#13 and #14 Easy pop up Christmas card + Kix garland.

#13 Easy pop up Christmas card

This would be my second time making a pop up card.

The first card I made was for my sister's birthday.

I only wish I would have taken pictures of it!

Oh well, now I have a whole tutorial on how to make one.

I included this card with the gift that I made for the gift exchange.

The first thing to do is get a piece of white paper and a piece of construction paper.

You can use any color of construction paper.

(I chose blue paper, then changed my mind and used red.)

Next, I cut some slits into the white paper where the fold is.

Then you open the card and extend those tabs and glue the white paper to the construction paper.

This is where the decorating comes in.

I cut out some Christmas tree's out of card stock and had Levi make me a banner.

Then, I glued them to those tabs and they looked like this:

I also added some confetti around the edges.

The finished card looked like this.

I just added a personalized message to the bottom and it was done!

For my sister's birthday card, I added some balloons and a banner.

You can personalize it however you want!

#14 Kix Garland

I remember seeing Christmas movies where kids would make pretty

Christmas garland with their parents out of popcorn or kix.

So I thought this year Mia might enjoy doing it with me.

At first, I told her to try the kix cereal and tell me if she liked it.

But once she put it in her mouth she spit it out and said she didn't like it.

However, once I told her that her cousins like that cereal she stuffed her 

mouth and couldn't get enough of it!

So, for materials, I used:

A needle

Kix 

String

All I did was string the kix until they reached the knot at the end.

Once done it will look like this!

There you have it!

Two quick, cheap and easy projects!

Tomorrow, I'll have two more projects and will hopefully be caught up!

There's not much time left for Christmas!

Hope you're as excited as we are! 

See ya tomorrow!

#6 Sewn Garland

Today's craft is very easy and pretty versatile.

It can be used for birthday parties, Christmas trees or just to decorate a room.

I've made some of this sewn garland before. 

If you look closely, you can see it in our title picture up there behind Mia.

All you'll need is a large hole punch, (again) some paper of your choice and a sewing machine.

I got two old books that were falling apart and tore out a few pages.

I liked that the color of the pages differed a little so it would give the garland some contrast.

After I had my pages torn out, I started punching holes.

Then I had some pretty sweet confetti!

Once all of the holes were punched and I had quite a bit of little circles, I started sewing!

It's pretty easy, just sew through the middle of the circle, then add the next.

And keep going...

Until you have a whole bunch of garland done!

You can stop when you think it's long enough and pull out some extra thread if you want to hang it up, just make sure you tie a knot in the end so it wont unravel.

I just kept going until I ran out of circles and it looked like this.

Pretty, right?

I made this garland for our Christmas tree and hung a few strands on our shelves.

There's our Christmas tree and this is what it looks like close up!

Super easy and so cute!

You can use different colored paper for different decorations, you can even use fabric scraps for a reusable garland. You can just change it up however you want to use it.
I'll probably use some for Mia's third birthday party this year.
Can you believe my baby is going to be three this month?
Oh well, just another reminder that time flies by and you have to make the most of it,
especially when you have kids.

Well, that's all for now!

I'll be back tomorrow for some more Christmas crafting!