Christmas Crafts | I Tri and Craft

November 14, 2018
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Most wonderful craft bundle

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

I know it’s hard to talk about Christmas before Thanksgiving but us crafters need to be prepared. In order to be ready with our DIY Christmas Gifts and new decor we need to start early. In all honesty we probably start thinking about Christmas in the summer.

If you are still in the process of making gifts, or items to sell at craft fairs or online you will love this design bundle! It is full of Christmas fonts, monogram frames, holiday cut files and so much more! As with all the design bundles from DesignBundles.net your purchase comes with personal and commercial licenses. So you are able to use all the wonderful elements in all your projects.

https://designbundles.net/the-christmas-craft-bundle-ii

One of the fonts I am super excited about is the Gingerbread font

Handlettered fonts are so lovely and they are great for gift tags and cards. I love this one with all the swooshes.

If you are making loads of Christmas ornaments you will find loads of cut files to use on them.

They have also been kind enough to add a floating ornament template. Easy to cut out using your Silhouette (or Cricut).

Hand lettering quotes to use as stencils on chalkboard, or even just printed will make quick DIY decorations. Any number of these would also be great on shirts for the family.

And we all love a good monogram for the holidays! These would work well on those glass ornaments too.

There is so much more to be found in this bundle. You really need to go see it for yourself. Follow this link https://designbundles.net/the-christmas-craft-bundle-ii

The most amazing thing about this it the price! Product from over 40 designers are in this bundle. There are so many items I can’t even list them all. Individual items range in price from $3-$18, so in total this bundle is worth over $300! But Desingbundles.net is offering it to you for the discounted price of $24!

A 93% discount. But this discount won’t last forever. Get it before the time runs out, and so you still have time to get your gifts made.

Happy crafting!

Dawn Jennings

December 27, 2013
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12 Days of Christmas Tradition ~ Day 11

One of the reasons I love the Christmas holiday is the traditions.

I love reviving old family traditions, and making new ones. I love remembering fondly the things that I did as a child at Christmas time and the things I couldn’t wait to do again.

As an adult, I get to make sure our family participates in our traditions and make new ones.

Christmas Crafts! Part Two

It is no secret I love hand and foot print art. Last year we made these Mistletoes plates. We gave them to some family as gifts. I had thought we might make them again, but decided I wanted to do something different.

We made salt dough ornaments with the kids fingerprints to give to family.

OK, admittedly, I am not as pleased with them as I was with the plates. Mostly because you can’t tell the difference between Ian’s & Sid’s thumb prints.

They are really easy, and I could make a lot of them all at once. Ian is much more cooperative with these projects than Sid is. So I needed something that I could quickly make a lot.

To make these Christmas Tree Fingerprint Ornaments you will need:

2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water (+/-)
rolling-pin
cookie sheet
paint (or food coloring)
ribbon
thumbs belonging to your favorite kids

Preheat oven to 250°.

Mix salt and flour together, add water a little at a time until a dough if formed. If using food coloring to color ornaments add to water prior to mixing with four & salt. Knead until dough becomes elastic, smooth and stickiness is gone, adding little bits of flour as needed.

Roll out dough to 1/4″ thick on a greased surface. Use Christmas tree cookie cutter to cut out ornaments, I was able to make about 15. Poke a hole for the ribbon at the top of the tree.

Have kids use finger/thumb prints to make ornaments on the cut out trees.

This is a good assembly line project. Ian just went through and put two prints on each one. I did have to tell him not to put them on the edge.

Little guys might need some help or persuading to get their thumbs on there. Sid was not very enthusiastic about this.

Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 2 hours. Remove from oven and allow to completely cool before painting. I used whatever craft paint I had on hand. One was acrylic and one was enamel, both worked fine.

Thread a length of ribbon through the hole and tie in order to hang up.

There is no ornament on a tree better than the ones your children make. At least, according to me.

What are your Christmas Traditions?

December 26, 2013
by Dawn Marie 2 Comments

12 Days of Christmas Tradition ~ Day 10

One of the reasons I love the Christmas holiday is the traditions.

I love reviving old family traditions, and making new ones. I love remembering fondly the things that I did as a child at Christmas time and the things I couldn’t wait to do again.

As an adult, I get to make sure our family participates in our traditions and make new ones.

Christmas Crafts!

It is so much fun to make things with the kids, but this craft is made by me with the use of the kids hands.

On Christmas Eve I realized I didn’t have a plate for Santa’s Cookies! I tried to find on at the store and couldn’t find one I liked, and decided to make my own.

I know, make a plate on Christmas Eve, was I crazy?

I had seen this post around thanksgiving and thought it was great and knew I wanted to make something in that style.

Decorating with Sharpies are so easy! As long as you don’t make a mistake…

You will need:

ceramic plate
sharpies, at least two colors
rubbing alcohol
pattern, as a sticker

Clean your plate with rubbing alcohol before use.

Trace you child(ren)’s hand on the sticker, then cut out. I used large address labels, but they didn’t work that well, contact paper would be better. The address labels have too much adhesive and were really hard to remove.

Place the pattern on the plate and using the sharpies, start your dots.

Dot heavily around the pattern, and tapering out as you go towards the plate edge. Since I had two hands, I kept the heavy pattern in between the hands.

On the first plate I did, I dotted around the pattern, which took a long time. I thought if I could remove the address label quickly it would be easier, so I traced around the hands before dotting. I was able to cleanly remove the address label, but I didn’t like the look as much.

It is also better if you don’t use a brand new sharpie, you want the point to be blunt for better dots.

When you get the look you want you need to cure it. If there is a mistake you can probably clean it up with some rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab.

See the residue of the address label…

Place your plate in a cold oven and turn it on to 350°. Bake for 30 minutes, turn off oven and let the plate cool while still in the oven. You can spray with a clear sealing spray if you want, but I can’t guarantee it would be food safe. I would recommend hand washing only.

I used vinyl stickers for the “Cookies for Santa” on the plate. I had planned on writing “from our hands to your” but didn’t think there was room.

What are your Christmas Traditions?

December 20, 2012
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12 Days of Christmas Tradition Dec 20

Christmas art work. Okay, so it is not a tradition yet. This is our first year, but I plan to make it a tradition.

Ian isn’t as much into painting, coloring or drawing as some kids I know. He is too busy to sit down for that long. So when he does I like to make sure I capture it on film.

While at the craft store one day he found this wooden snowflake and ceramic snowman he wanted. My mom bought them for him and she let him paint them at her house.