IT'S TOOL TIME!

HERE IT IS... our new tool!

OUR NEW CHIPBOARD...

OUR NEW ORNAMENTAL....


EVERYTHING will be cased in this lovely vintage tins....

OUR NEW ALPHABET ....

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Sneak Peeks of our new TOOL!!!

Some of you might have seen these beautiful items on Melody Ross's Facebook. If you haven't... here they are. These lovely projects were made with the NEW GCD Studios/Melody Ross TOOL!!!

This tool will allow you to emboss and CUT CHIPBOARD! YES... that's right... CHIPBOARD!

Not only are we coming out with the tool, we are also coming out with....

Shaped chipboard

CHARMS

and MUCH... MUCH MORE!

Aren't these items so vintage fun???!!!

Melody's thoughts:

Stay tuned for more :)

~H

Baking Joy + CHA SNEAK PEEKS!!!!!

Christmas is tomorrow and my baking is all done! I had the boys and my best friend, bake all day and night with me. We had a great time and yummy treats to show for it. I took this photo of our Christmas tree cookies... so fun and delightful!

I received many photos of you all baking... THANKS for playing along! There can only be one winner and that person is

Serena Gedlaman!
Isn't this a great shot???!!
Congrats and please send me your info at hsonboul@gmail.com and place "Bake photo winner" in the subject.
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Being that Christmas is tomorrow, our gift to you is
SNEAK PEEKS.... from our new Winter CHA releases!
Don't for get to enter our BIG Give away Here



We are coming out with 10 new collection (Artsy Urban included).
To make this more fun, I've number all the different papers.
Each number is from a different collection.

Can you guess what paper belongs to the collections name???


The person closest to guessing right, will win a Christmas Sleigh paper pack.

Here are the names of our new collections

(Artsy Urban not included, because you already know what it looks like ;)

• Forever Friend
• English Garden
• Lydia
• Smoothie Shop
• Ava
• Zippity
• Ella blue
• Independence
• Homespun chic

GOOD luck naming these papers and MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

~H

Gift Tags and Cards

I've received tons of fun photos of baking...woohoo! Keep them coming!
Today I have a fast and simple posts about cute cards and tags.

Cards and Gift Tags

By Jenyfur P

Jen used our overlay sheets to create these adorable card.

She also created these adorable mini tags for gifts. SO CUTE!!!

They are a great way to finish the look of a gift.

~H

I would love to see your baking photos...

Christmas is just around the corner... can you believe it?!!
My son (Bradley) keeps asking: "Mommy, how many days are left?"
He asks me this every day!

We are so excited about this Holiday and the joy it brings into our home.
All the shopping has been done and this whole week, I will be baking and pre-making food to freeze. YUMMY! Will you be baking?

I would love to see your photos.
Do you have fun photos of your kids... baking with you?
Please email them to Hsonboul@gcdstudios.com
The person with the best photo will win a fun prize pack...
"Everything Green and Red"
You have until Wednesday the 23rd, to send me the photo :)


This cute Tag/Mug Gift set is by our Guest Artist Gina.
I love the star she layered on.

CARD GIFT SET

BY: Krista R

She created 4 cards and packaged them up pretty in this cute little rectangular tin. Which she also decorated. So cute... right?

Nice New Christmas Clothes

Every year, I get my boys dressed up in their nice new Christmas clothes and take pictures of them. I do this, because Christmas Eve, Christmas and Christmas Sundays are VERY busy days. Which means, I never have time to take nice pictures of them!

A few days before Christmas, I take photos of them and our home. I love to use our tree as the back ground for portraits and I love photographing anything Christmas!

Over this weekend, try to find the time to photograph this things:

Hanging stockings

Tree

Christmas Lights

Decor

Children baking

Drinking Hot chocolate

Holiday foods

Family in holiday clothes

New winter coats

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Wall Hanging

BY: Beatriz G

1- Paint a piece of chipboard and cover the front with patterned paper
2- Cover chipboard star frame with glitter, adhere, add berries, pearls and chipboard sentiment.
3- Punch holes and tie ribbon, add button
Wall hanging is 4"x 6 "

Two fun projects

Santa's Workshop

By Grace Tolman

Our wonderful DT coordinator Heidi gave me this birdhouse, as part of my project for this month. Honestly it sat on my desk for a couple of days, before I finally figured out what to do with it. Not that the birdhouse was not fun to alter, I just didn't know how to connect the item to Christmas until... after I looked at my papers some more and the idea came! I would add the whimsy patterns of our Christmas collection to the house and make it a Santa's workshop!

1)
I first primed my house with white paint. I think it's a great idea to always add a splash of paint onto any wood project. This gives you a clean and finished look at the end. The paint also helps if you can't cover the entire project with paper.
2)
I measured each part of the birdhouse and cut my papers according to size.
3)
I used mod podge for this project. I love the result of liquid adhesive on altered items like this.
4)
I then cut circles and cut that in half to make scallops for my roof and punched a scallop border from the striped pattern paper to hung from the roof. Finished that off with some GCD studios ribbon.
5)
I cut out some trees from one of the pattern papers in the collection and dressed up the front with it. I took one of my leftover popsicle sticks from the countdown project, covered that with pattern paper and grabbed a journaling block from the collection pack to house my project title.

Notes:
I made a mistake while spelling out my title and made the word workshop plural (added an s at the end) so to cover up my mistake, I added a button over the word and balanced it out with another ribbon on the top of the block. This just shows that creativity can always occur even when making mistakes.

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Christmas Kitty

By Renee

Renee has provided us with this fun Sketch.

Thanks Grace and Renee for a FUN post today!

In Print this week + Dec 16th project

This week, Creating Keepsake's Jan 2010 issue is out!
I'm excited about this for two reasons.
1) GCD Studios can be found on Page 44
2) It's a layout I made about my best friend's beautiful wedding dress.


This pretty paper is from our Morning Glory collection

and with this close up, you can see the foil shine.

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Stocking Gift Card Holder

By Angie H.

Supplies:

GCD Christmas Sleigh patterned papers Stocking Template White FeltQuickutz letters Embroidery Floss

Instructions:

1. Use template to cut 2 pieces of stocking out of patterned paper.

2. Hand-sew pieces together with embroidery floss.

3. Re-cut edges with pinking shears.

4. Use template to cut top portion out of white felt. Attach felt to the top, as shown.

5. Cut small strip of paper to create loop. Attach inside stocking.

6. Cut name out of patterned paper, attach to felt.

7. Insert small gift or gift card for a friend.

WINTER CHA NEWS

Can you believe winter CHA is 6 weeks away???

I'm so excited about this up coming show, because we will be there! This past month, the GCD team has been working HARD at getting everything ready. So far we have...

1. Collections made and named
2. A NEW TOOL is in the works (designed by Melody Ross)
3. The booth and make and takes have all been planned out!

Yes, this will be our best show ever and it's going to be the booth to hang out in.
It will be filled with creative ideas by our team and myself!
PLUS... we will be doing give aways of the NEW TOOL!

On January 1st-9th 2010...
we will be sharing a new collection each day. We have 10 new collections that will be at the winter show (Artsy Urban included).

AND like always... we will have a BIG give away to celebrate!
Are you ready for the details???


- Post this Blinkie on your blog
- Sign up for our google follower
(to the left)
- Leave a comment...so I can check
your blog for the blinkie ;)

and one

LUCKY WINNER WILL WIN.... ALL 10 OF OUR NEW COLLECTIONS!

You have until know- Jan 1st to enter.

Good Luck!
~H

P.S. The blinkie has a sneak of the NEW Homespun Chic Collection (by Melody Ross)

Good Day Dec 14th

Today is catch up day for me. I took the weekend off from posting :)

We visited Santa, had hot chocolate, baked a little... and much more. It was a great weekend.

For today, I have this adorable Snowman Frame by Our Guest Design Artist Gina :)

Gina used our Christmas foil paper perfectly! Can you see how shinny it is??? Isn't it so pretty?!

This frame would fit nicely... pretty much anywhere in a home. Thanks Gina!

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This is our Dec 13th post :)

Christmas Ornament

By: Renee

Materials Needed:
Sleigh Ride Pattern Paper
Adhesive (I used glue by Helmar)
Metal Barn Star (4x4) purchased at Michael's
Misc. Foliage, Buttons and Ribbon

Step One: Create your pattern for each arm of the star. Trace onto pattern paper and cut out.
Step Two: Adhere to star. Cut down if needed.
Step Three: Adhere embellishments.

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This is our Dec 12th post:

Hanukkah Fun
By Heidi

This manora is a fast and fun project the kids can play with, while you cook in the kitchen.

It's a simple shape, matted with magnets on the back. This same idea can be done with a Christmas tree.

See you all tomorrow...

WITH INFO ABOUT OUR NEW COLLECTIONS

Happy Hanukkah!

Today marks the first day of the Hanukkah celebration :)
Tomorrow... I will be posting a few fun ideas for this holiday!
To learn more about this celebration... go here

Creating Keepsakes did a great post about it! you should check it out.
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Congrats to.....

Liz Chidester said...
Great work Gina!I love this collection. Especially the paper with ornaments on it.
December 7, 2009 3:35 PM

You are the winner of our Christmas Sleigh collection!

send me your info at hsonboul@gcdstudios.com and place Christmas Sleigh winner in the subject line :)

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Christmas Card Set

featuring GCD Studios Christmas Sleigh Collection
By Lynn Ghahary
Supplies:

· GCD Studios Christmas Sleigh Collection
· Jewels from GCD Studios Artsy Urban Collection
· Red Cardstock from Stampin’ Up!
· Sheer Ribbon from Offray
· Letter Stickers from Making Memories
· Rub Ons from Making Memories
· Chipboard from DCWV and Recollections (Michaels)
· Dimensional Adhesive
· Glue Dots

“Christmas Joy” card

1. Adhere a 4 x 5 ¼” green patterned paper mat (# 733 Ornamented - Christmas Sleigh - Back) to 4 ¼ x 5 ½” red cardstock base. Round corners and add pen stitching as shown.
2. Adhere 3 ¼ x 4” striped patterned paper piece (# 734 Sleigh Stripe - Christmas Sleigh - Front) flush to right side of card. Round upper and lower left corners.

“Happy Holidays” card

1. Adhere 1” striped patterned paper strip (# 734 Sleigh Stripe - Christmas Sleigh - Front) flush to right edge of 4 ¼ x 5 ½” red cardstock base.
2. Mat a 3 ½ x 5 ½” green patterned paper piece (# 733 Ornamented - Christmas Sleigh - Back) ¼” from left side of card and scallop right edge. Add pen stitching as shown.
3. Adhere white die cut to dark green patterned paper piece (# 736 Christmas Trees - Christmas Sleigh - Back ) and adhere to card front with dimensional adhesive.
4. Add rub on sentiment to die cut.
5.Tie ribbon around die cut and adhere chipboard snowflake and jewel as shown.

“Merry Christmas” card

1. Adhere a 5 ¼ x 4” green patterned paper (# 736 Christmas Trees - Christmas Sleigh – Front) mat to 5 ½ x 4 ¼” red cardstock card base. Round all corners.
2. Adhere 3 ¼ x 4 ¼” green patterned paper piece to card front (# 733 Ornamented - Christmas Sleigh – Back). Scallop right edge and add pen stitching to left edge as shown.
3. Add 1 x 4 ¼” striped patterned paper strip (# 734 Sleigh Stripe - Christmas Sleigh - Front ) to right edge of green patterned paper piece.
4. Adhere red die cut to card front with dimensional adhesive.
5. Add ribbon, chipboard sentiment, snowflake and red jewel as shown.

“Merry and Bright” card

1. Adhere a 5 ¼ x 4” green patterned paper (# 736 Christmas Trees - Christmas Sleigh – Front) mat to 5 ½ x 4 ¼” red cardstock card base. Round all corners.
2. Mat 1 x 5 ½” striped patterned paper strip (# 734 Sleigh Stripe - Christmas Sleigh - Front ) to 1 ½ x 5 ½” green patterned paper strip (# 733 Ornamented - Christmas Sleigh – Back). Scallop bottom edge and add pen stitching as shown. Adhere to card front approximately ½” from bottom edge.
3. Adhere circle die cut to center of card with dimensional adhesive.
4. Adhere light green alphabet stickers and red alphabet stickers to spell “merry” and “bright” sentiments.
5. Add ribbon bow, chipboard snowflake, and red jewel as shown.