Turtleheart Crafts!

Here are this year’s cards for Yule:

For the red card, I used white enamel heat embossing powder over white ink on plain vellum paper. When the image cooled, I turned the vellum over and colored in the back of the image with stamping markers. I edged the vellum with “Victorian” scalloped scissors. I attached the vellum to the cardstock by using eyelets and then threaded the eyelets with satin ribbon.

Here it is in green:

Same process as before, only this time I used pewter embossing powder instead of white enamel. I also used some metallic rick-rack instead of satin ribbon. The green card looks much more elegant in person, the picture doesn’t do it justice.

For the inside of the cards I used a stamp that read “Peace, Love, Joy, Hope” in different fonts. I stamped it red ink on white paper for the red cards and green ink on white for the green cards, and edged the white paper with the “Victorian” scissors.

I redid my Yule wreath this year. I completely tore it apart and started from scratch. I bought the ribbon half-price, everything else on it is stuff I had in my holiday or silk floral supplies.

Its much fuller than it was before and I like the ribbon in there, although I’m still not a big fan of ribbon. But I’m tremendously pleased with the results. I would love to have lights on it, too.

Well, the yule trees are up and I have been adding bits of holiday decor around the house every few days– some garland with lights, giant pine cones, the mistletoe ball, my china Nativity music box…

We were given a candle arrangement with glittered fruit as a housewarming gift a few years ago and I put that on the coffee table this year. Then I decided to make an arrangement to go with it. Here’s what I came up with:

I already had the different kinds of pine and the twiggys; the fruit, ball ornaments and glitter ivy I got for half price at the craft store. The copper pot was a little over $5. Its been a while since I’ve priced silk arrangements to sell, but I’m guessing if I’d found this arrangement in a floral shop, it would be priced between $30-$35– I spent about $10 to make it.