Christmas projects with new Taylored Expressions! Stamps, Stencils, Glitter, and an Elf!

Hi everyone! Happy December 1st! Can you believe it? Another year, another holiday season, another winter…. Wow, this year went fast! I hope you have a delightful, happy and peaceful December. Our month is so full of activities I have two different calendars going. There are so many fun things to do this time of year. I like to volunteer a lot and there are so many things happening at church, and work and of course craft fairs and Christmas festivals. Looking forward to a lovely month. Oh, and it's raining here today – yay! Lucky and I are all cozy in the craft room with the candles going and the twinkle lights…What a nice day. 

I have some projects to share with you today – both projects were made with awesome new supplies from our friends at Taylored Expressions! Yippeee! One classic card, and some bright and cheery tags. Supplies are all listed at the bottom of my post – including my ink colors for stenciling! Let's get to it!!

First up is a classic Christmas card, with kraft, red, green and gold. I used the new NOEL stamp/stencil combo and it is such a nice suite!! My finished card is an A2 red card base. I layered cream and then my top layer is kraft with the stenciling on it. I added snowflakes and splatters of course…

 

The NOEL stencil/stamp combo is soooo pretty. It's a set of four stencils and then a set of tiny accent stamps to add the leaf details. It's perfection. I used shades of greens and then the new Lumberjack Red Distress Ink!! The final stencil does the lines inside the words and I chose to use glitter gel/paste as my accent. Tip – make sure all your inks are 100% dry before you add a paste!!! I used both my small and large sized blender brushes to get a nice even coat of ink onto my paper. The colors look different on Kraft paper – and I love this look. I used Distress Inks – colors are listed in the supplies!

 

Here's a close up of all the details. I used a TE die to make a set of vellum snowflakes which I added to my card and also my other project for today. I love a pretty vellum snowflake, don't you? 

 

 

 

This is such a nice idea for a one layer card and would be great for mass production…. 

 

Next up is the Holiday Squad!! I made three tags using the new Holiday Squad dies/stamp set! The die set makes Santa, Mrs. Clause, and an adorable elf. All die cut from whatever color cardstock you want! I again stayed with traditional red and green…. I added snowflakes to my tags also…and snow splatters… There is a small stamp set that comes with the dies – for the eyes, cheeks and glasses. So easy and fun! I used the Joyful Season stamp set to add the small words on each tag.

Remember last year I made this card with the Snow Squad Dies! I'm so happy TE is adding to this fun collection of 'squads!'

 

Sweet Mrs. Claus with her smiling face and cute holly barette!! I added white gel pen accents to all three tags. I attached the figures to some postage stamp die cuts before adding them to the tags.

 

OMG how cute is this elf with his pointy ears!!! Instead of white for the hat brim and pom pom, I used silver glitter paper….

 

And of course Santa with his fluffy beard and cheerful smile….

 

 

 

These were so much fun to make!! I tied some twine at the top of each tag in a matching color. Added snowflakes and some tiny hearts…

 

 

 

Here's a photo I took the other day of a delicious drink I made in my new W mug! I love coffee mugs and I have a bazillion coffee mugs! But I always buy more! There never is a W so I had to get it, right??? I made hubs and I some peppermint mocha coffees the other day. He found peppermint flavored whipped cream at Whole Foods!!! So I mixed coffee, milk, chocolate, and peppermint syrup. I put on the whipped cream and some crushed peppermint candies. And WOWZA, sooooo yummy.  On a side note – have you ever had the peppermint milkshakes at Chik-fil-a???? OMG so good! I haven't had one yet this year, but I'm going to take care of that this weekend! Ha!

That's it for today! What are you working on!? Are you looking forward to a fun December too? I am sending out big hugs and good wishes for a happy holiday season to everyone. Love you guys. XOXO