Doily Snowflakes + Holiday Treat Bags

 

 

With the holiday's quickly closing in, and still ample tutorials to post, scheduled today are two tutorials from our designer's, Lexi Bridges & Kinsey Wilson. The two are nearly a pair, so we thought "why not show them together?" It'll be a merry ol' time! First up, Lexi, with a creative take on painting Winter's most recognizable friend, SNOW! 

 

Doily Snowflakes

Good morning Crate Paper fans! Lexi here with you today to share a fun way to add some paint to your projects. The look and texture of paint can be a fun element to add to scrapping projects, but what about when you want it in a perfect circle shape? I thought accenting some snowflakes on a winter layout would look fun with some paint behind them, so I set out to find a way to make it work.

Turns out, it's simple, like most things I do!

In the most basic sense, you'll only need: Cardstock/Patterned Paper, Glue Dot/Washi Tape Roll, Paintbrush, and Paint.

To begin, I cut my card front from the chosen pattern paper. I then laid my roll of glue dots on top, in the upper right hand corner. Because this circle is big, and the size of a card is small, I had it going off the side a bit. The inner cardboard roll acts as a kind of stencil. Choose the color of paint--I went with white because I wanted the snowflake feel --go ahead and paint inside the circle. SUPER easy. You can see the washi cardboard roll is smaller in diameter so it adds some interest size-wise {below}.

My actual “snowflakes” were pieces cut from a paper doily {clever, eh?}

 

Because the paper I chose for the card had a wintery, blue feel to it, I used blue thread to stitch my snowflakes in place. Carrying on with the “snow” theme, I wrote over the chipboard word “snow” with a snow writer pen. Love how it turned out! Sparkle is an easy accent to Crate's already super cute chipboard pieces—here I added some icicle stickles to the snow and tiny doily snowflakes inside the globe.

 

As easy as paint circles inside a cardboard glue/tape tube are, I wanted to see it further translated on a layout as well. Here, the painted circles are outlined with a pen and painted with an aquapen. Bigger Doilies are preferable as the size of the layout benefits from them. I've sprayed them with a metallic sheen. 

 

 

Here, you can see that I also used some white spray ink on top of the layout as a whole. It adds another fun, new feature to the layout.

 

Most of the colorful snowflakes on the layout have been punched using various punches from one sheet of paper — Snow Globe. A few have been popped with dimensional adhesive. I also added some different stamped snowflakes as well.

 There are so many ideas by just varying the paint colors and embellishments used. As simple as paint circles can be, it's a great way to add an extra layer to your projects. I do hope you'll give them a try!

Holiday Treat Bags

Hello once again! Kinsey following up with a quick and easy way to make cute little holiday treats for your kiddo’s class party. For my daughter’s class holiday party this year, I made these little goody bags using two of my favorite Crate Paper lines - Peppermint and Random. All you’ll neet to whip these little cuties together is a few sheets of patterned paper, some fun embellishments, small Ziploc bags, and adhesive. So, let’s get to work!

As you know, Ziploc bags come in all shapes and sizes so you’ll want to fill the bags with treats first and then measure length, width, and depth of the filled bags. My treat bags measured about ½ inch thick, 4½ inches tall, and 3 inches wide.

Cut paper into strips…if your treat bags are taller than 5 inches, you’ll need to piece two strips together according to the measurements. For mine, I cut 12 x 3 inch strips and then creased and folded them to create triangular packages with open sides and the treat bag fits nice and snug inside of the folded package.

 

Punch the top edge of each strip with an edge punch and then back it with a contrasting strip of paper.

 Run a line of adhesive along the top of the Ziploc bag and adhere it to the inside of the packaging, add a little note from the kiddo, and then fold it up and adhere the top decorative edged flap to the front cover section of the package.

 

Add some fun stickers and chipboard pieces along the flap seam…tags would be really cute here, too.

 These are so fun to make and each one is a little bit different. Brianna is so excited about handing them out at the party! I hope you all enjoy your holidays and your holiday crafting with Crate!

Comments

[Pam Spradlin]

I love the snow globe...and those snowflakes...how easy if you have a doily. I think I will be making those treat bags. I have lots of Christmas scraps to use up.

[conniemelancon]

Love the snow globe! What a great idea for treat bags.

[Michelle]

Cute projects. Yes, a great idea for the treat bags. I love the doily use on the snow globe project!! So fun!

[Julie Tucker-Wolek]

Wowwwwwwwwwww! These are all AMAZING! :):):):):):):):):):):)

[Rosie N.]

These are wonderful projects!