Mama Elephant Christmas Ornament

Hope everyone had a wonderful, safe and happy Thanksgiving. 

Used the City Sidewalks stamp set Mama Elephant City Sidewalks Clear Stamp to create a shaker ornament.  Used copic markers, gold wink of stella on windows, a little white opal liquid pearls for snow, then shook clear glitter on top.  Background was done with faded jeans distress ink, stamped tress on top using forest moss distress ink, then added stars and pearls from my stash. 

I put a piece of acetate along with a layer of five circles over the background, then used dimensional tape to pop up building on top of this layer; glued ribbon for hanging.  Then added 10 layers of circles, glitter, acetate and another layer of circles.  To finish, used some foil paper to cut out circle and glue on top. 

Then I hung it from the tree!

Expandable ATC File/Tree Ornament

Wow, where is November going-happy Tuesday to everyone. 

File open showing ATC's peeking out of pockets.  I just love the versatility of Graphic 45 papers.

This shows the file box closed with attached ribbon so can be hung from the tree.

File open with ATC pockets and ATC's partially out.

Here are the ATC cards out of the pockets.  Paper used for this project was Graphic 45 St. Nicholas papers, 6x6, 8x8, 12x12, banner embellishments; solids are bazzill paper, die cuts from Spellbinders (with exception of tree) with embellishments from my stash.

Please stop by 7 Kids College Fund store and see all the wonderful items you can purchase for all your crafting projects and gifting.  Sandy

St. Nicholas Welcomes November

Hello and happy Tuesday!

I used the wonderful St. Nicholas papers and matching chipboard from Graphic 45 to make this explosion box.  Don't know about all of you but once November begins, Christmas comes all too soon.  Solid papers are bazzill; white paper from DCWV-glitter papers. 

Thanks to so many wonderful people who share so many of their projects on you tube, I added this second box in the middle. The box also flips over to one side so a note or picture can be added; magnets added so box doesn't flip unless you want it to.

This beautiful corner snowflake die is from Precious Marieke-received it just in time from 7 Kids to use in this project.  This third layer holds a tag that is backed with plain black paper for more pictures or journaling.  The little tabs peeking out are on the outside of the middle layer so the top page can be lifted up to reveal the inner pages.  Tags were cut from an Elizabeth Crafts die; tiny tabs from Spellbinders die.

 The to/from label is one of the matching stamps to this paper from Graphic 45.  The little pull on top is from Tim Holtz.

 This view shows the middle layer with the top flap turned over so the holly belly band and tag can be seen along with the back of the top page.  Holly die from Spellbinders.

The lid is partially off the middle box to show snow flake border and a place for a small surprise/present.  Snowflake border was from one of my many punches (Fiskers).

Oh, but there's already a surprise in the box-one of the delicate chipboards from Wycinancka-I hung it from a piece of thread tied to the pull.

7 Kids College Fund supplies list:

Graphic 45 St. Nicholas papers-12x12, 8x8, 6x6, stamp and chipboard

Wycinancka Chipboard

Precious Marieke Snowflake Corner Die

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