The Christmas Door Hangers

Rowee says, KAYA!

This is my first to submit entry at Kaya although I've been a member of Pinoy Scrapbookers for 3 years now. Anyway, I made mine from door hangers. I bought this at Japan Homes for a cheap price. Here's the finished product.





Materials used:
Door hangers, Basic Grey, gold acrylic paint, Glue, Christmas ribbon

Process:
I painted the door hangers with gold Acrylic paint. Put PPS as matting for the picture. Glued the garlands and put Christmas ribbon around at the bottom part.

About ME:
My name is Rowee. I've been a scrapbooker for 3 years now. I have a 5 year old girl named Rain. My husband Terence is always supportive in what i do. You can view my creations at http://www.simplemom-lovingmom.blogspot.com.

Christmas Cubes

Sheryl says, Kaya!

I've had these photo cubes since the beginning of this year, gathering dust on top of a bookshelf. I've been meaning to make it into well, photo cube frames but had neither time nor inspiration to get started. Candy's challenge however, pushed me into altering it into something else: Christmas tree decors!

(image from handcraftedexpressions' website)

The concept came to me about two weeks after it was announced. I thought it was perfect because I could drill a hole on the top portion of the cube, and hold it in place using the spring like holder for Christmas balls.

First, I gathered the photos to be used: my family, my parents, my siblings and their respective families, my parents-in-law, my grandparents, my sister- and brother-in-law's families. Some cubes have photos on all four sides but most only have two sides. In place of photos, I used Christmas themed-PPS from my scraps stash.

Next, I sprayed copper radiant rain shimmering mist all over the cubes, and let it dry. I have never been so grateful having the copper mist in my stash. Later, you'll see why.


When dry, I adhered the photo and PPS on all four sides of the cubes, took me thirty minutes to do this. Then I inked the edges of the cubes, then applied Ranger Icicle Stickles on top of the inked edges.

Next, I drilled holes on top of the cubes (less than one minute each), and inserted the christmas balls holder from the excess CB decors. :-) and voila!!!


This year I used copper colored Christmas balls to give the tree a much-needed contrast. That's why, I was thankful I also got the same color of shimmering mist in my stash.

Materials:
Photocubes from handcraftedexpressions
Uhu Glue
Assorted Christmas-themed PPS
Ancient Page Dye-Ink Page
Ranger Icicles Stickles
Assorted Ribbons

About me:
Happy Mama to now happier Lilaa and Maia (ages 3 & 1.5 years old, respectively); wife to my one big love. Rekindled my love affair with Scrapbooking in May 2006. I c0-own and co-manage an online bookstore Bookoto.com with a good friend Julie Kelly. I also dabble in freelance writing in my spare time.

I am into books (of various genre), foreign art films with high preference for the classics, and I'm also learning photography one click at a time. Now that I stay at home full -time, I hope to do more good use of my hands.

Virtually, I have moved to my new home here. Though you can always come by here.

Snowflake Ornaments

Marian says KAYA!

I actually bought these ornaments a week before Candy's challenge but didnt get to put in the pictures. With all the other holiday preparations still not done I decided not to stress myself and just do this for next year's decor. Thanks to Candy, I found the time to put in the pics to qualify for the challenge. Hope I can fill up all the frames before Christmas.




The most time consuming part of this challenge was selecting pictures and cropping them to fit into a 1.75 inch circle and then cutting them. I also changed the ribbon for hanging into silver cord and adding red and silver ribbon to the top of the ornament.

About ME:
I love to shop for new scrapbook stuff. I have more stuff than I think I can use iin my lifetime. My daughters know this will be part of their inheritance as I think most of my money goes to this craft. Haha. So to justify all this scrap shopping I need to scrap more.

My P&A Family

Janis says, KAYA!

In these hard times, recycling makes perfect sense. I asked my officemates for coasters (broken CDs) and ribbons (coming from the early gifts of our big bosses ) and then made these for them (simple drilling of the CDs, paper cutting, matting then just adding the twigs and the berries with a glue gun). They were surprised at how beautiful the "scraps" turned out to be (my director even told me to consider going into this kind of business.) I initially made solo shots of us, hopefully I can also include group shots.

Thanks Candy for this challenge.



Materials Used:
Recycled CDs, ribbons, AAS handmade papers, gold twigs and glittered green berries, gold string, gluestick, tacky glue.

About ME:
I am http://thereluctantscrapper.blogspot.com/

2nd RAK for the Christmas Challenge

To further sweeten the deal this Christmas, we have a 2nd RAK prize as shown above. This means that in order to qualify for both the original RAK (see photo below) or this 2nd RAK, all you have to do is to include 5 photos (group or individual) into your christmas tree or holiday decoration. This means 2 lucky ladies will win the 2 prizes!!! And since Christmas is fast approaching, please do this challenge soon! Although the deadline for uploading is still by the end of December, it would really be best if on the day of Christmas, your family becomes the focal point of the season. So ladies, are you up to the challenge?

Christmas Glass Balls

Candy says, KAYA!



I've been meaning to do this since last year. I couldn't find clear glass christmas balls, but was fortunate enough to know of a glassmaker who was able to do them for me.

Inside the glass balls, I placed individual photos of our family members, from our grandparents, to current living relatives. These photos were printed on transparencies. This gave the photos an ethereal touch. I also stamped green vines on the sides of the glass. Although not an original idea, since this came from a reader in a scrapbooking magazine, I decided to extend her idea into having individual photos of our ancestors as well. When these glass balls were placed on a tree, our christmas tree literally became a family tree. All 10 balls are all Galo's ancestors from both sides. I also added him, plus all of my family members, or as much of them as possible. Since I don't have complete photos yet, I intend to add on more of our current family into this tree.

Materials used: glass balls, StazOn olive green, wire ribbon with grapes design, misc. olive ribbon, christmas tree trimming of berries and leaves that were cut and reattached on the christmas ball and ribbon, AAS wires, magic wires for hanging.

KAYA 20 - The Christmas Challenge

FAMILY CHRISTMAS TREE/ HOLIDAY DECORATIONS

Christmas is definitely a holiday for the family. So I thought, for my first ever KAYA Challenge, instead of having the standard christmas tree with decor and gifts, why not include your family literally?! This way, your tree literally becomes an ancestral tree where your children can really see and celebrate the lives of their past and present relatives. Children and adults alike will be able to talk about each member of the family since the photo/-s honor each of them. Your tree will be a living family tree this Christmas.

So for your final challenge for year 2008: INCLUDE YOUR FAMILY/ANCESTORS IN YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE/ HOLIDAY DECORATIONS. For those without christmas trees, you can do something similar with any christmas decor, eg. wreath, staircase/curtain swag, table centerpiece, etc.

General Reminders:

1. All entries must include at least 5 photos. These may be individual portraits or group photos. Photos can be of any color or any size. Photos may be current or past, photos of living or deceased relatives. These photos must be part of the decoration (tree, advent wreath, belen/manger scene, stairway decor, etc.) whether they be in the christmas balls, the ribbons, etc. Other extra decorations in the tree/wreath/centerpiece etc. are allowed.

2. For uploading, all projects must have at least 1 group shot on the tree or location of the decor (staircase/wreath, etc); 1 group shot outside the tree or location of decor must be close enough to show all the details. Each uploaded photo should not exceed 300 KB.

3. No journaling is required, but you should have an explanation in the write up as to why you chose to do these holiday decorations of your family. Do include the materials list and techniques you used. I'm sure that your christmas tree/decor will really spark conversations this season, especially amongst the family members.

4. All Family decorations must be new and created in response to the Kaya Challenge.

5. All entries must adhere to the challenge requirements to be eligible to win the RAK.

6. Deadline for sending in your take of the challenge is December 30, 2009 (11:59pm).



Winner of this KAYA 20 Challenge will receive this rak! Hope you can join!!! So go ahead, make your family memories the center of your christmas this year. Good luck and Merry Christmas!

Note: Previous challenge winners for October and November are welcome to share their work but are not eligible for the RAK.