A Prickly Tale ~ Double D Challenge

Hello there!  Welcome back to another episode of Double D Challenge!

Diane has chosen a festive challenge for you with the theme of "Christmas Ornaments".

 

I took this challenge quite literally when I discovered that I had made these Christmas ornaments last year from an old children's book that was falling apart.

 

The book, "A Prickly Tale" was cast away and due for the trash, but I swooped in and saved it, and gave new life for a precious little babes first Christmas.  

 

 

I used the book covers to create the box to hold the ornaments. 

 

 

It's super cute how you can see the images from the inside cover inside the box. 

 

 

I cut the images from the pages and glued them onto wooden ornaments that I picked up from the Dollar Tree, using Mod-Podge. I also cut the story line into word strips and attached them to the ornaments.  The words on each ornament tell their own story.  

 

 

 Once the ornaments were dry, I added fuzzy gold trim that also came from the Dollar Tree, using hot glue to attach it around the outside edge. 

 

  

I covered both sides of the ornaments the same, using the darling graphics so that no matter which side shows, there's something fun to look at for sweet baby Isaiah.

 

 

I made a greeting card for gifting...

 

 

And packaged it all up nicely in a pretty cello bag.

 

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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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