Last night I got to work in my office. Yeah! Sorry I am excited about that but with all the preparations for the baptisms and a cake order, I hadn't had time to get in there and work on stamping. I am trying to get ready for Christmas and the Advent season. Last night I made 2 chrismons. What is a chrismon you ask? It is a Christmas ornament with Christian symbols, many churches use them in their Christmas decorations. The word chrismon comes from combining Christmas minus the tmas and monogram minus the ogram. Sunday at church our pastor put out the word that we need some chrismons for the 29th. So I sat down and played last night. I came up with these adorable 3d cross chrismons.
The recipe for the Cross chrismon is:
- Stampin Up! Special Blessing stamp set # 113411
- Real red classic ink pad #103133 (although any color would work to match the other decorations)
- whisper white 8 1/2x11 cardstock #100730 (one sheet makes 3),
- Snail adhesive #104332,
- Gold elastic cord #109867 or silver #109866 cut to a 6" length for each crismon,
- bone folder (essental to get your folds creased really well) #102300.
- Paper snips #103579
Directions:
On one sheet of whisper white cardstock stamp 5 or 6 crosses from the Special Blessings set in Real Red classic ink. Then cut each cross out right against the outline without cutting the outline off. Next you fold the crosses in half lengthwise. I found it easiest to line up the arms of the cross first then the top and bottom. Then crease the fold with the bone folder to make it nice and sharp. Then fold your length of elastic cord in half and tie a small knot in the loose ends. That gives you a beautiful a perfect loop to use as a hanger for the tree. Then with your snail adhesive on the length of the cross and the left side arm of the cross to each of the crosses. Then you line them up very carefully and press them together. After putting 3 together then press the knotted end of the elastic cord into the center of the crosses. Then continue with the rest of your crosses. The last cross needs to have snail adhesive on all of the back of it.
http://www.paperchrismons.com/toc.htm
All of the supplies are available at mistismomories.stampinup.net under the products tab, but while you are there feel free to look around.
Okay so I have since heard that Chrismons are supposed to be gold and white. So you could use Stampin Up's Gold ink #101017
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