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Decorate the Holidays-Chanukah Edition

 

Hi, welcome back for day two of the Chanukah Edition of Decorate the Holidays. It's Aliza again, and I have another framed project to share today. This time, I was inspired by this old mirror frame that I had in my home. I played around with some paint and mists (not my forte) until I got the look I wanted. That basically means that anytime I added something besides white paint, I quickly decided it looked terrible and painted over it again. 

In each of the open spaces, I used a simple dreidel cut file and filled each cutout with some patterned paper.

I added a tiny bit of embellishment to create this:

Thanks again for stopping by, and Happy Holidays!

Decorate the Holidays- Chanukah Edition

Hi, everyone. It's Aliza here wishing a Happy Chanukah (or Hanukkah, or Hanuka) to all those who are celebrating this week! If you feel like the only kid in town without a Christmas tree, just think about this. After next Monday, while much of the world will still be getting ready for the Holidays, you can sit back, relax, soak in the holiday spirit, without having to do anything. 

But this week, we celebrate.

And, to help us do so, I have a decor project to share. I used my Silhouette for this quick and easy project, but you can easily cut it by hand. This project was inspired by this cut file from the November Clique Kit.

One day I looked at this image and decided that I saw a Menorah in there. Or, at the very least, I thought I could easily make a Menorah out of this file. After some experimenting, I ended up using just a few pieces from the negative space in the image. I added just a few (well, 8) little bits of paper for the flames, and two pieces of washi tape, and voila!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a good one!

Chanukah, Oh Chanukah...

Happy Chanukah everyone! For this, the first day of Chanukah, I have a bunch of projects to share.  I often admire everyone's holiday decor, but I don't often create my own. Until this year. And a little bit last year.

This year I was helped along by the fact that Clique Kits made a Hanukkah kit, and that I had the honor and pleasure of working with it.

One of the Chanukah projects I have wanted to make for a while, was to create some wall art with the blessings over the candles. I simply printed the blessings onto a light colored patterned paper, and added just a few bits and pieces.

 

I also wanted to create some Hebrew word art. Despite several attempts over the years to use more Hebrew fonts, I only had one Hebrew font on my computer, (Although recently, another Herbrew font seems to have magically appeared. Weird, right?) So, I just varied the size and the color of the words. This is a simple 4x6 card, with just a little bit of sparkle added.

Then, just for decorative fun, I made a banner. I even used some decade-old, gold eyelets to attach my pieces together. I NEVER would have used gold back in the eyelet days of yore. But due to recent trends, gold has grown on me, and here I use it with reckless abandon.

If you are celebrating Chanukah, guess what? You have seven more days to decorate, should you choose to do so.

Whatever holiday you are celebrating, may you have a Happy Holiday!

Happy Memorial Day. And Merry Christmas and Happy Halloween, too!

 Today is the start of my oh-so-cleverly-named Theme Week.  I'm getting back to basics with the pages that likely got you in to scrapbooking in the first place. When I first started, I covered all the big events - birthdays, weddings, holidays and the like. As time has gone on, I've transitioned to scrapbooking life's little moments, my kids personalities and now, Project Life. 

But I still want to capture the holidays, birthdays and sporting events that go on throughout the year. It can get repetitive though, scrapbooking the same thing over and over.  So here are some ideas to help you get motivated, get creative and get scrapbooking. 

We're starting the week off by focusing on holidays.   

First up is this Christmas layout by Diane.

[By Diane Payne]

 

Do your children write letters to Santa? 

[By Donna Jannuzzi]

 

Is there something that occurs each year that lets you know the holiday season is upon us? (For me, it's Russell Stover caramel pumpkins. Yum. They're followed by caramel santas and caramel hearts. They're like my own personal holiday calendar at Walgreens. I must do a page about this. Thanks Celeste!)

[By Celeste Smith]

 

Be sure to capture some favorite presents and document them.

[By Celeste Smith]

 

Celeste captured the fun of stockings on this Christmas layout. (I love stockings. I made some for my girls a couple years ago but I'm not a great sewer, and I'm terrible at hems and my older daughter's is half the size of the younger one's. It barely holds anything. I see another layout in my future!)

[By Celeste Smith]

 

Here's a Hanukkah page by Celeste. 

[By Celeste Smith]

 

You can share some Valentine's Day love, like Amy did here.

[By Amy Sorensen]

 

The Fourth of July will be here before we know it! 

[By Monika Wright]

 

Capture your children's Halloween costumes, like Diane did here.

[By Donna Jannuzzi]

 

I know this is only a few of the holidays we can scrapbook throughout the year, there are too many for just one post! I hope these inspire you to get some holiday layouts in your albums.

holiday traditions

We all hope that you're enjoying these December Dailies features as much as we are...it's so exciting to see who's up for the day and what project they're sharing! Speaking of Dailies...I have been around the block on whether or not to do a December Daily album this year and yesterday, when I was thinking about today's topic, I hit upon an idea that I think will bring me much happiness over the years.

Hi, I'm Monika Wright and I scrapbook.

Today I'll be sharing with you a few ideas that might help you to capture your family's memories that don't involve an intense month long commitment. Now, as much as I adore my 2009 December Daily, I will admit that it involved some time...preparing my pages ahead and then embellishing them further as I added my photos each day...and I didn't feel that I could dedicate those precious minutes this year but also didn't want to miss out on capturing some of our holiday traditions. And that's when I thought of using an 8x8 album in my stash as the home to Holiday Traditions. At least that's my working title, as I've not yet embellished the front cover...remember this was literally a last minute brainstorm.

Here are two pages that came together rather quickly for me because I used a template {which you can find in the Download section of my blog sidebar} and only had to add the photo and a strip of patterned paper. You could also add some letter stickers in that space instead, but I opted to add the title to my photo before printing. 

Wondering why the years begin with 1991? That's the year I became a Mommy!

The plan is to include Holiday Traditions in this album from all my Mommy years and from each and every holiday we celebrate. I look forward to browsing our photo archives, printing photos and journaling memories. So, no December Daily for me this year, but instead I've come up with a project that I'm really excited about. I hope it's so successful that I have to move on to a second and third album. If you happen to use the page template to begin your own Holiday Traditions album, upload them to the Write.Click.Scrapbook. Flickr group so we can all take a look!

Here are a few more ideas that might help you to document your traditions:

• December Daily for Kids
• Ornaments and Their Stories
• Yummies in Our Tummies
• Christmas Planner
• Holiday Wrap-Up

May your holidays be blessed with joyful memories,

 

December Daily for Hanukkah/Chanuka*

*For a no-decisive-answer discussion about the difference in spelling read this interview broadcast on NPR in 2005)!

A Note From Keshet

I created this album to record fun family traditions over Chanuka!

materials album (My Mind's Eye) + patterned papers (BasicGrey, Studio Calico, October Afternoon, a few others) + canvas (Prima) + transparencies (Hambly) + blue numbers, winter flashcards (Living Room Floor) + menorah paper and Chanuka stickers (Crafting Jewish Style) + "family," "kitchen," and other words (American Crafts)

A special thank you to Crafting Jewish Style and The Living Room Floor for their generous sponsorship of our second annual WCS For the Holidays celebration!