Barbie pink Christmas Tree

Hello friends, I would like to show you my tree. I have a 7 foot pink tree! It is decorated with my collection of Hallmark Barbie ornaments. So today I want to share with you a few close ups of my ornaments!

This is a Barbie shoe tree! Hallmark made 2 of these pretty trees! Each level rotates with classic Barbie shoe styles!

This is an ornament that I missed when it came out. I was lucky enough to find it at a flea market this summer. It is a replica of a vintage Barbie house. It unfolds like the original to display a perfect replica of the house! I will share more photos so you can see the inside.

This beautiful ornament is of a vintage Bubble Cut Barbie wearing her beautiful "Silken Flame" outfit.

I really love this 50's Barbie ornament showing off her adorable poodle skirt!!

This is supposed to look like a gift bag. Inside is 3 boxes filled with Barbie shoe ornaments!

I hope you enjoyed seeing a few pictures from my tree! I promise to share more photos of it next week!

Have a great weekend, Lindsey

Christmas Card Tutorial and Distress Inks

Hello friends,

I want to share with you today, a tutorial for a quick and easy, Christmas card.

I found this sweet little card this summer and thought it would be perfect for a bigger card!

So first print and cut the card.





I then cut a sheet of red cardstock to be half an inch bigger than the image on the top and sides. I cut it 1 inch bigger on the bottom and cut it with a Martha Stewart edge punch.





I then cut a sheet of pink cardstock and folded it to be 5 1/2 x 7 card size.

I then cut a sheet of green snowflake paper to be a half inch smaller than the card. I repeated this again with red paper.

I took a strip of pink ribbon and tied a knot bow in the center.

Glue the red and green paper together.

I added glue to the ribbon and glued it across the bottom of the red and green paper wrapping it around behind the green paper. I then glued the image to the red paper and glued that to the pink card.

Here is a close up of where I wrapped the ribbon around the green snowflake paper.

I then tied pink thread through a vintage pink button and glued to the center of my bow.

And that's it! Super easy and great for those last minute Christmas parties!

I also had some questions about the blending tool that I use with the distress inks to blend the inks on my tags. This is what it looks like. We sell it here at the Scrapbook store where I work but you can also find it in the Tim Holtz section at Michaels.

It has foam pads which you rub on your ink pads. You can also try makeup sponges if you don't have the tool. Just make sure if you go to purchase this tool that it has the foam and not the felt, which is for use with Alcohol inks.

While I was at the store I thought I would show you our variety of Liquid Pearls, which I used for the icicles on my Santa tag.

And here is our collection of Distress Ink pads! I use these to create vintage affects on tags and cards. I don't have them all yet, but hopefully I will someday!

I hope you're having a wonderful season!

Lindsey

Sweet Vintage Christmas Cards

I LOVE this card! I haven't created anything with it yet, so if you do please let me know! I would love to see what you do with any of the images we have shared so far!

Here is another cute "From The Three Of Us" card.

Here is the image on the inside of the card.

And here is a cheery Santa Claus card!

I also had a couple of questions about what printer we use. It is a Dell V305 Ink Jet all in one printer. We got it at Wal Mart last year.

Have a good day, Lindsey

Two Crazy Crafter's Night Before Christmas

Two crazy crafters the night before Christmas all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar kissed ideas danced in their heads.

They went all through the house looking for glitter

They snipped and glued and sprinkled with sugar.

They wanted to remain in a sense of vintage,
So they crafted and created with a sweet old image.
They valued the old
More precious than gold.
And hoped to share more than they could hold.

Snuggled under afghans with hot chocolate and whipped cream
They drifted away with their thoughts and their dreams.

They remembered Christmases past with Barbie dolls and cookie jars,
Sweet teddy bears and Hot Wheel cars.

Treasured memories old and new,
Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year, too!

Love to All! Twyla and Lindsey

Santa Tag Tutorial

Hello Friends, Today I am sharing another tag tutorial! I created a Santa tag using this cute vintage Christmas Card. So start by printing and cutting this card out.

I then take a sheet of white cardstock and cut it down to 3 x 6. I then cut off the ends and punch a hole at the top to create my tag.

I then started layering colors. I started by blending Vintage Photo Distress ink all over my tag, getting darker as I went around the edges. I then took Fired Brick Distress ink and blended the ink from the top going down. I then took a Holly leaf stamp and stamped all around my tag using the same Vintage Photo Distress ink. I really like the same tone on tone look that using the same ink creates. I then stamped a candlestick in the upper corner using the Fired Brick Distress ink.


Here is a closer shot of the tag at this stage.

I then take my Santa image...


Distress the edges by taking scissors and running them around the edges. I then inked the edges using Vintage Photo Distress ink. Glue the image to the tag.


I tied a little key charm on my brown thread and looped through the tag. I then added a mini clothes pin.

I stamped the letters S and C at the top of my tag to stand for Santa Claus.

I also decided to darken my image by blending Vintage Photo Distress ink on the image.

I then took a bottle of Liquid Pearls and spread it along the top of my tag so that it looks like icicles. The great thing about the Liquid Pearls is that it puffs up so that it gives the tag dimension.

Here is a close up of it. I really liked how the Pearls mixed in with the Vintage Photo Distress ink.

And here is the finished tag!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

Have a great Day, Lindsey and Twyla

Sugar Kissed Christmas Trees!

Hello Everyone! We hope you had a wonderful weekend. We are back today with a new idea for your Christmas celebrations.

I had the idea to make Christmas trees out of sugar cones.


We melted white almond bark (you could use white chocolate chips too, or a mixture of the two). It took about 3/4 of the bar to roll 12 cones.



We set them in a dish and sprinkled them with pink and red sugar. Be sure to sprinkle before the coating hardens!


I had the idea that we could put toothpicks in the top to hold names in case you wanted to use them as place card settings.

It was a little bit of a challenge to get the toothpicks in. It works best to break the pick in two and stick the pointed end in your cone and disguise the broken end in your topper.

We think these turned out so cute and they are edible, too!

Hope you enjoyed this sugar kissed idea!

Have a wonderful day! Twyla and Lindsey

Vintage Cards and Info about a Design Team Call!

Hello Friends,

We are having such fun sharing our favorite vintage Christmas cards!

Today I wanted to share this cute little snowman which I love so much! His smile makes me so happy!

I also wanted to share this vintage Snowman card. I recently used this card for a tag swap hosted by Elizabeth of Creative Breathing.

We recently found out about a new challenge blog coming soon! Julie of Julie's Open Window is having a Design Team call right now for the blog and thought we would share the info about the call with you if you are interested!


DeSiGn TeAm CaLL......

There is always something new going on and
now we are looking for some new designers with a vintage edge.
Are you a vintage girl or guy?
If so, then we want to hear from you!

We are looking for designers who would like to participate
in a brand new challenge

beginning in January 2010 which
focuses on a style reflecting pre-1975.

Call it vintage...call it retro...are we calling YOU?!?



Here is all you need to do:

Send Julie an email with your name and blog link.

If you would like, you can send up to 3 JPEG files
of favorite projects

you have done which reflect your vintage-style.

Send a list of any online galleries you participate in
such as Splitcoast, Graphic45, The Play Date Cafe, etc.

and please let her know if you have been or are
currently on any other design teams.

She is asking for a 6 month commitment to the team
contributing one project per week

with possible hosting once per month.

SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO:

julieranae@hotmail.com

Deadline for design team submissions is Sunday, Dec 20th.

We welcome designers from all over the world!

We hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Lindsey and Twyla

Grandma's cards

Hello Friends! I am happy to share with you today some very special vintage cards. When my grandmother Opal passed away in 1984 I discovered her collection of cards. Apparently, she had saved every card she'd ever gotten.

I looked throught them in awe and knew even then that they were very special. I put them all in a shoebox marked: Grandma's cards. Later, of course, I realized how prized these vintage cards would become.

These are three from her collection. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Have a very Merry Saturday!

Twyla and Lindsey

Yarn ball garland

Hello everyone! I hope all of you are enjoying this beautiful season.

Today I want to show you a garland that I made. I love yarn balls and think they are pretty. So I decided to use our signature colors of pink and red and make a garland using yarn balls.

It wasn't until after we hung it on the tree that we realized that it not only served as a garland, but also became the ornaments on the tree!

I rolled up several pink yarn balls about 1 1/2" in diameter. I then threaded a double strand of yarn on a darning needle and pulled it through the balls. There is no need to secure the balls they stay in place all by themselves. You can adjust them the way you like them, but I placed mine about 4" apart.

We loved the way they looked arranged on the tree and felt the only other decorations it needed was some candy canes which we were lucky enough to find in pink and red!

We truly hope that you are enjoying the crafts that we are sharing this month. Each of your comments is appreciated and we love to know which projects you really like.

Enjoy the season!

Twyla