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12 Days of Christmas Show-Off Features

2 · Dec 17, 2010 · 13 Comments

We want to give a tremendous “THANK YOU” to everyone who participated in our 12 Days of Christmas Show-Off Linky Party. There were so many great projects linked-up. We wanted to feature so many more than we possibly can, so I encourage everyone to go check out the links again, and be inspired!

But we do have a few we would like to show you again. Each of us WhipperChicks chose an absolute favorite, and then we all agreed on several more that we had to showcase as well.

We will start with our personal favorites:

Heather loved this Felt Tree Stocking from Scrapalicious Bytes. The felt Christmas Tree is gorgeous, and the detail perfect. We also really loved her Glitter Ornaments, and Pomegranate Molasses Gift Idea. Actually, we loved her whole blog, so go and check her out!

I couldn’t resist this Paper Fan Garland from Life is Sweet. She made the paper fans into ornaments, and then strung them across her mantle! And the fans are made out of sheet music. Ingenious. Go check out the rest of her holiday décor, you will love it!

Jamie loved this Snowman Kit from The Fickle Pickle. Just add snow! Give these to all your neighbors, and can you imagine all the cute snowmen in the neighborhood dressed up with their hats and scarves? Best neighborhood ever! We also loved her Festive Flowers.

When Katie saw these Ice Candle Holders from Creative Juices Décor her heart leapt like it does whenever she sees a beautiful and unique creation. She said, “What a great idea! Maybe it’s because I live in a desert and can only dream of a white Christmas that made me love these so. I love the idea of walking up to my house and having a row of these along my yard all lit up on Christmas Eve. How beautiful would that be?!? All I can say is I love it, great idea!”

Whitney chose this Anthropologie inspired Ornament from A Blonde’s DIY Life. She said, “I’m not really a “crazy crafter”, so I don’t have fancy tools or anything, so I really liked that this was just a bulb, paint, spray adhesive and glitter… I could so do that! And just look at it, it’s fabulous! I’m definitely a huge fan.” We also liked her Mirrored Wreath a lot too!

Kristin’s favorite was this Window Sill Mantle from Being Grown Up. She said, “I just like that I can relate to her. No mantle for us either and I really admire her tenacity to make things work and figure it out! The overall project was really impressive.”

Christene loved these Gingerbread Truffles from Me and My Pink Mixer. She said, “A great original idea from the tried and true oreo varieties. Can they taste at all as decadent? I don’t know but I’m willing to give them a try!”

Here are a few more we just had to show you! And then come back tomorrow for a very special highlight from our party!

Ornament Hanger from Can’t Stop making Things, and Christmas Topiary from The Autocrat.

Cinnamon Stick Ornament from Stepping Thru Crazy, and Ruffled Ribbon Trees from Eat, Dress, Live.

Felt Ribbon Wreath from Sweet Tooth, and Christmas Trivia Game from Prettie Parties.

Christmas Ornaments from Wendy’s Hat, and Handmade Paper Wreath from Sassy’s Ramblin’s.

Jar of Cocoa from Craftberry Bush, and Crayon Wreath from The Ballard Bunch.

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Again, a huge thanks to everyone who linked up!

Handmade Gift Exchange Wreaths

0 · Dec 16, 2010 · 6 Comments

I participated in Craftaholics Anonymous’ Handmade Gift Exchange this year.

Linda, from Craftaholics Anonymous paired me up with another crafter to exchange gifts with. The totally crazy thing, out of 853 people to sign up for the exchange, I get paired with one of my dear friends who had recently moved away! It was sooo great to work on a project for her, it made it seem like she was still here and ready for a fun Christmas girl’s night out!! Her name is Danielle, and I sent her that sweater-flower wreath I showed you a couple weeks ago.

Today I wanted to show you what Danielle sent me. She also sent me a wreath. It’s made using crepe paper rosettes. She must have labored for hours painstakingly creating each one! Look how beautiful it is.

Thanks Danielle! I love it!

By the way, Danielle has a fun new Etsy shop called Two Lillies Boutique. She has fun hair accessories and key chains that are aaamazing. She is my lovely friend who taught me how to make hair bows and she made a fabric key chain for me that I LOVE!! So check out her shop, you’ll love her stuff!!

Today is the last day to submit projects to our 12 Days of Christmas Show-Off! Tomorrow we will feature our favorite projects. I can’t wait!

Company Christmas Party {Dessert Table}

2 · Dec 15, 2010 · 12 Comments

Yesterday we showed you the décor for the company Christmas party we styled for a business client. Today we will show you the amazing dessert table we did for the same party.

Jamie was the queen of this one. She styled the whole thing, and designed the back-drop.

Heather designed the darling printables.

Katie made the delectable cupcakes, and Jamie used colored chocolate to festively decorate the mini cinnamon rolls and cream puffs.

There were apothecaries with peppermint bark and candies, and pastries filled with raspberry and cream cheese.

Don’t forget to join our linky party, the 12 Days of Christmas Show-Off.

It closes tomorrow afternoon, so don’t wait!

Company Christmas Party–Décor {Event Styling}

5 · Dec 14, 2010 · 11 Comments

On December 4th, WhipperBerry had the pleasure of coordinating a company party for a business client. We stylized the event, as well as provided a full dessert table. But one thing at a time! Today we will focus on the décor, and we will bring you the dessert table tomorrow, so stay tuned!

We were given an empty office space to fill and decorate.

Heather designed this beautiful paper-chain chandelier with actual book pages.

The vintage look of the old text print – coupled with the wooden snowflake ornaments – brought a classic feel to the bright colors used in the more modern commercial holiday decor paper fan arrangements on the walls, and room decorations, resulting in a retro feel through-out.

The large paper fan spanned over six feet in diameter. In the corner we set up a custom made 10 x 13 ft. projector screen, and projected a movie for the kids.

For dinner we did something really fun! Heather enlisted the help of the famous (in Vegas, anyway) Slidin’ Thru gourmet food truck! They parked outside and provided their wonderful sliders and fries! Visit their website here.

Come back tomorrow to see the gorgeous dessert table!

And don’t forget to link your Christmas gift projects up to our 12 Days of Christmas Show-Off linky party! We will feature our favorites this Friday, so get your submissions in.

12 Days of Christmas Show-Off {Linky Party}

6 · Dec 13, 2010 · 16 Comments

Ooh, I’m so excited! This is WhipperBerry’s very first linky party! But first I want to do a recap of our 12 Days of Christmas Event!

Here are all the gifts we featured for this event. Click on the image to jump to that day!

Here are all 12 Printable Gift Tags from our fabulous Kristin! Click each image to download the free printable (please note, it takes a minute to download fully – so be patient!)

12 Days of Christmas Show-Off!

It’s time to see what you’ve got!!

Our goal for this party is to expand the ideas we’ve already given you with projects from our readers. Please link up anything you made following our ideas, or any ideas of your own. It can follow one of our 12 days of Christmas (e.g. cupcakes, bows, wreaths, etc.) or it can be your original gift idea. We want to see your creativity, to inspire our readers to give this season! If you actually followed one of our tutorials or recipes, please please please link up! We would love to see!

This linky party will end on Thursday, Dec. 16th, and on Friday we will feature our favorite posts!

Rules:

Please link to your actual post, not just your main blog page.
Feel free to list as many projects that you wish as long as they fit our Christmas theme.
Grab a button (below) or put a link to this party on your post (or somewhere visible on your blog) so everyone can join in on the fun.
We reserve the right to remove any submissions that do not meet the theme or requirements. If you see your link has been removed, don’t fret! Just re-read the rules and submit again!
This is a party so please “mingle”! View and comment on the links around you.
Please do not link to Etsy shops, thank you!
We appreciate all submissions, so please join us!