A Blog Called Wanda: December 2024

Merry Christmas 2024!! Blessings to you and yours!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024!

HOLIDAY GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS

FROM MY HOME TO YOURS!

One final Christmas card to share with you today! I made this large slimline card using all supplies from Anna Griffin! It's so lovely and I just adore all those tiny details from the window candles to the snow, to the trees. Hope it makes you smile!!

MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

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Cute Snowman Banner just in time for Christmas!

Hi creative and crafty friends! Today is my turn up on The Greetery Blog! And, as usual, I'm posting my project here too! I hope you're doing great and having fun getting ready for the Christmas this week! I love to decorate my home for Christmas and make lots of pretty crafty things to put around... For my project today I created a cheerful and happy snowman banner using the brand new Honeycomb Snowman dies and the Snowflakes #2 dies. This project brought a smile to my face the whole time I was making it, and now it's hanging up in our dining room! Do you enjoy making home decor items too?! This is a Winter themed project, so I'm going to leave it up through January probably. When I decorate the house for the holidays I use all kinds of colors and themes. Then, once Christmas is over, I take down the obviously red/green/Christmas decorations, but I leave the snowmen, snowflakes, and Winter decorations up for the month of January. It just makes the holidays last a little longer during the foggy January days....

To make my snowman banner, I started by die cutting out all the pieces to make four snowmen from the new Honeycomb Snowman Die set. I assembled the snowmen and then added those most adorable snow white honeycombs! I die cut out five silver glitter paper snowflakes to put in between the snowmen on my banner. I used a long length of twine - around six feet - and used my hot glue gun to glue the snowflakes and snowmen onto the twine. It was really a fun and easy project and I love how it came out. I used bright colors for their ear muffs.

A few of my little finishing touches include - Copic marker shading on the die cut pieces of the snowmen, White gel pen accents, and bits of Diamond Glitter to give them a bit of shine! This would be a great group project or one to do with the kids too. The goal is to have F-U-N!

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Love their little round honeycomb tummies!!

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Here is a photo of my banner hanging up in our dining room!! We've already been enjoying it!

That's it for my project for today! I hope you have a fantastic and creative day! Wishing you a wonderful week and all the magic of Christmas.... It's my pleasure to share with you all year. Blessings to you and your families. I look forward to sharing with you again soon - in the new year!! In the meantime, happy crafting! XO Wanda

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Concord & 9th Favorite Things Party 2024!

Hello there!! Today's blog post is both festive AND jolly! Today I'm sharing some super cute and colorful Winter cards I made with supplies from Concord & 9th! There is an Instagram Hop today too, so if you're on Instagram, be sure to stop by my page and leave a comment for a chance to win a prize! The theme for today's Instagram Hop is My Favorite Things - from Concord & 9th 2024! There are a bunch of creatives sharing our favorite stamps and dies and colors from 2024... It's going to be a fantastic hop! It always brings a smile to my face to use stamps and dies from Concord and 9th - truly one of my favorite companies!! So grab some cocoa because today's post is chilly!!

So you know I did THIS POST earlier this year using the Carpe Denim set - the cutest jean jackets you ever did see! Well, today I made a Christmas jean jacket! Hee hee. I am one of those gurlz that loves to wear holiday apparel! I always have a fun Christmas sweater or sweatshirt on during the month of December! So that was the inspo for this card...

My finished card is an A2 white card base layered with Falala patterned paper and then a white panel to feature my jacket! I die cut a beautiful bright red poinsettia to adorn the back of my jacket... Oceanside and Poppy cardstock are great together!! I added some snowy paint splatters and bits of gold to finish my look. Let's be jolly indeed!! (I actually wish I had a denim jacket like this!) I added a tree and a sweet sentiment banner to finish it off!

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I just received the AMAZZZZING Alpine Village Dies in the mail last week and I had to use them today too! EEK!! This finished card is an A2 white card base. The layers are all from the super genius die set. I die cut all the pieces using my fav colors of Concord & 9th cardstocks. I really wanted to create a little Swiss village so I used red, dark green and brown.... That little ski lift makes me giddy!! I added little white snowflakes to their Winter skating sweaters... I used glitter glue for the rooftops and skating pond... Snowy splatters finish it off. The sentiment is just perfect!

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That's it for today's Wintry goodness! These cards were so much fun to make! I hope your week is going great, and your holiday prep is going smoothly... Sending you Winter good wishes today and always. Happy Crafting!

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The new Airmail Box from Catherine Pooler!

Hello creative and crafty friends! Happy Christmas-time! Are you out and about enjoying the festivities?! My hubs and I have been enjoying all the craft fairs and vintage markets and the local ice rink... This time of year there is so much to do all the time and we love it! I have quite the supply of festive sweaters (collected over 40 years!) and I love to be loud and colorful. Oh, and there's always lots of coffee involved too! I hope you are having a great season so far. I have some holiday projects to share with you later this week... But today, I'm sharing something decidedly not Christmas! Something really fun!

The lovelies at Catherine Pooler have created their newest craft/card box! It's called the Airmail Box and it is AWESOME! I do really love a mail theme (being a card maker of course) and I love airmail items too. The new box is just that - mail theme! Three stamp sets with matching dies, a paper pack, standalone dies, and ink!!! I love it! The kit is available to order today! Yay! I made one card, so far, and at the bottom of this post you'll see a photo I took of the whole kit! CP kits are always the best quality and so wonderfully curated...

My finished card is a white A2 card base, layered with the kit included patterned paper, vellum, and a white panel. I inked the top of the panel using the included new ink pad and it's the prettiest shade of blue... That cute biplane, and puffy clouds are so perfect together! The little trail of hearts is too much (in a good way!)

This plane is so great! I'm picturing masculine cards, and birthday cards, I miss you cards.... You can make it in any color combo! I used silver paper and a pearl for the propeller.

Here's a photo I took of the entire kit! CLICK HERE to order yours!

Thanks for spending some time with me today! It's my husband's birthday so we'll be out doing some fun things together! Happy Crafting!

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Fun Holiday Projects with Iron Orchid Designs!

Hi friends! Happy Sunday! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and a great long weekend! It's the official kick off to the holiday season and it's December first! Christmas will be here before we know it! We enjoyed a very quiet and peaceful Thanksgiving here at our house and then we got up at 5am to go shopping on Black Friday. We have had a shopping tradition for many many years. I love being out in the hustle and bustle of the mall and the stores - everyone wearing their holiday sweaters and feeling festive! We shopped til we dropped - having fun. Didn't really buy too much, mostly just looking. I feel like the store/mall decorations this year were super amazing!! I love that kind of stuff. It makes me inspired and in the spirit of the season!!

We had a Christmas miracle happen also... I left my iPhone on a bench at the mall (right by the exit to the parking lot) and didn't realize it for 10-15 minutes. I FREAKED out. We ran to the Apple Store and they turned my phone to lost mode and we were able to track my phone - to still being inside the mall (I thought for sure someone would take it and run)... The Apple store employees were so nice. Since my phone was locked, they sent a message to it which allows the person to call a number.... Well, through divine intervention an honest person had my phone and she called me. Boy did I feel grateful!!!! Whew.

I have a couple of projects to share today since it's December! I love working with my supplies from Iron Orchid Designs....gorgeous molds and transfers and stamps...They are really wonderful to work with and create beautiful things. I made a home decor piece and some ornaments and I have some more to make also. Here's my home decor piece.... It's hanging in our entry way now.... This started with a plain wood arch piece, which I painted with navy and gold, then a big fabulous transfer, and then more gold paint and a few coats of wax. Annie Sloan Chalk Paints and waxes are the BOMB!!!

The piece is painted Navy (I combined two blues for a dark starry night color), and then I painted gold on that inside edge to look like gold leafing... I also splattered gold paint (of course). I used three coats of the blue paint and about five coats of the gold paint on that inside edge. The entire piece is coated in two coats of clear Annie Sloan Wax and then buffed out to a shiny finish. The tree is actually a giant rub on transfer! I cannot even tell you how pretty it is in person.

I also made these resin ornaments using my supplies from Iron Orchid Designs supplies also. The shapes were made using resin and then I painted 2-3 coats of deep charcoal chalk paint onto them. I used sweet woodland rub ons and then gold wax as shading. The ties for the ornaments are Tim Holtz velvet ribbon from my stash. These came out soooooo nice. I love them and can't wait to make more!!! I like to use the quick set resin so they set in about 10-15 minutes and then I usually let them sit until the next day before I paint them.

Here's another photo of my home decor painting piece - on our dining room table - in different light. It was a very hard project to photograph!!

I took some in-process photos with my iphone - so you could get a feel for the projects.... Here I'm starting with my first layer of paint...

The two colors I mixed for the blue color....

That gorgeous transfer!!

Starting on the gold paint...

Ready to put the tree on!!!!

And it's almost done! I let it sit overnight and then did the wax! I used two coats of wax and let that sit for a day and a half and then buffed it out. You can see in my final project photo that it has a pretty sheen to it now. LOVED making this!