Mini acrylic Christmas tree gift tags~ created with Clear Scraps!

Hi, Connie here with the Creating Made Easy December kit by Clear Scraps.  The kit comes with the cutest little tree mini album.  I thought the mini tree's would be cute as gift tags, to dress up Christmas packages.

Here is a little tutorial on how they were created:

Trace the image, of the tree, on the pattern paper it cut out.  Do this for all 5 acrylic trees.

Remove the plastic from all of the acrylic tree shapes.

Stencil the Moose (from the Rustic Forrest 6" stencil) with black StazOn ink.

Shade around the tree image.

Cut out mittens from the pattern paper in the kit.

Adhere the paper tree to the acrylic shape.  I used Beacon 3-IN-1.

Adhere mittens to the tree.

Add jute hanger.

Supplies used:
Creating Made Easy December kit by Clear Scraps
Christmas mini tree album

Thanks for stopping by~
Connie Mercer/DT Member

Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop 2016 ~

Hi!!!

Welcome to the Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop 2016. 

 Get ready to see some awesome cards themed for Winter and Coffee. 

Probably lots of holiday cards too :)

 You might even want to pour yourself a cup and get comfortable!!

I want to give a shout to my sponsor ~ A Jillian Vance Design ! 

They have a great selection of  Coffee Stamps.     

Products used to create these cards are :

A Jillian Vance Design: But First Coffee, Pine Trees, Simply Snowflakes 

and Coffee & Jesus.

Ink: Ranger

Other: cardstock, Want 2 Scrap/rhinestones, S.e.i./Tumble Dye.

To start the hop or post a coffee card 

*** Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop 2016***

See ya soon~

Scrapbooking with Creating Made Easy December Kit~

Hi, Connie here with the Creating Made Easy December kit by Clear Scraps.  It has a really cute 6" stencil in the kit called Rustic Forrest.  One of my favorite:)


The paper in the kit is beautiful and really was perfect for stenciling a border on the bottom of the scrapbook page.


I used Quick Quotes PowderPuff chalk ink.  I wanted the border image to be faint not bold.  It looks like it is printed on the paper.  Love the look:)

Products used:
Creating Made Easy December kit
6" Rustic Forrest

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Connie Mercer/DT Member

Creating Made Easy~December kit

Hi, Connie here with the December Creating Made Easy kit by Clear Scraps.   This is a fun one for sure.  It has a 8x8 acrylic frame in the kit that can be dressed up or dressed down~I chose up!!

I will enjoy leaving this frame out, as Christmas decor, but once the holidays are over I will add the scrapbook 8x8 page to the center of a 12x12 page.  I only have 12x12 albums ~ let me show you.

The acrylic 8X8 frame is ready to showcase another page or event.  You can also add a magnetic strip, to the back of the frame, so the frame will attach to the refrigerator door. Everyone will see it there.  This would work great at my house :)

Supplies~
Creative Made Easy December Kit
8 x 8 Display Frame

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Connie Mercer/DT Member

Christmas trees with Whisker Graphics~

Hi, Connie here a cute way to create some small Christmas trees using the Divine Twine by Whisker Graphics.  Every year I create some sort of a small Christmas tree and these will look great in my collection.

Supplies needed:

Divine Twine by Whisker Graphics
triangle small pieces of wood
acrylic paint /green and yellow
chipboard small stars
rhinestones/buttons
vintage spools
pattern paper

Step 1: Paint trees with green acrylic paint on both sides.

Step 2: Paint the chipboard stars with yellow acrylic paint on both sides.

Step 3: Wrap the trees with Divine Twine. wrapping around and up and down. Tag with liquid adhesive when you are finished wrapping the twine.  Cut from the spool.

Step 4: Decorate with rhinestones and buttons. Attach the star to the top of all three trees. Glue trees onto a vintage spool.  Add Divine Twine to the spool and decorate.

Thanks for stopping by~
Connie Mercer/DT Member

Mini Shaker Bell with Clear Scraps!

Hi, Connie here with a fun and sparkly holiday tag, using the new Mini Shaker Bell, from Clear Scraps!  The Mini Shakers come in six shapes and images.  They would make a super cute ornament set for the holidays.



The mini shaker is so easy to assemble and decorate.  What you put inside the shaker is the fun part. Really, it is all up to you  what to fill the inside with.  I used decorative sequins in the Mini Shaker Bell.



Supplies used:
Clear Scraps: Mini Shaker Bell, 12" Doily Stencil and 6" Imagine Stencil
other:  Sequins, gold embossing powder, Kraft tag, paper doily and  acrylic paint/black, white.

Thanks for stopping by~
Connie Mercer/DT Member

Using paper scraps with Quick Quotes~

Hi, Connie here with some Winter themed cards using my scrap paper by Quick Quotes.  I don't want to throw any of it away, so what better way to use it .  I always need cards!

Very simple design~ just cut out 3"X 3" squares of paper.  This is from the 

Winter Bliss Collection (coming soon).

The cardstock is 4" x 12" long.  One sheet will get 3 card bases.  

The snowflakes are die cuts.  I inked around the edges of all the paper with

Quick Quotes PowderPuff Chalk ink.  The colors will be listed at the 

end of the post.

The cards are long and slender and will work perfect with a gift or

a loaf of homemade bread:)

Supplies used:

Quick Quotes: Winter Bliss Collection (coming soon)

Quick Quotes PowderPuff Chalk inks: Pixie Pink, Caribbean Blue, Blue Lagoon (retired).

Other: Want 2 Scrap: bling, Stamps: Darkroom Door, S.e.i. / Tumble Dye

Thanks for stopping by~

Connie Mercer/DTMember