First, I have to say that my beloved camera broke right after I took this picture. It was really very stupid of me -- you see, after I took this picture, I found a glare on the acetate covering the picture, so of course I wanted to retake it. Never ever do what I did next... instead of placing the camera down on the coffee table, I thought I'd just hold it lightly between my forearm and body. Then, I heard that awful cracking sound. I had forgotten to turn off the camera and the lens was still sticking out of the camera body. Since I forced the lens back into the camera and heard cracking sounds, I believe my camera went into forced retirement. At least I was able to upload that one photo into my computer.
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Paper Craft Planet, the Super Novas are each taking a day with our
"12 Days of Christmas" campaign. Each day we'll share with you awesome and great gift giving ideas. Today is Day 4 and it's my turn to host! You can play along and win prizes by participating in a scavenger hunt! Just keep reading for a clue and a chance to win!
The project that I came up with is a soft, personalized ornament. Each year, instead of decorating my presents with just an ordinary bow, I purchase ornaments to adorn the packages. Since I still needed a few more ornaments to put on Christmas gifts this year, I decided to make some of the ornaments myself, rather than buying all of them. To personalize this ornament, I inserted a photo of my girls.
INSTRUCTIONS:
• With pinking shears, cut two 4-1/2" x 3-1/4" pieces of red felt.
• Cut one 3-1/2" x 2-1/2" piece of white felt with a rectangle opening of 2-1/2" x 1-1/2".
• Sew the sides and bottom of the white piece onto one of the red pieces (top is left open for inserting photos).
• Cut a piece of ribbon about 10" each and place one end of each at the top corners of the "pillow."
• Sew around the red felt about 3/8" from the edge, leaving about a 1" opening for stuffing.
• Fill it with batting (I used the fake snow used on Christmas Villages because I didn't have any batting available), then sew the opening shut.
I also put a piece of acetate sheet inside the frame to help protect the photo. For the finishing touches, I added a felt snowflake and added dew drops randomly on the strings.
Today's scavenger hunt is sponsored by
Paper Temptress AND by
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Today's hunt has two parts....
one for paper and one for art!
For the paper, you must find
the white Copic paper - best of kind.
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Find the products on the
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