***giveaway closed***Homemade Christmas Blog Hop

Hey there friends,

Welcome to the homemade Christmas Blog Hop!! Today's Blog hop is all about homemade christmas ideas for gifts, cards, and decor.

Today I will be showing you a little bit of each! It is soo easy to create awesome handmade gifts for christmas using your cricut.

Since I Just got my imagine yesterday, I sat down and easily and quickly whipped up card sets for gift giving. My family and friends love getting homemade cards.

here are the set of 4 that I made

 For this card I used imagine more border feature as well as Country Life.

 The pattern paper, solid green and kite image are all from imagine more.

This card I created using pattern paper from Imagine More and the clothes hanging on a line is from Country life.

The pattern paper and cardstock are all from Papertrey ink, I used my imagine and Simply charmed to match the Papertrey ink RGB codes .



Next I made a really cute ornament

 This is a plastic ornament that I purchased from Michaels on Black Friday. Inside of it is an idea that I got from my fellow Scrappy Moms design team Member Liz From Liz's Paper Loft. I sprayed the inside with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer mist the photo looks a little foggy but the actual orgnament has a sheen of glitter, its so pretty. Inside is a cut from Winter Frolic of 2 birds in a cage, and that is cut at I believe 2.75 inches. and is mounted on acetate. If you want a full tutorial for this please check out liz's site, she has a great video. I tied a bow with Some stampin up Real Red swiss dot saddle stich ribbon, added a black button and tied some timeless twine. I added the ribbon onto the ornamanet with my hot glue gun

I created a box using some light blue cardstock, 11 inch square  scored on all 4 sides at 3.5 inches.

I also created a top and added some fun 2.5 inch wire ribbon.

Next I created a snowman candy bar wrapper. This is a free printable design by Laurie Furnell. She has all the instructions for it on her site.  It is a very easy sewing machine project. If you know how to make a straight-ish stitch you can make this

Finally to wrap everything up I used a Kraft Gift bag to decorate it. the cut is from Christmas Cartridge cut at 2.5 inches (i think)

I hope you really enjoy this project I created and it gives you some ideas for some homemade gifts for christmas

I have some blog candy to offer. Make sure you leave a comment on this post in order to qualify to win an IROCK!!!!! I will be choosing the winner via random.org on dec 22, so you have until dec 21 to enter for a chance to win



Next you are on your way to ELSA

Cristina, http://www.Craftingwithcristina.com

Elsa, http://www.Cricutlvr.blogspot.com she's next!!!!!

Mel, http://www.Scrappymel.blogspot.com

Amanda, http://www.Myscrappinobsession.com

Dorcas, http://www.4craftyangels.blogspot.com

Tammy, http://www.Scrappycritters.blogspot.com

Ivette, http://www.allaboutmeandmyscrapbook.blogspot.com

Lauren B, http://www.Laurenscreative.com

Liz, http://www.lizspaperloft.blogspot.com

Lauren D, http://www.Laurenscraps.blogspot.com

Trish, http://www.techniquesbytrish.blogspot.com