Christmas-y Wool Felt, New Stamps, Gift Tags

Our First Guest Design Team Member!
Our first guest designer is Karen Wittkop, who has made some adorable fabric Santa gift bags (and pockets with tags) using the Wool Felt Set with the fabric Santa Postcards collage sheet.

I can't believe it's Thanksgiving already. I know some of you started your Christmas gift- and card-making last summer... but some of us are just getting started...
 

Wool Felt Set

Set of five 12" x 18" sheets of gorgeous wool felt (40% wool/60% rayon) in Maroon, Olive, Sage, Red and Oatmeal. Very soft. Imported from Spain. Would make beautiful ornaments. And check out the pockets on the fabric holiday shopping/gift bags by Karen in the sidebar at right.

 
Metal-Rimmed Gift Tags

Quick and easy tags for your gifts (or as ornaments). Buy all the components or just the piece you want.

- A new collage sheet, with 12 lovely holiday images from vintage Santas to classic Madonna paintings to elves and children, printed on a velvety 60# cardstock.

- Really large (2-1/4" diameter) metal-rimmed tags. Sold in sets of 12. The gold edging on some of the samples was colored using a metallic leafing pen.

- A HUGE round paper punch (2-1/8" diameter). Be warned: you need some hand strength to use this punch...

Ribbons, Metallic Leafing Pens, Dresden and Brass Charms used in the samples are in the supplies section. Sample tags by Wendy Anderson.

 
New Rubber Stamps

Angels we have heard on high...
Beautiful set of woodcut angels and blackletter text. Also includes some 16th century music. Good background/texture stamps.

Madonna
From the Italian Renaissance. A lovely image, surrounded by putti.

Aurora
Aurora is the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology. She renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun. She has two siblings, a brother (Sol, the sun) and a sister (Luna, the moon).

 
Misc. Holiday Items

Die-Cut Printed Gift Boxes. Beautiful printed boxes to put together (the pages are printed on both side with coordinating patterns so your boxes will be pretty on the inside, too). Large 12" x 12" book with 24 pages. Little coordinating tags and other embellishments included, too. Includes 11 ready-to-use boxes, 16 gift cards, tags and envelopes, and more than 100 embellishments. Die cut and scored so just pop them out and you're ready to fold.

St Nick Double-Sided Paper Set. Two double-sided 12" x 12" heavy 65# sheets. A charming, vintage Victorian Christmas paper set.

Set of 6 Victorian Christmas Postcards. Embossed and embellished with metallic gold. Reproductions of vintage postcards.

 
New Chipboard

- Die-Cut Chipboard Houses
4 sheets of die-cut chipboard houses! So cute. The large house is 3-1/8" tall. Imported from Australia. Sample art by Julie van Oosten.

- Keychain Sandpaper
A little keychain fob (or keychain itself) of portable sandpaper for crops or classes. Fine and Medium papers (on each of the 2 pieces; they're both double-sided). Heavy chipboard base. 1" x 3-1/8". Imported from Australia.

Congratulations to Jacqueline and her Seven Seas Crown for winning the October contest! And don't forget the November Contest — the prize is a set of the new wool felt and a fabric collage sheet!

 
And... All Victorian Collage Sheets on Sale. More of the roaming collage sheet sale. This section includes some timely Christmas sheets.

Thanks for reading this far, and I hope you find a little time to make something by hand today,
Leslie