DIY Christms Card Holder

On one of my many Pinterest viewing sessions I saw this on Pinterest, but of course did not pin it and can't find it again! But here is my DIY Christmas Card Holder. It was so easy to make.

I used several clear Command Adhesive Strips and some shinny green gift wrap ribbon. Create a tree shape and wrap the ribbon until you have a shape you like! SO Easy!!! I then used little clothes pins to attach my cards to the tree! I think it could use a star on top and maybe some fancier clothes pins.... we will see if I have time.... :)

Easy Christmas Art Work

When preparing for my guests I had this morning, last night this empty frame was driving me nuts! So I created some easy 5 minute art! It really only took me 5 minutes!

My frame before. Empty!

I taped red fabric to the back of the mat, then put the frame back together.


When I made my Christmas pillows a few weeks back, I knew how much I hated using the iron, so I prepared a few extra trees using the Wonder Under product, so I have a bunch of fabric trees with the paper backing on them. I used basic tape runner and glued the trees to the outside of my glass frame.

And we have a super easy Christmas decoration. And all of it can be re-used in the future since I only used tape! The flash on my camera emphasized the creases in my fabric, but they are not that noticeable on the wall.... like I said, I don't like to iron.... but that would be an easy fix!

Christmas Ornaments

I am having too much fun with felt! After making my felt pillows, I decided to make some ornaments! My 3 yards of felt is almost gone! I have been tracing and cutting hundreds and hundreds of frosting cap sized circles.
I found Styrofoam balls at the dollar store which were the perfect size! This is just a small - very small sample of the amount of green felt circles I used.
It's so easy to assemble! Fold the circle in half and then in fourths.
Stick a pin in it and then place it onto the ball. I packed the ornaments a bit thicker than needed, but I liked the shape of it!
I added a red ribbon and we have a nice easy Christmas ornament!

Christmas Pillows

I am so excited, I just finished two Christmas pillows!

The pillow on the right was inspired by the Crate and Barrel pillow.
I started by cutting 3 inch circles form about a 1/2 a yard of green felt fabric. I decided to only do one shade of green for my version.


I cut a tree shape out of felt, and used the fabulous tutorials all over the web folding the circle into forth and then put one stitch through it and then into the tree shaped background.

I then continued this about a hundred times!!


Until I had covered the entire tree.


I then used white fabric to sew a pillow. I like to make my pillows with the envelope closure so I can easily change my pillow cases out. I then hand sewed the tree to my pillow. This was a little harder than I thought because I had to be careful I did not sew through bother layers of the pillow. The inside of this pillow is very messy, but it's the inside, so it does not matter!

The back of the pillow.
I also made another pillow that I pined on Pinterest a while back. The original pin was Quiltish but I found it from the blog: inspired honey bee. I love how this pillow turned out. Even though I am not good at using Wonder Under, I used it and then used my sewing machine to outline the trees to the pillow.



Both of my pillows! Love them!