Folk Art Lanterns

Hello Everyone!  It's Renee from I came, I saw, I created ready to share a quick holiday project with you.  I know that many of you are looking for quick, easy and inexpensive ways to decorate for the holidays or simply to add some cheer to a small space.  How about creating some paper "gilded" lanterns?

Materials Used:

• Cricut cartridge Folk Art Festival
• Gold paper
• Variety of colored vellum
• Tea lights

CCR file:
https://www.box.com/s/52rkxuauyugy84eigs34

Gypsy file:
https://www.box.com/s/8sfh8l7qmex7ssaf1ogk

Directions:

1. Using the files provided, cut each lantern from gold paper.  I used gold placemats from Target that I found in the holiday decor dept.  I liked the lightness and "gilded" look of the paper.
2. When cutting the homes, remove just the house base from the mat at first.  Then use transfer paper to capture and move the house "insides" (this is optional, but easier then moving each  piece one by one) and set aside. Pull the 12x12 piece of paper from the mat.
3. Using different colored vellum for each lantern, adhere it to the back of each gold sheet.  Take  your transfer tape and adhere the house "insides" on to the the vellum of each coordinating house.  At this point, I took an extra step and cut two of the lanterns down a bit in size (height) to create more of a trio look upon completion (optional).
4. Using a tape runner or strip tape, bring the two ends together and adhere one end on top of the other.
5. Now just add tea lights to the inside of each lantern to light up your "gilded" lanterns.

Winter holiday cards!

Ooops!  I was supposed to post my project yesterday! Darn it! Well at least I remembered today! This is Michele from Scrap-n-Dance!

So, I've been trying to make our winter holiday cards for the last few years. I try to make a "simple" design in the hopes I get them done quick, but gluing these together took a while so they weren't as simple as I'd wanted. lol

This year I also wanted to stick to using only my stash, which meant that I had to find enough cardstock of each color to make the cut top layer, and another layer for one of the mats. Fortunately, I found enough cool blues and purples to make these. A few of these colors may be non-traditional but hey... I managed to not buy a thing! :)  I still need to do something with the insides, probably a stamped sentiment. But at least I got 40 of these done and I can finish up the stamping this weekend.

These cards were created by welding snowflakes and a sentiment from several cartridges into a rectangle frame that I sized to fit a card that would fit into a regular size #10 business envelope. See below for the cartridges used!

Cricut Info and other supplies used:
Designed by Michele Donner-Ramsey

Cricut machines:  Expression and Gypsy
Cartridges used:  A Child's Year, Cake Basics, Christmas, Country Life (Sentiment), Art Philosophy, Joys of the Season, MS Seasonal Cake Art, Plantin
Supplies: white and colored cardstock, adhesive