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Friday, December 2, 2011

On the 2nd Day of Christmas...

Before our daily post, the winner of yesterday's giveaway is Kim- fulltimer! Send me an email with your mailing address at: swtjes@msn.com.

~ As a note to everyone entering the giveaways, the giveaway for each day ends on the new post on the following day and the winner is announced. So, today's giveaway ends tomorrow on the new post! See what today's giveaway is at the bottom... we love these!

Easy Invitations or Cards


These invitations are pretty and easy to make. This is definitely for a beginner that wants to browse the scrapbooking isle!

You'll need:
Assorted Adhesive Christmas Chipboard - Kandcompany.com- We found ours at JoAnns
1 Pack of Adhesive Borders - Kandcompany.com
Christmas Scrapbook Paper - Background
Solid Colored Canvas Paper - To print invite on
Solid Tag Board - For Punched Corner background
1 Corner Punch - Optional, but pretty!
Paper Cutter - Optional but helps keep things straight, or use a ruler and scissors


Adhesive chipboard, borders and Christmas scrapbook paper
Cut the background 5" x 7". Cut the middle tag board 4" x 6". Go through the borders and pick which ones you'll use for the card.

Using your corner punch, punch the corners of the tag board.

Glue the tag board to the background Christmas paper.


Print out your text and invite on the canvas paper. Use something like Word and fit 4 to a page. CAREFUL! Print the out on plain copier paper first. Canvas paper is about .69 a sheet. It's not a cheap mistake if you mess up!


Glue the invite to the tag board. Now be creative and add your borders, chipboard and anything else. These came out so pretty, and looking like we spent a lot more time on them than we did! We are making them for our Christmas cards this year. You can add anything to the canvas paper, such as a picture or a pretty manger scene. Enjoy!

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Giveaway Details!

We are keeping the daily giveaway as simple as possible. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment to that day's blog post and say that you want to be entered in the giveaway - one comment equals one entry. You can earn one additional entry by posting about the daily 12 Days of Christmas blog post on your blog, Facebook (add us, Theresa Powers or Jessica Munday, as friends on Facebook for verification) or twitter. Each day we will draw a winner and announce the winner the following day before the next daily post!

Today's giveaway is the Beeginner Learning Cross Stitch Kit, Bee Kind!

and the Daily Deal on Joyous Home is...

Baby's First Foods
On sale for $7.50 - Regular price $15.00

16 comments:

Emily Fay said...

Oh how lovely! Enter me in!

I enjoy scrap-booking too so thank you for the tutorial for the Christmas invitations! I love them!

Gary Phelps said...

What a lovely idea to send to invite guests! We are going to make cards with our friends in a few weeks, so we will have another inspiration! Thank you Theresa & Jessica! I am so excited about the giveaways!

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Lisa @Me and My House said...

Cute cards! - Please enter me in the drawing.

Kari said...

My oldest daughter has just taken an interest in cross-stitching, so please enter me in today's giveaway. Thank you for the lovely 12 days of Christmas ideas & all the giveaway opportunities.

Unknown said...

Your cards are beautiful! I've always loved homemade cards.

Unknown said...

My dd loves cross-stitch she'd be thrilled if I won today's giveaway! :)

Rachel C. said...

We'd love to get into cross-stitching. It's on my list of things to learn!....

aklongs said...

Thank you for this opportunity! Please enter me in your giveaway.

Lilyofthevalley - Tanya said...

Enter me! :D

lovely cards by the way... :)

Abby said...

The cards and cross-stitch are so cute. You two always have such lovely ideas.

lisa_iowa said...

Pretty, pretty, pretty! I'm going to file this away for future wedding showers and baby showers. Thanks for the chance at another giveaway.

Heather - Doodle Acres said...

Yes, yes, please enter me in your lovely giveaway!!!

ShySarai said...

This is a great cross stitch package. It would be wonderful to win and show my daughters and even my sons how to do it.

FlyLady Di said...

I would like to be entered for this one. I have done barely any scrapbooking would love the opportunity to get started.

Lilyofthevalley - Tanya said...

Thank you!! I was surprised to see I had won this. :) will send you my address soon! :)

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