enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: handmade holiday
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This year I am teaching a class with eleven other scrapbookers for Big Picture called December Duos. You can read more about the online workshop here but the gist is 12 days of inspiration for photo taking and documenting your Christmas season. The theme focuses on capturing pairs (light & dark, red & green, warm…
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I saw this grid frame* on Pinterest and immediately a light bulb flashed. This is the ideal frame for a photo progression collage. You know the ones – one frame, multiple holes, photos from repeating years to show growth and change. My parents have one with photos of all the houses that we have lived…
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I love it when a plan comes together. This project is totally inspired by the Anthropologie felted bows garland. I LOVE how simple and fun it is and decided to make my own in traditional red and green. I selected felt in five colors (I like the stuff with some wool content because the colors…
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This year, Minted reached out to me to see if I was interested in trying their holiday cards to send to family and friends and share here on the blog. I saw the words "foil-printing" in the email and was on board. I selected the "cheers" card because it was simple, gorgeous and totally my…
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Ellerie and I had our first mama-baby craft project adventure last week when we made Thanksgiving place cards. My plan was to have her stamp her little hand print eight times on various Project Life cards in Thankgiving colors (these are from the Sunshine and Midnight kits). I grabbed non-toxic craft paint in orange and…
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Yes. I know. It's a little early to start blogging Christmas projects. Please know that I have no plans to bypass Thanksgiving (it's my favorite holiday!), but the thing about DIY Christmas projects is that if I wait until December to share them, there's a good chance they are not actually helpful to try for…
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This project took much too long. Mostly because I didn't have the right tools but was too stubborn to go buy them and make it happen. I have wanted to make clay tree ornaments for the past two months but was really inspired when I saw these on A Beautiful mess a few weeks ago.…
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Pretty sure "wax into candles" is as obvious as it gets, but I'm not concerned. This was a totally fun and simple (and useful!) project. I saw a beeswax candle tutorial on Oh Happy Day last week and immediately ordered a beeswax kit from Amazon. I made up a bunch of eight inch tapers and…
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This is going to come as a shock, but I LOVE photo grids! I went around and around on a 2012 card design and finally decided to just throw 20 photos of us at the problem instead of searching for ONE photo to compete with the magic that was last year. That's 18 photos of…
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I was so excited a few weeks ago to remember that hosting Thanksgiving means I get to send out Thanksgiving invitations. We are just celebrating with our immediate families this year (same as two years ago) and so it's only four invites that have to be made and mailed. Four invites is nothing, so I…
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