singing joyfully CD holder by lauren bergold

our dear pixie-in-chief kirsty vittetoe absolutely ALWAYS rocks the category of "paper combining" when putting together the fabulous pixie kits, but for this month'sCHRISTMAS IN PARIS kit she has totally outdone herself, see?

for this 6x6" card i've used pink paislee's green scallop print, that gorgeous rich crate paper plaid, and a few details snipped from the webster's pages' holiday print. but it's not just the sweet little bird who'll be singing joyfully; so will my recipient, once they've opened it:

by folding up a flap on one side of my 12x6" card base, i made a little pocket into which i could slip one of my favorite holiday cd's! i printed the track list--and a festive greeting-- on clear inkjet labels from the office supply store, and affixed them to the card. i love that like most paper in pixie kits, the green scalloped pattern was double-sided, so there was no need for me to decorate the inside further... but i couldn't resist a few fussy cut blossoms!

speaking of blossoms, there's a gorgeous copper silk prima one on my front-cover collage. you get an entire pack of those, and i predict you'll love every single one! there are some gorgeous glitz design cardstock diecuts, too; the large victorian posie is one of them, i've popped it up on a bit of foam tape for extra dimension.

finally i ruffled and attached a bit of soft pink signature pixie dust seam binding, to act as a closure, and now i will just sit back and wait for this card's recipient to sing my praises!!! :)

Kirsty's Note -

That is one fabulous project, thanks pixie Lauren!!!

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Guest Designer ~ Ros Crawford

We have the pleasure of having Ros Crawford guest designed for us this month. She had 2 amazing projects which I showcased here at Pixie Blog last week (Click HERE to see if you missed it)
When I first noticed Ros's blog - Mikey's Mom, I was amazed by all the 3-D projects she made, I would called her queen of template, she is just good at creating all these wonderful projects. It's your lucky day today, at the Pixie Blog, we are not just having one project, but three of Ros's beautiful creations, so wait no more, here's Pixie very first Guest, Ros Crawford


Little Gift Set
You all know I love templates..... little houses are one of my favourites..... and today I have used one of the lovely papers from the December kit  to make a card and cover my little house gift box....

All the papers are double sided and it was tough choosing which side to use when I was making things.... this little frilly roof means that you can see the pattern on the other side too....

I sprayed glimmer mist all over the sprinkled a little glitter on.... the little corners are from the bottom of the alphabets that come with the kit....

The roses are also made using one of the papers from the kit and even the ribbon is part of the kit....
I love how everything just mixes and matches

A very simple card using a border punch and I stamped a bauble  directly on the paper cut out and glittered.... I had to use another one of those beautiful red gems.... they look so luscious on the red seam binding... here's a closer look

Hope you like it....

CD Holder
I loved making this folder.... so simple using nothing other than goodies from the December kit and some distressing ink and a bit of stamping....
My son spent a few years working as a travel courier in Europe and collected so many photographs.... then he spent months traveling the west coast of America.... more photos! Easy enough to store on discs.... and now he has somewhere to store the discs....

I used the plain brown crd from the kit to cut a folder and adhered the large Travel card on the front (I just added distressing ink) mat and layered the watch card using some of the paper from the kit... and even cut out hands for the clock... adhering a button (from the kit) in the centre... The "ME"letters are also part of the kit...

This is the inside...

Made the C/DVD holder on the left using the same cardstock... added more contrasting paper and some more of the gorgeous "travel" cards... the only thing I added here was some stamping on the postcard and some distressing ink

The DC's fit easily inside... This is definitely one of my favourites

Enjoy!

Note Book and Card Set

You all know I love to make note books... can never have too many ... 'cos I love to give them as little gifts ... my friends love them ... The best thing is that you can use all your scraps to make them and the more the better. Sometimes I use lace and glitter and maybe some felt... but today I used only stuff from Pixie Dust Paperie December kit... it is just so pretty that nothing else was needed...

Thee are just so easy to do... I cut my cover from the 12x12 thick card that comes in the kit, scoring where the spine was needed... obviously the cut size depends on the size of your note pad... then covered the whole of it in this stunningly gorgeous scrapbook paper from My Mind's Eye "Lost and Found" range... the bold dots are gorgeous and the only added 'bit' is the strip of darker colour from another MME paper in the kit. A piece of the reversed side of the paper forms the pen holder and ribbon and button are in the kit. I also covered the inside with the rd 12x12 CS from the kit so it's all neat and tidy...

Of course I needed a card to go with it...

Again everything used is from the kit... just made the rose from the paper and used a red cotton to stitch with... see how my machine made it's own pattern? Don't know why but it looks good I think....

This green paper is the reverse side of a beautiful Prima 12x12 paper.... see everything co-ordinates with this kit...

And there we go another little gift...


Kirsty's note -


Oh wow, aren't they amazing, THANK YOU Ros!!! For creating all these beautiful projects with Pixie December Kit "Time Square Twenty 11". Stay with Pixie, we have more of Ros coming soon!