Motivational Card and Freebie Printable

Motivational Card and Freebie Printable

I made this motivational card for a little one. This quote is so true. I love the fact that this quote reminds me that we all have our highlight reels, and we should never compare ourselves with others. It is so hard growing up, heck even we adults have trouble growing up. Let's not compare ourselves to anyone, and focus on being the best we can be.

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel"

The freebie has a few variations of this quote, including some you can frame and a cute tag you could add to a card.

Please click here to download free printable

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables and cut files with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• I hope you love PINTEREST as much as I do, would love it if you would PIN this project!
• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

 Check out my Link Parties to see the badges of all the lovely places where I am linking to.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you all the Joy and Happiness of Christmas!

12 Days of Christmas Rolled Paper Tree Embellishment

12 Days of Christmas - Day 12 - Rolled Paper Tree Embellishment

I hope that you have enjoyed the 12 Days of Christmas projects. Today is the final posting. I thought it fitting that we use up all those scraps of wrapping paper that I know you have lying around the house.

The quick version...

• Collect your wrapping paper scraps (I know, you hated to throw it away anyway)
• You can cut them into different lengths, or roll them longer and cut them down when you stack them
• Tip: If you are impatient, use some of that tape that you cannot see and tape the rolled paper, it is really much quicker, lol
• Glue them onto something that makes it look like a tree... I used a piece of scrapbook paper I had that looked like wood. My friend Ann, at AnnsSnapEditScrap.blogspot.com made one that she posted earlier this month and used a Popsicle stick. She is on my bloglist, you should definitely pay her a visit.
• Add some "ornaments," I added some sequins, for a little sparkle

Alternative ways to use this:

• Punch a hole in the top and transform it into a gift tag. 
• If you make it sturdy enough, you could turn it into an ornament
• Use it to top your gift card holder

Wishing you and your family a Safe, Happy, and Healthy Christmas Eve!

Throwback Santa Suit Gift Card Holder

This is my Santa suit gift card holder from last year, I thought it would be fun to re-post it so you can see the basic gift card holder design, and well it is way cute. I did re-visit this gift card holder and the picture in this post is a little different, I added some glitter and some black "buttons" to spruce it up a bit.

Click here to go to the original post for complete instructions

I hope you have a wonderful day!

12 Days of Christmas Snowman Gift Card Holder

12 Days of Christmas - Day 10 - Snowman Gift Card Holder

I know, I had to post him as well. For the basic instructions for making the base of the gift card, go here

To make the Snowman Face

• Cut face 2.5 x 2 inches
• Draw eyes, nose, and mouth
• Dry emboss to add texture by running it through the cuttlebug with embossing folder
• Add glitter, well just because I love glitter
• Tip: It is easier to draw the face before you emboss the paper
• Tip: Check out the photo below to see the difference a little glitter makes

To make the Top Hat

• Cut black cardstock approximately 1 in x 2 in
• Find some fun paper to cut the brim of the hat, cut it a little wider than your hat
• Dry emboss to add texture by running it through the cuttlebug with embossing folder
• Add glitter
• Tip: You can use any kind of paper or pattern you like, this is where your personality shines through

Assemble as shown and gift to your heart's content! I have a question for you. When making these snowgirl and snowman gift cards, I made a few extra snowmen because I was thinking if I forgot someone (I mean, it's not like I always forget someone or anything like that, lol) a snowman is more of a unisex gift and that a man might think it odd to get a snowgirl, but a woman would be ok with a snowman. Do you agree?

I hope you have a wonderful day!

12 Days of Christmas Snow Girl Gift Card Holder Tutorial

12 Days of Christmas - Day 9 - Snow Girl Gift Card Holder

If you have been following my blog, you know that I love gift card holders. As the nieces and nephews get older they don't want gifts, instead they want money and gift cards, so I get to indulge in my obsession, lol. This year, snowmen are on the agenda for my gift cards. These are super simple to make, I hope you give them a try.

These are super simple to make, decide what scrapbook paper you will use (this is always a process for me, I always second guess the paper I selected). I am always trying to maximize my paper, so I make them 4x6 so that I can get 6 gift card holders from my 12x12 paper.

Gift Card Holder

• Cut paper to 4x6
• Fold at 1 in and 4 in on the 6 in side
• Glue only the outside edge on the 1 in side
• Slide gift card or money into the pocket (see photo)
• Tip: After I made this batch, I decided that it would be easier if I used some of my washi tape to tape the sides (it makes it much easier)

To make the Snow Girl Face

• Cut face 2.5 x 2 inches
• Draw eyes, nose, and mouth
• Dry emboss to add texture by running it through the cuttlebug with embossing folder
• Add glitter, because what girl doesn't like glitter (lol)
• Tip: It is easier to draw the face before you emboss the paper

To make the Snow Girl Winter Hat

• Cut 2 in circle and cut in half (I used my 2 in circle punch)
• Cut a coordinating trim
• Dry emboss to add texture by running it through the cuttlebug with embossing folder
• Add glitter, I cannot get enough

Assemble as shown.  The possibilities are endless with the colors and styles you can try. Would love to hear your thoughts.

This picture shows how I added the gift tags from this earlier post so I know who was receiving each gift card!

Click here to go to original post to download these gift cards!

Click here to go to original post to download these gift cards!

I received an early Christmas present, I was featured on the Inspire Us Thursday Link Party! I am so thrilled!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

12 Days of Christmas Simple Ornament

12 Days of Christmas - Day 8 - Simple Silhouette Cameo Cross Ornament

Greetings my friends, today is a simple ornament that you can make. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the shapes. Then I layered them, added lots of glitter, sequins, and gems. Perfect for adding to a card or your Christmas Tree.

I believe that the ornament shape is one I got from Bird's Cards, you have to stop over and see her site, she has so many free cut files for all occasions. The cross shapes I created myself, I would love to share them with you but the computer I used for my crafting has died. Could not save it, so I am now hoping to be able to retrieve the files off of it (I know, I should have been doing regular backups). Big sigh!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

12 Days of Christmas December 25th Printable

12 Days of Christmas - Day 7 - Free December 25th Printable with Tags

Click here to download the free December 25th Printable

Christmas is almost here! I cannot believe it, I also am beginning to worry I have over committed myself. Do you feel the same way? It is always like this as I begin to plan for all the cooking and travel and that silly thing I call a "job" lol. I would love to hear how your preparations are coming along.

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables and cut files with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• I hope you love PINTEREST as much as I do, would love it if you would PIN this project!
• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

 Check out my Link Parties to see the badges of all the lovely places where I am linking to.

Updated: I am so sorry, I forgot to publish this so it did not post yesterday (completely user error).

I hope you have a wonderful day!

12 Days of Christmas Free Keep Calm Be Merry Gift Tags

12 Days of Christmas Free Keep Calm Be Merry Gift Tags

Today I am sharing some gift tags made from the Keep Calm Be Merry printable I shared with you earlier in the week. I love the colors, and cannot wait to share with you some of the projects that I have made.

The printable you will find today has some extra goodies, I hope you download it.

Click here to download the Free Keep Calm Be Merry Gift Tags

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables and cut files with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• I hope you love PINTEREST as much as I do, would love it if you would PIN this project!
• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

 Check out my Link Parties to see the badges of all the lovely places where I am linking to.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

12 Days of Christmas Keep Calm Printable

12 Days of Christmas - Day 4 - Free Keep Calm Be Merry Printable

Please remain calm, you still have time until Christmas Day! I admit to getting a bit worried, because I have nieces and nephews who are still "thinking about" what they want. My greatest worry is that they decide too close to Christmas and I don't have time to run out and get it. 

We keep things relatively low key with gifts in our family and only buy for the kids, but there are still quite a few in our family.  This printable is a cheeky reminder to just "chill."  This is an updated version of the project I did last year. I created a few variations of the project so that you have a choice of which one you would like to use. Later this week I will share the tags with you.

Click here to download the Free Keep Calm Be Merry printable

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables and cut files with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• I hope you love PINTEREST as much as I do, would love it if you would PIN this project!
• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

 Check out my Link Parties to see the badges of all the lovely places where I am linking to.

Have a joyous day! 

Free Merry and Bright Gift Tags

Bonus: Merry and Bright Gift Tags Free Printable!

As promised, here is the bonus 12 Days of Christmas gift tags, as you can see, they are based on my earlier Merry and Bright printable. There are several sizes of each type of gift tag as shown in the photo. You can either print them on a sturdier card stock or print them on the full sheet sticker paper and you can adhere them directly to your gift.

Click here to download these Free Christmas Gift Tags 

December is flying by, I don't know about you, but I need to get moving on my Christmas shopping and preparations. We won't put our tree up until later in the month, so that everyone can participate in the decorating. How far along are you?

Here is a link to the earlier post with various sizes that can be used for framing, card making, scrapbooking, or one of your project life projects!

Click here to go to the original post to download these goodies

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables and cut files with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• I hope you love PINTEREST as much as I do, would love it if you would PIN this project!
• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

 Check out my Link Parties to see the badges of all the lovely places where I am linking to.

May your days be Merry and Bright!

12 Days of Christmas Glass Nativity Ornament

12 Days of Christmas Nativity Ornament Day 3

I hope you are enjoying the projects this week, as you have noticed, there has been a bit of a theme... this will be my last Nativity ornament for this 12 Days of Christmas series.

I love how easy this project is, I cut the Nativity scene using my cameo, rolled it around a paint brush and placed it inside the ornament. Then I added iridescent glitter and tried to tie a bow (still working on these, and still need much practice, lol).

I will be back tomorrow with some tags based on my Merry and Bright post earlier this week (it will be an extra freebie).

 Check out my Link Parties to see the badges of all the lovely places where I am linking to.

May your days be Merry and Bright!

Throwback Quilled Nativity Ornament

Quilled Nativity Ornament

As promised, this is my throwback post. This ornament always makes me happy, I should make one for myself (I mean my children, so that way I can hang it on my tree until they are old enough to have their own tree).  I love the way the colors work together and the fact that I had quilling paper that matched the paper I used!

Quick instructions.... I cut the nativity from my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine. The image is one I purchased during one of their many sales.

The color combination was accidental. I am sure I am not the only person who does this, lol... I pulled out more than one color cardstock (I mean, can you really know what colors you might need?)  I cut the image from a few different colors, and as I peeled them off I placed them on the table I was working on, as luck would have it, I happened to place this one on a purple piece of scrap paper. As I laid it down, I was struck by the color combination and thought how nice they looked together, so I did what anyone would have done.....

I pulled out my cuttlebug and whipped out my Spellbinders dies and tracked down my purple paper and cut an Oval and then layered that over a double sided paper that had that antiqued cream look to tie back in the image that I cut with my largest Lacy Oval die.

Since, no project is complete without glitter, I added glitter to the purple oval and then glued down the nativity.  I had my quilling supplies out and added a quick quilled element (we can call it a flower maybe - lol)... pulled out some pearls and added them as well.

My regret is not making more than one. Of course, I am usually up quite late and then very early during this time of year trying to get all those projects I wait until now to start, so I am lucky to have completed even one of them, lol.  Are you like me, lots of plans and thoughts, but need the pressure of a deadline to get your juices flowing?

 Check out my Link Parties to see the badges of all the lovely places where I am linking to.

May your days be Merry and Bright!

12 Days of Christmas Nativity Ornament

12 Days of Christmas - Day 2

I cannot wait to share all the projects with you, this is a nativity ornament. I will be back tomorrow to show my throwback post that has one of the other ways I've done this project.

I used one of my purchased Silhouette cut files and cut the nativity scene on black paper, glued it to a red tag that I had (I believe I purchased these from an office supply store), added lots of crystal glaze and glitter. Attached a star and some pretty flower shaped sequins and there you have it.  When I started this project, I was looking for an easy to make ornament, that would be inexpensive to make because I was donating them to my son's school for their St. Nick Shoppe. They try to offer items that they can sell for $1 - $3 each so that they are affordable for all the students, so you can see why I needed to keep the costs down.  I attached a ribbon for the hanger and was ready to go.

As you can see, there was some variation to the ornaments as I was assembling them. I think that is half the fun of creating these kinds of projects.

Do you make your own ornaments for friends and family or even perfect strangers (lol)? Around this time of year my son will ask me what I am making for his teachers. I always try to make ornaments for each of his teachers, but that was easier when he only had one teacher who taught every subject. These days I try to draw the line at no more than 3 or 4 ornaments and the rest get a gift card with a fun gift card holder.  I would love to do more, and perhaps if I started making them earlier I would be able to. Last year I may have given away more than 4, lol.  Who needs sleep anyway!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

12 Days of Christmas All Posts

12 Days of Christmas Project List

For your enjoyment, the 2014 Twelve Days of Christmas Collection

Enjoy this quick and easy way for you to find all the 12 Days of Christmas posts for easy reference...

Day 1 - Free Merry and Bright Printable

Day 2 - Nativity Ornament DIY

Day 2.5 - Quilled Nativity Ornament DIY

Day 3 - Nativity in Glass Ornament DIY

Day 3.5 - Free Merry and Bright Gift Tag Printable

Day 4 - Free Keep Calm Be Merry Printable

Day 5 - Quilled Christmas Tree Ornament

Day 6 Free Keep Calm Be Merry Gift Tags

Day 7 Free Christmas Gift Tags

Day 8 - Silhouette Cameo Cross Ornament

Day 9 - Snow Girl Gift Card Holder

Day 10 - Snowman Gift Card Holder

Day 10.5 - Santa Gift Card Holder

Day 11 - Monogram Ornament

Day 12 - Super Simple Scrap Paper Christmas Tree Gift Tag Ornament

Merry Christmas!

May your days be Merry and Bright!