Santa's List Advent Calendar - By: Sesil Cratin

Sesil here to show you what I created this year using the Silhouette Advent Calendar and the amazing Santa's List Collection from Teresa Collins Desgins.  

I love making these calendars each year. It has become a little tradition now for the last couple of years.

Without further adieu I present you with the 2013 Advent Calendar:

Thank you for letting me share my creation with you.  Hope you liked it and hope it gives you some inspiration to create beautiful art.  Till next time!  Happy Crafting and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

www.sesilcratin.com

Teresa Collins eBosser 'In Time for the Holidays' Blog Hop! Garland Tutorial by: Sesil Cratin

Sesil here for the Craftwell and Teresa Collins Blog Hop!  I am so excited to be part of this amazing hop again.  As some of you know I have a love for garlands.  I am starting decorate the house for the holidays and thought I would share this quick and easy garland tutorial. 

First I used vellum with the Decor Circles.  I used this pattern because of the circles and the patter would go nice with the paper design and the general shape of my garland.

 Next I punched out some circles from the vellum and the pattern paper.  I used Teresa Collins Designs Santa's List Chevron Paper Item #s11006. Stacked the circles with the pattern paper and the vellum. I used 3 pattern pieces and 2 vellum pieces to create the stack.

Then I took each stack and ran it through my sewing machine.  I do pull the thread between the stacks.

This is the amount of space I leave between the stacks. 

Now it is time to decorate the spaces between the garland.  I take an adhesive dot and add it to the back of a flat backed rhinestone. 

Then I sandwich the rhinestones together on the thread of the garland. 

Finally I open the stacks of the paper and create the 3D ornament piece on the garland.

Now just add the garland to your tree or other holiday decorations. 

Thank you for letting me share my tutorial with you today.  Make sure to leave a comment to enter to win a Teresa Collins eBosser from Craftwell.  

Till next time. Happy Crafting.

www.sesilcratin.com

If you want to be entered to win the fabulous giveaway you make sure you leave a comment on each participating blog in the hop.  Craftwell is giving away a TC eBosser with two of her new folders!!!

*TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE GIVEAWAY, YOU MUST LEAVE A COMMENT ON EACH OF THE PARTICIPATING BLOGS. 1 COMMENT PER PERSON, PER BLOG, PER DAY.  

*You can enter the giveaway everyday by commenting on at least one of the participating blogs, and selecting the 'left a comment' tab on Rafflecompter. Limit is 1 comment per person, per day. All entries left on all blogs, will go to into the same 'hat'.

a Rafflecopter giveaway In the mean time...hop on over to the next on the list! 

Craftwell -  starting link

Cheripiles 

Sesil Cratin 

Sam   

   {Jazmin Gibbons}

                                                               Misty Christensen

Yvonne Blair  

TCD Design Team -you are here

Welcome to the Teresa Collins and Craftwell blog hop!

Welcome to the Teresa Collins and Craftwell blog hop! We are all so excited. If you did not hear the news the new TCebosser is debuting on HSN this coming Tuesday September 17th! 

In celebration Craftwell is hosting a huge giveaway! Thank you to our friends at Craftwell! Details are below this "hops" projects by team members Yvonne, Cheri and Sesil. If you did not start from the Craftwell blog please be sure to go back to leave your comment to qualify for one of the many prizes!

Hi everyone, it's Yvonne. 

 I'm so excited to share with you one of the projects I did using the Teresa Collins eBosser!   

 I used one of her folders with some colored tin. The tin needed to be cut to fit the frame.

  After that I adhered the tin to a plain black frame and sanded very lightly. 

 Once sanded it really helped the pattern pop.  

I took the scrap piece and decided to cover a giant clothes pin.  

It really helped tie the two together for a big statement.

Below is a close up so you can see how well the embossing stays even while smoothing it over the frame. 

Hey everyone, Cheri Piles here sharing a little home decor piece as well for the upcoming holidays!

I then embossed all of my papers using the new TCebosser, & 8 1/2" x 11" stars embossing folder. You can watch this video for a tip for your longer sheets of paper. I used velum and it turned out fantastic!!

After I embossed all of my papers I punched 1 1/2" circles from all of my papers for my trees. There are 100's of them but it was so worth it! I purchased some Styrofoam cones, 2 medium and one large. I painted them all in gold to start. I also used sequins (from the Teresa Collins Memorabilla, Family Stories and Santa's List collections) and pearl head pins to attach them.

Start attaching your circles along the bottom of your cone pinning them 1/4" from the top of the circles. Then alternating and overlapping the bottom row and continue pinning them all the way to the top.

 When I was completed with the cones I glued them to some wood discs I picked up from the local hardware store and painted them gold to match. I thought they looked better on "stands".

I hope you enjoyed my project, I am getting excited for the holidays!! ~Cheri

Hi Everyone,  Sesil Cratin here to share a quick and simple card using the amazing Teresa Collins Ebosser.  I was so excited to play around with the embossing folders I know exactly what I needed to create. A card and envelope.

I even have a quick process video of how I created these fast and easy cards for anyone using the Teresa Collins eBosser.  Enjoy! ~Sesil

Be sure to mark your calendars for show times for the HSN launch on Tuesday September 17th! Air times are 1am & 6pm eastern times, unless otherwise posted. 

Giveaway Details:
For the first 250 Participants to leave a comment on each of the participating blogs in the hop will win a free embossing folder!

There will be 10 random winners for a free tool kit!

GRAND PRIZE WINNER will receive a Teresa Collins ebosser!!

To be qualified for the Craftwell giveaways you must leave a comment on all the participating blogs, winners will be announced on the Craftwell blog October 1st.

Craftwell - blog.craftwellusa.com - Starting blog.

TCD Design Team: http://teresacollinsdesignteam.blogspot.com/ 

Sesil Cratin:http://www.sesilcratin.com/ 

Cheripiles - http://cherinspirations.blogspot.com/

Denise O'Connor -http://purplepaperparadise.blogspot.com/

Favecrafts Blog:http://www.favecraftsblog.com/

Lyssa Zimmerman:http://joe-lyssa.blogspot.com/

Yvonnes blog - http://www.yvonneblair.com/ 

Caroline Duncan:http://stampingsandinklings.blogspot.com//

Teresa Collins - http://teresacollins.typepad.com/

Good luck to everyone and we hope you are enjoying all of the fantastic projects on the hop!