Home for the Holidays: Day 14

Hi everyone, it's Amy here today, bringing up the tail end of this awesome Home for the Holidays Project Parade. I've been so impressed with the variety of inexpensive gift ideas! Hope this parade has given you some fun, new ideas to try out this holiday season!

I have an easy project to share today that could work as either a home decor item or a gift. I found these glass jars on clearance at a local fabric store (Hancock) earlier this Fall for only $20 for a set of 3. The pedestal style and the glass knob on the lid make for such an elegant presentation. I usually see these types of jars filled with various things like key limes, cranberries, acorns, and such, but holiday sweets work well, too! Wouldn't it be fun to group a few of these together, all filled with different treats, for a {partly} edible centerpiece?

For today's project, I decorated the medium-size jar (without the lid, the jar measures 8" tall and about 4 1/4" in diameter) with a fairly simple belly band and medallion and then filled it with one of my favorite holiday sweets: Mexican Wedding Cookies.

For the medallion, I stamped the sentiment (from Christmas in the Air) onto heavyweight ivory paper in a dark green pigment ink, clear embossed, and die-cut using one of the Spellbinders fancy tags dies. Behind that is a red "donut" cut with Spellbinders circle dies and stamped with the snowflake wreath (also from Christmas in the Air) in white craft ink. Then behind that are two Spellbinders Labels 4 die-cuts from various Basic Grey holiday papers.

For the belly band, I found that even strips of 12" designer paper were not long enough to go around the full circumference of the jar, so I designed the band in two pieces and connected them with a narrow band of light green paper and burlap string tied between two brads. Because the jar is ever so slightly tapered, I adhered the belly band along the top edge only, using 1/4" Scor-tape. Last, I tied some olive ribbon around the knob on the lid for a splash of color up top. Add a small tag to the ribbon for gift-giving.

So, the cost breakdown: less than $7 for the jar, say $1 for paper and ribbon (I used scraps), plus the cost of the ingredients for the cookies. I've probably busted the $10 budget just a bit (I do that with budgets, you know {wink}), but only because those darn pecans in the cookies were so expensive!

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not use 'em?

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes! To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget at Day One's post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home for the Holidays: Day 13

Hi everyone. This month's Verve Project Parade is coming to an end. I've so enjoyed seeing the creative projects the other divas have been sharing! Each one under $10. How cool is that!?! Well, I have a small project to share with you also. I used the smallest Petal Pot that comes packaged with two larger pots for $8.95. Since I only used one, even though it's the smallest one, I'll say it was $2.98. The kisses inside were $3.69. For a total of $6.67.

I wanted to try something a little different and use black as my base and make it clean and simple. I rarely use black or go the CAS route. But I like how this turned out. I used the sentiments "Merry Christmas" and "from our house to yours" from the Verve set Oh Christmas Tree. And the flake from the set Frosty Flakes was stamped with White Craft ink onto black cardstock. The cardstock is all Papertrey. For the finishing touches, I embossed the card and petal pot panels, and added some rhinestones and decorative borders with punches.

Here's a close up of the Petal Pot:
Here's a close up of the card:

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not use 'em?

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!
To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget at Day One's post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home For the Holidays: Day 12

Good Morning Everyone! Its me - Sankari :) and I have been loving peeking at all the amazing and gorgeous samples that the Divas have been making every day - and they maybe under $10 - but they look a million bucks to me!! So to continue the challenge of creating home decor and accents for under $10 - I created a little hanging chipboard star mobile to hang from our light fixture in the dining room. We are always hanging around the dining room table - whether it is for meal times, snack times or craft time with the kids - I thought it would be nice to decorate that area with a starry mobile :) The total cost of 4 chipboard pieces were $2.99 and each of the ribbons were only 50 cents - bringing up the total to a grand ole: $4.99 (and then some change with tax) - gotta love that!

Each star measures approximately 4 inches across. Each one was colored in on the edges and then I traced the star shape onto the lovely Jolly by Golly paper pack from Cosmo Cricket (each star is double sided - so I traced 8 stars on the different papers - and then adhered them paper onto the stars with some zip dry). I absolutely LOVED making this project and love that we can use it every year! I LOVE all of the wonderful sentiments that Julee has in each of her stamp sets along with the gorgeous images! It totally makes it a breeze to create a project like this! The first star has one of my favorite sentiments: "Snowflakes are winter's butterflies" and this sentiment and the two snowflakes are from the set: Christmas in the Air.

On the back of this star is this gorgeous sentiment from Blessed Christmas: "Have a blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year".

The second star's design comes from the beautiful set: Holly Jolly: The holly leaves are stamped 5 times and cut out and then popped up on dimensionals and I love the sentiment: "Have a holly jolly Christmas" :)

On the back of this star is the sentiment "Christmas Blessings" from the stamp set: Blessed Christmas. For this star,I created a little pocket so that my children could write all things that they are thankful for and what they wish for their friends, family and the world (my son's wish for everyone is always that everyone gets to have a monster truck! :)

The third star is one of my faves - I love this little winter scene created from the gorgeous setChristmas in the Air.- where I paper pieced the Christmas tree and then created a little snow scene with some crimped snow, popped up trees and some little buttons to the side.

On the back of this star, I used the sentiment "Let it Snow" from the stamp set: "Snow Wonderful" and I cut some of the hats and mittens out of the paper to create a little scene.

The last star has on the front a little coffee mug (which I am imagining is some yummy hot chocolate!!!) from the set "Delightful and Delicious which is also the expression in the sentiment:

And on the back of the star is a wreath that I stamped and colored with copics and is from the set: O Christmas Tree and in the middle of the wreath is the sentiment "Merry Christmas" that fits perfectly in the middle of the wreath. I decorated with some bling and some liquid pearls :)

Here is how this star looks hanging on the dining room light fixture:

I hope you liked this project - its fun to make and its so nice to see something like this on the dining room area where we are always together all the time :)

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not use 'em?

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!
To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget at Day One's post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home for the Holidays: Day 11

Well, it's me, Susan! Someone told me ya'll like easy and inexpensive projects! So today I have another idea that fits both of those categories! I've had this project in mind for quite some time now and was waiting for just the right opportunity to make and share it! Then when Julee came out with these wonderful Christmas stamps, especially this larger sentiment and these cute Christmas trees from the set, Christmas in the Air, it all clicked!

It started out as a plain wooden Organizer Box from Glue Art and Paper Studio. Now it's a wonderful way to display and store my Christmas cards that I'll be collecting as the season goes by. I spray painted it red and then sealed it with a Matte Clear Spray sealant.

I then made the panels to fit each side using some fun paper from Making Memories and my trusty Old Olive cardstock from SU!. They were easily adhered with Scor-Tape to make sure they will be staying on for the long haul! Then I made the little framed piece with my Slice machine and Noteworthy card.

I stamped the trees on some more of the patterned paper and covered them with Diamond Dust for a little sparkle and attached them as well. The fun felt snowflakes were added to each end of the box "just because". See? An easy, pretty and inexpensive way to wow your Christmas visitors with your cards on display!

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not use 'em?

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!
To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget at Day One's post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home For The Holidays : Day 10

Happy Friday, everyone! It's Mercy here with another inexpensive and easy project for you all during this holiday season. All of the Divas have done such a phenomenal job showcasing beautiful gifts, decor, and more...and they've done them all for under $10! Now it's my turn to share my project with you.

I was able to make a stamped candle with a coordinating 3X3 card and envelope for under $5! I purchased a vanilla-scented candle and a pack of white tissue paper from an "everything is a dollar" store for $2. Then I used leftover bits and pieces of patterned paper, cardstock, and satin ribbon. The cost of papers couldn't be more that $1, and I actually got the ribbon from the end of a huge roll of satin ribbon for FREE. The candle and card were both stamped with the ornament shapes and sentiment from the "Holly Jolly Christmas" set, then the candle was placed into a large cello bag that cost only 10 cents...yes, I said it...10 CENTS!!! The envelope was actually from a gift card that I had received with one of my Christmas presents last year, so I thought I would reuse it instead of paying for a whole pack of new 3 X3 vanilla envelopes...especially since I only needed one!

That's it for me! So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not show 'em a little love?

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!
To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget at Day One's post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home for the Holidays--Day 9

Hello, hello! Has this not been one of the most inspirational Project Parades you've seen? I have come away with SO many ideas for gifts this year! Can't wait to try them all:)

For my project, I've designed a little wall-hanging using chipboard coasters! I don't remember where I got them, I've had them forever and decided it was time to put them to use!

It took me FOREVER to come up with this concept, lol! The funny thing is, it's totally not difficult, but everytime I tried to create something I didn't like it! I'm not so good at 3D alterables so it was challenging! But I really love this wall-hanging and can't wait till the day after Thanksgiving when I break out the rest of my decorations;)

I used a combination of dp by SU! (sorry, I can't remember the name!), Ripe Avacado, Pure Poppy, and Ocean Tides cardstock (PTI). I used the polka dots from Bountiful Backgrounds on each letter in a different color ink. The swirls you see randomly stamped around the letters are from Express Yourself. And of course, the snowflakes are from Frosty Flakes and the sentiment on the "O" is from Christmas in the Air!

Here's a close up of the details of each letter:

Watcha think? I think you should try one! They're so fun and all the new Verve Holiday sets make it so easy!!

Would you like to play along with us? There are potential Verve bucks in it for you if you do! Just link up your project with the theme "Home for the Holidays, Decor, Gifts, and More" by midnite MST, 26 November to THIS thread! One lucky lady will win $30 Verve bucks to spend on anything in the Verve store!! Remember, Verve stamps are not required, just play along and have fun:)

Also, make sure to leave all the Diva's some love! One commenter from a random date of the parade (Nov 11-25) will win a Verve stamp set of their choice, sweet deal for showing your appreciation of all these ladies hard work!

Thanks for coming by! Have a Vervalicious Day!!!

Home for the Holidays - Day 8

Hi everyone, it's Michelle! What a fun Project Parade this month? I have been lovin' what the Divas have done so far.

My project is something I have never done before. I altered letters! Yep. It was challenging, but I love how these little guys turned out!

So... GIMMIE A "J"...

GIMMIE AN "O"...

GIMMIE A "Y"...

WHAT DOES THAT SPELL? ...
Sorry Verve fans, this project has been removed for Publication!  Look for it in the 2011 Winter issue of Paper Creations.

Aren't these cute? I bought them at Joann's for $1.29 each. They measure 6" tall and come white! I love the white base, cause then I don't have to paint them-LOL! Easier the better I say, that's how I roll during the holidays!

First I covered the letters with Bella Blvd, December Details pattern paper and then adorned them with stamped images from Holly Jolly and Christmas in the Air. It's all about personal taste and what is in your stash. Everything on these letters I already had. These letters are a nice inexpensive way to add a personal touch.

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not use 'em?

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes! To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget on THIS post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Thanks for stopping by and have fun with this one!!

Home for the Holidays - Day 7

Hey there Verve Fans!! Jen Tapler here with another Verve-style Holiday project for ya!! Can you believe all these amazing holiday treats the Divas have been cranking out each day? WOWZA!! My project is a little different - it's a keepsake holiday mini album (click on photos to see larger images for detail).It's become a little tradition in the Tapler house for me to create a special Holiday keepsake mini album using the photos from the previous holiday. The little albums have become part of our Holiday Decorations and it's so much fun to spend a little time each year reminiscing about the previous years' festivities and seeing how much we've all changed and grown, especially my 3-yr-old son Dean!

This year, I went hybrid, using a Cosmo Cricket Blackboard Jack album and the Merry and Bright digi kit by Zoe Pearn (Sweet Shoppe Designs). As you can see in the following photos, I used a few Verve sets throughout the album - I just love how all of these sets coordinate and it's so much fun to mix and match the images and sentiments! The album has a total of 6 front and back pages, but in an effort to conserve space I'll just share a few of my faves. The cover, pictured above, featured a sentiment and paper-pieced tree from the Christmas in the Air set. I added some ribbon and buttons for embellishment and tied several pieces of coordinating ribbon to the book binding ring holding the album together.

Each of the individual page layouts was designed digitally using Photoshop Elements, then I printed them on my home printer, cut them out and adhered to the album pages with Mod Podge before adding my stamped images and embellishments. My most-used stamp set in the album was definitely the Holly Jolly Christmas set!

That tree image from Christmas in the Air came in handy again for photos of Dean decorating our Christmas Tree, and it looks so cute with some little half pearls used as "ornaments":And finally, my favorite set of pages in the album features photos of our Christmas Eve morning spent at Baldwin Beach in Paia. Is it ironic to anyone else that I used the Snowflake Images from Christmas in the Air to embellish these pages:And here's a closer look at those snowflakes. I just love adding some glitter to the outer edges to give them an extra festive look:So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not show 'em a little love? ;)

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!
To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget on THIS post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home For the Holidays - Day 6

Hi there! It's Charmaine! I hope you've been enjoying this month's Project Parade. I know I have. I love all these ideas I'm getting for inexpensive gifts and decor for the holidays!

When I was thinking about this month's theme, I decided to go with something that I haven't done in about 6 years. . .make tree ornaments! I have a bunch of these glass ornaments that I've had since the last time I made these type of ornaments. I don't remember exactly how much they cost, but I know they weren't very expensive.

What I did was stamp the tree image from O Christmas Tree in Olive StazOn ink on a window sheet. I stamped the sentiment in Jet Black StazOn. I die cut the window sheet into a circle that is as wide as the ornament. (it's important that the circle is as wide as the ornament and touches the sides or else it won't stay in place) I added some Christmas Red Stickles to the tree for decoration as well as a star brad. While I let the Stickles dry, I put some Polar White Flower Soft into the ornament. I used the Flower Soft because that is what I had on hand, but I've seen some wonderful "glitter snow" in craft stores that would work just as well. Once the Stickles were dry, I rolled the window sheet up so that it would fit into the ornament. After it fits through the opening, it will open up inside. I used some tweezers to straighen it out. Finally, I tied the ribbon onto the ornament and made a pretty bow. How pretty will these look hanging on a Christmas tree?

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not show 'em a little love? ;)

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget on THIS post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Can't wait to see what you create!

Home For The Holidays ~ Day 5!

Happy Sunday! Hope your weekend has been great and that you have enjoyed all the awesome Holiday ideas the Diva's have been showing you so far! Today is my turn, Lynda, to share with you what I made using the Home for the Holidays Project Parade theme.

My project to share with you today is a Cupcake/Treat stand. This was actually VERY easy to make and REALLY inexpensive as well! Here is the BEFORE picture ~

Here is an AFTER picture!!! LOL!!!


The most expensive part of this entire project was probably the white "dingle balls"!! LOL!!! The only other products I had to purchase was the 6" and 8" corrugated circles and My Minds Eye Colorful Christmas Collection. My first step was to cover the corrugated circles and I did this by rubbing a glue stick generously all over the circle and then adhering the decorative paper. After this was dry, I cut off the excess paper. I then used Elmer's glue to adhere the dingle balls.

I used the Christmas in the Air stamp set. I LOVE that set! It is SO versatile. I cut circles of wax paper for the treats to sit on so the paper wouldn't get ruined. Here is a picture of the top cupcake holder ~

I stamped the snowflakes, again, from the Christmas in the Air set, using Basic Black ink and then colored using my Celery, Razleberry, Tangerine and Baja Breeze ink pads and a blender pen. I added Stardust Stickles to the centers of all the snowflakes as well as around the top scallop Razleberry piece.

Here are pictures of each side of the base of the second layer. The snowmen are from the decorative paper. I cut them out and mounted them using dimensionals. Aren't they PERFECT with the trees??? Also, I used a bunch of the different patterns which are included in the Colorful Christmas Collection for the trees which, I might add, are from the Christmas in the Air set ~ see what you think!!!








I will have all the steps and dimensions on my blog if you are interested!

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not show 'em a little love? ;)

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!
To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget on THIS post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home For the Holidays ~ Day 4

Hi there! It's Laurie, and I'm here to share my project for this month's Project Parade - Home For the Holidays!

I have a list of friends and relatives that I will be making gifts for, but have not made very much progress yet. When I saw the theme this month (which can include gifts, cards, or decor) I knew this would be a perfect opportunity to make some headway on that list! :-) Along with sets of handmade cards, calendars, & home baked goodies, I will be giving specialized hot drink mixes (such as cocoas and coffees). It gets COLD here in Montana, and a yummy hot drink is always a good gift! :-)

I have several containers that I have collected this past year, with the intention of re-purposing them for gifts...such as this tin. Originally it held binder clips, but now is a container for some gourmet coffee mix! Using my circle Nestabilites, I created a "topper" of sorts for my gift...to not only decorate my tin, but also hold the instructions for using the mix.



I chose to use this GORGEOUS wreath from the O Christmas Tree set to decorate the front of my card topper. I just loooove how Julee includes the little extras...like the poinsettia and bow that fit perfectly onto the wreath! She thinks of everything! :-)



Because my topper is a circle, I wanted my sentiment to match. To achieve this, I added a small amount of double sided adhesive directly to my acrylic block and then positioned the stamp in an arch (the adhesive keeps it in place).


For the inside, I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment (also from the O Christmas Tree set), a coffee cup (from Delightful & Delicious), and the instructions (I printed them out on my computer).

Want to see what's inside the tin? :-)


The recipe for the mix is called Spanish Mocha Mix. The ingredients are: 7 Tbsp of instant coffee granules, 4 Tbsp sugar, 1/4 cup of Chocolate flavored powdered non dairy creamer (I used Coffeemate's Swiss Mocha flavor), 3 Tbsp of nonfat dry milk powder, 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
I added a few cinnamon sticks as well.

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not show 'em a little love? ;)

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!
To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget on THIS post before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.

Home for the Holidays ~ Day 3

Hi everyone! It's Jackie here and today is my turn on the project parade! When Jen told us this month's theme, I knew exactly what I was going to make! I have seen a few Christmas banners around blog land and I have been dying to try one! I am a big chicken when it comes to making anything but a card, but that's what I love about the project parades....they MAKE ME stretch my creativity! LOL!

Oh, and I have to apologize for the pictures....I had an extremely hard time trying to get a decent photo!


I used chipboard (SU!) for the word "Joy". I painted it first with green acrylic paint and then added some green glitter (SU!) with mono multi glue. The DP is Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses was cut with Labels Eight Nestabilities. I used my new fave Christmas set from Verve, Christmas in the Air. I stamped three of the snowflakes with Memento Tuxedo Black, colored them in with Copics and cut them out with paper snips. I adhered each snowflake with a button tied with twine and then adhered one to each letter. The trees were paper pieced with some more Eskimo Kisses dp. Oh, and the green scallop borders were done with an Eyelet Edge Punch (SU!) The color combo is Scarlet Jewel (PTI), New Leaf (PTI) and Pretty In Pink (SU!)

This is a close up of the letter "J". So sparkly!!

Here is a close up of the "O"....again so sparkly it makes me happy!



And last but not least.....the 'Y"!

I hope you enjoyed my interpretation of Home for the Holidays! It was such a fun project and was so inexpensive to make, just under $10.00! That leaves me more money for Christmas and that makes for a happy Husband! LOL!

So now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming holiday season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not show 'em a little love?

And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!

To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget in this post before Midnight MST on Thursday, November 26th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store! And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments section as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov. 11 ~ Nov. 25) will win their choice of any Verve set!

Home For The Holidays: Day 2

Good morning to everyone, it's Teresa. Didn't Jen get us off to a wonderful start with the mini gift card box for under $2? I am bringing to you Day 2 and I have made a winter wonderland scene in this hanging picture frame. I bought this frame at Michael's for $7.99, it is really gorgeous and of great quality. I like to hang something Christmasy on my bathroom mirrors at the Holidays. I thought this would be perfect, that is if I don't give it away as a gift. How can you beat that, a handmade Christmas gift for under $10. I used the beautiful SEI designer paper called Winter Song. I paper pieced the Christmas tree using the Verve set Christmas In the Air. I used SU dazzling diamonds for the hill of snow. I heat embossed the sentiment Winter Wonderland and I cut out the snowflakes that are covered with Martha Stewart snow glitter.

I made a matching card, because I adore the black, red, and blue together. I added silver beads to the tree of the card. The sentiment says Christmas Blessings and it is from the Blessed Christmas set. I hope you can play along with us, it is always fun checking out all the fabulous creations. Have fun and as always enjoy!

So, now it's your turn! We'd love for you to play along with us and show us your homemade goodies for the upcoming giving season! Verve stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em, why not show 'em a little love? ;)And, as with all of our project parades, we've got prizes!To enter, just link up your Home for the Holidays creation to the Mr. Linky widget below before midnight MST on Thursday, November 26. One lucky stamper will win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store. And for another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout out in the comments as they parade their fabulous creations inspired by this month's theme. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (Nov 11 - 25) will win their choice of any Verve set.