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Merry Christmas from Reminisce!

Layout by Kim Holmes, using Dear Santa and A Christmas Story.

Happy Holidays from Reminisce!

BLOG CHALLENGE {Holiday Style}

It's time for a REMINSCE blog challenge! The theme is Celebrating the Holidays-Reminisce Style!

The details:

Your challenge is to use ANY Reminisce product (or products!) to create a holiday related project. It could be a layout, a card, a hand made gift or holiday banner...your only limit is your imagination!

Post the project to your blog or upload it to an online gallery and load the link into the widget below (please link your specific blog post or gallery item-NOT your main blog link or entire album-these non specific types of links will be deleted) so we all can enjoy your inspiration! You have until Monday, January 2nd, at midnight (CST) to link up your project.

The incentive:

One creative participant will win a Reminisce prize pack and have their image (and link) featured on the blog. They will also receive a BLOG CHALLENGE WINNER badge to display on their personal blog. Another random challenge participant will win a Reminisce prize pack too!

The inspiration:

DT member Shelly Maxwell created this fabulous Christmas shadow box from a thrift store frame...

And the blog last week was packed FULL of holiday ideas...check out the posts linked below:

3D Christmas Tree VIDEO TUTORIAL

Altered Holiday Door Hanger

Holiday Treat Containers

Cookie Cutter Ornaments

A Holiday layout

Letters to Santa

Hope to see everyone play along...can't wait to see what you create!

 

Letters to SANTA....Reminisce makes it EASY!

Hello blog readers! Welcome to Friday's post...today it's about letters to santa! Did you notice the specialty papers in the Dear Santa collection? One side is a stylized Dear Santa letter, complete with lines and the other side is an addressable envelope.

 

 

Angela used this paper to document her children's wish lists for 2011...

She plans to scan her son's letter before posting it, to have a permanant (and scrapable!) memory of this years most desired toys!

Hope you enjoyed the holiday focussed week here on the Reminisce blog! Thanks for joining us!

Cookie Cutter Ornaments...featuring Dear Santa...

Today, DT member Angela Ploegman is sharing her version of the popular Cookie Cutter Ornaments. These aluminum cookie cutters (some were nesting types) were altered with the vintage images from the Dear Santa collection.

These ornaments are very easy to assemble...

1. Coat the edges of the cookie cutter with a super tacky wet glue and lay over the desired image. Let dry.

2. Trim the excess paper with some non stick scissors.

3. Embellish with punched snowflakes, gems and sticker strips from the collection.

4. Punch a hole from the backside of the ornament. String ribbon and tie.

Here are some other examples...the ones made with two nesting dies have a neat kaleidoscope effect that the photographs can't really capture.

Thanks for sharing today Angela! Check back tomorrow for another day of Christmas paper creations courtesy of Reminisce!

On the first day of Christmas, Santa gave me....

Dear Santa and A Christmas Story WEEK on the blog! Welcome blog readers...if you missed the 'teaser' post last week, which was a fabulous video tutorial for a Paper Christmas Tree, check it out HERE.

Today, DT member Tami Sanders is sharing a tutorial for this fabulous Door Hanger using BOTH the Dear Santa and A Christmas Story collections-she needed to make one of these to ensure she could wrap the Christmas presents without interuptions!

1. Starting with a plain wood door hanger, adhere the papers and stickers. Use a file to remove the excess paper and ink the edges.

2. Adhere the Santa to a piece of cardstock and cuto out. Add some glitter to the Santa's hat and cuffs.

3.Cover a wood tag with patterned paper. Stamp the "stay out" phrase and hand write the remaining words on kraft paper in red pen. Distress the edges with ink.

4. Embellish with baker's twine, more glitter and jingle bells and YOU'RE DONE!

Here are some close up pictures of the project details:

Thanks for sharing today Tami! Check back tomorrow for another fabulous Holiday project!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree!! {ornament tutorial}

Today, DT member Kim Holmes is sharing a christmas ornament mini tutorial.

The Dear Santa Collection with all its vintage images has got to be my all-time favorite holiday line from Reminisce!  The Santa & Snowman Collage sheets just make me happy inside.  They bring back so many memories of my Grandmother’s house at Christmas time that I can’t help but smile!  I knew right away that I wanted to add some of these images to my Christmas tree this year so I went with quick & easy! 
 
Supplies:
 
2 x 2 squares of chipboard
#DS-001 – Santa Collage Sheet
#DS-002 – Snowman Collage Sheet
Emery board
Liquid glue
Hole punch
Distressing ink and applicator
Matte Accents (Glossy Accents or Modge Podge would be fine too)
Foam brush
String
 
Step #1 – cut out random images from the patterned paper – enough to cover front and back of your chipboard
 
 
 
Step #2 – using liquid glue, adhere images to chipboard.  Then file down the edges with the emery board.  Repeat on other side.

 

Step #3 – Apply distressing ink to edges of both sides
 
 

Step #4 – Punch holes in corner of each piece
 
 

Step #5 – Using small amount of Matte Accents and foam brush, seal edges and both sides.  Let dry.
 
 
 
Step #6 – Add string for hanging!
 
 
 
These were quick & easy and are going to look so great on my vintage Christmas Tree this holilday!  
 
 

What a great idea! Thanks for sharing Kim!

Here Comes Santa Claus! {altered thrift store shadow box}

Today's re-purposed project comes from DT member Shelly Maxwell. It's a shadow box that she picked up from the thrift store and altered with silver paint and some scraps of Reminisce's Dear Santa line of papers.

Here's the picture frame BEFORE:

And here's the frame AFTER:

What an impressive TRANSFORMATION! Thanks for sharing Shelly!