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Monday Muse – Fresh Holiday Colors!

November 24, 2008 By designteam 12 Comments

Good morning, everyone! :)

There’s no doubt, being 31 sleeps away from Christmas, that you’ve been seeing Christmas decor, commercials, coffee choices, and even Christmas tunes popping up everywhere already! I love the holidays, and apart from all the lovely traditional winter goodies, something I love so much about them is finding really cool, fresh, and unexpected color combinations for my holiday cards and scrapbook pages – who wants the same old rich red and evergreen green in their scrapbooks year after year? Time to mix it up!

As I went to gather supplies for this Christmas card, I was super-inspired flipping through the two newest Pink Paislee collections, “Tinsel Town” and “Sweet Cakes”. I love the flourished trees and snowflakes of the more traditional Christmas collection (whose colors still break out of the typical Christmas box on their own..), but the bright pinks, yellows, lime greens, and oranges in “Sweet Cakes” really inspired me to break out of the traditional box and combine the two lines for a unique, new color twist on the typical Christmas card. Here’s what I came up with:

I love how the playful, warm yellows and oranges bounce off of the cooler pinks and greens – it feels really fresh and fun! A very happy feeling holiday card, I think! So this year, when you’re making your cards or packaging up gifts, instead of reaching for the tried and true reds and greens, take a chance and throw a little pinch of lime green or bright pink in and mix it up a little! :) Dabble in a color combination that’s unexpected and totally new to you – before jumping in, if you’re a little wary, compare swatches of colors, look for color combinations online using google, or line up the patterned papers you want to use, making sure they compliment one another before devoting yourself to them and cutting anything out. And most of all, have fun! Its unavoidable if you’re using such fun patterned paper and making heartfelt gifts for the ones you love. Happy day!

-Michelle Clement

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Let it Snow!

November 12, 2008 By Rebecca Cross 26 Comments

Happy Hump Day!  Davinie here.  My girls raced into my room this morning to let me know that the wind was blowing so hard that they were afraid it would blow their stuffed animals away if they took them outside, but that they’d better get dressed quick, because it seemed the perfect conditions for flying kites.  While I appreciated their enthusiasm, it certainly didn’t seem ideal to me….   at 6:15am.

I wanted to make a winter project for my post today, something you could use to decorate your home for the next few months.  This is what I came up with:

I purchased the planter at Michael’s for about $3 on sale.  Any type of bucket will do.  The rest of the supplies you’ll need for this project are pictured below:

Styrofoam balls, short push pins, a circle punch, a hole punch, Jack Frost from the Tinsel Town line, and a Silver Berry Pixee Stix.

To create each snowball, simply punch out circles, pierce them in the center with a push pin, and layer them around the styrofoam.  Sporadically I would add a small circle created with a hole punch, and then use the larger circle, just to add dimension.

There is no specific pattern for doing this.  I just filled it in until you couldn’t see the styrofoam anymore.

Once you have your snowballs finished, I decorated my tin, and created a sign.  I felt like my Snowball signed needed to be durable, because it’s sitting outside advertising my wares after all, so I wanted to use a stamp rather than a sticker alpha.  The perfect stamp to use was the Vintage Pop Alpha.  To make it stand out more, I filled in the center of the letters with a Sharpie.  I then added Pixee Stix to a chipboard snowflake and adhered, added my price to a litte price tag I have in my stash, stuck the sign in the center of my pot, and layered the snowballs around it.

This would make a fun gift as well as a fun decoration on a mantle for the holidays, with extra snowballs spread throughout.

The snowballs would also make fun ornaments.  Simply loop ribbon and use a push pin to attach them to the top of your snowball.  Voila!

I hope you have a great day, and that it’s not too blustery where you are!  I wouldn’t want all the stuffed animals at your house to blow away!  :)

Davinie

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