Christmas Crafts

I finally got into my current project after crossing off piecemeal tasks night after night. I'm making some miniature Christmas ornaments for my co-workers. I have about 50 to make. Last year I made bells on my Pazzles die cutter, stamped them and handed them out with Hershey's Kisses. Apparently I felt the need to go 20% cooler this year, but the idea was so stuck in my mind!

Here's the prep work I had to do:

• Design a light brown oval fill in CorelDraw and print six copies on vanilla cardstock


• Realize after printing the first two pages that I should have also designed a greeting for the back!


• Die cut each oval with a stitched shape die from Stampin' Up


• Grumble about having to hand write "Happy Holidays from Christine" on the backs of 24 of them


• Punch a hole in each one for gold thread


• Print six copies of a cardinal illustration on pink cardstock


• Fiddle all afternoon with my Pazzles to make a cut file because I'm not cutting out 50 birds!


• Watch the first half of season 7 of The Vampire Diaries while die cutting branches, acorns, leaves and other things


• Watch the second half of season 7 of The Vampire Diaries while gluing cardinals and naturals elements together

Whew!! One of my co-workers still has a bell in their cubicle, so I hope these are very much appreciated! Stay tuned for pictures and things :-)