...NaPKiN RinGS...

..My fav neighbor is having a late Christmas dinner for her girlfriends and their families.

Since January 12 is to late to do a Christmas theme...she's going with straight up WiNTeR.

When she told me that she bought cloth napkins for her big shindig...I offered to make her some themed napkin rings.

She had a set of cute snowflake plates to use for the grown ups.

So I made one set for the adults...

...super quick and easy...circle punches, snowflake punch, embossing folders, and some ribbon...

I punched one hole through the center and threaded the ribbon through, wrapped it around the napkin, then back up through the same hole and tied it in a knot.  She told me to keep it simple or I'd have done a button and some bakers twine and  mini tags with the guests names on them :)

...Here are all 8 of them...SuPeR fast...maybe 40 minutes for everything...

She has some solid blue plastic plates for the kids...so I thought they needed something different...

...Snowmen seemed a better fit for kids than snowflakes...

...same basic layout...again ReaLLy quick...and I got to use a cricut cartridge that I've had for years and I've never used...it's called GinGeRBreaD...adorable!!  It screams Christmas tags to me...if I can get my act together this year, it would be GReaT to use homemade tags instead of those lame-o stickers I always use.

Here are all the kiddie ones together.

I hope her party goes well!  It looks great over at her house...floating candles, fairy lights, cute place settings...and it's how it all LooKS that reaLLy matters right? :)

Thanks for looking!

jen

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...TE CarD FoLiO...

Back in early November, Taylor from Taylored Expressions made the CuTeST "card folio" on her blog to promote her November release...

I immediately had to try one :)

Here are the cards I made to go inside...personalized thank you notes for my neighbor's daughter's teacher...

simple...computer generated personalization and then I added in the SNOW form the PTI set...I know I totally CASED this idea from someone...but I don't remember from who...SoRRy!!  Thanks for the BriLLianT idea! 

...This is the inside of the cards...

...and the back...

...and the envies...

...here is one side of my "folio" holder...look how cute the decorated binder clip turned out...

30 seconds + 2 buttons and a glue gun= AdoRaBLe! 

...and the other side...

 ...the entire thing laying open...

...the front, folded closed, with the bow tied...

...and with the complementary felt ornament I made to hang on the front...

these are copied from Debbie Olsen's  blog...she made them last year 

I have to tell you...that PTI Made of Snow die set got a MaJoR workout this Christmas!!

I ended up making a few of these sets for people to give to their kids teachers...I love it when an idea turns out to be cute and practical :)

thanks for looking!

jen

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...PeNnY BLacK ReiNDeEr...

So...you know it has an excellent chance of being a good day when...

...the morning starts off with a pumpkin spice latte delivered by your dad and a new christmas idea magazine...

...you complete the giftie for your neighbor...including a cute envelope...

(it's not cookies, but I'd forgotten that I'd picked up this turkey votive holder and a candle for her the last time I was at Bath&Body Works)

...AND you manage to MAKE something during nap time...

...on my last trip to the local scrapbook store...

when I was looking for HaLLoWeEn paper...

I bought the CuTeST PeNnY BLacK stamp set...

and I hoped yesterday that I'd get to use it on a redo of this week's great sketch from

Jen  Shults Blog

...and I squeezed it in when I was supposed to be folding laundry during nap time...

maybe if I'm really lucky 

~the laundry fairy~

 will come and take care of that load of towels for me

BwAhaHahAHahaha

any way...here's my card...

AcK...she is sooooo CuTe!!!!!  That reindeer is AdoRabLe!!!

and I was right...it worked perfectly with this sketch...and I used ANOTHER previously unopened KI kit!

Here's a closer view..the snowflake is coated in prisma glitter and so is the strip of snow in the background...and so is the floor and my pants and the cat...that stuff is so fine it gets EVERYWHERE!!  

ok...I really do need to go finish the laundry now...I know the Laundry Fairy boycotts my house ;(

Thanks for looking and 

Have a GrEaT weekend!

jen

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