Thursday, November 13, 2014

Jingle Belles - The Great Outdoors and a Little Critter

The Jingle Belles challenged us to make an outdoor scene this time.  As it happened to be, I had been working on this little scene that started with an empty paper cheese box.  I wanted to make a box card ornament.


Here is the outside of the box decorated very simply using neutral colors and a touch of gold.  


The back also has a circle of plain Crumb Cake cs so we can write a message and sign it.



Then you open it up and find the serene little Christmas scene inside.  



I used my chopped paper technique for the snow and added some glitter gel pen to the torn white edges to give it some sparkle.


I have a little stash of these boxes and plan to do some more experimenting with them as ornament cards.  Maybe I see a little village of them in the future.

I missed the deadline for the last Jingle Belles Challenge to make a card with a critter on it.  I certainly have enough Christmas critters to choose from, but I decided to go with this little owl from Purple Onion Designs.  I colored him with my Blendabilities and used my Snowflake Card Die in Coastal Cabana and Real Red.  


The Snowflake swings out when you open the card.


And on the back I added the sentiment.


This die set comes with words too.  What would you think this was looking at hit backwards and upside-down?  In my mind it looked like "ho" with an exclamation mark...........but........


it really was "joy".  Still I thought I could make "ho" out of it.


So if you look closely at the picture below you will see the marks where I took an Exacto knife and made the adjustments both on the "joy" to "ho" and I also trimmed away what I didn't like from the word snow to make the "o's" in both words look more alike.


The curl of the "j" was where I got the commas.  

On another note, this run of bad luck hasn't yet passed me by.  I now have a stress fracture in my left foot from........... wait for it................ walking!  I was walking at lunch time the week of Halloween and felt a sharp pain in the side of my foot which caused me to head back to work.  I was seeing my surgeon later that afternoon for a recheck and mentioned it to him.  He told me to stay off it as much as I could and give it a few days to make sure it got better.  Well, it didn't get better and we had to do some further investigating with an mri and a couple more visits to his office.  

Last Friday I got the bad news and tomorrow I get to see yet another doctor to find out the course of treatment for this.  Will I have a lovely new foot covering?  Crutches?  A cane?  We shall see.  

Anyhoo, it's time to go and check out the rest of the Jingle Belle creations for this week.  You can too.  Just click here.

4 comments:

  1. Are you kidding me ... cheese packaging turned into pure Christmas magic ... love it ... sorry about the fracture ... I managed to get one of those and ended-up in a boot for weeks. Just make sure it gets healed before you take off again, or you'll be right back where you started.

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  2. LOVE your upcycled ornament!!!!! The surprise scene inside is adorable!!!! Sending vibes for a speedy recovery!!!!!

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  3. omg, i don't even know which to love most: the backwards JOY becoming ho ho ho or the laughing cow ornament??!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!! i think it's a tie! and of course both are total GENIUS and just gorgeous on their own w/o even knowing the stories behind. YOWZA, you've had a bad year for health, but a FAB♥U♥LOUS one for creativity! thanks for sharing some of the latter with us in the "great outdoors" at JINGLE BELLES! ♥♥♥

    (ps: i eat like one LC lite swiss container per week... and i've thrown them all out... how did i NOT SEE ORNAMENTS there??!?!??! i hang my crafty head in shame, whilst applauding your GENIUS!.)

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  4. This is darn cute and creative...and I have a few of these laying around and how clever with the words!!

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