- Homemade Christmas Tags - We all need them, and why not make a bunch of homemade one? Some shipping tags, stamps and ink would make this job a breeze! If you want some inspiration, check out Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas - warning they are labour intensive!
- Make paper chains out of vintage music or book paper.
- Try out my paper barn star tutorial.
- Sparkly paper houses are all the rage and I found a great tutorial for a church, storefront and a couple houses here at Country Home.
CREATING with Ribbon: I have a bit of ribbon fetish. It was born naturally out of a love for pretty things, then warped into a business venture and now, really has become an obsession.
- Make a ribbon tree.
- Make some ribbon key fobs - great little gifts and stocking stuffers also.
- Tie some extravagant bows. Here's a YouTube tutorial.
- Some simple ribbon bookmarks that are so very pretty and useful.
CREATING with Felt: I love felt and think it's a great medium for kids of all ages and those who love them. It's cheap, forgiving and colorful, what could be better!
- I could show you countless little holiday projects - but really if you're interested in doing some crafting with felt there is only one place to go...Felt-o-rama. It is the melting pot of all felt ideas on the web and it kicks hiney. Love these felt Christmas trees, this felt bow, for both clothes or presents, hip felt flowers, and this sweet little house ornament.
CREATING with Paint and Mixed Media: I think everyone should take the time to paint. You don't have to be a professional to enjoy it...do you cook supper? Are you a professional cook? Probably not, but you do it anyway...painting should be like that, yes? Below you will find a project near and dear to my heart.
- July at it's a work of art made this darling angel. Don't you love it? A little project like this would make a great gift for a music teacher or coach in your child's life. We're working on some angels of our own.
- Make a butterfly for the The Butterfly Project. The Holocaust Museum of Houston is collecting 1, 500,000 handmade butterflies in memory of the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust. All the dimension and mailing information can be found at the link above and butterflies will be accepted until June 30th, 2012. Here is the inspiration behind the exhibit:
| The Butterfly | |
The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing against a white stone.... | |
| Such, such a yellow Is carried lightly ’way up high. It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye. | For seven weeks I’ve lived in here, Penned up inside this ghetto. But I have found what I love here. The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut branches in the court. Only I never saw another butterfly. |
| That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto. |
| Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 |
| Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921. Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitz on Sept. 29, 1944. |
An inspiring video on the topic:
God bless us, everyone.
