Gingerbread ~ A Mini Album

Hello sweet friends!  I must have been obsessing on a sweet tooth when I made this Gingerbread Card because the ideas kept rolling around in my head, wanting to make more darling gingerbread themed things.

 

 

 I made a mini album featuring more scrumptious gingerbread.  This giant mixing bowl made it's first appearance on the previous post for the Gingerbread card linked above.  

 

 

 I filled the bowl with a gingerbread man from Elizabeth Craft Design, a sugared up Candy Cane from Dee's Distinctively, a whisk from Spellbinders, some greenery and a ginger snap cookie.

 

  I'm currently obsessed with the Gingerbread Baking Co. label from Blue Fern Studio.

 

A peek inside the mini album shows more fun gingerbread items, such as this fun little tea cup from Elizabeth Craft Design.  She's filled with hot cocoa and mini marshmallows.  The Hot Cocoa label on the right is a printable I found on Etsy.  The tab flaps open so you can add a photo and some journaling.  

Look at what's hiding at the bottom of the tag!  A simple gingerbread cookie made using circle and scalloped circle dies from Spellbinders.  The faces are from Peachy Keen Stamps.  So fun!

Both of these pages have little tuck spots for photo's, ephemera or journaling.  Another one of those sweet printables from Etsy is tucked in on the right.  You'll see more on that below.

 

I found this polka dotted paper sack in my stash and made a little tag for more creative space.  The Plum Pudding is from Elizabeth Craft Design.

This is the little journaling booklet I made to tuck inside the tuck spot on the right side of the album, featuring another sweet gingerbread man from Cottage Cutz.

I adore how this mini album turned out, tied closed with a ginger spice plaid ribbon.

 

I hope you enjoyed today's post.  I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~ If It's Christmassy, Link It Up 

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ All Occasion

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes

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Nordic Layered Ornament ~ Poppystamps

I've got a warm winter whites card for you today over at the Poppystamps blog.  Sure hope you'll pop over to see it.

 

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Gingerbread ~ My Favorite Color

Breath in slowly...

Do you smell that?

 

That's the smell of gingerbread fresh from the oven!

 

 

When my kids were young, they used to love making gingerbread cookies.  Cutting them with all the different shapes and then decorating them with icing and chocolate chips. 

I whipped up this sweet gingerbread card using a gingerbread die from Cottage Cutz.  The large mixing bowl is from The Stamps of Life.

 

 I think I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cut It Up Challenge ~ Favorite Color (Kraft / Brown)

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Anything Goes

AAA Cards ~ Anything Goes

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Color Hues Color Challenge ~ Pink & Aqua

Hello crafty friends~  

I'm so forgetful!  Honestly, the older I get the more I forget.

 

I made this card using the colors from Color Hues that my sweet friend Marcia is hosting and I almost forgot to post it.

 

I used some sweets from Marianne Designs and cut them in pink and brown (as a neutral) and added them to this every popular postage die from Waffle Flower.

The tin canister is a die from Joy Crafts.  I was so pleased how these yummy chocolates filled the spaces.  

There's still time to join this challenge using Pink and Aqua over at Color Hues.

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Vintage Coby Vignette

Hello to all you creative crafters!  

 

Just thought I'd pop in with another vintage remake using an old ornament box from Coby.

 

 

 Over the years, I've amassed a small collection of vintage ornaments in their original boxes that I enjoy putting out at Christmas time.

 

 

I had this Coby box but no ornaments to put inside, so I decided to make a little winter vignette like some that I've seen on Pinterest.  I started by removing the ripped cellophane that went over the window, covering the inside of the box with a piece of snowflake scrapbook paper and then carefully attaching tiny battery operated fairy lights around the inside edge of the box using hot glue. 

  I added white batting to the bottom of the box and a healthy dose of German Glass Glitter.  I glued in some snow capped trees and this vintage deer that I think is from the 60's.  You know, the old plastic ones that were the rage back then?

I attached this large red & gold bow to the top corner of the box to finish it off.  I was happy to see that the colors of the bow matched the graphic colors on the box. This sweet winter scene casts a warm glow when the lights are turned on and this was such an easy and fun project to make.

 I'll be entering this project into the following challenges:

 Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge ~ Christmas

Polkadoodles Card Making and Craft Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Love To Craft #83 ~ Anything Goes

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