3D with Jaydee – Noel

Hi Everyone – happy Saturday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space, where your visits are always appreciated..

  A couple of days ago I told you that I was looking to do some 3D items, instead of cards.  In fact, it was a good job I did, as cards were just not working for me today!  However, I did get three 3D items under my belt and a couple of failed cards!

I saw these Decor Blocks in the Stampin' Up! catalog and decided I REALLY wanted… no… scratch that NEEDED to do something with them.  I really love decorating for Christmas and these just screamed USE ME… USE ME… USE ME… ooops… this is beginning to sound like the start of a song from "Little Shop of Horrors"! 

So, I ordered the Decor Blocks and some decor elements Holiday Mix (i bought the Real Red and Chocolate Chip) and used my Christmas Jingle scrapping kit to decorate them.  Firstly, I started with the bare decor blocks and cut various papers from the Christmas Jingle scrapping kit.  I cut two pieces of patterned paper 3" x 12" and scored every 3 inches.  I then applied double sided sticky tape along the edges of 4 sides.

• I then went around and flattened all of the sides – after I took this picture :-). 
• This left me with two sides that were not covered. 
• I cut four pieces of card stock 3" x 3" in chocolate chip, real red and old olive. I applied two of the colors to the sides that were not covered with the DSP. 
• I then used Very Vanilla card stock and cut 4 pieces of card stock 2 3/4" x 2 3/4".
• I decided to use NOEL from the two decor elements sets and applied the letters to the Very Vanilla card stock.
• I rounded the corners of the Very Vanilla and matted them on either Real Red or Chocolate Chip.
• Once they were decorated, I applied them to the blocks.
• The final thing was a piece of Chocolate Chip striped grosgrain ribbon.  I was really torn whether to use the Chocolate Chip or the Old Olive and tried both.  The Chocolate Chip won out!

Here are the pics of the blocks from each side.

You can see that each side has a different piece of DSP showing! 🙂

You can also see the closeup of the elements that I decorated the blocks with.

Here's the finished product, front on

In the end, I decided I absolutely loved it and it's going to be the feature piece of my mantle piece in the basement this winter.  I also have LOTS of decor elements left – and already have ideas on what I'm going to do with them. 🙂

I hope you have a fabulous Sunday.  Hopefully, Im going to get more time in my stamping space tomorrow. I hope you have time to spend time doing the things you love – with those you love the most.

As always, your visit is much appreciated – as is your support.

Jaydee