Altered Date Books

A fast and inexpensive gift you can create in minutes!! I bought these Date Books for under $1 apiece!
Supplies:
Inexpensive Date Books
Patterned Paper and/or Bazzill
Embellishments
Cheetah

If applicable, remove vinyl cover from Date Book. Open Date Book and flatten down at center and measure length and width, leaving a bit extra width to accomodate for the fold. Cut to size using a paper trimmer. Take a 2 inch Cheetah and apply adhesive on cover of book, making sure that all the edges are covered completely with adhesive. For this datebook I used Bazzill.

Once the Date Book is completely covered with adhesive, carefully place the cardstock or patterned paper over the cover and press down to cover the Date Book with the new paper. Make sure that the spine of the book is adhered well. Fold the Date Book and trim any paper that is not exactly flush with the edges of the Date Book. Now comes the fun part - embellish as desired. I made a bunch of these for the ladies I work with, using Thickers to monogram. Once completed slide Date Book back into vinyl cover.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!
Sww

Snowman Ornaments!

For the 6th day till Christmas my Dallas helped me make...

2 Snowman Ornaments to put on the tree!

These were so easy! I just took the shapes from the Cosmo Cricket Buck Naked Ornaments pack

Covered them with a scrap of white I found...

Stickled the the scarf and the candy cane...

Put them together and viola!

(I used my Crop a Dile to punch the holes for the ribbons to hang them on the tree too :)

Have a Happy Christmas!!
Erica

Post It Note Holder

Here's a cute and quick to put together last minute gift...easily made out of scraps, but this one features PennyRoyale by Kaisercraft.

Supplies:
2 pieces of chipboard 3 1/2"  x 3 1/2 " (Coasters are great for this!)
2 pieces patterned paper 4 1/4" x 4 1/4"
2 pieces cardstock or patterned paper 3 1/4" x 3 1/4"
1 piece of cardstock 2 1/2"  x 3 1/2"
1 16" piece of ribbon
Embellishments

Instructions:
1.  Cover 2 pieces of chipboard cover with patterned paper (4 1/2 size) overlapping to back.

2.  Cover the inside of chipboard with 3 1/4 size paper
3.  Score 2 1/2 inch cardstock vertically - this will be the spine of the cover.

4.  Run adhesive along the ribbon in the center only, leaving 4" on each end without adhesive and adhere to spine.
5. Flip the spine and run adhesive on the inside edge 3/4" on each side

6. Adhere the post-it-note to the inside of the back cover.
7. Line up the front and the back covers and pinch together

8.  Apply the spine to the covers
9.  Close and tie the ribbon
10. Embellish!

Hope you have fun with this! I sure did and it is an easy and fun gift to make and receive!

Dee