How about a very simple ornament tonight? When Nichole asked us to create something that would fit into our family Christmas traditions, I chose an ornament for grandparents because it's one of the things that Rick and I like to give family members. I used PaperTrey Ink's new Merry and Bright set by Melissa Bickford, and one of the sheer lucite snowflake frames. I also used the Simple Alphabet to put the date on the bottom right corner. Pure poppy grosgrain and gold tinsel ribbon finished it off, along with my favorite photo of my son and one of his Grandpas sledding down the hill behind our house together. I called this piece Eight and Eighty in my gallery because B. is eight, and Grandpa is eighty. Still, don't they look like best buds here? :-)
For the tree I used Pure Poppy and Summer Sunshine ink (PTI), as well as Tea Leaves and Jumbo Java Versamagic (Tsukinko). I stamped plain trees directly on the photo then added one cut-out tree to the outside of the frame. When I sized the picture so that the main parts of both Grandpa and B. were in the center window, the photo was a bit narrow on the sides. Stamping the trees on the sides helped fill that gap. To fill it at the bottom, I tore a couple of strips of Stamper's Select White cardstock and made a snowbank. That also gave me a very white surface on which to stamp the date . This is an easily mass-producible ornament--quick to make, and inexpensive. Since you can choose a different photo for each ornament, it's simple to personalize as well.
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