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Altered Christmas Scrapbook Contest

This Contest ended 10 January 2009

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Altered Christmas Scrapbook Competition filled with lots Christmas Scrapbooking ideas for the holiday season..  Congratulations to Jennifer Beason, Beate Ervin and Rebecca Evans who have been selected as our three winners by our guest judges. Honorable mention to Lisa Falduto and Keely Yowler.

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Take a look through our current entries here.

 

First Place
Altered Art Nutcracker
This projects was an design team assignment that I did for Christmas. It was going to be a gift, but once I was finished, I decided to keep it for myself!

Xmas Toilet Paper Album

Second Place
Xmas Toilet Paper Album
Every year I like to make a mini album of our Christmas. When we take out the tree to decorate we go through our albums and look through them and remember the good times that we had previous years.

Vintage Tree Decorations

Third Place
Vintage Tree Decorations
I'm in the process of making an album for my daughter all about her Grandma with pictures and note cards invitations all bits and pieces that my Mum has kept safe over the years.

 Altered Jewelry Vanity
I made this cute little jewelry vanity for my 5 year old daughter as a gift. She needs something to put her princess necklaces and bracelets in and I thought this would be perfect! I altered it to coordinate with her Princess bedroom!

xmas mini album scrapbook

Xmas Mini Album
I have created a premade 8 x 8 xmas mini album which is for a hostess gift. The recipient will be able to add the photos and/or journaling...

scrapbook christmas lantern

Scrapbook Christmas Lantern
The Christmas Lantern or "Parol", as it is called in the Philippines, is a typical Filipino Christmas decor signifying the Star of Bethlehem pointing to Jesus' manger...

altered notebook

Altered Notebook
This a Grant archival A5 memory book that I altered as a teacher's quotes/notes book.
On the inside is a random saying/quote I found from hubpages quotes for teachers...

Altered Birdhouse
I found this cute little wooden birdhouse at the thrift store and knew I had to alter it. I covered every surface with wonderful Christmas patterned paper and embellished it with glitter leaves...

Altered Christmas Tree
This is a project made with 4 pieces of the triangle banner album from Maya Road. First I painted the chipboard pieces and covered them in patterned paper...

Travel Journal Scrapbook

Travel Journal Scrapbook
I made this Travel Journal Scrapbook as a Christmas present for a friend who travels a lot and likes to write. I used pre-bought, card pages which are shaped like big tags.

Christmas Luminary Box

Christmas Luminary Box
This is a project I did using the Maya Road Treasure box. I painted the entire box white, Versamarked it, and then heat embossed it with Holographic embossing powder...

Clear Mini Christmas Album

Clear Mini Christmas Album
I made this clear mini album last year for myself because I was addicted to clear albums at that time!

X-mas Bind It All Minibook

X-mas Bind It All Minibook
My mom and I went to a crop last year and I bought the stuff to make one of these little albums. I thought, "Well, since I am here and can use their machines...

Joy Christmas Scrapbook
I made this mini Christmas scrapbook using chipboard, My Mind's Eye Be Merry line and lots of pretty embellies. There are 10 pages to display your holiday memories and even a list for Santa.

Christmas House scrapbook

Christmas House Scrapbook
This is a Christmas mini album made with Basic Grey paper line and it is done in the shape of a little house complete with a chimney. I completely hand cut and pieced the covers from chipboard card...

Christmas Wall Hanging

Christmas Wall Hanging
This little wall hanging which was hand made from a piece of scrap wood and scrapbooking products. It's about 4 x 4 inches
in size...

Hot Chocolate Garland

Hot Chocolate Garland
I came across these little paper cups at Starbucks, and instantly thought 'What a great Garland they would make with a bit of altering' ...

christmas memories scrapbook

Christmas Memories Scrapbook Mini
My mini book is a Christmas Guest Book, which I'll complete with more pages with Christmas photos. I live with my husband, we both are far from our families, Christmas is the time we meet our families...

altered memory box - keepsake memories

Altered Keepsake Box
Hi all , this is my favorite altered memory keepsake box , I made this as a Christmas gift for my mother in law.  I first started by assembling the box part, I measured the parts , then glued them together...

christmas Traditions Scrapbook

Christmas Traditions Scrapbook
This mini  is a scrapbook mini album about some of our Christmas traditions with just a few  Christmas photos thrown in for fun. I made it with the December. Sweet Spuds scrapbooking kit...

Altered Family Calendar

Altered Family Calendar
I created this calendar for my mother-in-law with a beautiful chipboard album from K&Co. I used papers and embellies by October Afternoon...

Handmade Pocket Calendar

Handmade Pocket Calendar
By Melissa - I made 2009 pocket calendar's for all my church co-horts. They are really simple, cute, and personal.

Altered Wine Glasses

Altered Wine Glasses
A present for my mother to bring us all together...we love to sit around and drink Verdi (champagne) and talk about what is going on in everyone's lives.

Christmas Scrapbook Photo Frame

Christmas Scrapbook Photo Frame
Let It Snow
This is a project I altered using mainly patterned paper, paint and chipboard. I like to incorporate pictures into my altered projects most times, and since the penguin

Kirigami Christmas Ornament

Kirigami Christmas Ornament
Christmas is my favorite time of year. To decorate our tree, I like to make a few handcrafted ornaments every year. This year, I created this snowbird ornament. I like to implement different techniques

Bind It all Mini Albums

Bind It all Mini Albums
If you have got a pretty long list of presents and gifts to create and you don't have a lot of time to spare, you can make mini albums! Not only are they great for Xmas but you can change your theme for any occasion

Altered Jar Gifts

Altered Jar Gifts
I decided to alter jars as "teacher gifts" this Christmas.
I first put the jars in the dish washer to make sure they were spotless and deodorized

Altered Christmas Candle

Altered Christmas Candle
I found this great Yankee Candle at Marshal's. It didn't have a top and I loved the scent, pomegranate. I decided to alter it and give it as a gift to a friend for Christmas.

Altered Memory Box

Altered Memory Box
I bought this old pencil box at a boot sale, I think it was 50pence (me and my thrifty finds...) lol :-) I told my hubby I would alter it and he said it was ghastly and anyway, it'd be too much trouble...

Handmade NOEL Banner

Handmade NOEL Banner
A not so traditional colour for a Christmas banner but it matches my Christmas tree!!! It was hung on my fire place that produces no heat luckily!

Scrapbook Snowman Stocking

Scrapbook Snowman Stocking
This project started out as an ugly wooden stocking I purchased from the Dollar Store. When I saw it I could see that it needed a little lovin'.

 

Christmas Sugar Cubes

Christmas Sugar Cubes
Sugar cubes
I have a very Sweet tooth and I really like scrap and Christmas, I joined everything together and this is the end result. Sugar cube gifts packaged in cute bags.

Altered Bird Feeder

Altered Bird Feeder
I wanted to make my sister a Christmas bird feeder. I purchased a plain one at M's for around $5.
How I made it...
I painted the entire thing green first.

Altered Address Box

Altered Address Box
25 years ago I made my mom and dad an address book. They've been using it ever since and its falling apart and there was no where to write new addresses. It was time for a new one since they don't use a computer.

Altered Girls Frame

Altered Girls Frame
When I made this gift for my mum for Christmas, I used a box for mini album and altered it to make a sort of frame with a photo within it.
Made by Michele Beck

Cuisine Scrapbook

Cuisine Scrapbook
My sister is not a scrapbooker, she loves looking at my creations but that's all, so when she asked me to make her something for organizing her recipes of cooking...

Envelope Memory Album

Envelope Memory Album
There are 16 members in my family and we're all spread around the country. To simplify gift giving this year, I sent everyone a Word document asking for their Christmas wish lists and included their favorite Christmas memory....

Altered Christmas Napkin Holders

Altered Christmas Napkin Holders
I altered some coffee boxes for napkin holder and place card settings for our Christmas dinner this year.
The paper that I used is Cosmo and I trimmed them with various ribbons and bells....

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They have each won $100, $50 and $25 gift vouchers from ACherryOnTop.com and will no doubt have a great time shopping around for their goodies.

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