mum’s Finger
Another clever way to show size. Grab a photo of your baby holding your finger! And if possible, try to get a handprint of the size so that you can add it to the layout as well.
#7 Baby Scrapbook Album Ideas: Recording Sweet Moments
We all take photos of our babies that we think are absolutely adorable. It is important to scrap those and to record them so you can look back at them in the future. My favorite photos of babies are either when they smile for the first time or when they yawn – so cute!
#8 Scrapbook Baby Layout to Showcase New Family Relationships
Another sibling layout. Katie’s proud face says it all! Don’t forget to add some journaling on your layout to record some of the detail of the new blooming sibling relationship.
#9 Scrapbook for Newborn Baby
Look at that little baby face – totally milk-drunk here! This layout is maybe more about mum, instead of the new baby. It is important to record your own feelings too, even if the feelings include being tired, drained and scattered.
You can always create some hidden journalling if you don’t want all your emotions and feelings visible.
#10 Baby Scrapbook Layouts To Record Favorite Baby Features (Such as the Eyes)
What is one of the features of your baby that you love the most? Jolene says that those steel blue eyes really captured her from the moment of birth. The color didn’t last, Lily now has brown eyes, which is why it is so important to grab photos of the features that you fall in love with. So that you have that memory recorded.
#11 Baby Layouts to Record Love Shared
Capture the moments of love, whether it is between siblings, or dad and daughter, or dad and son, or grandparents and grandchild. I think it is important to record those photos.
They will be priceless for your child one day when they are old enough to appreciate their first scrapbook album.
#12 Sweet Baby Layouts to Record Favorite Photos
Sometimes you manage to capture a photo at just the right time. This was one of those moments. Little Lily decided she is hungry and instinctively reacted to the skin rubbing past her mouth – so she was going in for a drink haha!
#13 Baby Pages to Record Baby’s Firsts (Such as the First Smiles)
Of course, it won’t be long till baby knock off those ‘first’ moments. The first smile, the first crawl, the first mouth full of food. Don’t forget to grab photos and to scrap those very important moments.
#14 Layouts to Record Growth and Changes (Check out the Hair going Orange??)
Things change. Your baby’s eyes might change color or if this case we went towards orange tinged hair (but she is back to brown again now!). When you notice those subtle changes, make sure to snap some photos.
#15 And of Course Baby Scrapbook Layouts – Just Because!
And lastly, don’t be afraid to try out bolder and brighter colors with your baby photos. Jolene had Avalee in a green outfit here, so she could play with strong pinks in the paper without the layout feeling like a ‘pink-overload’.
We hope you have loved all of our baby scrapbook ideas. Hopefully we have given you loads of ideas of what to scrap as well as loads of ideas on how to scrap those photos. You can also grab some baby scrapbook title ideas from here.
As always, we love seeing your creations, so please leave us a comment below and tell us all about them.
Till next time,
Samantha xxx
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Posted on November 20th, 2018
Easy Thanksgiving Craft for Kids: Turkey Handprint & Feathers
This popular Thanksgiving kids craft is definitely not new, but I wanted to pop a bit of a twist on the old favorite that includes different colored fingers by using some funky bright colored feathers instead.
I also had a bit of fun by joining in on the action and doing my own handprint turkey as well. My daughter had loads of fun painting my hand and instructing me on how to do the print.
This kids craft for Thanksgiving is perfect for toddlers and younger kids. My daughter is currently 2.5 years and she loved some aspects of the craft (such as the handprint and gluing the feathers), but she lost interested when it came to the detailed bits.
Because you are incorporating feathers and alphabet stickers, I think even older kids up to the age of 10 might enjoy doing this activity. You can even step up the challenge by getting the older kids to create their own alphabet stickers on your sticker die cut machine.
Find the full instructions on how to recreate the turkey dow below.
Easy Turkey Handprint Thanksgiving Craft for Kids
Find below the full step-by-step instructions on how to recreate this Thanksgiving art for kids.
Supplies Required:
1 x Canvas (25cm x 20cm)
Tube of Light Brown, Dark Brown, and Red Acrylic Paint
1 x Packet of Bright Colored Feathers
1 x Packet of Googly Eyes
1 x Packet of Alphabet Stickers (or Alphabet Stamps and Ink)
1 x Packet of Paint Brushes (I found it easier to simply use a new paintbrush for each color rather than trying to clean one in between steps)
Glue
Optional: Blue, Red, and Mustard Colored Paint for Border
Optional: Baby Wipes to Wipe Hands
Optional: White Paint to Fix up Smears of Paint on Background
Optional: Hair Dryer to Speed up Paint Drying Process
Instructions:
Step 1: Apply dark brown paint to the palm and thumb of your child’s hand. Press down the print onto the canvas.
Step 2: Apply dark brown paint to your own palm and thumb and press down onto the canvas.
Tip: Use a hair dryer to speed up the drying process of the paint.
Step 3: Once the paint is dry, glue down some feathers.
Step 4: Adhere a googly eye to each of the turkeys.
Step 5: Add a beak and sticky legs with some light brown paint.
Step 6: Add the red snood to the turkey.
Tip: Use the hair dryer to dry the paint before proceeding.
Step 7: Once the paint is dry, fix up any smears of paint on the background with some white paint. My daughter randomly painted over the turkey at one paint, but fortunately, I could save it by wiping off the excess with a wet wipe and simply painting a few layers of white over what was left of the paint.
(See if you can spot the big smear below – notice I gave her paper to keep her busy in between steps)
Tip: Use the hair dryer to dry the paint before proceeding.
Step 8: Add some alphabet stickers to your canvas. Alternatively, your child might prefer having fun with some alphabet stamps and some ink. My daughter is only 2.5 years, so I played it safe with stickers that I could fix up after her attempt.
Step 9: Finish off your canvas with some short smears of red, blue and mustard paint.
I’m not sure I’m loving this border I created, but I really felt like the canvas needed something around the edge. So I’ll leave it up to you whether you wish to do this step or not.
I hope you guys have loads of fun recreating your own turkey handprint crafts. If you are after even more ideas of how to take this craft activity to the next level, check out these inspiration #turkeyhandprint crafts on Instagram. Really love how to did a Thanksgiving plate with the painted handprint, so clever!
You can find loads more projects, tutorials and ‘how-to’ posts on our DIY craft blog here.
Till next time,
Samantha xxx
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Posted on November 20th, 2018
DIY: Using Die-Cuts to Make Your Own Cards
How many of you have die cuts lying around in your craft room – unloved and unused?
I bet we all do! We might buy a whole sheet of die cuts, simply because we loved 2 or 3 of them, but the rest? No idea what to do with them.
I hate waste, so for this project today, I wanted to find ways in which I could use those random die cuts and whip up some DIY custom birthday cards.
These die cuts are really old! They are by Fancy Pants (I think??), but I think they can easily be 5 or so years old! So I did good, don’t you think?
1. DIY Happy Birthday Card
This beautiful Happy Birthday card was created by using a panda die cut as a feature. I wasn’t sure where else to use this die cut, but you have to admit she is pretty cute!
The die cut itself already had a saying on the banner between the hands (I forget what it said) – so if you look closely you will notice that I simply popped a piece of paper with a handwritten ‘Happy Birthday’ over the top to cover it up.
I really wanted the panda to be the focus, so I lifted her away from the background with some 3D foam. I embellished her eyes and feet with some pretty pearls and gave her a crown with a flourish-style rub-on.
I also folded some normal paper to give a bit of a ‘ribbon’ effect along the left edge. I really love this card and think it came out beautiful!
2. DIY “Another Year Older” Card
Very obviously this card is made with the frog die cut. Bit of a weird choice for a card, but I really do feel that the frog really works well here. The card next to the frog with the tree on it, is another die cut from a journaling die cut sheet.
Again I lifted the frog away from the background with some foam tape. I used a decorative edge punch to give the right edge a creative look. Added some cut up doily bits for some lovely texture and simply rubbed some green ink over the doilies to give them a bit more of a muddy pond feel.
I finished the card off with some pearl bling and some pearl brads. I really felt like the pearls would elevate the card to something more elegant (but still fun).
3. DIY “Life in your Years” Card
For this card, I grab another die cut. This die cut already had this quote on it that I felt was perfect for a birthday card for someone a bit older. More foam tape for dimension and more doilies to add a lovely ‘home’ feel. This time I added some bling brads as I felt they just brightened and lifted the layout (where the pearls were making the card feel ‘old’)
Some more decorative borders – quick and easy card done!
I bet you have some die cuts that are just lying around unused. Can you think of a creative way to use them up?
Don’t forget that you can always create your own adorable die cuts. We love using a Cuttlebug (if you don’t mind using dies), but you can read through our die cutting machine review of the ten best machines here.
Hope that inspired you to make some cards today.
Till next time,
Samantha xxx
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Posted on November 20th, 2018
DIY Mommy & Daughter Layout with Handmade Material Flowers
Sometimes you manage to capture a photo that just melts your heart! Jolene grabbed this photo of herself and her little Lily. Totally in love with that smug look on Lily’s face!
She applied a slightly pink filter to the photo in photoshop and this help set up the color scheme that she wanted to work within her layout.
A Splendid Lovely Day:
DIY with Step-by-Step Instructions
This layout features some beautiful buntings.
Buntings can create an interesting border and is a great way to step away from the torn paper edge border, or the scallop border or that ink border that you see everywhere.
Banners are a great way of providing a detailed border to add interest to the layers or photos of a layout.
It is also just a great way of framing that all important photo.
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Supply List:
Step-by-Step Instructions:
Step 1: Cut nine patterned paper roses from a patterned paper. Alternatively, you can use to create some custom flowers for you. We will be using these flowers at the top and bottom of the feature photo.
Step 2: Cut 2 wavy strips of patterned paper strips.
Step 3: Adhere the photo to sit to the middle right of the page and position the flowers and wavy borders to sit slightly over the photo (see photo for a clearer idea on this).
Step 4: Create two triangle banners and stick them down using pop dots.
Step 5: Hand-make some roses by circle punching three circles to be about the same size as the completed roses. Cut three strips of patterned paper from the sticky backed material paper. With the sticky back exposed, fold both of the edges in towards the middle creating a firm material strip to hold the roses. Tie a knot in one end.
Step 6: Place liquid glue or hot glue on the punched circle base and place the knot of your in the middle. Start with a tight roll, which creates the centre of the rose, build up the rose by rolling the material around your centre twist and roll and repeat. When you are happy with the look of the rose, cut off the remaining material. Repeat the process and create two more roses.
Step 7: Cut off any exposed cardstock from your punched circle base and add a button, brad or bling in the centre of your flower if you wish.
Step 8: Add two of the roses to the top left corner of the photo and then add a beautiful crochet flower in the middle of the two roses.
Step 9: Add a quote embellishment sticker to sit over the top of the photo and right next to your material roses.
Step 10: Adhere the other material rose to the right of the rose border and below the photo. Adhere the Prima rose next to the fabric rose.
Step 11: Use the Stampendous stamp to stamp out a heart onto old book paper and once dry, cut it out. Add the heart to the layout, gently tuck the left corner slightly under the right bottom of the photo.
Step 12: Add the title embellishment sticker or use alphabet stickers to create a title.
Step 13: Write your journaling on some Bazzill cardstock. Cut these up into strips and adhere them don on the top left of the photo.
And there you have one beautiful layout complete. Buntings work really well on a number of scrapbook layouts. I really love using them on birthday or party-themed layouts and they are brilliant for baby scrapbook pages as well.
Have you tried using buntings? We would love to see your work!
Till later,
Samantha xxx
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Posted on November 20th, 2018
Scrapbook Christmas Layout Ideas: 6 Inspiration Scrapbook Pages!
After some Scrapbook Christmas layout ideas? We here you! We find Christmas layouts the hardest to create.
So to give you a bit of a creative boost, we wanted to share these 6 beautiful Christmas scrapbook ideas.
Out designer, Jolene, has completely outdone herself. Lucky she has some beautiful subjects to work with as well.
So without further ado, here are 6 scrapbook ideas for Christmas photos.
1. Scrapbook Christmas Layout Ideas: “Early”
Scrapbooking Christmas layouts before Christmas has even arrived? Yes well, so did Jolene! She found these two matching Christmas dresses in a cheap shop and she couldn’t help but grab some photos and whip up a layout. Early – yes, one month early to be exact!
The interesting effects here?
Grab an embossed cardstock for the base and simply lightly rub over some ink to help make the embossing stand out more.
Tear some paper instead of cutting it to give it a creative border.
Make sure your title laps over both the background and the photos. This will help bind your photos into the design (rather than them feeling like they were simply placed on top).
Use an electric die cutting machine to cut out some beautiful delicate vine/leave die cuts for you. So much cheaper than buying them from the shops.
2. Christmas Scrapbook Ideas: “My Christmas Wish for You”
You know that corny Christmas hat that you bought for the kids? Why not pop it on. Set your camera on a timer and get a photo of yourself for a change?
We love this layered Christmas page that Jolene created here. This time she created some flowers out of heart shapes. And she used up some leftover letters, by using different types for parts of the title.
Speaking of titles. Did you know that we have a massive list of title ideas for those scrapbook pages of yours?
3. Scrapbook Christmas Ideas: “Too Cute”
This layout is a bit different and we love it! For an interesting background effect, why not pop a paper doily over some cardstock and simply use some ink spray to lightly spray over the top. It reminds me of ‘magic dust’ – perfect for a Christmas layout.
Use some patterned paper to create the tree and a stamp for the basket.
You can also create your own muslin flowers. For the tutorial on how to do that, click here.
Last tip? Don’t always feel stuck in using standard size photos. Here Jolene cut down her portrait photos to get rid of distracting background – I feel like it tells the story so much better this way!
4. Christmas Scrapbook Layouts: “Trimming the {Pink} Tree”
After some double layout inspiration? We know that these are usually a lot harder to pull off. Jolene decided to do a Christmas tree across the center in order to bind these two pages as ‘one’.
A collage of all of the photos filled up most of the space and to finish it off she simply cut out some scallop circles with her Cuttlebug die cutting machine and some Spellbinders scallop circle dies. Snip down each scallop towards the center, ruffle up the ‘petals’ to separate them a bit and simply pop a brad in the center to finish it off.
5. Christmas Scrapbook Pages: “Xmas Lollipop”
We won’t go into too much detail about this layout, because we actually have a full step-by-step tutorial on this layout on our blog.
6. Scrapbook Christmas Layouts: “She Loves to Read”
Scrapbook layouts for Christmas can simple and still be striking! The power of this layout comes from a die cut shaped patterned paper.
All Jolene did was outline the paper with a white pen (just to set it apart from the background cardstock).
She added her photo and her sticker title. To finish off the page, she stamped out some leaves, which she used to create her layered flower design. Simple, easy, but beautiful!
We hope you enjoyed all these beautiful scrapbook Christmas pages. We have given you 6 fun ideas on how to whip up these scrapbooking layouts for Christmas. You will have your album together in no time at all!
We wish you all the best for Christmas this year!
Please share your beautiful layouts with us by leaving us a comment below.
All the best,
Samantha xxx
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Posted on November 19th, 2018
Some of our Favorite Christmas Titles Ideas for Scrapbooking and Cards
In the need for some Christmas title ideas for either your scrapbook layout our that Xmas card?
Don’t worry, we have you covered. We have collated some of our favorite card & scrapbook Christmas titles.
Thought I would pop them on here – because after all, it is a nice easy way for me to find them when I get stuck myself.
I’ve tried to keep the list shorter rather than making a never-ending post, simply because I feel a bit overwhelmed when I have to browse through 1000 titles ideas.
We would love for you to add your favorite title ideas in the comments below the post.
Favorite Christmas Titles Ideas for Scrapbooking and Cards
A Snowy Blowy Christmas
…you better not pout, I’m telling you why….
Tis the season for love and happiness
98% Nice 2% Naughty
A Holly Jolly Christmas
A Season Of Love And Laughter
A Sleigh Ride Together With You
A time for giving
A Time of Wonder
All Hearts Come Home for Christmas
All I Want for Christmas is You
All Is Calm, All Is Bright
All That Glitters is Snow
All Wrapped Up
Allow peace into your heart this Christmas
Another Christmas already? Seriously, what the Elf?
Baby it’s cold outside, but you fill my heart with warmth
Baby’s First Christmas
Be Naughty, Save Santa a Trip
Believe
Believe In Miracles
Believe in the magic of Christmas
Believe In The Miracle
Best wishes to you this holiday season
Bring on the joy! Bring on the cheer!
Celebrate the Season
Christmas Baby
Christmas Blessings
Christmas Chaos
Christmas Cheer
Christmas cookies and Holiday hearts…That’s the way the holiday starts
Christmas Cuties
Christmas Glows with Love
Christmas Is A Claus For Celebration
Christmas is a Santa-mental time!
Christmas is a special time when doubts and fears are melted away with love and hope
Christmas Is A Time To Believe In Things You Can’t See
Christmas Is Filled With Kids & Kisses
Christmas is in the Air
Christmas is not about presents. It’s about family
Christmas is Sharing and Caring
Christmas isn’t about what you receive – it’s about the love that you give
Christmas Joy
Christmas Kisses
Christmas Memories
Christmas Surprise
Christmas Time Brings So Much Pleasure When You Have Good Friends To Treasure
Christmas Time Is Family Time
Christmas Tree Shopping
Christmas warms the soul and tickles the heart
Come & see…the Christmas Tree!
Cooking up Christmas
Country Christmas
Dear Santa
Dear Santa, I can explain
Dear Santa, I Want It All!
Dear Santa, I want one of everything!
Dear Santa, I Was Very, Very Good
Dear Santa, I’ve Been Good
Dear Santa… define ‘good’
December Delights
December Magic
Deck the Halls
Decorating Cookies
Delights Of December
Don’t peek, don’t sneak, til’ Christmas
Don’t say anything, but I think I just saw that creepy elf on the bookcase actually move
Enjoying The Holly Days
Everyone is a kid at Christmas!
Everything is simply more meaningful at Christmas
Fa-La-la-la-la
Families Are A Special Part Of Christmas
Family & Friends are the True Gifts of Christmas!
Family Is The Best Part Of Christmas
Feel the peace and love of Christmas in your heart this holiday season
Festive Family Fun
Festive Trimmings All Merry and Bright
Friends and Family, that’s the meaning of Christmas
Frosty The Snowman
Fun & Frosty
Giving feels even better than receiving
Glad Tidings We Bring!
Good tidings to you and happy Christmas for today and all the Christmases to come
Happy Birthday Jesus
Happy Holidays
Hark The Herald Angles Sing
Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas
Health and happiness from my family to yours
Here Comes Santa Claus
Here’s to many more holidays by your side
Here’s wishing you the charms of Christmas all year long
He’s Making A List
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Ho-Ho-Ho
Holiday Delights
Holiday Goodies
Holiday Happiness
Holiday Hustle and Bustle
Holiday Magic
Holly Days
Holly Jolly Christmas
Home For The Holidays
Home is the Heart of the holidays
Home is where the Christmas cookies and presents are!
Homespun Holidays Are Stitched With Love
Hope, joy, love, and gladness – let all these be your guide this holiday season
How much longer must we wait? Please, Santa don’t be late!
I always imagined kissing you under a mistletoe
I Believe
I Believe In Santa
I Can ‘Bearly’ Wait For Christmas
I love the snow. I love the tree. I love the stockings, the cookies, the candy canes and the giving of precious gifts. But, most of all, I love you. Merry Christmas
I wouldn’t want to cuddle up next to the fireplace with anyone else, Merry Christmas!
If love and happiness were snowflakes, I’d send a blizzard your way this holiday season! Merry Christmas my love
If love is the reason for the season, I have a lot to be thankful for
If you warm me with your holiday spirit, I promise to inspire you with my holiday cheer
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
I’ll Be Home For Christmas, You Can Count On Me
I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas
In Search of the Perfect Tree
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
It’s Christmas All Over Again!
It’s Christmas Day So Let’s Go Play!
It’s not the holly and the ivy, nor the lights on the trees, but you by my side that fills this holiday with the spirit of love
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year…
It’s your Christmas! March to the beat of your own little drummer boy
Jesus is the Reason for the Season!
Jingle All the Way
Jingle Bells
Joy and love to you and yours this holiday season!
Joy to the world!
Joy, peace, and love unto you and your family this Christmas
Joyful Noise
Joys Of The Season
Just What I’ve Always Wanted
Keep The Wonder Of Christmas In Your Heart
Laughter fill your home on this joyous holiday. Be comforted, be content, and give love.
Let the kids dream of sugar plums, and others dream of snowy evenings
Let the magic of Christmas bring love and peace to you and to the world
Let the magic of Christmas bring you back to when you were a child
Lets Leave Christ In Christmas
Let’s Meet Under The Mistletoe
Little Elves
Little Treasures
Look what I got!
Love each day as if it were Christmas and you will always be joyful!
Love Is The Light Of Christmas
Love Is What’s In The Room With You At Christmas If You Stop Opening Presents And Listen
Magical Christmas
Magical Holidays
May Christmas warm your heart the whole year long!
May goodness and light follow you this Christmas and for all your days
May the charms of the holiday season gladden your heart and lighten your burdens
May the lights of the season fill you with warmth and joyous spirit
May the splendor of the season warm your days and nights
May this holiday season be filled with laughter, joy, and peace
May you find peace this holiday season and glorious love in the new year
May Your Days Be Merry & Bright
May your holidays be merry and bright!
Meet Me Under The Mistletoe
Memories of the Holidays
Meowy Christmas!
Merry “Kiss”mas
Merry and Bright
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Baby!
Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night!
Mistletoe Magic
My Christmas Angel(s)
My Joy
Naughty Or Nice?
NEVER Naughty……ALWAY’S Nice!!
No Peekin’
Nobody loves Christmas more than me, and I love you even more than Christmas… or at least it’s close
Noel! Peace and joy to you this Christmastime!
O’ Christmas Tree
O Holy Night
Oh Deer, It’s Christmas
Old Fashioned Christmas
On Santa’s Lap
Our First Christmas Together: The Best Gift Is Each Other
Peace and love to warm your heart this holiday season
Peace be with you this holiday season and let it envelop you all of your days
Peace On Earth
Peace on Earth, goodwill toward all
Please Come Home For Christmas
Presents & Carols & Lights
Rejoice
Remember that magical feeling of waking up to presents on a Christmas morning? That’s how I feel waking up with you!
Remember the Reason for the Season
Remember when? Keep Christmas close and the memories will flood to you like a tide of joy
Ring The Bells! It’s Christmas!
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
S Is For Santa
Santa Baby
Santa Claus Is Coming
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Santa Collector
Santa Delivers
Santa Express
Santa is real, if we believe. Bringing you the gift of a little magic this Christmas Eve
Santa Stops Here
Santa stuffed the stockings & we stuffed our faces!
Santa Was Here
Santa, PLEASE STOP HERE!
santa….I want it ALL!!!!
SANTA?
Santa’s Elf
Santa’s Helper
Santa’s Little Helper(s)
Santa’s Workshop
Season’s greetings and best wishes for the New Year
Sharing this season together is the greatest gift of all
Shock & Awe
Silent Night
Sing, dance, rejoice in song – and treat yourself and others with kindness this Christmas
Spreading Christmas Cheer
Sure, Christmas is for kids, but luckily the holiday spirit makes children of us all
Surrounded With Love
The 12 days of Christmas guy really had a thing about birds, huh? Let’s hope you don’t know anyone crazy enough to give you 23 birds this holiday season
The Beginning of Believing
The best time of the year
The holidays are special because I get to spend them with you
The most wonderful gift I can receive this Christmas is to celebrate with you
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
The Night Before Christmas
The only app I’d like for Christmas is a “hAPPy holiday.”
The Spirit of Christmas
The Spirit Of Christmas Is All Around Us
The stockings were hung…..
The true meaning of the holidays is having a friend like you
There is nothing quite like Christmas – the celebration, the decoration, and the pure excitement. Follow your joy this holiday season and in the new year
There’s Magic In Believing
There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays
There’s No Time Like The Presents
There’s pure joy in the discovery that the best presents are the people whose presence is solely for bringing presents
Thinking of you this holiday season with love and gladness. I’m so happy we are celebrating this joyous day together
This holiday season let us treasure what is truly important in all our lives, the reason for the season: Cookies
This House Believes in Santa
Tiny Tots With Their Eyes All A-Glow
Tis the season to be freezin’
Tis The Season To Be Freezin’
Tis The Season To Be Jolly
Tis The Season To Be Merry
Tis the Season
Trimming Our Tree
Twas The Night Before Christmas
Unwrap My Heart
Unwrap the FUN!
Unwrap the Magic
Unwrap the season
UP TO SNOW GOOD
Waiting For Santa!
Wakey Wakey! Santa’s Been!
We Believe In Santa!
We have Christmas all wrapped up!
We Wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas and you’re welcome – that song’s now stuck in your head all day
White Christmas
Wish
Wishing you a merry Christmas and peace throughout the year
With love and good tidings to you this Christmas and a joyous new year!
With you, everyday is like Christmas!
Wow, thanks Santa!
Wrapped With Care
Yes _____ (insert child’s name), there IS a Santa Clause
You are the greatest gift I could wish for this Christmas
You are the star on my Christmas tree, the marshmallows in my cocoa, and the Rudolph for my sleigh – here’s to another wonderful Christmas together!
You Better Not Pout
You’re never too old to stop believing in Santa
We hope you found some title inspiration from our list of the best Christmas title ideas for both scrapbooking and card-making.
If you found one that you loved, please let us know which one it was in the comments below.
Happy some fabulous titles to add to our list? Leave those below as well.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Samantha xxx
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Posted on November 19th, 2018
DIY Custom Christmas Scrapbook Layout: Step-by-Step Instructions
I’m not sure why, but I typically find Christmas layouts to be super tricky to make.
I’m not sure why – it might be because sometimes I don’t like the Christmas scrapbook collections that are out, or maybe it is because I feel restricted to typical Christmas colors.
Either way, they always challenge me, but I’m pretty proud of this layout that I whipped up. So much so that I wanted to share the full tutorial for the Christmas layout with you all.
I hope you enjoy!
Xmas Lollipop: DIY Christmas Scrapbook Layout with Instructions
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Supply List:
Step-by-Step Instructions:
Close-Up Detail Shots
Here are some detail shots for you to help you with your steps. As a tip, you might have noticed that I played with the main feature of the photo: the lollipop. I used the repetition of round shapes on my layout to place more emphasis on the lollipop and also used the colors from it to create my own flower centers.
If you do happen to follow our instructions, or even if you feel inspired by some aspects of this layout, we would love for you to share a link to your creation in the comments below.
And if we don’t see you on our blog before Christmas – Merry Christmas to you.
Till later, xxx
Samantha
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Posted on November 19th, 2018
DIY Christmas Card Ideas: Sweet Set of 3 Matching Cards
Christmas time is coming up so fast! And we can’t help but feel all crafty and creative as the excitement of the season settles in.
In preparation for the big day, our design team member Jolene has whipped up these 3 super sweet DIY Christmas card designs.
The beauty of cards is that you can easily use up your scrap pieces of patterned papers, those small pieces of ribbons and the random embellishments that never seem to have a place on a scrapbook layout.
We aren’t going to write up some step-by-step instructions for these ones as I think they are easy to replicate without the detailed steps, but let us know if you get stuck and need some more specific instructions on how to recreate them.
Create your own Christmas Cards
Here are our DIY Christmas card ideas to get those creative juices flowing.
Supply List:
Optional: Scrapbook Die Cutting Machine and scallop circle die
Optional: Rub-ons
1. DIY Christmas Card Ideas: Merry Christmas
For our first Christmas card DIY ideas that we are sharing today, we have a super sweet, but pretty simple little bauble card.
The bauble itself is actually created out of a really old acetate journalling book (by Making Memories). Something that was lying around unused. I was inspired by the snowflake design and simply cut my acetate in the shape of a bauble.
I added some outline to the bauble with a silver paint pen and finished it off with some pretty pearl accents. I found a short piece of ribbon that I tied off as a bow.
The word “Happy” is from letter stickers. Again they are pretty old and these are from the Paper Trunk brand.
And finally, Jolene used a white Sukaru pen to create the border around the edge of the card, and she used it to handwrite the word Christmas (mostly because she didn’t have the right stickers left to actually do it out of stickers).
If you aren’t a fan of handwriting, you might be able to find the word “Christmas” on a rub-on sheet and use that instead.
2. DIY Christmas Card Designs: Happy Holidays
For the next card in our set of DIY Xmas card ideas, we have one that has a beautiful pop with that oversized paper flower. You can easily whip up this flower with some scrap paper – Jolene actually used some old book paper here to create her statement piece.
Let us know if you want us to share the instructions on how to create this stunning flower.
The rest of the card is layered with patterned paper and acetate journaling. And the flower is topped off with a glitter circle and another ribbon bow.
3. DIY Xmas Card Ideas: Xmas Joy
Ready to make your own Christmas cards now? Here is one last idea.
Jolene found a really old piece of patterned paper that had Christmas trees on it. So she cut them out and layered them up with some 3D tape.
Use your die cutting machine and a scallop circle die to cut a circle out of patterned paper to add behind your acetate. More silver and white penwork for detail work and some pearls – because who doesn’t love pearls! Easy Peasy!
Christmas card making doesn’t have to be hard.
You can easily whip up some custom Christmas cards with some simple and clean designs. Once you have a design that you like, you can quickly create Christmas cards in similar designs but with small changes – maybe use bling instead of pearls, change up the cardstock or the color of the ribbon.
And lastly, don’t forget that if you have a die cutting machine you can also create your own die cuts or your own stickers to use as well.
So now it is your turn to create your own Christmas card and we would love to see them. Please leave us a comment below.
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Posted on November 18th, 2018
10 Best Heat Transfer Vinyl Reviews 2019 [Comparison Table Included]
Posted on November 16th, 2018