Rhonna DESIGNS: New Year. New Kits. New Look. Twenty.12

Have you stopped over at Rhonna's blog? There are some great new kits!! Love the calendars!

Rhonna DESIGNS: New Year. New Kits. New Look. Twenty.12: I'm sooo excited about this next year...twenty.12.    My focus & mantra for the year is to: Follow My Heart. it really means so much t...

My sweet grandpa, Ernesto...

Today we lost our grandfather Ernesto to cancer, our hearts are broken.  But, we are comforted by the fact that we know he is in a better place, with his Lord and Savior. Until we meet again sweet grandpa! I will forever love you and hold my memories of you in my heart.

Merry Christmas Friends!

May you have many blessings this coming year!

All items (minus the two photos) used to create this card can be found at www.Rhonnadesigns.com

And some beautiful Christmas music for you from Mindy Gledhill's album Winter Moon. You can find the entire CD on iTunes or on her site www.mindygledhill.com

The link below will not take you to another site, you will get to enjoy her song via my blog.

09 The Christmas Song by mindygledhill

Play It Again Sam -Hybrid Ornament Take Two

Today I asked a friend of mine if she had seen my ornament post HERE and as we chatted about it an idea came to mind.  I told her that I was a bit sad to mail off my ornament and so I would have to make myself one. Then I thought how about creating an ornament with a monogram for my nieces and nephews to put on my tree.  I think that it would be special for them to see "their" ornament on our tree.  So, I changed out one side of the ornament when creating it and changed up the junk bow a bit.  I also took step by step photos, if  I had not taken photos I could have finished this up in 20mins. If you try your own I would love to see a photo!

*Click on photos to see them in a larger size*

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The K was from the Monogram Junque Kit found HERE

And the piece with the doily is from the Christmas Junque Pieces Kit found HERE

The little "bright" and "twinkle" pieces are from a stash of tinsel & twig from a past line of the girls paperie

Thanks for stopping by!

Hybrid Christmas Ornament

Welcome back friends to my piece for cReative Team Tuesday!  Be sure to head over to Rhonna's blog to see all the other amazing projects!

This week I am sharing with you the hybrid ornament that I created for an ornament exchange. It's on it's way to a sweet friend miles and miles away and I hope she loves it as much as I do. 

*You can click on photos to see them in a larger size to see more detail*

I started out with some extra pieces of printed Christmas Junque pieces I had left over from my December Daily project. A few other items as shown in the photo above. I also gathered some pieces of ribbon, lace, tulle and burlap to create the junk bow used on the top of the ornament. 

I bought a package of clear ornaments at my local Hobby Lobby. 

I liked that they weren't a globe like most clear ornaments.  You can see one of the printed pieces that I slipped into it.  What I actually had to do was roll up the piece then slide it into the hole. I then used a thin paintbrush and a metal tool that was even thinner to help me unroll it.

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Here is side #1 of the ornament.

Here is side #2 of the ornament

In this view above you can see that I inked the edges of the piece inside. I added some silver numbers to the outside of the ornament. I made sure to add some glossy accents over them so they wouldn't fall off over the years.

Now in these two views, I am hoping you can see that I have a tinsel garland that I adhered with the red tape around the bird piece. You can also see in these photos that i used some sewing pattern paper between each of the two pieces so that they would help fill the ornament.  I think that using the pattern paper gives it a shabby chic look.  I also sprinkled some of the glitter and Diamond dust into the ornament so you can see them stuck to the inside of the ornament.

I thought that the glitter was just so delish that I had to add it to the pattern paper that I used in the junk bow. Some glossy accents was rubbed on the paper then sprinkled with the glitter. Love!

I love this view above, it shows the pattern paper I used to print the bird piece on. And it also shows the glitter on the mini flag and star. Love how delish that looks!  I used a little tip that Margie taught us during her Spark Your Christmas to give those little flags the dimensional shape.  This ornament was mostly if not all inspired by Margie!  It's not too late to take her course, the videos are amazing! And so many of the tips she taught us can be used all year long in many projects!

The digital pieces used throughout out this ornament can be found at http://www.rhonnadesigns.com/

I used the ledger piece from the Christmas Junque Background kit to cut out the two small flags HERE

And pieces from the Christmas Junque Pieces Kit found HERE

There are many wonderful pieces that you could use within the Christmas Junque Line. The possibilities are endless!  Hope you are enjoying this holiday season!

I will be back this week with a few more pages from my December Daily (hopefully *wink)

Creating Your Own Christmas Card

Hello friends! I'm back with a second post today! I was going to share this with you next week but then realized that many are mailing cards out now so why wait!  

So, here is a card I created as an example of what you can do for your family card.

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1. I simply opened up my Photoshop Elements program and created a size I wanted for the card. It's a good idea to first check and see what size cards your favorite photo processor sells.

2. I then pulled in one of the new Chevron backgrounds from this Kit HERE. I did customize the color to my liking. Super easy!

3. I then simply pulled in the photo mat from this Kit HERE and then layered a photo on top.

4. Added the sweet little bird from this Kit HERE.

5. Re-colored a washi tape from this Kit HERE and placed it on my collage.

6. Added some text (used Decor Font) on the top and bottom.  Rhonna has many more fabulous fonts that   are available HERE  *I used my color selector to pick up a color from the bird piece so it would all tie together.

7. Upload to your favorite Photo store, many offer a blank where you can pull in your own jpeg file. You simply use it as a background. Just be sure that you use a high pixel photo for the best quality. I'm using a lower pixel in my example.

8. Mail them off to family and friends.

Thanks for dropping in and if you have any questions just leave a comment and an email so I can reach you.

December Daily Days 2 and 3

I'm back and today is cReative Team Tuesday at Rhonna Designs Blog so be sure to check out other fabulous projects  on her blog HERE! 

I have to say that adding the task of blogging my pages is going to add more to my to-do list but I am going to try and keep it up! I may be a few days late in posting them but I think that will be just fine!  Here are two more days, as you can see I was inspired by the digital layouts created by Ali Edwards.  I put my own spin on it by using some of the fabulous digital elements from Rhonna Designs Christmas Junque line.  I also decided to add the day to them so I will be going back to Day 1 and adding Thursday!  That is the beauty of digital, you can change it up and print very easily!  These pages will go into my album so it will still be a hybrid project. As mentioned on Sunday I do plan on sharing photos of them layed out in the book but that will come as time allows.  Thanks for stopping by!

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I am using photo paper purchased at my local office supply store to print these out in a 5x7 size.

The backgrounds used are from the Christmas Junque Background Kit HERE

The numbers used are in the Number Kit HERE

Frame used is from the Simple Photo Frames Kit HERE

The MERRY is from the Christmas Word Art Brush Kit HERE

The little JOY tag I cropped out of the Christmas Junque Tags-N-Flags Kit HERE

Day 1 in the books!

Well hello friends! Hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving Holiday and a great start to December! We have been busy here at the Wyatts and so I was a little behind getting my pages put together for the first three days! Here is the journaling piece I created to add to my December Daily. I simply created a 5x7 piece in PSE, added a Christmas Junque background. I then re-colored and added a 1 from the Number Junque Kit, a photo and my journaling. It came together great and once I printed this piece out I simply attached it to one of my already printed Christmas Junque pages and slipped it into it's page protector! I hope to photograph the page in it's entirety this week.

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Items used to create piece above are as follows:

Christmas Junque Backgrounds found HERE

Number Junque Kit found HERE
Printed out on photo paper in a 5x7 size