Holiday Ornaments Weekend Monster style...

Hello to all you Paper Bicycle fans. When Lindsay told me about her paper toy holiday ornaments I couldn't resist! I decided to do double duty with Paper Bicycle ornaments and my own Weekend Monster! challenge...and what would the holiday season be without that classic, blue faced galoot, the Abominable Snow Monster of the North from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

For the monster I used the Teardrop ornament. I added in some arms and legs for a little extra kick.

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For the car I used the Christmas Car ornament. I altered the dieline a little because I figured the "Bumble" would probably be more likely to cruis around in a big arctic snow cat with flames then a family sized car.

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Happy Holidays everyone!

PAPER DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - Sweet Christmas

It's probably no surprise that my favorite thing about Christmas is all the delicious holiday food. We host Christmas at my family house each year which means tons of cooking, and baking. Everything from mac and cheese, sugar cookies, and candies, to holiday ham! One tradition that never quite caught on was the whole gingerbread house thing - probably because it's supposed to be a decoration, not food. I know it might be tempting - but do not eat this ornament.



You can download the printable version here. Enjoy!

PAPER DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - Festive Tree

You can't stop me from drawing ornament shapes. Onions and finials are the best! Of course you need a tree to hang them on. A dirty secret is I'm not a huge fan of decorating the Christmas Tree. Lucky for me, Lindsay would do it every day of the week if she could!

I'm terrible at making real mock-ups, so here's a fake one! Thread the hangloop through a gold bead for added festivities!




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PAPER DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - Fancy Claus

Happy Monday-after-Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope your weekend was filled with lots of food and lots of naps. And - to our international friends, Happy Regular-old-November-Monday! I also hope your weekend was full of food and naps!

I wanted to kick this project off today by sharing my very first paper ornament: "Fancy Claus!". Everyone's beard has to have a little surprise in it, right? I chose to take this shape and make Santa's head!



Download the fold-able high res file here! In case you need a refresher on how to put these together. All of our ornaments are going to be made to be printed out on an 8.5" x 11", Letter-sized piece of paper. Then, just cut around the edge, and fold on the dotted lines! They don't come with a lot of instructions, but you'll see pretty quickly which pieces to fold in and glue together! Maybe I'll do a little Photo-demo with this one to show you how!

Besides that, I'll be dragging my faux-tree out of the basement this week with hopes of decorating it and singing along to Christmas carols. Good thing there is a radio station that plays all the Christmas Jams this early! (Yes, I know, it's still November!) Happy start to a new fun project! Hope you guys are able to create some ornaments with us!