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Christmas Printables, Tags and more!

19
Dec 2012

I have found some more cute Christmas printables to share with you!

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Have you heard of Catch My Party? They have such cute printables - and so many of them are free!

I fell in love with the Cookies and Cocoa party set – there is such a cute variety and you can use them for so many things! They have a bunch in the set that are perfect for a cocoa party or cookie exchange.
The little graphics are so sweet and I love the stripes!

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I think I need to have a Hot Cocoa bar set up this weekend after we go look at Christmas lights. It’ll be super easy to do and so nice to come back to something hot to drink!

There are so many other fun things you can do with the printables in the set. I printed out the large circle designs – they are perfect for gift tags.

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I think I’m going to print up some more and glitter them up. Wouldn’t these be sweet covered in red glitter?

I also printed out some of the little flags. These would be cute as little party pics – but I’m going to cut them out and glue them to my Christmas Card envelopes.
I think they’ll really dress them up!

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I would totally show you that if I had my Christmas card envelopes. But I don’t.
I figure – why not wait until the last minute – it makes Christmas prep so much more exciting. :)

If you’d like to download the printables, click here. They make such easy decorations!

This holiday season, let loved ones know how much you care.  Use your favorite photos to create something personalized and unique for everyone on your list.  Make it memorable.  Make it meaningful.  Make it matter.  Go to hp.com/holiday for inspiration and ideas.

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Disclosure: Compensation was provided by HP via Glam Media.  The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of HP.

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West Elm Plaid Ruffle Pillow Knockoff

16
Dec 2012

I just love making fun Christmas things for the house -but sometimes storage is an issue.
(More for Mr. FT that for me since I just pack it up into boxes and he gets the fun job of putting them in the garage.)

But that’s not a problem with this next project! It’s a sweet little ruffled pillow cover! So it can decorate your favorite chair with it’s ruffley Christmasy goodness - and then after Christmas you can slip it off and put a different cover on! Easy Peasy!

When I came across this darling little Ruffle Pillow at West Elm, I knew that I’d have to recreate it for a Christmas pillow. Here’s my version:

I love this red and gray plaid I found. It has little threads of silver that are running through it! Perfect for Christmas!

Here’s the West Elm version. Super cute but not so Christmas-sy ;)

So here’s what you’ll need to make your own:

  • One 12″ x 16″ pillow form
  • Plaid fabric - 3/4 yard

Cut out of your fabric the following:

  • 1 piece 12″ x 16″
  • 2 pieces 10″ x 16″
  • 5 strips 2″ x 44″

Cut all of your strips in half (22″ x 2″) and cut one long side of each strip with pinking shears.

Once your strips are all cut, hem the two short sides of nine of the strips. Sew a gathering stitch 1/4″ from non-pinked long side of EIGHT of the strips.
On the last strip (the one that isn’t gathered yet, press the top edge down 1/4″ to the back side. Run your gathering stitch on this one 1/8″ down from the top folded edge.

Lay out and pin all your ruffles onto the front. You’ll want them to overlap about 3/4″ so the gathered edges don’t show. You can use the photo as a guide. The top ruffle that looks like a “u” is the ruffle that has the top folded gathered edge.

Cut two more of your strips in half again. So now you have four 2″ x 11″ pieces. Fold each piece into a stacked rectangle, accordian-style. The back piece should be about 1 1/2″ wide. Try and move the folds up a little so you can see all the pinked ends. Trim off any extra on the top. Pin these folded pieces into the ruffles. Two should go on either side of the third ruffle from the bottom and two will go on either side of the third ruffle from the top.

Measure your ruffles to make sure they are centered and start and end at the same height. You can use your plaid as a guide if the lines are straight.

Sew on your ruffles, along the gathered stitching for each ruffle. Start at the bottom ruffle and move the ruffles above out of the way, without disturbing the pins.

Once your ruffles are all on, set the front aside.

With your two 10″ x 16″ pieces, hem the bottom of one of the pieces and the top of the other.

Overlap the two pieces so the piece with the hem on the bottom is over the piece with the hem on the top. Pull the top piece up just a bit until the two pieces make a rectangle that is 12″ x 16″.

Lay the front of your pillow right side down on the back pieces. Pin and sew all four sides with a 1/2″ seam allowance. Make sure you move the bottom ruffle out of the way. The two ends of the top ruffle will be sewn into the top seam. Clip the corners.

Turn right side out and slip in your pillow form – and you’re all finished!

Now you can admire all your Christmas-sy ruffly awesomeness.

I hope you like it!

(This was originally a guest post over at Positively Splendid)

Linking up at Sunday Scoop, Today’s Creative Blog, Met Monday, Tutorials & Tips Tuesday, Quilt Story, Shabby Creek Cottage, My Repurposed Life, 504 Main, Positively Splendid, and the other fabulous parties on the party page – make sure you check them out!

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Baby It’s Cold Outside – DIY Winter Sign

13
Dec 2012

Today I’m sharing this sweet – and easy – little Winter Shadowbox Sign!

I have this cute sign sitting by the front door. It always makes me sing as I go by – and think of the movie Elf – one of our absolute favorite Christmas movies.

And it’s a bit of a joke because really, Baby, it’s not so cold outside here. Which is just fine with me thank you very much.
Winter temps in the low 60′s are about as low as I can go without getting seriously whiny.

But I love the sign – and the song – either way.

The sign is painted on white beadboard, then distressed and framed over a red sweater backing!

It’s super simple too!

Here’s what you’ll need to make your own:

• 10″ x 7″ piece of beadboard
• Craft Paint (I used two shades of turquoise)
• Sweater for backing
• 15″ x 11″ Shadowbox Frame
• Piece of cardboard the size of frame
• sandpaper
• 4 wooden beads
• Sign Pattern
• Hot Glue

Print out your sign pattern. You can definitely do this with a cutting machine and make a stencil, but I didn’t use one for this sign.
This method is how I learned to paint signs ages ago and it still works pretty great!
Scribble the back of the sign pattern with a pencil where the letters and snowflake are. Cover the area pretty well.

Flip the pattern over and line up the square on the pattern with the piece of beadboard. Trace over the letter outlines and the snowflake with a pencil.
This will transfer a light outline onto your beadboard.
(It looks pretty light in the photo but it’s really easier to see than this.)

Start painting in your letters. I used a medium turquoise for the letters and a light turquoise for the snowflake.

Go ahead and paint a comma on there after “Baby” if, like me, your husband looks up the song title and says that it really needs to have a comma to be accurate.
(Anyone else have a hubby that likes to add their two cents to projects? No? Just lucky me then. ;)

 

Oh that’s much better. (ahem.)

Distress your sign just a bit by sanding the edges, then over the letters just a little. This will help it look older, plus it will hide any not-so-perfect painting.

Cut out a piece of cardboard to just under the size of the frame. Cover the cardboard with a piece of an old or thrifted sweater.
I used hot glue on the back side to hold the sweater on.

Glue four small beads onto the center of the sweater, making sure the hot glue goes down through the sweater a little, into the cardboard below.

Glue your sign onto the wooden beads. This will give it a little of a 3-d look in the shadowbox. Pop the design into your shadowbox and you’re almost finished!

Tie a little bit of baker’s twine or other trim around the top of the sign for a fun little extra bit of color.

 

And that’s it! Super easy but really fun to do!

This would make such a sweet gift too – and it would be super easy to personalize it with another color scheme or phrase.

I hope you like it!

(This was originally a guest post over at Tatertots & Jello)

Linking up at Sunday Scoop, Today’s Creative Blog, Met Monday, Tutorials & Tips Tuesday, Quilt Story, Shabby Creek Cottage, My Repurposed Life, 504 Main, Positively Splendid, and the other fabulous parties on the party page – make sure you check them out!

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