Control Freaks Blog Tour - Christmas

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Control Freaks blog tour! You have probably come from Mary Brown's blog. Isn't she just fantabulous?! She always amazes me with her work! It's October and the theme is December holidays. So I will focus on Christmas - The most wonderful time of the year!

My first project is a card. If you have seen the Deck the Halls designer paper you can probably relate to me when I say that it is really hard to cut up that GORGEOUS paper!! Ugh!! I am even having a hard time scrapbooking with it because I don't want to put pictures over it to cover it up! So, I thought that I would try a card where the paper was showcased. And here is what I came up with:

And this is just a small portion of the gorgeous paper. I used the glass glitter to act as a frame around the paper. Then I stamped the ornament from the Tags til Christmas set and punched it out. I added a sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set and some basic rhinestones to "bling" up the ornament.

My next project is another card but very simply done:


I absolutely LOVE this little snowman from the A Cute Christmas set. If you have been following me on my blog you will know that I use him a lot! The other images in the set are getting ignored. I will have to try and use them, too. Anyway, I stamped him in Basic Black and punched him out with the 2 1/2" circle punch and added the greeting. Then I used the Norther Frost decorative strip to die cut some snowflakes and picked one to embellish with. I added a basic rhinestone for some "bling". Never can have enough bling!! Easy, peasy!!

My final project is one that I am really proud of. I don't usually do things like this but I got inspired by many other demonstrators who are really good at coming up with cute holiday treat/decoration ideas. I have really enjoyed making banners for various occasions. Then I saw this super cute idea to make cones out of designer paper and thought that I could combine the two ideas. So here is my take on a banner made of cones.

I thought that it would be fun to put little treats of some kind in each cone. Or just a little surprise for Christmas. Kind of like stockings hung by the fire! Anyway, I really enjoyed making these. And I used the fun new scrunching ribbon technique around the top. Can't wait to use that technique on more ideas!! For this project I used the Deck the Halls designer paper and big designer buttons. I also used the Alphabet Simple Letters dies, 1 3/8" circle punch and scallop punch, Victoria crochet trim, Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to click on the link below for the next stop on the tour! You are sure to get a TON of fabulous ideas!