Easy Holiday Luminaries

If you like to decorate your driveway or walkway with luminaries and you happen to own a scrapbooking cutting machine, why not add a design to them. I used my Silhouette machine, but any cutting machine will work. It is a quick project that you can still do tonight or tomorrow. Your house will look extra beautiful!

For this project you sill need:

Paper lunch bags

Cutting Machine

Votive lights (I used battery operated)

Download a design. I used a snowflake. Center the design.

Smooth your bag onto the cutting sheet very well, or it will slip around. 

Set your cutting machine to a heavy card stock setting.

Fill your bag with battery operated votive candles.

Line your driveway and enjoy!

Wishing You the Happiest of Holidays's!

XOX,

The Rebel Crafter

Holiday Tag Ideas

I am so fortunate to belong to a wonderful scrapbbooking club. Our founder Jodie organizes all sorts of great swaps. This is the second annual holiday tag swap I have participated in. I can't even begin to tell you how amazingly beautiful the tags I received are. The attention to detail on them are amazing. I wanted to share them over the next few days to give you some inspiration to make your own. The tags I featured today are made by Karen Meyer. She was kind enough to share her materials for creating them. I especially like her touch of adding charms using a baby safety pin. I never would have thought of doing that! If you spend a little time making some homemade tags you're sure sure to get extra oohs and ahhs over your gifts. They make the recipient feel extra special. 

Here are the supplies for Karen's tags:

'Winter Wishes' tag

cardstock glued onto manilla folder

adhesive:  'glossy accents', 'ATG gun', 'hot glue'

Sizzix die:   'Super Scallop Tag'

Tim Holtz rubber stamp:    'Tall Trees Pine'

Cuttlebug embossing folder:  'Swiss Dots'

Cricut cartridge:  'Christmas' (for snowflakes)

Making Memories Clear Stamps:  'Classic Mixed Alpha' (TO and FROM)

Delta Decorative Snow

Stickles:  'Diamond', 'Waterfall'

Recollections glitter:   'Snow'

Versa Mark clear embossing ink

Recollections embossing powder:  'Snow'

Stampendous embossing powder:  'Silver Tinsel'

Stampendous Frantage glitter flakes:  'Shaved Ice'

Tim Holtz distress ink:  'Tumbled Glass'

Font:  'Adine Kirnberg Script' (Microsoft Word)

various fibers

saftey pin (to hold charms)

charms:  'tiny jingle bell', 'pearl', 'shrinky-dink star'

'Happy Holidays' tag

cardstock glued onto manilla folder

adhesive:  'glossy accents', 'ATG gun', 'hot glue', 'pop-dots'

Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel

Tim Holtz distress ink:  'Tumbled Glass'

Cricut cartridge:  'Christmas' (for stars)

Spellbinders die:  'Megabilities Collection Long Classic Scalloped Rectangle-Large'

Making Memories Clear Stamps:  'Classic Mixed Alpha' (TO and FROM)

vintage image from the internet

McGill punch:  'pine'

Stickles:  'Silver', 'Diamond', 'Icicle'

Recollections glitter:  'Silver', 'Snow'

ZIG Silver marker

font:  'Adine Kirnberg Script' (Microsoft Word)

various fibers

saftey pin (to hold charms)

charms:  'tiny jingle bell', 'pearl', 'shrinky-dink star'

XOX,

The Rebel Crafter

Vintage Holiday Gift Tags

I recently participated in a tag swap with my scrapbook club. The tags everyone made are absolutely beautiful, and I will be sharing them with you. A really nice tag can make your holiday package seem a little extra special. I want to show how easy it is to create a vintage look tag. You simply print the vintage clip art onto card stock, trim, and using glossy accents, or clear glue embellish with glitter. I liked a combination of fine prism glitter and craft sparkles larger glitter. Stamp or print "to: & from:" on the back, add a lovely ribbon and you are done. Or you can take your tags to the next level adding charms, and beaded ribbon. Either way make them your packages will look extra special.

To start print out your free vintage tag art from the cottage dreamer blog site:

http://www.cottagedreamer.com/2009/11/surfing-for-freebie-christmas-printables/

Trim, and punch a ribbon hole. 

Pick areas of the card to embellish with glitter. I used ultra fine and candy cane craft sparkles. The larger craft sparkles give the tag that vintage feel. 

Go over the beard, and then the corners of the tag with glossy accents with a little fine glitter but sprinkle well with the larger craft sparkles.

Pick a few areas and add some glossy accents with just the fine glitter. I did the santa hat and branches.

Stamp or write to and from on the back of the tag. 

Consider adding some holiday charms. Using a baby safety pin, or jump ring, add some festive beads. Attach to the top with the ribbon.

To add beaded ribbon to the bottom of the card: Trim a piece of beaded ribbon and attach to the back of the tag with tape runner. Next cover the ribbon with a piece of card stock cut the size of the back of the tag. This way the beads will only show at the bottom of the tag.

XOX,

The Rebel Crafter

Check back for more holiday tags!

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Holiday Shopping Fun

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XOX,

The Rebel Crafter

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Bling Sneakers

Since I recently had my bling supplies out for making my last iphone cover project, I thought I would show how easy it is to bling up a pair of sneakers. This is especially cute on young girls sneakers. Add some fun ribbon in place of laces and you have a quick gift. Since I am just a teenager at heart, I decided to do my own sneakers. 

You will need:

Acrylic flat back gemstones (find at Michael's Crafts, Etsy (under supplies), Ebay).

E-6000 Glue 

Gem pick up tool (I use a wax pencil)

Toothpick

Clean the rubber base of the sneaker.

Apply 1-2 inches of E-6000 Glue with a toothpick.

Use a Gem Pick Up tool to apply gems to sneakers. Work around the toe base and fill in.

Let Dry 24 hours.

Here is an example of a young girls bling pair for sale. The laces were switched with ribbon. Fast and easy gift!

XOX,

The Rebel Crafter

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