Thursday, December 31, 2015

My First Mini Album - Graphic 45 A Christmas Carol

I have been seeing a lot of handmade mini albums lately.  So I went on a search for some tutorials on how to make them and tried my hand at them for a Christmas present for my Mom and Sister.  After watching a couple of tutorials and enlisting a couple of my friends to make one too, I went to work.

handmade album

Since they were going to be Christmas presents, I decided to use Graphic 45, A Christmas Carol.


picture of album

picture of pages in the ablum

Pages in the album

pages in the album

pages in the album

pages in the album

pages in the album

pages in the album

I just love how they turned out.  I will definitely be making more of these!  I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day :)


Do what inspires you,
Cyndy G 


Stocking Card

I wanted to share a couple of projects I made using some SVG Cuts files.  The Stocking card I created using More Christmas Box Cards.  I just love the way the front of this card is designed to look like a cable knit.

Stocking card

I also made the Christmas tree from the Christmas Cafe SVG kit.  What a clever way to give kcups.

Tree holder for k cups

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday.

Do what inspires you,
Cyndy G

Friday, December 18, 2015

Poinsettia Passion ~ Cyndy

Happy Friday crafting friends.  Can you believe Christmas is one week away.  As always I am hurrying to get my cards done.  I decided to share with you today a couple of the cards from the amazing new kit JGW Poinsettia Passion.  I just LOVE this kit.  Everything is so beautiful.

Christmas cards with poinsettias

I love the way this box card looks.  I used the beautiful papers of Maja Design - A Gift For You for this project.  I also used a tag on the front of the box card that I had from MME - Joyous.  
I think it fit this card perfectly.

Poinsettia box card

For the doily card I used a brad from MME - Joyous.  I just love the Santa on the brad.


These cards really deliver the Wow factor.  Thank you for stopping by today.  
I wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Do what inspires you,
Cyndy G

Friday, December 4, 2015

Christmas Treats ~ with Cyndy G.

Happy Friday, I hope everyone enjoy the Magic of Christmas hop last weekend.  I know I got lots of new ideas.  I hope you were inspired to try one of the projects too.  Today I want to share with you the December Countdown Sacks from JGW Christmas on the Docket.  These are the little bags you would have seen on Jodi's blog.

Christmas treat bag.

A friend sent me a message and asked me to make some treat bags for him and I knew when I saw these that they would be perfect.  They go together very quickly and you can make all look so different.  I just love the paper in the DCWV Hand-Painted Christmas Stack.

Treat bag with Christmas tree

I took elements from several different kits for the front of the bags.  
I took the tree from the O Christmas Tree kit.

Treat bag with presentTreat bag with ornament

The present, ornament and snowflake are from the SDS Ornament Kit.

Treat bag with snowflakeTreat bag with peppermint candy

The peppermint is from the JGW Sweet Wishes Card Kit.

Treat bag with reindeer

The reindeer is from the JGW 3 Stockings kit.

Treat bag with gingerbread man

And finally the gingerbread-man is from the Santa's Little Helpers kit.

I really enjoyed making these treat bags.  Thank you for stopping by.  Merry Christmas :)


Do what inspires you,
Cyndy G