Santa Key

  

First I want to say Happy Holidays and hope for a safe and Happy New Year for you and your families.

This is Terri from http://scrappinwiththebug.blogspot.com/. This month I created lots of fun little projects some I gave as gifts and others I just made for fun. This year it's really fun to see Christmas through the eyes of a child - the magical elements of Christmas.

My daughter who is 4 is so excited this year and a little concerned too. She knows were going to Grandma and Papa's house and wanted to know how Santa will get in since they don't have a chimney. So I had heard about Santa's magic key so thought I'd made a little sign with a fun little poem. I had seen several poems on the Internet and liked elements of 1 and elements of others so I combined them and tweaked them to fit.

I started making the little sign by using Teresa Collins December 25th cartridge. I used my gypsy to help design this. I selected the <DEC25> button and sized it to  5x 9.50" and I flipped it so that the little box was at the bottom. I crated 3 of these pieces. On the back layer I hid the boxes. To make it look like a shadow box I cut the top layer 2 times in the same paper - layered it on the base, and then pop dot the upper piece.

Before adding the top layer I punched 2 holes in the top for the ribbon to hang on.

I then found the key I liked from Teresa Collins Sophisticated cartridge and sized that at 3.92 x 1.69 using both the shadow key and the key. (I knew I wanted to use the back of the paper I chose for the shadow - so I just simply flipped the shadow and cut that so it would be correct side).  To embellish/color the key I took Tim Holtz antique linen ink and "smeared" it over the top - this gives the key a bronze look. I then took my Tim Holtz embossing ink pad and "smeared" it over the top. I added some silver/glitter embossing powder and heat set it.

The Holly berries are cut at 1 1/2" also from the Teresa Collins December 25th Cartridge
The Bell cut at 2" from Teresa Collins December 25th Cartridge.

I printed the poem out on vellum and attached with a couple of mini heart brads. I will say that I love a trick I found a while ago - and that was if you don't have the right colored brad to make your own. I had some red embossing powder laying around and found it matched perfectly to the colors of the paper. So I took my tweezers and held the prongs of the brad and heated it up for a few seconds with my heat gun - then dipped in the embossing powder and then heated them again. I did this a total of 3 times. It works perfectly for a color matched embellishment.

 

Here is the finished sign hung on the door.

 

The paper collection is also from Teresa Collins - Christmas Cottage.

I added a few stickles in Christmas Red

The ribbon was initially white so I colored it with my Spectrum Noir Marker to match.

 

Hope you have a wonderful holiday.

 

Designed by: Terri Szymanski
Cricut Cartridges Used: TC - December 25th, and Sophisticated

Cricut Machines Used: Cricut Expression and Gypsy
Project type: Home decor
Project theme: Christmas/ Holiday
Other Supplies Used: Brads, Embossing powder, ribbon