The Magic of Christmas Trees

There is nothing more beautiful or more magical then

a tree with its wonderful glorious smell

decorated to the hilt and filled with glittery shiny lights

at Christmas time!

If you start to look around on the web

there is so much history that you can find behind the trees that

we keep as a tradition today. Some records say that the first

decorated trees in houses came from Germany in 1605 from

a small farm in Strasburg Germany where a family put a small

tree in their home and decorated it with

paper roses, apples and candies.

Queen Elizabeth loved the idea and took it to England

and started the tradition there too.

Decorating those beautiful pine trees has evolved

through time by adding candles to

celebrate the birth of Christ and we added beautiful

handblown glass ornaments and those made

out of paper and garlands made of popcorn.

And we even trimmed the trees with tinsel

that was invented in Germany in 1610 and was real silver!

But it tarnished really bad from the candles so it

eventually ended up as the plastic silver we use today.

Could you just imagine those trees and how

beautiful they looked ?

So today our DT came up with some ideas to decorate

your pages and your homes with these festive trees

and we hope we inspire you

to create something fun this holiday too!

designer: Karen Thind

These fun trees are actually for placecards for your

Christmas table! They are made with little cones

that vary in size and you can stack them and

interchange them to create all kinds of cute

little trees for even the kids to play with. Our

gorgeous glittery papers leave little work for you

to make them extra sparkly and fun!!

Karen even gave us a pattern for

this super cute and fun project.

designer: Jona Panessa

Jona said this was the perfect page to tell of

all the excitement the boys had on Christmas

morning opening their gifts. We love all the tiny

details of the lace and ornaments on the page

and of course the tiny little presents by the tree!

designer: Kim Holmes

designer: Karen Thind

This Christmas tree is the one at Disneyland

and Karen took a great picture to show that

not all trees can fit in the house :)

designer: Teresa Horner

It is really fun to take photos of a decorated

tree at night with all the lights off except the ones

on the tree. There is so much glitter on this my

camera had a tough time of focusing but

the actual tree picture came out really fun with

all the colors of lights and decorations!

if you find a cute tag that you like you

can rub on a little Tim Holtz inks to make it

match more with your project.

designer: Debbie Fitzgerald

Opening Gifts on Christmas morning is one

Tradition held all over the world for most of us!

The colors in the paper make the picture pop and

adding the extra rhinestones on the tree

look like little ornaments that glisten and shine!

designer: Jona Panessa

It is fun to take pieces of different papers

and create something that you can decorate your

home with too. Jona made this cute doorhanger

to welcome all of those who come to her home

for the Christmas Holiday!

designer: Jona Panessa

We hope that you enjoyed our fun projects

and don't forget to stop back for some more fun

things to make for friends and family gifts soon!

Have a wonderful and creative day!!