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Yes, it is a sneak... Don't you love it! Look at all the yummy stuff. So what do you see? I think I see some... HOLIDAY STYLE!
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Hey everyone! Roree here. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and got to spend lots of time with your friends and family.
Now that Thanksgiving is over, we can put all of our focus on Christmas. Yay!!! I just love Christmas time, and I thought a tutorial with a Christmas theme would be in order.
Today, I have a set of ornaments to share that I created with some clear glass ball ornaments, some Sprinklers, and some of the new Holiday Style embellishments.
First off, I started with a clear glass ball ornament. I got mine at Target. They were $6 for a set of 9. I know you can find these pretty much anywhere that sells Christmas decorations.
Next, I carefully removed the metal cap. These glass ornaments are somewhat fragile, so be careful not to hold them too tight.
(I happened to have a Starbucks coffee sleeve handy, so I used it to hold the ornament for photo purposes. I actually held the ornament in my hand for the next couple of steps.)
Hold the Sprinklers Paper Doily Mist over the opening of the glass ornament.
Spray one or two times, until the glass looks frosted. (Any more than that, and you will have a pretty big puddle at the bottom and your drying time will take a lot longer.)
Make sure to keep the ornament upright to avoid the excess mist from pooling on the sides of the glass. Light swirl along the bottom to even out the pool of mist.
Place the bulb back in the container to dry.
Note: You can use a hair dryer on a low speed to help speed up the drying process, if desired.
Lastly, add embellishments.
Here are a few close-up shots of each of the finished ornaments:
It ended up being a pretty easy project that you could make as Christmas gifts or a project to do with your kids.
Hope you enjoyed today's tutorial. If you get a chance to make your own, make sure to share it with us in the OA Flickr Gallery. We would love to see your creations!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Small Town Tradition by Vivian Masket (Holiday Style)
Happy Monday, everyone! It's Amy here again this week with our Monday challenge. But before we get started, if you celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend, I hope that you had a wonderful and memorable celebration!
This week marks the beginning of December as well as the kick-off of all things holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Channukah, Kwanza, or another holiday, there is something we can all relate to with the romance of this time of the year! I don't know about you, but the onset of my local radio station playing festive holiday music 24-7 really jumpstarts my full on embrace of the holiday season. That is where I came up with the inspiration for this week's challenge - use your favorite holiday song or songs as your muse for a project.
I asked Vivian to join me in this challenge, and as you can see from the layout above, she created a beautiful homage to her caroling tradition as a child. The card she chose from the Holiday Style Miscellany, provided the perfect center-piece for her photo-free page. Here's what she had to say about her project:"I documented my favorite holiday song tradition. Without this challenge, I never would have thought to create a layout about this topic!" . I'm so glad you did, Vivian. It's so beautiful!Favorite Xmas Songs by Amy Heller (Holiday Style, 5 & Dime, Sidewalks, Rocket Age)
For my project, I decided to create a spread for my (first) December Daily album I'm creating this year. Aside from the daily portion of the book, I also want to include "interviews" with my family each year to see how their favorites change from year to year. I decided that a Favorite Christmas Song section would be a great addition to my album, so this is what I came up with. Here it is in the album.
I used a screen shot of my iTunes selection of all of our (current) favorite holiday songs as my photo, and then journaled everyone's favorites on the adorable journaling card from Holiday Style (left page). Besides Holiday Style I also used a product from a variety of OA collections including 5 & Dime, Sidewalks and even the little bear is from Rocket Age! As you can see, everything goes together perfectly!
So, do you have a favorite holiday song, or musical tradition at the holidays? If so, we'd love to see how you intrerpret the challenge using October Afternoon! Simply upload your project to our Flickr gallery here for all to see and enjoy! Thank you so much for joining us this week! Welcome to the Holiday Season! :D
Hi Everyone! Niki here with my last post as the November guest designer. Thanks so much to everyone at October Afternoon for letting me play along this month! I had so much fun and it's been an honor getting to work with you!
Today, I have a couple cards to share using some of the goodies from the Sidewalks line.
(You can click on the photo to enlarge the image.)
Have you used any of the stamps that October Afternoon offers that coordinate with their lines? They offer some really cute sets and I love that they coordinate with their lines. I used the stamp set from the Sidewalks line for this card. I love those cute little vintage images! I stamped the girl with the balloons, the boy with the banner, and the puppy on copic x-press it cardstock using tuxedo black memento ink. Then, I colored them with copic markers coordinating with the colors in the Sidewalk line. I stamped some masks and applied them to my image. Then, I added some cloud masks and used a blue copic marker and my air compressor to spray the sky.
After removing the masks, I added my image to a red mat layer. I die cut some white felt clouds and some grass using green felt. I adhered the felt grass and stitched it in place before adhering the image to my card base. I stitched the clouds to some white cardstock and cut around the edges. This let me add the look of the stitching without stitching it to my image in case I messed up and it made it easy to adhere the clouds using glue dots. I wrapped some twine (from the Sidewalks Wrap Pack) around the bottom of the card and tied a button (from the 5 & Dime button pack) in place with a bow.
And here's the second card I created. It's been a while since I stamped an image on kraft cardstock and colored it with copic markers and I thought this little girl from the Sidewalks stamp set would be cute colored like that. I used the Hide and Seek paper and the Red Rover paper on my card base. I stitched the papers before adhering them so no stitching would show on the inside of the card. I added a piece of crocheted lace from the Sidewalks Wrap Pack and then adhered the layer to my card base. I stitched around the edge of my image and then stitched some felt grass in place. I also added some die cut clouds and then adhered my image and clouds with foam adhesive.
Have a great weekend!
Niki
First of all, if you live in the US let me start off by wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are having a wonderful, relaxing day and have found lots to be thankful for. Perhaps a little relaxation in the form of scrapping is on the agenda for this holiday weekend and, if so, I hope this sketch inspires you!
I tend to take my sketch inspiration from magazine ads. And I have to be honest...I pretty much just bought the magazine because I LOVED this advertisement and wanted to use it as inspiration for a sketch.
So many ways to use it, right? I am not tech savvy so I never computer sketch my ideas, but instead simply draw out a few sketches that I take from an ad. I have a handy notebook that I keep them in and can then flip through when needing some inspiration.
There are several ideas here, but you get the idea. I sent the ad to Roree and she created this AMAZING card, using lots of goodies from the new Farmhouse line.
Here is what she had to say:
"Because I was wanting to make a card and my canvas to create would be smaller, I decided to focus on one element of the sketch instead of the whole thing. The part that really drew me in was the banner along the bottom. I thought that this part of the sketch is where I would be able to add a lot of little details. I recreated something similar with the Journal Cards, Label Stickers, Miscellany, and Flower Sack die-cuts from the Farmhouse collection. The products put together worked so well for a banner, and I was so happy with the result."
Stunning, no?
My husband calls me "super elf", probably because I have been listening to Christmas music since before Halloween (don't judge!) so I HAD to use the new Holiday Style line to create my own version of the sketch. I knew I was going for the banner across the page, as well as a title to the far left, like the one on the card of the sketch.
Do you all do Elf on the Shelf at your house? We do and to my two young boys, it is pure magic. There are lots of tags and embellishments here from the awesome Holiday Style miscellany pack, with an old label and vintage tinsel star thrown in from my stash.
I liked the look of the little instax picture hidden among the elements, kinda like how "Elfie" likes to hide ;)
So what do you think? Could you gain some inspiration from the sketch ideas from this ad? Share them with us in our October Afternoon Flickr group! Enjoy your day and Happy Thanksgiving from the design team at October Afternoon!
We hope you are all getting ready for the big holiday tomorrow. We wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
From Danni Reid
From Amy Heller
Hello! Wilna here! Before I show you the project, let me show you the inspiration! I mean... seriously? How cute is this? And with Thanksgiving coming up... it's just the perfect little project.
First of all, these are the materials I used:
This is how:
Use it for:
And all that's left to say is happy thanksgiving! Read these tips for a stress free weekend.
love and a kiss,
Hi OA fans! It's Amy here today with our Monday Challenge. Given that here in the USA we are heading into one of our most widely celebrated holidays on Thursday, Thanksgiving, I thought it appropriate to make this challenge all about thankfulness. Being thankful is something we can all relate to, at anytime of the year, however this week it seems we all wax poetic (rightfully so) a bit more than usual about what we are thankful for, because most of the time we take many things for granted.For me, my family is absolutely the key to my happiness and my thankfulness. Our small family of four is healthy, thriving, funloving, and really they are my everything. So I knew I had to make my page about them, especially my children, as being the key to everything I am thankful for.
This was my first project using the fantastic new line, Farmhouse. And to be honest, there is SO much to love in this collection, I couldn't decide what to use and what not to use. So I decided to continue on a technique I somehow gravitate to each fall, which is weaving paper strips, this time leaving frayed ends as a part of the design.
This achieved two things for me in this page. I was able to use all of my very favorite papers in one layout, and I was able to further elaborate (symbolically) on the theme of my page with my weaving. I often think of the words "the fabric of our lives" or "woven into the fabric of daily life" and the act of weaving separate threads of our lives into one whole, secure, stable, comfortable, warm piece. This to me, is the essence of what it is that makes me thankful.
I asked Marcy, to create something using this same theme, and just take a look at this fantastic mini album she created. It's stunning!
This is what Marcy had to say about her project:
I knew I wanted to create a "gratitude album" but I wanted to be able to add to it whenever I wanted so I chose to bind it with just one ring. Originally it was going to be bound and have a spine and everything! I made the cover and then decided I wanted it to be more mixed up. The rest of the pages changed shape and now it hangs from a clipboard in my room ready to be added on at any time.
Absolutely, gorgeous, Marcy! Thank you for sharing!
So what about you? Are you thinking more about what you are thankful for this week? If so, we'd love to see how you interpret those feelings into your layouts, mini albums, altered pieces or cards. Simply upload them to our Flickr pool so we can all see what inspires YOU to be thankful!
Hi Everyone! This is Niki. I'm delighted to be this month's guest designer. I just love all the lines October Afternoon puts out. Today, I thought I would share a couple cards I created with the new Holiday Style line. I absolutely love everything about this line.
One of my personal favorite things about the new line is the Miscellany pack. I just love all those vintage inspired images. They are perfect for cards, scrapbooks, December Daily albums, tags, you name it. I plan on using a bunch of the pieces in my Project Life album.
I used the 8x8 paper pad, the Miscellany pack, and the Buttons from the Holiday Style collection on both my cards. Both of these images are just so cute! I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the pipe cleaners that come in the miscellany pack, but I decided to bend one into a bow and use it in place of ribbon. I love the texture it adds!
On this card, I used another of the images from the miscellany pack. (Love these images!) The little snowflake also comes in the pack. I stitched a button in the center before adhering it to my card. The lace is from May Arts.
Have a great weekend!
Niki
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Can you believe it? What a great deal! These boxes have been hand-picked by our designers here at October Afternoon, and are full to the brim with pattern paper, stickers, embellishments, Chip-n-Stick, and much more! The best part is that there will be a sprinkling of products from one of our newest lines, Sidewalks in every single box! Once you place your order, your box will ship the following business day! We are going to be doing this on upcoming Fridays with a different box each week! All sales are final.
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