Hostess Gift

During Hanukkah, and this time of year in general, we often find ourselves leaving the house without a hostess gift in hand. In these cases, we often grab a nice bottle of wine to bring. To make them look less like a last minute gift, I keep a stash of wine bottle tags, which I can quickly use to dress-up the bottle.

I made these festive tags using the Hanukkah collection; adding a simple loop made with regular or curly ribbon. I know many paper-crafters are not fond of curly ribbon, but I feel it adds a certain festive feel. My tags are all backed with white cardstock, so we can write our names or a quick message on the back.

I also made an extra tag using this lovely wine-glass paper strip from the Passover collection. This tag can be used for Thanksgiving, general holiday gatherings, or saved until Passover.

Making tags is fun and easy, and a great way to use up scraps!

Hannukah banner

Welcome to our first Hannukah post! This year I decided to put a little bit more effort in our Hannukah decorations and made a festive banner. I used the back side of the Hannukah paper kit packaging to die-cut the letters and to make the decorative border at the bottom of the banner.

The paper rosettes are made from 1.5"x18" strips of paper. I punched the long edge of the strip using Fiskars "Boundary Waters" border punch, made an accordion fold along the strip, formed a circle shape and glued it all together.

I like all the bright and festive colors. It reminds me the Hannukah candles. What about you dear readers? Do you decorate for Hannukah? Please share with us!

Getting Ready for Hanukkah

Can you believe it? Hanukkah is less than one month away. Over the next month, we will showing crafty Hannukah projects to help you get ready.

It's not too late to enter the drawing for the Hanuakkh card kit. The winner will be announced right here sometime this month.

Also, starting on November 24, we will begin counting down our 8 Crazy Nights of Hanukkah. For 8 days, we will be offering Hanukkah tips and giving you opportunities to share your ideas, and of course there will be a great prize.

November Sketch

Hi all!  This month, the DT worked with this sketch by Anam Stubbington and MME:

And here is what we came up with:

A card by Lisa Swift:

Layout by Louise:

Layout by Maya

and lastly, a layout by me, Lisa Spiegel,

So come play along with us this November...be sure to link up your layouts to this blog post and one of you will be showcased on the blog next month! 



Rosh Hashanah memories

Hannukah is getting really close but most of us still have High Holidays pictures to scrap. I used Rosh Hashanah papers and stickers to create this layout with pictures from our Rosh Hashanah dinner.

To make the banner I punched scalloped half circles and adhered them to the page with dimensional adhesive. I used a glue pen to draw a line on the top of the banner and added colored twine. The twine ends are tied around 2 brads. To finish my banner I added the circle stickers from the kit. Perfect!

Jewish Scrapbooking and Cardmaking at its best!

Crafting Jewish Style just added a new kit to its wonderful Jewish Scrapbooking lineup of products- The Hannukah Card Kit!

The Hannukah Card Kit contains:
8 Royal Blue cards and envelopes
4 patterned double sided cardstock papers
4 coordinating colored cardstock papers
1 sheet cardstock stickers

They are in stock and ready to order from www.crafting jewish style.com!
Below are sample cards created by our staff using elements from the Hannukah card kit.






Give us some feedback about what you will be crafting for the holiday. Have you started yet? Will you be sending out cards to friends and family?
Your comment will be entered in the Hannukah Card Kit Giveaway!

Comment now for your chance to win this great kit!

Card Crazy :)

It's time to pull out your papers and scraps to make some Hannukah cards. I've created three cards to show you today, all of which use various snippets and small scraps of paper. All cards are 4x5".

First up is a card that features border strips, simply overlapped and covered with a journaling spot and sticker.

This next card uses a section of text paper, a border strip, and a small piece of solid paper that I cut with decorative scissors to create a simple border and to add some interest. I used a rub-on on the journaling sticker and also used a few of the stars, accented with rhinestones.


This last card uses one of the decorative blocks and four stickers. It was quick, and easy, to put together.



So now it's time for you to dig into your stash of Crafting Jewish Style papers, see what you have, and turn those scraps into some holiday cards. :) If you do, I'd love to see what you've created.