Some pretty stencils!

With Christmas being just around the corner I thought

I would do something different for my Friday tutorial.

We have a new mini catalogue and Sale-a-bration! starting in January

and being a demo I got to treat myself early with a few

items from the catalogue.

This video tutorial shows off the brand new stencils

that will be available and they are lovely.

This set comes with stamps and dies but I just went for the stencils

to try them out first.

The sentiment I have used is from the free set I earned with

my spend and it is called Heartfelt Hellos!!

It's full of lovely sentiments of a good size and you can

grab it for free with a £45 spend from January 4th!

If you need a catalogue sent out just comment below.

(UK/Ireland only).

You can check out my video here.

I would like to enter this into

Beautiful Blossoms - flowers/optional mood board

Crazy is our fame - STENCILS option theme Christmas

Triple B - Birds, butterflies, blooms option mood board

I hope you all have a wonderful

Christmas/Winter break!

Thanks for all your lovely comments throughout

the year and thanks to those who have shopped with me,

followed me and joined in my challenges!

I appreciate you all!

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Cocoa packs!

More cocoa packs today!

This one is for the baby of the house with cute fluffy socks

and lots of little treats.

I added one of my pre made tags to the top and paper

from Shining Christmas in the back and finished with a wool bow.

This one is for the oldest boy Oliver who is 15.

He still enjoys the treats but instead of socks

I put a fleece neck warmer in there.

And the final bunch are for the adults of the family.

I had nice adult flavour cocoa drinks so decided to add

the meringue bars, candy cane and a chocolate coin for good luck!

Plus it was great to get using up some of my leftover

Christmas papers!

I would like to enter this into

Tuesday Morning Sketches - anything goes

Little Red Wagon - under pressure

Oh not long to go now!

I hope you are all set and ready to relax and enjoy the celebrations.

I have one more post tomorrow then I shall relax

until next week.

Too exciting to wait any longer as Sale-a-bration starts on

the 4th of January so I will save any Christmas money I get!!

 

Night in at the movies!

My tutorial this week shows how I made these 

Cocoa packs for the Grandkids.

They contain  warm socks, cocoa drink, candy cane and various

chocolate bars and milk drink.

Perfect for a movie night, or maybe day time,

so they can burn off all the sugar 😂

You can watch my video here

Measurements needed to make one

Card Base 1 - 4 1/2" x 11 5/8"

Score long side at - 3", 5 6/8"

Card Base 2 - 33/4" x 10 1/2"

Score long side at - 3", 7 1/2" turn

and score at 1/2" on both sides

DSP to cover Box

Back - 5 6/8" x 4 2/8"

Front - 4 2/8" x 2 6/8"

Sides - 2 4/8" x 2 6/8"

I would like to enter these into

Creative Fingers - anything goes

Classic Design Challenge - December challenge

The Outlawz challenge - it's a wrap (no cards)

I would like to welcome another new follower to my blog!

Thanks so much for taking time to follow Anke!!

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Snow, snow, snow!

It's the second week of Valerie's challenge theme SNOW

over at

TAG TUESDAY.

I'm hoping Valerie is now on the mend as she was quite ill

with COVID.

If you get time please pop over and add a tag,

which I am sure will cheer her up.

This tag was made using some older die sets for the deer, tree

and snowflake.

I tore some paper for the snow and inked it up.

The deer was coloured with my blends.

I stamped the sentiment from the Peaceful Deer set

and finished with some dots of snow and a yellow gem.

I would like to enter this into

Tag Tuesday - snow

Dream Factory - anything goes with colour blue

Critter Crazy - feature a critter

Simon Says Monday - let it snow

Simon says Wednesday - Christmas critters

I had a little visitor come to play in my craft room over the weekend.

This is Aoife, my husband's cousin's daughter.

She is only 9 years old and came all the way from Liverpool

to visit us. She made loads of stuff including

the card above which she was very proud of!

A budding card maker for sure and I think her Santa

list has now greatly expanded 😂

 

Night in Bethlehem

Happy Monday!

It's time to share my midway post for

STAMPING SENSATIONS

where the theme is at least one thing stamped plus option 'favourite colour.'

We have a two lovely prizes up for grabs so I hope

you get time during this busy month to join us.

I have gone with a traditional theme but not in traditional colours!

The name of this type of card is called an Eclipse card

and it's been a few years from my last one!

I used a stamp set called Night in Bethlehem

and the colour is called Fresh Freesia.

As this card is for my Mother-in-law I went ahead

and finished the inside using the same colours and stamps.

I would like to enter this into

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - anything goes

Papercraft Challenges - Christmas

Crafty Gals Corner -  Tis the Season 

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas

Cardz 4 Galz - a Christmas card

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

Welcome to my newest follower Cherie!

Thanks for taking time to follow my wee blog!

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Scraps to go!

Do you have a bundle of Christmas scraps left?

Well if you can cut them into 1/2" strips this is one way

you can use a lot of them up.

I have a video tutorial you can watch here.

These scraps are from my Shining Christmas pack and a lot

where just strips of paper so perfect for this technique.

I finished of  the card using the Circle Says bundle

and the tree is from Beary Cute stamp set.

The curly ribbon is from my stash.

I would like to enter these into

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - anything goes

Make My Monday - oh Christmas tree or forest trees

Creatalicious  - anything last minute Christmas/New Year

Little Red Wagon - Merry Christmas

Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas

CRAFT - Christmas the last stretch

OMG the shops are so jam packed at the minute.

I had to go pick up a prescription from doc then take to 

Shopping Centre. After manoeuvring my way through the crowds

I made it to the Boots only to be told they would have to order it in!

So I will have to do it all over again tomorrow!!

Visitors arriving around 10am tomorrow and babysitting the

Grandsons tonight to God knows what time lol.

Have a great weekend everyone! 

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Sweet Treat Gift Box

My tutorial this week is this little gift box.

It was made to fit my chosen bar but you could pop

something else in there instead.

This is how it looks inside.

I sent these out to my December customers along with a

few other nice little bits.

These bars are low calorie, made with all good ingredients

and vegan friendly!

They are lovely, especially if you like meringue.

You can watch my video here

Measurements needed to make one

Box Cover - 8 1/4" x 4 1/2"

Score long side - 2", 3 1/8", 5 1/8", 6 2/8"

Inside box - 4" x 6 2/8"

Score 1" on all four sides

DSP to decorate

Blue papers - 3 pieces - 1 7/8" x 4 2/8"

2 pieces - 7/8" x 4 2/8"

Red papers - 2 pieces - 1 7/8" x 4 2/8"

2 pieces 7/8" x 4 2/8"

18" of ribbon

I would like to enter this into

Everybody Art - food and/or drink

Crafty Gals Corner - tis the season

Little Red Wagon - anything Christmas

Creative Moments - it's a wrap

CRAFT - gift bag/box

Welcome to my newest follower Sue!

Thanks so much for following my wee blog!

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