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Cardboard Snowflakes and Paper Garland

December 15, 2015 by Barb 5 Comments

Cardboard snowflakes and paper garland … a look back …

Today for Part II of my favourite Christmas decorations series, I present my cardboard snowflakes which have been gracing our tree since 2011 … Cardboard Snowflakes, Christmas Past, Keeping With the Times, Barb BrookbankI had a huge stack of hard cardboard that came packaged with photos from Costco (to prevent bending.) One morning I gathered it all up and headed to a local scrapbooking store where I used the die-cut machine to cut them out. As I had a membership there, the extra cost to me was $0.00. Gotta love that.

Then there’s my paper garland made from an old dictionary … I truly have a soft spot for this garland. It’s delicate, yet surprisingly resilient. I store it carefully in a large garbage bag at the top of my storage room, again since 2011! Cardboard Snowflakes, Christmas Past, Keeping With the Times, Barb BrookbankOn Instagram when I posted the following image of the nuts (with the cardboard snowflakes in the background) I was amazed at how it touched people! The conversation around unshelled nuts was wonderful and so much fun … micro blogging to be sure!

Nuts and “bowls” growing up, my Mom always had unshelled nuts at Christmas … now I do the same and although no one eats them I love having them around. Celebrating memories… remember to tag your images to #sunday_sundries @keepingwiththetimes to share your celebratory moments! I’ll feature 4 tomorrow…

A photo posted by Barb Brookbank (@keepingwiththetimes) on Dec 12, 2015 at 2:48pm PST


See Dictionary Paper Trees for Part I of this series.

And don’t forget to enter the draw for the copy of the beautiful Bella Grace magazine! Draw to be made tomorrow!

Filed Under: DIY AND CRAFTS Tagged With: garland, snowflakes

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