(See below for giveaway details. Kristin's layout has been added, so be sure to check that out too!)
By
Lori Mancini
The holidays are truly a wonderful time of year - definitely one of my favorite times to celebrate and spend time with family and friends. I am realizing that the holidays certainly bring out the sentimental side of me - and having special friends to spend our memorable moments with means so much. I wanted to document what an important role our friends play in our lives so while we were at the Christmas tree farm last weekend I gathered us all together and asked a nice individual to snap some photo's of us! How happy was I when I saw how great the pictures turned out! It isn't an award winning photo - certainly not the best composition - but that doesn't matter at all to me. What matters is that we have a photo of us all together, smiling, laughing, spending time together, being just us - nothing fancy, just friends hanging out. Years from now the memories that this photo will hold are worth a thousand times more than the second it took to snap. I hope that during this holiday season you get a chance to spend some time with those you cherish and love as well. It truly is one of the magical parts of the season.
I had so much fun doing this layout (and no it wasn't because of the Christmas music I was singing along too!) I played a little bit with some paint and had fun with some paper curling just like I do when I wrap my Christmas gifts each year. I am pretty much addicted to paper curling now - I love how it brings dimension and movement to projects and it is just so simple to do...I challenge you to try it on your next layout!
Journalling Reads:
The Holiday Season is such a special time of year... but it is even more special when you have friends to share it with.
PRODUCTS USED:
COLLAGE PRESS: Joyride Collection Pattern Paper
Little Flurries, Cherry & Bright (both sides)
COLLAGE PRESS: Joyride Phrase Stickers
COLLAGE PRESS: Joyride Chipboard Stickers
COLLAGE PRESS: Joyride Collage Cuts
COLLAGE PRESS: Joyride Alpha Stickers (Red)
OTHER: Bazzill Paper, American Craft Thickers, Prima Flowers & Leaves,
Making Memories Pins and Paint, Tim Holtz Rock Candy, Glimmer Mist, Martha Stewart Punch.
Thanks so much for letting me share... and I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!
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"There's No Place Like Home"
Jennifer Beason
I don't know about you, but my favorite place to be for the holidays, is home with my family and close friends. With that thought in mind I decided to alter a paper mache house, for this month's assignment "There's no place like..... for the holidays".
Because the house I used was kind of small, I attached it to a paper mache drum.
The tiles on the roof are half circles that were layered in rows.
I used a die-cut journaling tag for the door mat.
I cut out two of the kids from the Joyride Crafting Strips sheet and adhered them to the side windows of the house.
Here's a side view.
In the back I used another journaling card, this time for the back door. I applied patterned paper to the back of the chipboard trees and clouds, for a finished look.
Collage Press Supplies:
Joyride Cheery & Bright
Joyride Around the World
Joyride Little Flurries
Joyride Oh What Fun!
Joyride Peppermint Twist
Joyride Wonderland
Joyride Together
Joyride Good times
Joyride Crafting Strips
Joyride Journaling Cards
Joyride Journaling Cuts
Joyride Phase Stickers
Joyride Chipboard Stickers
Sweet Shoppe Alphabet Stickers
Other Supplies:
Trinket pins and small chipboard heart - Maya Road
Paper mache house ornament, paper mache drum, wire, micro beads, glitter and pom poms - Hobby Lobby
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"No, the GRINCH did not steal Christmas."
by Tonya Dirk
I've been waiting to use this photo for almost a year now. Originally I had planned on this photo joining all of our Santa pictures from years past. Then we had a "Santa" who was a willing, but not very cooperative participant. See, last year about 10 days before Christmas, we had the largest snow storm I ever remember Portland having in the 40 years I have been here. School was closed for the entire week before Christmas break. As a mother of four, I sooooo.... needed those days. I wasn't done shopping or wrapping and we hadn't been to see Santa yet. Along with school being closed the entire city was pretty much shut down. So, my mom and I came up with a brilliant idea, or so we thought at the time. I was to buy a Santa hat and we would put it on my Step-dad and he would pose as Santa for a home photo shoot. However, two major things went wrong. First, I could only find a toddler size Santa hat at the limited stores that I had to chose from. Second, our Santa had no interest in smiling. This photo cracks me up. It made it to a layout, but I haven't been able to convince myself to add it to the frame with all of our other professional Santa portraits. The youngest in the photo is my niece...only four of those are mine!
I chose to accent my page with an embossing folder from Cuttlebug. Love the way that those ornaments stand out on the pink polka dot paper.
Products:
Joyride Phrase Stickers
Joyride Alphabet Cardstock Stickers
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Kristin Faust
One of the first thing that I noticed about the Joyride collection was the mix of papers that coordinated so well with Christmas themes but could also be used on non Christmas pages. My first thought was to use those wonderful snowflakes on winter pages but then I wondered....could I use this line for photos that were taken in the summer?
But more importantly, could I use this line for Penn State pictures?
Well this is what I came up with and I am thrilled to say that you can use this stuff with anything!
Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill. Pattern Paper: Cheery and Bright, Oh What Fun. Stickers: Joyride and Knave of Hearts. Buttons: American Crafts. Brad: Bazzill. Journaling Cut: Joyride. Other: String, Thread, Staples.
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Giveaway!!!!
This time around, winners will not win just one set of papers, but 2, one for you and one for a friend, or 2 for friends, or two for you. :) Yay! One more present you don't have to worry about. We'll be showing our DT members' projects until Thursday. Winners will be announced Friday, packages will ship Friday and Saturday. US winners will have their goodies by Tues/Wed (please no big snow storm, or other postal delays :) ). And you can show up with a smug smile on someone's doorstep on the 24th, every bit prepared with some CP papers!
Leave a comment and be entered to win...
oh, love the Lori's layout... so amazing
thanks for the chance
Posted by: beatrice | December 17, 2009 at 01:31 AM
once again, incredible projects
thanks for sharing such inspiration
Posted by: isabel | December 17, 2009 at 01:31 AM
Good choice : the design team is fabulous !
love to win some papers ;-)
Posted by: alexandra | December 17, 2009 at 01:32 AM
thanks for the giveaway, and for those christmas projects
Posted by: isadona | December 17, 2009 at 01:34 AM
It's christmas this week ! thanks for the chance to win some CP products
love them all
Posted by: guillauma | December 17, 2009 at 01:41 AM
Oh that Santa layout is precious! What a great story behind it too!!! Love all the papers!
Posted by: Jacqueline Tan | December 17, 2009 at 02:17 AM
OMG, these projects are the most beuatiful things I've seen for a long time! I LOVE the new CP papers! I have the journaling diecuts but now I really have to get my hands on the whole paper line! Thanks for the inspo!!!
Posted by: Reija | December 17, 2009 at 02:30 AM
These projects are so amazing!! Thanks for the inspiration :)
Posted by: Laura Onosato | December 17, 2009 at 02:51 AM
Wow, gotta love those projects!
So full of colorful details! Some truly inspiring pieces of art, thanks you so much for sharing, wishing you all a beautiful and magic christmas :)
Thansk for the inspiration:)
Posted by: Ann Cicilie | December 17, 2009 at 02:57 AM
More amazing projects from amazing talent. Love it!
Posted by: ames | December 17, 2009 at 03:47 AM
Another day of amazing inspiration! Great projects!
Posted by: MichelleG | December 17, 2009 at 04:17 AM
these are all such wonderful creations ... thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: Nina | December 17, 2009 at 04:24 AM
Wow you girls all Rock!!
Lori love your paper curling on the jounal strips and throughout the page.
Jennifer what a beautiful work of heART on both your house and the drum base.
Tanya Love the story behind your great Grinch page lol.
Gotta confess I don't usually watch blogs...but thinking with this kind of inspiration...I'll continue to be checking in love what beautiful work is being reavealed here!! Thanks bunches.
Posted by: Karent | December 17, 2009 at 04:24 AM
Just have to say how I love pink in Christmas-papers and yours is so gorgeous!! :)
Posted by: Ania | December 17, 2009 at 04:33 AM
Three beautiful projects! That house is adorable!
Posted by: Glyniss | December 17, 2009 at 04:39 AM
Your DTs are really fabulous! All so talented and inspiring. Thanks for the inspiration ladies
Posted by: LG Belarmino | December 17, 2009 at 04:41 AM
These are all incredible but I can't help but love that little house with the airplane up above and love the curly paper on the first layout. The subtle embossed ornaments on the second page are pretty cool, too. I'd sure love some of this paper to play with :)
Posted by: Becky Williams | December 17, 2009 at 04:58 AM
REALLY GREAT projects! Thanks for the chance.
Posted by: Janine R. | December 17, 2009 at 05:13 AM
The DT has done it again...awesome work.
Posted by: Celeste B. | December 17, 2009 at 05:15 AM
what amazing projects!!
Posted by: Sue Fields | December 17, 2009 at 05:23 AM
Wow, your DT is amazing!
Posted by: Claude | December 17, 2009 at 05:23 AM
Love the projects and LO's. I like how the journaling was done on the first LO and the ornament embellishments on the second LO.
Posted by: conniemelancon | December 17, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Great layouts and altered project!!
Posted by: Jennifer R | December 17, 2009 at 07:01 AM
Beautiful projects here! Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 17, 2009 at 07:17 AM
OMG!!! These are once again brilliant!
Posted by: Frances | December 17, 2009 at 07:32 AM
Beautiful layouts and projects! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Michelle W. | December 17, 2009 at 07:37 AM
These are fabulous! That house is amazing! I so want to make a little house! I love the roof on this one! SO super fun!
Posted by: Jingle | December 17, 2009 at 08:27 AM
wow, first time visit to the blog...I am impressed with your products! Niiiice. I'd love a chance to play with the papers in person. Thanks! :)
Posted by: Dalovely Damanda | December 17, 2009 at 08:30 AM
LOVE those projects, especially the house. Great job everyone!!
Posted by: Lindsay | December 17, 2009 at 08:31 AM
These projects are...wow...just jaw dropping. Love them!
Posted by: Vel | December 17, 2009 at 08:37 AM
I would LOVE to win some CP goodies!!
Love that house project!
Posted by: JJ | December 17, 2009 at 08:59 AM
Great projects! I absolutely love that house!
Posted by: Niki Estes | December 17, 2009 at 09:50 AM
o0o0o GORGEOUS projects!!! love it!
Posted by: sarah | December 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM
UNbelievably awesome projects!
Posted by: Jing-Jing | December 17, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Ohh!! I love these projects!! I so want to make a house like that... Maybe if I won me some papers??
Siri
Posted by: Siri | December 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Love the layouts and house! That house is just adorable and these layouts are fabulous! Great job, so inspirational!
Posted by: Andrea MacDonald | December 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM
The new DT is RAWKN the Joyride collection! I love seeing everyone's creations!
Posted by: Lindsay | December 17, 2009 at 11:21 AM
i love coming by here to see all of the amazing creativeness that the design team comes up with!
Posted by: j.leija | December 17, 2009 at 11:22 AM
awesome projects!
Posted by: ShellyJ | December 17, 2009 at 01:40 PM
Amazing as always girls!!!
Posted by: Renay Alpers | December 17, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Loving all the cool projects!
Thanks for inspiring us during this wonderful busy time of year.
Fran Heupel
Posted by: fran heupel | December 17, 2009 at 02:38 PM
All of the projects are simply spectacular, especially that house!
Posted by: jacquie | December 17, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Amazing projects! Such creativity! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!
Posted by: Abby | December 17, 2009 at 03:25 PM
Wow, WOw, WOW!!! Beautiful work! Love it!!!
Posted by: Sandy L | December 17, 2009 at 03:52 PM
Love the way you curled that paper. The LO is gorgeous. Wanting to lift it if you don't mind.
Posted by: Gloria Martens | December 17, 2009 at 04:15 PM
Fabulous layouts and project...WOW!
Posted by: Melanie C | December 17, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Cool projects & all so different! Love stopping by daily for more inspiration :)
Posted by: Lynn | December 17, 2009 at 04:34 PM
such great layers and details on all of these projects! totally amazing. :]
Posted by: amy christine | December 17, 2009 at 05:12 PM
That cute house is to die for! And I love the sweet LO's & clever details.
Posted by: Anna | December 17, 2009 at 05:43 PM
The layouts are fabulous and that little house is AMAZING!
Posted by: rebecca keppel | December 17, 2009 at 05:51 PM
I love the layouts! Especially the paint and curled paper! Thanks for the inspiration and the chance at a giveaway!
Posted by: Sarah W. | December 17, 2009 at 06:34 PM
love that house!
Posted by: Laura Stewart | December 17, 2009 at 07:34 PM
SO many great projects! I'm gonna have to try that paper curling. Cool.
Posted by: Summer Braxton | December 17, 2009 at 07:52 PM
Great layouts, ladies...and Jennifer: your project rocks!
Posted by: Cynthia B. | December 17, 2009 at 09:46 PM
Beautiful projects by the design team! I love, love that house project. The colors are just so festive!
Posted by: sookie | December 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM
LOVE these projects! Way to go, girlies!!!
Posted by: Julie O. | December 18, 2009 at 10:00 AM
There goes that amazing Jennifer showing us her fabulous talent again. Your papers are exactly what she needs to showcase her fund and unique style. Thanks as always for the inspiration.
Posted by: Carol | December 18, 2009 at 03:20 PM