Tea Towel Aprons & Great Christmas Decorating Ideas

Here's a couple of my favorite holiday finds that I thought I'd post links to. Hope you're not as busy as me "trying" to make your Christmas gifts (wink).

Holiday aprons made from tea towels. Such a cute idea I found on Skip to My Lou's website.

My darling neighbors decorated home...sure wish she'd come and decorate my house. Check out her blog and see what she's creating this week.

Cute Shutter Idea

What a fun way to organize your desk space or even put CHRISTMAS cards on old shutters that have been refurbished. Check out the instructions on HowDoesShe.com.

Cute Card Creations by Amy

I was having fun posting pics of some of my Card Swap cards over on my other blog and decided I should show some of my other favs by my good friend Amy. These are some that she's created of the past few swaps and I still have a hard time parting with them. So hopefully now that I've documented them for everyone, I can now start using them!

The center of the flower below was created with the new iTop Tool by Imaginisce.

Paper Crafted Nursery by Heartland Paper

There is a great local scrapbook store in my area called Heartland Paper and the one thing they do an amazing job at is paper piecing amazing things to decorate with and today their manager Kelly Brown was on our local Studio 5 showing off a baby nursery that had been decorated with paper crafted items. These are a couple of the projects and you can check out there blog, but if you want to see some amazing creations watch the video clip here.

Cute Christmas Card & Gift Idea

Here's a couple of projects I created for Imaginisce. Two super cute projects I created from the Polar Expressions collection.

Be Merry Christmas Card

This hand-sanitizer (or hand soap) is simple to create. And the message can be customized to fit the recipient too. Click here for a free download of "hand phrase" text sheet used inside of hand soap/sanitizer. Have this copied on to a transparency sheet (with a laser printer, not ink jet). Most local print shops can do this for you.

Supplies Used: Polar Expressions Holiday Trimmings #001614; Cozy Sticker Stackers #001610; Metal Rim Tag; Plastic Dispenser

Be Merry Christmas Card

Supplies Used: (Candy Cane & Diamond) Flannel PJs #001597; (Word Paper) Warm Woolen Mittens #001598; (Striped) Pine & Peppermint; Poinsettia #001615; Medium iTop Brad; (brad cover) Fun Drops #001592; Be Merry Stamp #001601
Notice how darling the center of our poinsettia is with the covered medium iTop Brad daddy!! This is a great new tool that scrapbookers, paper crafters and crafters should all own. Check out the videos showing how much fun you can have using the new iTop Tool.

Crayon Roll

I saw these earlier this summer and put it in my "must create" folder. I think these Crayon Rolls would be super cute for all my nieces and nephews for Christmas. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to keep it simple and create the felt version or make the flowery and cute for the girls. I found all these fun ideas on a cute site called Skip to My Lou...check it out when you have a second.

Felt Crayon Roll Instructions

(Oh, I decided that if I blog about this cute project that I'll be inspired to actually make it...plus it's easier for me to find if I put it up on my blog!)

Simple Covered Notebooks...yum!

I saw this fun idea to take a small lined notepad and cover it with scrapbook papers. It's quick and easy and the perfect gift when you need something for a friend. I'll post the instructions on how to make this on my other blog in the next day or two.

The other thing I couldn't wait to make are these cute fabric flowers. I had so much fun I made a bunch of them. Here's some instructions on how to make these!