Getting Hybrid November 2010
Hi, everyone! Rebecca (reboscraps) here with this months Getting Hybrid Challenge!
Is it ever too early to plan ahead for the holidays? I don’t think so! This month’s challenge is all about creating holiday ornaments or decorations. Where I live in the U.S., many of us will be putting up our holiday decorations right after our Thanksgiving – if not before! The busy holiday season will be here soon!
In my family, we observe Christmas, and in the past I’ve given homemade ornaments as a small gift for friends or small gift exchanges. People love homemade gifts! Not to mention, there are some hybrid templates available that might make this the easiest little gift you could put together.
I used One More Sleep by Stolen Moments and Graham Like the Cracker to make this ornament, which could also be a small gift box:
Check out what our terrific CT created for more inspiration!
Melissa (profiler_mar) created this ornament:
Her project uses using Love of a Lifetime by Trixie Scraps and Tabby Ornaments:
Sarah (sporte91) created her ornament using a glass tile and Winter Frost by Andilynn Designs. She says, “I grew up in a mixed Christian/Jewish family. My family celebrates Christmas, but in honor of my Jewish heritage, our Christmas tree is themed in blue, silver, and white. This ornament will be a perfect addition to our tree.”
Jewelle (jubeejewels) was inspired by a ornaments she remembers from growing up. She says, “Mom cross-stitched our names with the year and a little Christmas scene on some material. She then attached this to a canning ring with a bit of felt to cover the back. I wanted my family to have an ornament similar to these and was inspired to make the following ornaments to go on our tree this year.” Her creation is made with One More Sleep by Stolen Moments & Graham Like the Cracker.
One more, and this is a non-ornament decoration, from LuAnn (wildblueeyez), who made these candy-themed goodies using Plum Dumpling Designs’ Iconology: Christmas. She made these by printing the full peppermint candy element from the pack and using a Big Shot circle die to cut both the paper candy element and a circle out of chipboard. She glued the paper to the chipboard, wrapped it up in cellophane, twisted the ends and tied them with curling ribbon. Hers were finished with wooden skewers hot glued to the back of the candies, but she suggests two other ideas for these cuties: hang them on the Christmas tree or tied them to a pine garland.
Are you singing holiday songs yet? Are you inspired to create some decorations to make your holiday more beautiful?
Please consider this challenge an open invitation to create something that will make your holiday special, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or any other tradition, and feel free to share a little bit about what makes your celebration special to you.
Here are the ScrapMatters challenge guidelines:
- Entries must be posted in the Getting Hybrid challenge gallery, and also linked up in the Getting Hybrid forum thread.
- You will have until the end of November to complete your project
- You will receive 1 Matter of Scrap point for designing, printing and putting together your project, and then posting the photo of it in the gallery. If you want some pointers about photographing your hybrid projects, see this thread. You will get a bonus point if you use a new release within one week of it’s release to complete your project. You must mention that you used a new product in your forum post to get the bonus point!
- One entry will be randomly selected as the winner and will receive an extra point!
