Sneak Peek of our New Winter Collections

We just couldn't wait to show you just a little sneak peak

of our new collections available in less than a week!!!

We have beautiful new papers, adhesive stickers and chipboard stickers

for Easter, Spring, Birthday, Babies, St. Patricks and Travel !!

You are going to love it... its absolutely gorgeous!!

Check out more on our blog starting in Jan !!

the best is yet to come.......

The other parts of the Globe today....

Merry Christmas Everyone!

There is nothing that our Kim Holmes loves better than

the Christmas Season up in the Pacific Northwest of the USA!

 It is a time for celebrating her family

 and all the gifts that she has been blessed with

and she says there is quite a few!  The Christmas season

at her house is all about spending time together, relaxing and

enjoying each others company.  They spend days baking,

creating and decorating in preparation for Christmas Day.

As you can see we have quite a group of children

and when you add in all the significant others-

the house is really overflowing with laughter and joy!

Our second designer today is our Rita Barakat.  She has

been married to her wonderful husband for 19 years and

before she had children she painted life size murals.  But now

she is blessed to be a SAHM to five beautiful children ages 18

and down to 5.  Her talents are all in the fine arts and she also

directs a youth choir and drama team.  And she even sings!

At the Barakat home in Colorado (USA) they celebrate the Holidays

by decorating the house and tree, wrapping presents and all

of them participating in musicals at the church.  The whole

family sings and acts!  They also love making gingerbread houses 

and making cookies!  She loves the feeling of Christmas and

says that a little snow doesn't hurt either!

Our next designer is our Jona Saavedra from the Philippines.

She is a working mom to her 5 year old son Zid and married to 

a photo enthusiast (Glen) who lovingly supports her addiction

to scrapbooking.  She says that scrapbooking is therapy to her

and a great outlet to relieve stress!!  It gives her so much joy

when her family and friends appreciate her works of art :)
She also loves to bake, decorate cakes and go diving!

And in the Philippines she celebrates the 

Holiday by going out of town somewhere special.

  They go to a special Mass the night before

 and then a simple dinner afterwards.

On Christmas morning everyone celebrates with the kids

as they open their gifts and then everyone goes 

out sightseeing and they take lots of photos!

And now we go down under to  Brisbane, Australia where
like the Philippines it is summer for Christmas!
Our Alicia Barry is a teacher when she is not a mom
and wife to her 3 kids and husband.  She loves scrapbooking
and loves to create amazing projects out of paper. She loves
photography and likes decorating cakes too!

For their Christmas Holiday they spend lots of time
with family, visits with Santa and a huge BBQ
on Christmas Day eating Shrimp and Chicken.
They have a wonderful meal on Christmas Eve too with
a delicious Aussie traditional sticky date pudding called Pavlova.

and lastly we head all the way up to California (USA)
to see our Julie Walton.  She has lived in So. Cal all but
 3 years of her life and is mom to 3 grown girls and 3 grandkids,
ages 6,5, and 4 and they are what consume her life for the past 6 years.
She cares for them daily and they are the passion for which her
passion for scrapbooking grew.  She loves to take pictures and
scrapbooking seemed the perfect solution.  In this world she says that
she loves the fact that she gets to meet so many wonderful people online
that she probably would never have met otherwise and it's even better
when she gets to catch up with them in person. She also loves to
read and take long walks on the beach and collect treasures, rain or shine!

So in California, Julie says that one of her favorite traditions is to go
to her Mom's house and eat the best lasagna ever made by her Dad.
Sadly Julie lost her dad this year because of illness but says
that they will try to keep the tradition going!
Her other favorite tradition is taking photos of her grandkids
in Santa hats.  They love posing for the photos!!

So from all of us at Best Creation to all of you

we would like to wish you a 

Very Merry Christmas 

and a very Happy New Year!!!

Christmas around with globe with our Design Team

We are very blessed here at Best Creation to have a

wonderful Design Team full of talented and amazing

women, wives and moms that create beautiful projects

for both us and you to get inspired by each week.

So we want to take this week to celebrate them

and....

we asked them to share a little about themselves and 

a little about what they do in their part of the world

to celebrate Christmas to share with all of you!!

Our first designer is Katarina and is from Finland where she lives on

one of the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea Archipelago.

She is a teacher in a nine year compulsory school and

works with the second grade students and is also the

Deputy School Superintendent of the school.  She has

2 children (a boy and a girl) and says that they are her

gems in her treasure box!  And of course she has a 

husband who supports her in her scrappy world...

Katarina says that in Finland where she lives

they celebrate 2 kinds of Christmas.  First the little

Christmas Eve, at the night before the first of Advent.

They have a small tree and get a few presents and 

eat a few of their favorite dishes from the Christmas table.

The real celebration starts on Dec 23rd with the whole family

getting the Christmas tree that they bring home together and decorate.

And when that is done, she tries to get the yearly

picture of the kids :) and she says it is not an easy task

with her little goofballs!

and the 24th is the day that they know if Santa thinks they

are naughty or nice and she says that they are always nice to Santa :)

Our next designer is Petra and some of you may know her

as Pysselpetra on the internet.  She lives in Malmo, Sweden with

her 3 kids (Alva, Teo & Love) and her 2 cats (Busan & Cosinus).

And of course a dear husband who supports her creative hobby too!

She started scrapbooking when she had her oldest and loves

to mostly do pages.  What I love about her is that she shares

the love of this hobby with all of us and you can relate when 

she says that when she finds well coordinated papers in beautiful

colors it makes her heart beat a little faster!!

Lastly the best way to describe her as an artist is that she

paints, she mists, she tears, she cuts and she punches

all to create beautiful layouts to share with her family

for generations to come!!

So in Sweden they celebrate on Christmas Eve the 24th.

At her home, when the children wake up there is a thread going 

through the house with presents along it and in the end they 

get a bigger gift.  If they are lucky and there is lots of snow

everyone goes outside and makes snow lights and then about 2 o'clock

in the afternoon they eat the traditional christmas meal- a great 

Smorgasborg of many, many different dishes.

After dinner they watch a traditional Walt Disney movie

with the entire family that Petra and her husband have watched

since they were little kids.  And then it is time for Santa to arrive...

and he brings lots of gifts for the kids and they spend the rest

of the night playing and the parents relax drinking Glogg.

On the 25th they enjoy the peace and quiet after the celebration!!

Our Tracey Taylor lives on the East Coast of Canada 

with her wonderful husband and three daughters.

She is a French Teacher by profession and now stays

at home to be mom to her daughters!  

Her once small hobby has turned into a full blown passion

now for her girls and says that this wonderful hobby keeps

her learning, working and teaching all the while she preserves

all the everyday moments that make their lives special.  She says

she loves every minute of it!

In her neck of the woods, Tracey and her family start to 

get the Christmas preparations ready after Halloween since

they celebrate their Thanksgiving in October.

Decorating her house for Christmas is a tradition that she

looks forward to every year and they have several Christmas's

between Christmas and New Years's as she celebrates with 

both sides of her family!

She says it is a wonderful time spent with family and 

friends and wouldn't change it for anything.

Our last designer is our Karen Thind and is also 

from Canada but closer to the west coast!

She says that her Christmas is all about spending time 

with family.  She loves having time off work and school

so that they all can relax, hang out and go do things as 

a family.  They also spend lots of time with grandparents

and cousins and they too love to put up lots of lights and 

visit with Santa Claus.

From all of them- they want to wish all of you a
 Very Merry Christmas Holiday Season!

and don't forget to check back to see more
of our special holidays spent with all
of our designers across the globe this week.


Teresa

Our 10 days of Christmas ideas

designer: Kim Holmes

We have lots of ideas to share with all of you today to make

some quick and easy gifts for family and friends without

the stress of holiday shopping!

And.....

even a few decorations you can do with the kids

when they are out of school next week!

designer: Rita Barakat

Rita made this adorable wall-hanging from our winter

papers and we thought it was such a cute idea to hang the chipboard

embellishments from the bottom and also the way she used

all the ribbons on the handle to hang it up!

This is one adorable idea to give to someone as

a gift that they can use also after the holidays

as a beautiful decoration for their home.

Lots of great details!!

designer: Alicia Barry

You can hand cut all your own flowers so that they

match perfectly with your project.

Guest designer: Sarah Mullanix

Sarah made this cute decorative star with our

glitter cardstock. She added some ribbons and

hand cut the tiny little bead like decore from our

paper and for a finishing touch added a second star with

tiny little music notes.

designer: Julie Walton


You can create this banner easy by just cutting out the banner shape

in our glittery papers and then adding netting, tiny paper ornaments

and letters that say BELIEVE

and popping it up with dots. She finished it off

by stringing a row of pearls through the whole thing and

adding more pretty flowers and ribbon at the ends.

designer: Petra Offrell

You can make this fun star garland by cutting up lots of

stars in different colors and patterns (like below)

and sewing 2 of them together about 2"apart and then

gently folding them open. This would be super cute to do

as a garland on your Christmas tree too!

designer: Katarina Damm

Simple gifts for friends and family can be made

with all kinds of things laying around the house.

You can create beautiful decorated bags to give gifts in

or put something homemade in from your family.

This is a great idea for someone who uses lots paper pads.

It's quick and easy and you can make them in lots of patterns.

You simply measure the top of a plastic photo holder and

make a decorated piece to fit inside like the pink one.

Tie lots of fun ribbons and embellishments on the top

and add a coordinating notepad. The pen you can buy

and add coordinating paper inside of it!

Guest Designer: Sarah Mullanix

We also created lots of handmade tags to use

for all the gifts you are giving or even bag up

a few and give them as a gift for someone!

designer: Petra Offrell

Don't you love the idea of all this silver and the

cool blues of our winter papers. Adding lots

of fun trims, netting and lace can really make

the tags look super cute!

designer: Natalie Dever

designer: Tracey Taylor

designer: Ann-Katrin

If you want to give a little something special

you can decorate a Special Candy with lots of

papers and embellishments

or even make a cute little pyramid box

and put some special treats inside the bottom

with a special message on the top!

designer: Teresa Horner

designer: Teresa Horner

You can make fun purse bags to put a set of

cards in or give special treats you made or even

a special gift that will fit snugly inside!

Thanks to all of you who stopped by!

Have a great weekend and hope you

create something fun!!

HO HO HO Merry Christmas!

We at B.C. can't think of anything more

fun or festive at Christmas

than taking photos with cute little Santa hats

or taking them with Santa himself.

As far as traditions go this is probably one

of the ones that you will have the opportunity to scrap

year after year and be able to look

back someday at all the fun photos that you took that

will make you laugh and remember

all the fun that you had for holidays past!

Guest Designer: Sarah Mullanix

This layout is filled with lots of color, glitter and

patterned papers that will definitely get you in the holiday spirit!

You can create cute glittery pinwheels with the

new die cut from Sizzix or even cut an fold your own

and decorate them with fun stickers, buttons or epoxy dots.

This picture shows how well our papers both new

and old compliment each other and will mix

time and again to create beautiful layouts

and projects for family and friends.

designer: Kim Holmes

Don't forget to take lots of family photos too!

Maybe even create a fun mini book to hold the photos

you've taken each year so that you can see them altogether

or make up some to give as gifts.

Designer: Katarina Damm

translated it means
"Santa is just a little bit scary"

A visit from Santa as faraway as Norway (above)

or below all the way to Australia is

a magical day for any child at Christmas!

So don't forget to take lots of pictures

and journal them with what happened before

during and after the special visit they had with Santa.

Someday it will be priceless to you and to them :)

Designer: Alicia Barry

Non traditional colors work beautifully in this layout

if you mix and match the prints just right..

Our Christmas Collection this year

is filled with lots of pinks, purples, greens and burgundy.

This cute album would be adorable to make up to

keep special memories of Christmas. Maybe recipes

of a special dinner, Christmas lights in your town or maybe even

a record of all the Christmas shows on TV that everyone

watched this year together.

Designer: Tina Guigui

Tina's book is also super cute and she used hers for her

family to record fun events they did during the holiday season.

We hoped you enjoyed our day filled with Santa ideas

and don't forget to check back for our 12 days of Christmas

gift ideas next week....