Thursday, November 1, 2018

ICS-CROSS-STITCHED CHRISTMAS


This month on Inspire, Create, Share Blog Hop we are starting our       Holiday crafting with a 3-D item! Lots of fun ideas for the holidays!!!   We are a week early this month as many of us will be traveling to Orlando next week for our OnStage event!!! So much fun ahead!!!

So let me start by saying 3-D items are a real challenge for me! If you follow this blog, you know I'm a real CAS (Clean & Simple) kinda gal! My cards are very linear & simple. I do not usually work with 3-D items! In fact I rarely make them!  I love to look at them & see the great ideas others have, but I'm not great at coming up with something new! But the holidays are all about bling & fun, so I decided to give it a try! My creation is rather CAS, but I think its cute! What dya think?

Here it is:


So I thought what's more 3-D for the holidays than Christmas ornaments? Most people have a tree, so we need the ornaments to hang from them! These came out cute, but they are very simple!!!


My fave stamp set from the Holiday Catalog is the Cross-Stitched Christmas set! I love the multi-step stamping, & I think it's a pretty, crisp stamp set!

These 3 little ornaments sparkle! I used my amazing Stamparatus to stamp the base layer in a color, the second layer with Versamark &                     White Embossing Powder, and the 3rd layer with Versamark &
 Silver Embossing Powder!  I chose these colors because I feel they are "cool" colors-for winter!!!

I am not one for fussy cutting, but I thought the Stitched Oval Framelit made the ornament look like it was in a hoop.   Which is where you would work the cross-stitch! I backed them all with a nice Silver Glimmer Paper.  Just thought they needed some "bling" on the backside!


I fortunately had matching colors in the twine-Night of Navy Medium Bakers Twine, & 2 colors from Nature's Twine!  Add a bit of Glitter Enamel Dots & Basic Jewels Rhinestone bling & it's kinda sweet!!!

So nothing fancy but easy to make & fun to hang on your tree! Great to do with your kids!!!!

Now hop over to Terri's blog & see what she came up with!!! Just click on her name or the icon below & you'll get there! Then keep going!! Follow through this great hop of ideas to get you into the Holiday spirit & ready for crafting!!!

Happy Stampin'!


12 comments:

  1. Simple is a good thing! These are darling!

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  2. These are really neat Joni....what a great gift...and easy to mail too! Thanks for hopping with us this month!

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  3. These are so cute!! What a great addition they would be to "homemade" tree, or as a gift tag!!

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  4. These are absolutely lovely! At first I thought you had added real stitches but the embossing really makes the design pop!

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  5. Joni, so clever! I absolutely love these cute little ornaments! That stamp set is perfect to make these adorable accents. When I first looked, I thought you had taken several small rhinestones and colored them all different colors, but when I read through your descriptions, I noticed you used the Stamparatus and embossed two different layers. Very clever and fun! Thank you so much for drawing my attention to this fun set!

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  6. Just beautiful! You do great with 3D!

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  7. I can see these decorating a table top tree. Nice!

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  8. Stunning and elegant - what a sparkly gift for a friends tree!

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  9. These are so cool! I love that you came up with something unique and practical to put on the tree!

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