It’s a Swell Noel season for creating!

The Swell Noel Collection is now available on Lettering Delights! This collection has a little something for everyone, from young to old. For those who like a cool yule and those who like the days of yore. There are graphic sets, cutting sets and print and cut sets, all to help you create a magical winter wonderland for you holiday celebrations this year.

There are gift boxes and gift tags, (see images above) There is an alphabet and garlands spelling out “Merry Christmas” and “Season’s Greetings,” see images below.





There are papers for scrapbooking and papers for gift wrapping. There are two sets of paper packs, both with 12 delightful and festive designs. See both sets below.





In case that isn’t quite enough for crafting, you will also find a set of 24 Christmas sayings, phrases and song lyrics to embellish your holidays crafting with, see image below.



In addition to all of this you will find your favorite Christmas characters ~ Santa Claus, reindeer, snowmen and holiday mice, as well as snow white trees and village scenes. They will be available in graphics, print and cuts, and cut-it files, see three images below.







And Christmas wouldn’t be complete without bells and ornaments for the Christmas tree, so we have a large selection of these, as well as medallions; for many holiday crafts you’ll enjoy creating, see images below.





This holiday season is about to get swell! So get on over to LD now and join in the fun of a very Swell Noel!

Oh, Christmas card, Free Christmas card . . .

It is time to send those Christmas cards out again this year and if you haven’t found just the right card that says you’re hip, you’re retro-stylin’ and you’re finally ready to send out greetings, but haven’t found the perfect card, look no further.

This is easier and cheaper than heading to the local card or box store, and it’s a one-of-a-kind card that no one else will be sending out this season. It’s the Swell Noel Christmas card . . . and it’s free!



Just click here or go to my U-Pick button at the left and download this charming holiday card to share with your peeps (the file is named SwellNoelCard.jpg). You will get an 8.5 x 11 file that can be printed on card stock, trimmed and folded, and stuffed into an A7 envelope. You get to add the details on the inside of how fantastic and wonderful your 2012 year has been, and your people get to enjoy a little bit of you for their holidays.

This card will make a swell addition to the complete collection of Swell Noel downloadable files from Lettering Delights. You can even embellish your card and envelope with many of the icons from this collection. It’s just a click away to view the collection, and start picking your favorites.

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Here comes Santa Claus . . .

. . . some swell snowmen . . . and endearing deer!

Get ready to get these and other charming holiday icons as boxes and garland . . .

. . . 3D ornaments, bells, and medallions . . .

. . . alphabet, papers, and gift tags . . . as well as cutting and graphic files.

This Swell Noel collection is brought to you by the letters LD (Lettering Delights) and yours truly.

The Swell Noel collection has been popular in scrapbooking, fabric, Macy’s ornaments and table top decor, Christmas greeting cards . . . and now it can be popular with you too, when you get ready to make some swell creations this holiday season. Santa is not the only one coming to town this year!

Paperwhites and Poinsettias in Bloom for Christmas

It isn’t Christmastime at our house without paperwhites blooming. My husband gets full credit for the true, natural blooms in our home throughout the year, and this season is no exception. Though there's snow on the ground outside, something equally white (yet full of life) blooms in a vase on the dining table.

 

I grow my own version of paperwhites, and very literally make them out of white paper, of course. But I can’t stop there. I love poinsettias, the pink and coral variety, and do my part to also make them bloom from bits of paper into colorful crafted bouquets just in time for Christmas.



To make your own beautiful Christmas floral bouquet (from papers white, pinks and reds, mine are from Paper Source papers) you will want to get my Cut Flowers Christmas set from Lettering Delights.

The files used to make these poinsettias, paperwhites, sprigs, pine cones, and evergreens for the bouquet below are from the  Cut Flowers Christmas, Cut Flowers Evergreens, and  Cut Flowers Holly sets on Lettering Delights.



So delight your guests this winter with your own creations of nature brought indoors to bloom throughout the season.

Have a Holly-Bally Christmas!

Christmas decor seems complete when the tree is trimmed and the halls are decked with “balls” of holly. Well, in this case I have decked my halls with this holly ball. Just as I made the mistletoe ball, (see the post dated Dec 11 for details) I created this holly ball to hang for the holidays.

I used shades of green paper from Paper Source, cut many holly leaves with the Cut Flowers Holly set on LD, using mostly the two and thee shaped holly leaves (with holes in the middle).

I shaped the holly leaves with twists and bends using my bamboo skewer, thumb and forefinger. For the red berries, I used one inch mini ornaments.

When I had the leaves cut and shaped, I pinned them to a green styrofoam 5 inch ball using red pearl head straight pins. I distributed the berries throughout the ball and pinned them with the leaves into the foam ball. I added a thin green ribbon bow to the top and bottom, with an extra sprig of leaves and a berry dangling at the bottom below the holly ball.

I also created swags of holly garland with the same technique, choosing this time to string the shaped holly leaves and red balls along a thin green ribbon.

So, if you haven’t yet decked your halls for the holidays, consider creating this holly-day ball.