Makin’ Christmas Cards…or how to cover your living room with glitter!

I decided to make my own Christmas cards this year…

I used pages from an old tattered hymnal

I taped the hymnal pages onto regular printer paper (Washi tape worked perfectly for that) and printed the pine cone/branch printables I found on a blog this week (for the life of me I can’t figure out where I found them) (I have looked and looked) (It’s driving me crazy if anyone knows which blog had these posted this week, PLEASE let me know.  I think I need to ask the Wizard of Oz for a memory!). UPDATE::  Angie from Knick of Time was nice enough to let me know that it was from her blog just last week that I found these graphics!  How embarrassing, but thanks Angie! (I swear I looked there!)  Where can I find that Wizard?

After trimming the printed pages to fit my cards and I used a glue stick to attach them to the card.

I touched a bit of glitter here and a bit of glitter there on the print…

 

just enough to highlight the design.

Martha Stewart adhesives are the best, I used a glue stick to attach the music to the card and the gel adhesive to apply the glitter.

My coffee table may never be the same!

But I do love the cards!  Each one is a bit different…

On the inside of the card I glued a piece of music with Merry Christmas printed on it.

in keeping with the music theme. 

Loving them!

I also made some Shutterfly collage Christmas cards to put inside these.  I only paid $6.73 for 25 cards and can’t wait to get them.

Aren’t they cool?  I can’t wait to send them out!

I made these stickers with my Xyron to put on the outside of the envelopes.

I am linking to these great parties!

Snowy Sparkly Pinecones

 

This is my first Christmas/winter type craft post this year! I have been admiring the sparkly pinecones by Miss Mustard Seed and thought I would give it a try.  I found these pine cones for $1 each on this great craft supply store, used Mod Podge for the glue and bought cheap white glitter at Michaels (I think I paid less than $2 after using a coupon).

I swiped on the Mod Podge with a foam brush and wasn’t careful about how much or where it went on each branch leaf thingy of the pinecones.

Holding it over a paper plate I started sprinkling the glitter.

And just kept going until I was happy with the way it looked.

I dried them outside in the sun all day…we had such a warm pretty day for November.

And that’s it!  So easy…I can’t wait to try this on smaller pinecones too!

Now if you will excuse me, I am going to vacuum 25# of glitter off my living room floor!

I am linking to these great parties!