Day Five of Christmas Projects - Canada Card

A friend spotted an advertisemnt for fabric in a local store that was similar to this card. It was Christmas and Canada themed. (Not very common up here.) I loved the fabric design so I thought why not make it in paper?

Day Four of Christmas Projects - Snoopy card

I think Snoopy is the perfect Christmas character and I have a friend who is a big fan of Peanuts. To create this card, I used a colouring image. I then offset the Snoopy to make a side-edge square card. He is licensed, therefore I do not have a file to share.

Day One of Christmas Projects - String of lights

This is my favourite Christmas card of the year! It's for a friend who loves rainbows so I know that she and her family will like it. It's also special to me because my daughter did the stitching on it. She is a wonderful hand-stitcher! I'm hoping I can get her to do more on cards in the future.

Shopping at Spirit Halloween

It's an annual tradition for us! The pattern paper is by Close To My Heart with the best zip strip ever with Halloween sentiments! Zip strip is the bit on the edge of a loose paper for identifying the product name and number. Some companies take advantage of this and create patterns that papercrafters can use. Most companies just show what is on the other side.

Social distancing and crafting

I'm going to try and see the positives in everything that is going on right now with the COVID-19 virus. I have always liked a paper craft challenge and have participated in many over the years. This will be the ultimate use up what you have on hand. It’s the perfect reason to use up the stack of paper I have in my scrap room. This is a great opportunity to finish projects that are collecting dust on my table. I will also have more time with my children for awhile as my daughter is no longer going to Europe or school for three weeks. I'm hoping the two of us can scrapbook our memories of this time. (Not all my scrapbook pages are of good moments.)

Another positive is that they will be more FREE cut files available on Cricut Design Space for all the crafters who are at home. Feel free to follow my link and see what they have made FREE. I’m going to imagine that other companies will follow suit and there may be printables available too. I say, get cutting!

If you are worried about your LSS, you could purchase a gift card this month so they have a sale. Ideally, you could buy the gift card online or over the phone. Your direct sales paper crafting companies like Close to my Heart, Stampin Up and Creative Memories are also small businesses you shop online or with a catalog.

I would love to see how you make out during this time and would love to see your completed projects! I promise to share mine.

Day Two of Christmas Projects - Warm Wishes Coffee Card

I actually considered waiting until Starbucks released their holiday cup designs before I made these cards. I love the added touch of the corrugated cup wrap on these cards. The stamped sentiment is from CTMH.

Here are my two design space files for the oval card and coffee cup.

ROUNDED TOP CARD

COFFEE CUP

Anyone else craving a peppermint coffee?? I am a latte!

Canada-themed scrapbooking products 2019

Every June, I try and source out Canada Day scrapbooking supplies. Well, and buy them of course!

This is CTMH digital Cricut cartridge featuring the canadian provinces. My consultant is Brandy Lees

This is Great Escape Paper Pack by Creative Memories. My consultant is Shaila.

I also found some new Cricut images this year and a new cartridge! The cartridge is called Fell - Canada and I love it! There is finally a cut for the CN Tower and Niagara Falls! Too bad I already scrapbooked our Toronto trip.

Hopefully, this helps a bit and maybe provides some creative inspiration.