Giveaway: December Daily Album Kit

Shabby Chic Crafts specializes in designer, handmade, high quality, scrapbooking paper products. Their products include: journaling tags, journaling spots, and embellishments in a variety of themes including holidays, calendar, animals and kids. The company has a special vintage type twist which is very popular right now in scrapbooking. Shabby Chic Crafts is pleased to introduce their new Fall/Winter releases shown above and below. The company also has a blog, where you can get the latest news about their releases. Click here to visit the blog.

Vintage Artisan Notes

Vintage Lace Tags

And Shabby Chic wants to give a lucky person a free December Daily kit! This kit is perfect for making an album to record the holidays, as outlined by Ali Edwards. To enter the giveaway please leave a comment below, telling me if you plan to make a December Daily album. If not, what other project do you think you could use the kit for?

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1. Follow Craft Gossip on Twitter and tweet this: ” Shabby Chic Crafts December Daily Kit Giveaway on @CraftGossip http://tinyurl.com/md4sgs“. Then leave a link to your twitter profile in the comments for a second entry.

2. Join the Scrapbooking on Craft Gossip group on Facebook and then post this as your status update: ” Shabby Chic Crafts December Daily Kit Giveaway on Craft Gossip!! http://tinyurl.com/md4sgs” Then leave a link to your Facebook profile in the comments for a second entry.

Entries will close next Wednesday, September 23rd. Winner announced Thursday September 24th. Good luck to all! And if you’re not the lucky winner you can still grab one of these kits from the store for only $14.99!

Hanukkah is a great reason to pull out your cross stitch fabric and thread and stitch up some fun seasonal cross stitch patterns.

If you have trouble spelling Hanukkah (I know I do!) you’ll want to stitch up the How Do You Spell… project from SKB Cross Stitch Design. This one includes a bunch of different ways to spell the holiday, along with some symbols like a dreidel and menorah. (Technically I think all the ways to spell it are “correct.”) The pattern includes full, fractional and bask titches, and measures 8.5 by 7 inches, or 21.6 by 17.8 cm. It has the date for 2004/5785 but you can easily change the year or leave that part off.

Another project with some fun word play is the Words to Live By chart from Sam Brie Stitches. This one includes Hanukkah related symbols and word presented crossword puzzle style, which is fun to stitch and to display. The design uses 10 colors and measures 74 by 103 stitches. It’s shown worked on 18 count fabric.

I may have shared these before, but the Hanukkah patterns from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery are so cute they’re definitely worth sharing again. Happy Hanukkah features a menorah, dreidels, gelt, stars and candles, and it fits in a 6-inch hoop. At 75 by 75 stitches, it comes out to 5.4 inches/13.4 cm on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. They also have this cute little dreidel stamp cross stitch pattern, which is 39 by 49 stitches, or 2.8 by 3.5 inches (about 7 by 9 cm) on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen.

Works By ABC has a lot of great patterns for Hanukkah, but here are just a couple to get you started. The Rules for Dreidel design is fun for kids and adults and shows the different sides of the dreidel and what it means when you land on them. The stitch count is 62 by 94 and its shown worked on 32 count linen. It calls for three colors. I also like this menorah one, which measures 44 by 49 stitches and uses two colors along with coordinating seed beads. On 32 count linen as shown (equivalent to 16 count Aida) it measures 2.75 by 3.1 inches, or almost 7 by 7.8 cm.

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