Hi everybody it’s Amy at crafty cat and I am here today to show you I have two new um digital downloads in my Etsy shop for Christmas so um these will probably be the only ones I’ll do for Christmas who knows uh along the way I may do some
Little little uh kits or something like that just depending on what I’m making and if there’s something that strikes me or not but uh for the most part this is probably going to be it for Christmas this one and the next one I’m going to show you this one is called sweet
Christmas wishes and if you follow me on Instagram you probably saw this on Friday or this weekend I can’t remember whatever but anyways um part of it I didn’t you know show every page yet so I’m going to show you every page now there’s 23 pages so it’s sort of
A nod to Holly Hobby Christmas kind of thing they’re just these adorable children um for Christmas so there’s that one I kind of consider this maybe a center page so that you can see the whole thing really well and then these two Cutie Pies I just loved the little I’ll call
Them dolls for lack of another uh term the little kids but you can see they’re here on the pages of the nice snowy house christmy house and this is like a little Christmas Village or a residence area there’s one of the little kids there and there kind of like bringing each other
Little gifts and a lot of them look like hand wrapped or I don’t know they’re just they’re just adorable so I just had to do something with them when I found these cute little images and I did not draw these These are computer generated so that’s that one with those two cute
Girls and this little girl looking at the church and she’s bringing Holly into the church to decorate probably for Christmas and a little shop where they’re shopping he’s so cute he reminds me so much of one of my son’s friends when he was a little boy obviously not anymore
But um I mean when I saw that that’s all I could think of it’s so cute adorable adorable these two girls so see these um you know when they’re folded like this you’ll have a a little girl or a little boy on each page and then a cute little stripy
Background with some like a pine vines or ah branches jeez and like Holly or whatnot and some cute colored Stripes there and then some candy cane stripes and a check pattern just for background or you know tearing up for collage or whatever some Holly and pine some hot cocoa or sweet
Treats and then there’s lots of fussy Cuts so lots of the little kiddos in different sizes and then I have another page of those I how I got them separated from each other that are a little bit bigger cuz some of those are kind of tiny but sometimes you need a tiny one
Sometimes you want a little taller one I don’t know I tried to just give you a variety of things and some birds Holly trees um these are more like journaling cards these could be little um decorations to put on pockets and then there’s two pages of the tags and journal
Cards so there’s the first one the houses and I left these ones a little more blank cuz then I thought you know you can decorate them how you want these ones have the kids on there so that’s that and I printed those on card stock uh these are printed on my
Southworth this natural color paper and oh this is what I was going to say I’ve done two of these per page in this kit and the next Christmas kit because I was seeing most people that are using them are shrinking them and doing like two little pockets on a page or something
Like that so I just shrunk them for you and then the number 10 window envelope cover that as you know does not have to go over a um window envelope you can just cut these windows out and um you know use them however you want use them
As a page in the journal if you wanted to you could cut that out so you can see through it and turn it into a page or you can you know fold it there cut it a little shorter and turn it into a pocket I mean there’s a lot of things you can
Do with that just like you would with an envelope essentially so that is that kit it is 23 pages and it is called sweet Christmas wishes and all my digital downloads right now in my shop are 30% off including these two that I’m showing you so even though they’re the new ones
They’re still 30% off okay the next one is kind of long time coming or I’ve been looking I think it’s been one or two years for images and just struggling and struggling and not finding anything I like every year I was trying to put out a reason for the
Season digital download um with the Nativity type images and things like that and just not just did not find what I wanted last year so this year I finally found some stuff I like um I love these Victorian scrap sort of for lack a better term like the old German
Scrap um backgrounds like vintage Valentine’s all those kind of things that’s kind of the look we have here and so there’s Angel The Nativity type scenes but in with all these roses and things and I tend to do this with the reason for the season kits they don’t um
Tend to be super christmy like I don’t do red and green usually for some reason when I think of the Nativity and that kind of thing even though it wasn’t this way it wasn’t all flowery and all of that it just that’s what comes to my brain maybe it’s
Because um I grew up in an Old Town that had a Catholic church with the old stained glass windows and we went to that church um and they were just super ornate and fancy and so I guess and that church was built during the Victorian era and so I feel
Like that has influenced my imagination of how I visualize the Nativity and of course that’s going to be different for everybody so this is just how I Envision it so there’s that page and then there’s the baby Jesus there I love I just love this and this may not be for everybody
And I get that it’s just I just think it’s so pretty with all the the nods to the Victorian era there’s this one with the baby Jesus there and a little frame you could write in lots of flowers and angels and and the like I don’t have donkeys or camels
Or any of that but there are the three wise men there and then I love that so beautiful and this one is also so you see when these are folded that side would have that in your journal and then next side would have that and then just I did one with the
Bird so like a lot of these you could use in a lot of other journals too not just this one and with the butterfly that’s another kind of good mid page same with the maybe Jesus one and this is more of maybe something you could write on those
Sides and same with this one more writing and then there’s I’m not sure how that one ended up there but there’s all kinds of ephemera I didn’t do particular pockets and tags that kind of thing but there’s lots of this sort of stuff in here that you know these could
Be used as a journaling card um these could be used kind of like tags or belly bands you know those uh tag clusters that we’ve been working on with the fabric hanging out you could do something like that along the side of a page I mean there’s loads of things this
Would be a great either journaling card or a pocket so you know you can use them how you like and there lots of background Pages just pretty kind of florals and Lace things like that another lace and this one’s real simple but nice because you can write on it these are
This is great to like back the other pages with and here’s more of the ephemera this would be a great belly band in a journal but a lot of this obviously you can use in multiple different types of journals so all those and the flower trim there that could go along a
Page and lots of fussy Cuts like always Angel futs and flowers and more journaling cards or Pockets you can turn these into pockets as well I love that that’s totally um you know the Victorian scrap style same with that baby Jesus there and then these are again journaling cards or
Pockets tucks whatever and then I did the two envelopes again obviously in different um Prints but you get two of the they’re supposed to be C the envelope covers but nobody uses them for that so so I’m like I’m just going to shrink them and then here’s the number 10 window envelope
Cover okay so that uh kit has 25 pages so lots of creative juices there or whatever inspiration I guess you could say okay so those two are in the shop now and like I said all the digitals are 30% off so including the autum 1910 which we’re
Going to work with today so what I have here is this was just a standard envelope I don’t even know what size this envelope is I don’t have my ruler here but you know those little they’re not as long as like a business envelope but they’re just the the white ones and
You can see there there’s the um what do they call that so you can’t see into the envelope the security design on it whatever anyways I can’t think of words for some reason um so I’ve just taken and cut the flap down so that it turns into just a little flap
To hinge it onto the journal page and um Inked it all over added some coffee dyed actually this is Walnut stain the Tim Holtz distress oxide Walnut uh on there and sprayed with water and so it gives you that sort of like coffee dyed look and then I have put another piece of
Plain paper in here trying to cover up all that blue and to strengthen it just a little bit and I put a piece of the really thin dictionary page that my sister um oh what do you call that jelly plate printed with the leaves so you can see
All the leaves in there you can see them little bit in here and then I’m also going to hinge this tag which is from my spill and te digital so it’ll open like that it’ll hinge like that and then this will hinge to hinge to a page and go
Like that so I do need to still cover this that’s as far as I got I was just playing around on Friday afternoon and then never came back all weekend so I just had other things going on I was finishing I was actually working on that uh reason for the season
Digital once I I found images I liked I just went to town and my husband could barely get me away from that all weekend so that’s what I did I just got excited I love those I love vintage um Victorian Valentine’s or Christmas cards or any of
It okay I jumped right into that and I didn’t say hugs and blessings so hugs and blessings to Tracy Mr and Mrs helm and Lan thank you guys for your kind comments and your support of my channel my shop I really appreciate you very very much and a huge super thanks to
Sandy and Kathy thank you guys so so much I really appreciate you for grabbing a super sticker very kind so all I’m going to do is um put some glue onto my envelope back here and put that piece of coffee dyed paper on this and trim it down and I don’t know
Why I was thinking I needed to put so much paper on this but I mean technically I guess you wouldn’t have to cover that you could just leave it like it is if you wanted but I of course can’t ever do it I just have to cover
All the stuff all the stuff has to be covered but you can choose to do yours however you like Swit you guys up to anything fun and exciting did you do anything fun or the weekend I know it’s um yesterday was Monday and I sound like it’s Monday but to me it is
Monday so anyway that’s why I didn’t show you those digitals yesterdays cuz they weren’t quite ready to go well for my video my Monday video is what I mean cuz I worked on the the one all weekend so but I’m very excited at how that turned out I just love it love love
It but like I said I love that Victorian era stuff that and the Edwardian clothing my favorites so which obviously they’re one right after the other just a matter of time right that’s those are my favorites I love the Victorian eras like I said the cards and Val times
And all those kind of things they’re the old Christmas ornaments that are handmade using the Victorian scrap I absolutely just love so yeah always been a fan of all that all right so that will close like that or no like this I’m like wait something’s wrong still so that will
Be the back but a writing spot so I don’t want bubbles no bubbles that’s the only thing when you use like this is coffee dyed paper um it wrinkles you know and a lot of people iron it but uh don’t hardly iron clothes so the chances of me ironing ironing paper are like
Zero a big old zero not happening I mean I do have to iron my husband’s clothes sometimes for work and that is so yeah I don’t do it very often my niece is doing good just sitting very still I’ve been on bed rest so I can
Feel her pain for sure I always would go into pre-term labor at 24 weeks h both times so I was on bed rest both times I was fine once I was on bed rest you know I didn’t have a problem again after that my daughter was born a month early but
My son was a week late so there you go and I was gigantic and by gigantic I mean gigantic he was 9B 2 oz and I’m one of those really short upper body people so that was a lot a lot a lot but worth it both very much worth it
For sure but but I feel her her pain on the sitting still thing I don’t sit still very well and I had Aiden with my son that was another interesting thing trying to keep her occupied and stay on bed rest all day and not being able to pick her up
All right so I’m going to let that dry pretty good before I try to fold that doesn’t have to be folded right this second anyway and oh I was going to attach this in such a dingdong I really want it on the inside I don’t want it on the outside sorry sorry
Sorry we’re just going to put a little yeah that’ll be as long as that side so that’ll work just fine oh this one work too whatever just making a hinge yeah I wanted it inside the pocket rather than outside the pocket not that it would hurt it to be
Outside that’s not how I wanted it I’ll probably regret it cuz I probably won’t get it glued down right and then and then um trying to figure out how I want to do this K’s see I don’t know why these things get me all twisted Ed up in my brain it’s like
Which way do I need to go I can’t tell so yeah we had a nice weekend just sort of obviously hanging out at home since since I was doing a digital all weekend but it was fun was watched football on Friday we went down and um went to like a homecoming parade
Thing for my daughter the last band you know hurah well not the last one because they’ll have a senior night too and stuff but anyhow went down to that it was fun to see the kids all the sororities and fraternities and all that make floats and they act crazy and and
Then the band comes and yeah they were they were fun they were having a lot of fun which is awesome I love it okay so I’m going to glue it like that and glue this part first what I really want to make sure is I get real good along the edges and these
Corners and then we took Aiden and her friend to dinner afterwards and that was fun one of her roommates that could that that’s also in band pretty sure her other roommate was working that night yeah it’s weird for her to be done with band she’s kind of like
She’s super happy at one point and sad at the other you know it’s one of those Bittersweet sort of it’s a lot of work like a serious amount of work and time goes into that you all know if you have kids in sports or band or whatever it’s definitely takes time
And effort into all the things but anyway so on one point she’s happy on another she’s sad um let’s see I need I want to make sure this down because we don’t want our tag getting all caught up on it now we’ll glue this again hopefully for the last time but who
Knows at least I remembered before I’d let it sit too too long I mean see it wouldn’t have been a huge thing to have it on there on back here but that’s not how I wanted it now that flips open and then this will hook on the page and flip open and closed
And voila now we’ve got to decorate it as you can see I have some lovely ladies over here that I think we’ll use also have a sunflower this is from my porch Prince and I might just go ahead and plunk that up there I know it’s a little odd
But kind of put it behind her hat so maybe it won’t be so obn noxious and then maybe like a label or something would be good huh hold on just a minute I got to find those okay rather than a label I have I forgot my uh Autumn posters they’re old posters
Autumn is what the digital is called Old posters Autumn and it’s just um all kinds of old posters that they made back in the late 1800s early 1900 hundreds and I just did them up sort of like labels and uh you can print them bigger smaller you know just play with
Your printer or the print to size app or whatever um but this is how I printed them and I’m not even sure the exact size cuz these ones are actually already I found them in my my stash printed already so we’re going to use that and these um like I said my spill
And T Digi they’re just simple um sort of collaged background tags which are very nice for many projects because they’re just a neutral little grungy but that’s okay all right so I think what I shall do I kind of want those to maybe overlap each other a little
Bit I want to see the August that’s what it was just out August cuz that’s kind of fun right maybe I’ll just glue it on and then um fiddle around with placement and I’ll trim off whatever’s hanging off the tag just sort of gonna set this over here oh maybe
Put it right on the glue like ay how do I do that all the time honestly don’t want to cover the lady I don’t really care if some of the words get cut off get off a little bit of that glue that I manage to glop everywhere like always I
Think you’d learn after doing this for as long as I have but nope I don’t so yes I know I didn’t start from the beginning with that um envelope but I had actually no intention of doing it on camera at all I just was playing around on
Friday and then never finished it so I’m like I’ll finish that first and then we’ll move along to something else beautiful I don’t I don’t know what I’m going to put inside up there but we’ll cut that little bit off and I don’t know maybe a
Pocket on that inside part oh I don’t like that didn’t even realize I did that problem is if I cut a V and it it’s going to look weird on this side I guess we’ll just leave it since you don’t really notice it a bunch up
There okay so this could be for writing this though because it’s darker kind of needs a little something maybe so let’s see what we got here’s my envelope of goodies oh I could use one of these that’s kind of a little tuck spot maybe and I like that one
I really like these as tuck spots they’re just kind of a good size for that thought I had a different one out guess not I’ll use that one and I’ll just in this up I’m actually going to go ahead and back it I’m going to back it with this page I’m
Sorry if there’s bad words I noticed there were some on this book it’s just a dollar store book and I don’t know why they have so many bad Words but it’ll just help strengthen that a little bit so it’s not so floppy and it will allow it to be written on on still obviously not a big note but a little note and you could do it a doubled over piece too to that flips open that would
Give you even more writing space I think I printed these tinier when I did this printing and then see you can still write on the back with the book page there we’re just going to glue you know along the one side so that can glue it down a nice little bit
And I don’t know yet what I’m going to put inside it I did not get that far but I have another idea that I want to play around with I will probably print a tag I’m out of um a lot of the tags of course not yeah I’ll have to print
Something but I like that that’s fun and it’ll look neat hooked onto the page okay now what we’re going to do and play with some of our background paper and make simple envelopes nothing um nothing difficult I guys Ste the cutter he’s laying in the Sunbeam with his head on the
Cutter all right so what I think I’m going to start with is half of this page so 5 and a half actually I might go a little like one tick less than 5 and a half because I want it to sit on the page as a pocket
Okay and then we’re not doing anything Earth shaking with it it’s got I put um some of that lace pattern from the uh new Christmas digital the reason for the season words my goodness today what is my problem it’s bad that didn’t print perfectly but okay
So what we’re going to do is just fold up a lip and I do my envelopes kind of backwards and then I fold this part down longer rather than the other way around because I like to have this larger space to decorate and then when you open it
You’ve got a nice little tuck spot but you can also see what’s in there and you’re not fighting with trying to grab whatever’s in there to pull it out if you see what I mean so that’s the way I like to do them but you can do them in any way you
Like so the first thing I want to do is put a thumb Notch here I might actually strengthen this a little because it is just copy paper the light bulb yeah everybody kind of does their own version of envelopes I just like them like this CU
They’re easier to get the stuff in and out of and with the longer flap um over the front you don’t have to worry as much about it flap open or anything like that and you can do gussets on the side I’m not going to but do it however you
Want I don’t know that’s probably about an inch and a half fold or so it doesn’t really matter you can make it any size that you want widthwise the whole the whole nine yards it’s up to you okay I’m going to attempt to cut a thumb Notch even though this is
Wet see how it goes my spasic hand will allow it okay so that will make a little tuck spot and we’ll put this lovely lady in there and that is also in the kit I just kind of want to put something along the edge there maybe [Applause]
Like that I don’t know what I want to do you guys see this is why I usually try to make a plan because I’m a disaster on my own that’s not long enough is put this along about the red and it got snipped some crochet trim be pretty it didn’t print perfectly along
That edge down there at the bottom like it’s like kind of discolored a tiny bit I don’t like that and then I can run a stitch along here too as another little added bonus with that what else are we going to put on there pumpkins and some book page maybe
Because it’s kind of hard to see those there’s another lady I don’t think she’ll fit though oh I wonder if this tag will fit probably not huh it’s probably not long enough I mean I think it’ll fit widthwise that’s one of the faged ones oh my goodness why you got to be like
That I think it is good perfect that solved that problem um I don’t think this one will fit in there it’s too tall I could use that inside one of these inside I don’t want the more Halloween is ones October 4th that one yeah I think I printed that batch
Out a little bit smaller so that’s what we’re going to do I’m going to put some old book page back behind there put my an and what else that’s what I need is that piece of paper that has all the different got my little bucket of pieces from this kit other pieces this
Page probably would have been better if I used the tear roller huh some days well most days really but you know what are you gonna do little bit of this and a little bit of that so it’s going to go right about the edge of that paper I got to get some
Pumpkins you know I just like to have a few sitting around I don’t really C them anymore or do any of those kind of things but I like them out on the porch just look nice happy little orange things in that way I like orange like I
Love fall and I love pumpkins and all of that but only certain things should be orange I guess and it doesn’t belong on my body at all I can go with like a peach or something like that’s fine a lighter orange but not very dark orange actually it’s really just that
Cone orange that gets me and I’m going to stitch along there I obviously I’ll open the flap and Stitch it I’m sure that was obvious but just like to make sure I’m clear okay so that’s good and then we’ll close this up and that little bit of weight from that
Lace too will also help that pocket stay down so that it’s not flipping around in the journal which could drive a person crazy right this person anyway okay I’m going to back these and then we shall be done for the day I’m just I might probably make
Another one of these envelopes but I I think you guys get it but that’s how we do it got to find something to back all these things with you know my sister had some of these see she comes over and plays with my jelly plate but she rolled some oh yeah these
These kind of rolloff pages are great for backing tags and things because I got some color and I think she did use paint on some of these we usually just do the distress oxides like that’s definitely distress oxides and then bubble paper with the leaves yeah they came out really cool
Look at that that was really cool and that one’s really good that would be a great page see if she would have done these before I put the pages in the journal I would have put them in cuz they’re super fun but I can use definitely this
One I just want to try oh she did both sides I like this with the texture a little bit more I’m not go on there Amy kind of just I don’t want it to go right to the edge because there isn’t really anything at the edge and then we’ll just put these
Above and we’ll have a little envelope all full of goodies she cute with her little cat I could have put that one closer to that one huh I don’t know why I did that don’t mess it up yeah so when you’re make doing jelly prints don’t get rid of
Your you know the pages you roll your roller on if if you do that some people just um put it on the ones that they’ve printed or what whatever but anyway you can use them too use all the goodies okay what you do with your scissors and two minutes for that
Problem is the stack o paper I have over here that we’re using right now I just cleaned these scissors the other day and I just realized they’re all sticky again whatever glue the glue so I hope you guys like those Christmas kits I know they’re not like super duper well the one’s pretty
Christmy but with the kids cuz it’s Reds and greens and all that but I do have other Christmas kits in my Etsy as well I’ve got Santa one and um the mushroom one mushroom Christmas from last year and the black and white Christmas from last year that’s another really good Santa is
One I just love doing those reason for the season ones when I can find images and things I like I love that Victorian paper art type look yeah those look pretty good on back huh funny Fun I have had questions on this journal this journal was spoken for before I even knew what I was going to do so I’m sorry and I know I’m not very quick and I don’t make multiples that’s just I try but I’m not very fast at this
Project I would love to have a journal for everybody believe me will go in there as will these this lady is quite fabulous in her gigantic hat quite fabulous indeed all right so that will go on a page and this will go on a page I can probably fold this
Maybe it’s always it’s always scary come on see it wants to come undone right there um it’s right next to me how did I miss that old bit right there who knows okay let us look at our journal and see where we want to put these and I’ll like I said I’m probably
Going to make another envelope to go somewhere it’s the Middle where I am lacking and that happens because I tend to stick stuff at both ends for some reason spot for the ladies I think the ladies are on the other side of this page oh I’ve got it going that away huh
So it has to go this side which would be fine and then what you can do is on this like this side I could put something else along here to cover that up to decorate it up a little bit not that you have to you can also just
Have it the way it is but um yeah I’m thinking now do I want something to hold that it over here right and the advantage is you can open this and still use this page to write on so you’re not even though you’re decorating up a page you’re not taking
Away writing space which I know is always a big a big Bugaboo so you can fix that by having the flaps the flips and the flaps Amy get some control over your hands lady there’s a little opening right there too I want to glue that envelope before
I glue it in but I guess we can find where where we’d like it and like I said I probably will put a piece of lace or something there could see that’s will open all the way and you won’t have to uh worry about sorry I did not get that very straight
There oh no it’s straight with the rest of the page so I don’t want to mess with it because I’m afraid I’m just going to make it worse probably put something in there too I’m not going to mess with it CU it’s wet but I will play with it
More in a moment okay and then this one oh I didn’t show you guys this this is an Edith holon you can’t see it Edith Holden uh page out of a I have a little Edith Holden book and um I just hooked it onto the Ledger you know I had the flaps
Uh folded over because they were too long so um I this is The Ledger flap folded over I put a piece of paper over it to turn it into a flap like that so it’s pocket and glued e Holden page onto the back but it flips all the way open
But you can still see all the writing and stuff which I love about those so I don’t know where I want to put the envelope oh it is it’s too long for that music page is it going to be too long for all the pages because I cut it less oh no it’s
Good on this page it looks pretty on that gold color that’s from my 1920 something digital it’s fun to use all different kits when you got them I think I will put that there I like the lace next to the lace and so what you can do is just glue
Side and other side and bottom and you’ll have another pocket to put something in you kind of want to air on the side of getting closer to this edge of the page than the middle because otherwise you’re going to get everything all stuck in the
Middle and you don’t want to do that so I’ll just try to keep it over to that side especially because I put lace along the bottom here we want our book to close and we also want this to open oops don’t really don’t want to open it
Yet it’s not glued down all the way doing great with the glue today I need to stop messing with stuff glue it and leave it because it will get messed up okay I think that’s all I got for you today thank you so much you guys for
Joining me and all your wonderful nice comments and just ah it’s just been lovely I kind of like this cat here that’s from my um cat meow I can remember want go there there’s a little piece of glitter stock yes I like the cat I will put the cat in
There we’ll in it a little maybe around the corners fabulous all right guys I hope you have an wonderful rest of your evening and we will chat again soon love you guys bye
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