This week's challenge is Christmas Cards

For the month of December we will be veering from our traditional challenges and focusing on Christmas. Every day between now and December 19th we will have a project idea featured for you. Those will be listed in the sidebar and available for you to click on so that you can easily reference projects from past days.

This week's challenge is Christmas cards and we will be featuring several designers each day with their Christmas cards.

The prize will be a set of Christmas supplies from The Robin's Nest - stay tuned to see projects featuring items from the set this week! It is incredible - you won't want to miss it! Deadline is 5:00 ET on Friday!

Christmas Cards

Kim - the outside of the card


The inside of the card

And her envelope!
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Erika
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Julie
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Crystal
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Dianne

Snowflake Ornaments

Kim

Directions for how to make these elegant ornaments can be found Kim's blog.

Altered Christmas Jar

Dianne
Directions are available on Dianne's blog.

Sketch Friday

Every weekend we are going to try to have a sketch up for you to play with! Ann-Katrin is our new sketch designer and we are excited to have her on board. Have fun with this one and post what you create in Mr. Linky so we can check it out!

Top Three for the Stitching Challenge

Grand Prize Winner

Candace is the Grand Prize Winner and will receive the kit from Kits and Giggles.

Lisa

Gloria

Thanks to all of you who played along this week - we had many new participants! We always enjoy looking through all the submissions - this week was especially outstanding!
Winners please e-mail me at practicalscrappers@gmail.com to get your blinky.

A Book Made with items from AC Bailey Designs

Check out this beautiful book created by Jessica. She used a kit made by Bo Bunny that is available from AC Bailey designs. AC Bailey offers a variety of scrapbooking supplies from big name companies we all know and love including Provocraft, BoBunny, Bazill, and C'oredinations. Their monthly special is : Free Shipping if you spend $35.00 on the first day of the month. They are also having a great special on gift certificates - hop on over there and check it out! Stay tuned because we will be giving away the kit to make a book like this sometime soon...

Post your Stitching Projects Here

Our challenge this week is stitching. Your project can be fake stitching (hand drawn or stamped) too! The deadline to enter is 5:00 ET on Friday. The grand prize this week is a kit like the one you see in Jill's layout from Kits and Giggles.

Guest Designer: Sandy W

Here's our second submission from Sandy. She did faux stitching on the heart, all mats are sewn with different stitches, the ribbon is sewn to the ornaments, the vintage image of Santa is sewn to 3 layers of green napkin....to give a quilted look.....and the lace and ribbon are sewn to layout. Isn't it fabulous? Thanks to Sandy for being our guest designer for these two week!

Crystal's Forgotten Layout

I missed posting this - but it's so beautiful I wanted to make sure that you got to see it!

From all of us at Practical Scrappers - Happy Thanksgiving!

Simplicity: Stiching Layouts

Angela



Kristin

Erika

Altered Projects: Stitching

Kim

Dianne

Cricut/Cuttlebug Projects using Stitching

Kerri stitched her border and used a Bazill template to stitch her butterfly.

Sherri machine stitched her borders

Meg stitched the border on her circle and the X's between her pictures.

Jamie

Sandi stitched her pockets onto the pages.

Amy drew her stitching throughout her layout.

Stitched card Tuesday

I think the cards this week may be the best bunch we have ever had to show on card Tuesday! My jaw dropped further with each submission that came in. Take a look and enjoy the inspirational and beautiful work done by these ladies!

Stitched cards

Kim handstitched the two embossed circles

Amy stitched her snowflake and did sewing for her border around it.

Dianne

Catherine hand stitched on both of her cards - including doing cross-stitches to add the hand quilted look of her Noel card.

Wanda stitched between her squares on her easel card

This week's challenge is Stitching

This week the challenge is to do stitching - it can be hand stitching, machine stitching, faux hand-drawn stitching, stamped on stitching; anything that LOOKS like you sewed onto your project. Hand stitching is one of my absolute favorite techniques! This the last week for Kristin and Brandilynn - we've loved having them on our team and will miss them!

Don't forget to enter our "Bling Friday" contest - the link to it is in the sidebar!

Kim used the Bazzill stitches floss to

stitch some flourishes stamped in Versa ink.

Dianne

Jennifer used handstitching along the bottom to make a border, handstiched the title "sassy", and created loops along the tops of the photos on the edges.

Robin first cut out fabric flowers using the Cricut and then stitched on the petals of the flowers. She used ribbon for the flower stems and zig-zagged stitched the stems to the LO. She used the ribbon again on the bottom left of the LO and used a straight stitch.

Jill used stitching on the photomats and on the patterned paper.

Jessica

Brandilynn

Erin hand stitched the patterned papers together using paper floss to mimic the
"strings" that the stars are hanging on.




Joy created her layout digitally



Julie stitched her borders



Joni started by adhering the photo and stitched the 2 large rectangles and then stitched the smaller rectangle around my son. Then I added paper in the "open" spaces between the stitching and photo and added other embellishments.

Sarah made her embellishments and then stitched them onto the layout.