Christmas Ornaments

 These are the tags we made at the party.  The tags were designed, cut out, and prepared for us to put together by my two great crafting buddies...Cherie and Kathi...Lots of fun to do...and I think they did a great job.  The Santa Owl was made using the Stampin' Up Owl punch.  The stocking with the (now retired) stocking punch.  (Wish it wasn't retired!)  and the tree tag was done by folding a pattern from Judy Headrick of Handcrafted Greetings...
The link for the pattern used for folding the trees is here
 http://www.handcraftedgreetings.com/zigzagfold.php

 Kathi made this very pretty ornament using a Spellbinder die

 Regina stitched this really cute ornament made out of felt...and put a Candy Cane inside

 Cherie made this cute Sled out of a pillow box...I found a pattern that could be used as a pillow box here    It's called a Puffy box...but it looks pretty much the same...I haven't tried the pattern at Split Coast but it's on my to do list...I just realized it was there

 

 My daughter filled this clear ornament with colorful Jingle bells.

 My granddaughter took a light bulb and hot glued puffy colorful balls on it...

 Mary made this cute reindeer using her Stampin' Up Owl punch

 Stacie, my fabulous Stampin' Up demo...made these very pretty Stampin' Up Ornaments.

Kathi made this cute snowman treat favor...colored it with copics and added a Chocolate nugget...
(which I already ate...smile.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Hugs,
Jill

Christmas Ornament

My daughter has an Ornament Christmas party every year.  This year will be her 16th party!
She had the first party when my grandchildren were very young.  It was mainly a party for them.
Now they are teenagers and to my daughter's surprise...for 16 years in a row...people still want to come.  We play games, eat, play more games, eat, and then at the end of the evening we exchange ornaments.  This year she is expecting about 16 people so I had to make 16 ornaments all the same and I should go home with 16 different ornaments.  It's lots of fun.

I hope they like this year's ornament.  I made some with a photo to represent Our milestone Anniversary this year.  I also made some with a vintage Santa...(in case people didn't want an ornament with OLD people on their tree...smile...)  I hope at least the family members want them...LOL.

My ornaments were made mostly by using spellbinder dies...
Beaded circles, Lacey Circles, 2012 Snowflake Pendant and the Standard circle large die.
I also heat embossed some of them, and added glitter on some.  (My dining room will sparkle for
quite a while).  Added some stickers and made all my bows with a bow easy...

I enjoy looking at the CCEE stampers blog, but have never entered one of their challenges before.
I just finished making my ornaments when I realized that one of my ornaments would fit this week's challenge...To make a card or project with a Christmas stocking on it.

The link to the challenge can be found below.
http://cceestampers.blogspot.com/

From home to home,
and heart to heart,
from one place to another,
The warmth and joy of Christmas
brings us closer to each other.
~Emily Matthews

Thanks you for visiting my blog,
Blessings,
Jill

Ornament Party part 2

 In my last post I talked about my daughter's ornament party.  This is her tree, and the tree is made up of nothing but HOME MADE ornaments.  The ornaments are mostly the ones we all have exchanged from the last 14 years of ornament parties.  It's a lot of fun each year to study the tree and remember which ones we each have made.

 As everyone walks in the door they put their baskets with their ornaments under the tree.  At the end of the party, the last thing we do is grab our baskets and take turns passing them around the room.

Close up picture of some of the ornaments.

Hope everyone is having a good week...

Blessings,

Jill

More Ornaments from my daughter's party

Kathi made this beautiful ornament

Cherie made this cute Pen-quin, out of two Styrofoam balls and felt

Kelly made this out of a cupcake liner, Styrofoam ball, and shredded tissue paper

And these were my "cheater"ornaments. (really short on time these days) made using a spellbinder die and just decorating with ribbon, and beads


Here are some more ornaments made at my daughter's ornament party.

Ornaments

This is the ornament that was made by my daughter, hand painted snowman on glass.
Stacie made this ornament, I think it's from a Stampin' Up die

Reginia made this house by hand painting a wooden house

My daughter hosts an ornament party at her house every year, and this was the 13th Annual Ornament party. (You can tell it's been pretty popular...to have it so many years in a row) It's a lot of fun and we all so look forward to it. I'm posting some of the ornaments that I received at the party.

This is about the only thing I have done to prepare for Christmas. The fixing and remodeling taking place in our home right now, has taken up most of our time. At the present time, my entire bedroom ceiling has been removed, and I am sleeping on a recliner in my living room. Can't wait for the room to get finished. (Actually, almost the whole room has been gutted, even the paneling is coming down from the walls---I won't miss the dark paneling on my walls)