Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas....

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light.
From now on our troubles will be out of sight.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the yuletide gay.
From now on our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days or yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us,
Gather near to us, once more.
Through the years we all will be together,
if the fates allow.
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough,
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now. "

For Christmas this year, I decided to do a Christmas card with a difference for my family using Accordian Cardstock. I just love these accordian pieces, they are 18 inches long, so 1 1/2 times as long as a normal sheets of 12" Bazzill. The idea for a "storybook" styled card came from Deb Fisher and the photos and the words are printed together onto photo paper - so they are very quick and easy! I used the lyrics to the song "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", which I found the words on the internet, so you could search for the words of any Christmas song yourself too.

These delightful Christmas trees were inspired by Bazzill themselves when we saw what they did for their Memory Trends display in Las Vegas in Sept. 2006. We fashioned them from the photos but Bazzill has now produced a little book full of Christmas ideas called "Holiday" which will be in store very soon at Remember When.

Heidi's Holiday Wreath
The instructions for this wreath can be downloaded HERE as a PDF document from the Bazzill Basics website.

For ours we used a Sizzix Holly & Berries die which produced a leaf a bit smaller than the one suggested in the "recipe" but found it very suitable for the job nonetheless.

We found the styrofoam wreath (which we painted green) and the small wooden sticks, similar to a matchstick at Spotlight. We used the small wooden sticks in lieu of the small popsicle sticks as we couldn't find those.

Bazzill Baubles

The people who saw these at the shows we attended in Melbourne and Sydney just recently all wanted to know how they were made. Simple! Just punch or cut out circles in Bazzill and then using a self made template for a triangle to fit inside the circle out of scrap cardboard, fold in three sides of the circle. Keep repeating this until you have quite a few folded circles ready.

All you need to do then is start glueing the folded sections together until you have formed the ball. You can do this with as many or as few as you like. The smaller ones can have as few as 8 circles all together and the larger ones have 20.

If you wish to hang them off your tree as we did at the Sydney Show, just glue some fibre or ribbon in between one of the joins as you glue them.