Ho Ho Holiday Crafts!!

I gave it a try on my own and came up with this wonderful celebration of the Sun for the upcoming Winter Solstice when the sun starts getting higher in the sky every day.

Blessed Solstice!

Anna Banana

Ho Ho Holiday Crafts!!

I took a class at Eclectica .. a bead shop in Brookfield, and learned to make a Victorian style beaded ornament cover.

This is what I made in the class ... it took about 3-1/2 hours to make...

I had a great time making it.... I think I will be making these next year as my Christmas gifts!

Enjoy!

Anna Banana

Ho Ho Holiday Cards!!

This Snowman Trio with their caps and scarves makes me want to brew up a cup of cocoa and get under some blankets!

From the Dragonflies and Dreams Make and Takes

Ho Ho Holiday Cards!!

A cheery Holiday Home and sweet snuggly snowmen make this step card hard to resist!

From the Dragonflies and Dreams Make and Takes

Ho Ho Holiday Cards!!

A cute little Hedgehog! I suppose if you color it differently the holly could pass for mistletoe and he could be parading around for kisses!

From the Dragonflies and Dreams Make and Takes

Ho Ho Holiday Cards!!

The sparkly snow is super simple to make.

Make your cut out, place clear packing tape on the inside of the card with the sticky side facing out and sprinkle with glitter!!

From the Dragonflies and Dreams Make and Takes

Ho Ho Holiday Cards!!

Simple and elegant, I LOVE how this cardinal turned out!

From the Dragonflies and Dreams Make and Takes

Ho Ho Holiday Cards!!

A few weekends ago I went to Dragonflies and Dreams and made some cards at the Make and Take. Really liked how these turned out!

The next few days of posts will be the cards from then! Happy Holidays!

XOXO

Anna Banana

This first card I made for Mom and Dad, since Mom loves Nutcrackers...

Holiday Earrings

I am expanding my creative outlets!!

I have decided to take up making earrings!

I started with these Christmas Trees and Snowmen for the holidays... They are made from Genuine Swarvoski Crystal Beads.

You can see how sparkly they are with all the refracted light on the board behind the trees and snowmen.

Forest of Trees

Snowmen

Hope you enjoy!

XOXO

Anna Banana

Mrs. Clause

Mrs. Clause is thankful that she gets to go on Vacation in the Caribbean now!!

Wouldn't you have a big grin like that if you were about to go someplace nice, sunny and warm?

Mrs Clause is from The Greeting Farm's Xmas Sweeties set.

The fur on her hat and dress are puffed up liquid applique sprinkled with a little bit of glitter. I had a wooden snowflake just lying around and I sparkled it up and gave her a pretty embellishment! The coloring is once again my prismacolor pencils.

I have a pack of these pretty ornament hangers just sitting here in my craft room and I thought that it would be fun to hang a real ornament from it!! I think it works! But this would need to be sent in a box or hand delivered - the ornament can be hung right on your tree!

The silver ribbon is just a pretty little bit of sparkle to hold the ornament hanger on the card:)

Looking back on it now, I might have border punched the left side of the green paper for more interest, but it is what it is!

Simple, Cute, Fun!!

Anna Banana

Santa?? You are a month late!!

Well - Better late than never ... Right Santa?

This cute santa comes from The Greeting Farm's Xmas Sweeties set.

I did him up for my nephew's first Christmas. My sister thought it was adorable :)

I cuttlebug embossed the background with snowflakes and put some glitter here and there on the pattern to add sparkle as well as on his hat and the fur on his suit.

The green paper was from my scrap bin and came embossed... it added a nice dimension of texture.

I sewed a snowflake button onto a felt heart and glittered the edge so the heart would pop off of that red background.

Coloring is my Prismacolors.

It was easy and so cute!!

Anna Banana

Mistletoe Card

Here is the first of three cute cards that I made just after Christmas when I finally had time to get into my craft room!! I started by trying to do the 12 cards of Christmas challenge by The Greeting Farm, but all too soon, I got too busy and didn't get all of the challenge cards done :(

They are all decked out in their holiday best and probably at the party of the season!

The main images for this one is from the "Cake Topper"set by The Greeting Farm. The mistletoe is from Hero Arts and the Merry Christmas is from Stampendous.

I colored these in with my prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits (Which really are NOT odorless!!)

There is glitter on his hat (which comes from the Xmas Sweeties set by TGF).

The paper is from my good friend Karyn - She sent me a Basic Grey pack called Wassail - it is sooo fantastic!!

The silver ribbon is from Offray.

Anna Banana

Banana Bonanza of Cards 9

This cute bear must be glad he got a hat and scarf for Christmas with all those snowflakes!!

The flakes are a cuttlebug embossing folder :)

Anna Banana

Banana Bonanza of Cards 7

This adorable House Mouse sleeps on a bed between two candles!  I but a little glitter on the melted part of the wax and the little guy was colored with markers and a blender pen.

Anna Banana

Banana Bonanza of Cards 6

This pretty girl from Elizabeth Bell carries a festive lantern.  The background is the Swiss Dots cuttlebug embossing folder on green card stock.  She was colored with markers and a blender pen and I added crystal stickles to the candle in the lantern, the edge of her dress, her hair and the bow on the dress.

Anna Banana

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This cute owl with his big eyes and festive hat was just too sweet to resist!  The ball of the hat is one of those craft cotton balls and it's nice and fluffy!

Anna Banana

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I really liked this card - it used both heat embossing on the deer, and dry embossing with the cuttlebug folder on the background red paper.

The gold paper, whild you can't see much of it, has a pearl shimmer to it.

Anna Banana

Banana Bonanza of Cards 3

I really love the way these angels sparkle as well as Baby Jesus' blanket - I chose to add crystal stickels on top of the coloring.  It was colored with markers and a blender pen.  The white background paper has a shimmer to it.

Anna Banana

Banana Bonanza of Cards 2

Today's card is Santa ... I just LOVE how he peeks out of the squares.  Again I can't remember where he comes from, but he was one stamp with three images that we cut apart.

I added glitter to the fur on the hat and it really sparkles in person!

Anna Banana

Banana Bonanza of Cards 1

I'm going to start posting the cards I made at a few card classes and Make and Takes I attended before I left for Australia.  I was so busy before I left and after I got back that I didn't have a chance to get anything posted.

So here is the first of them:

The patterned paper came from a scrap pack...I only know this because I have it.  This was colored with SU Markers and a blender pen.  

I have no clue where the stamp came from ... sorry :(

Anna Banana