Home For Christmas

 Home for Christmas DSP fussy cut is creating some gorgeous papercrafts. I had to case the main image from my team member Tracey, who made a gift certificate wallet, I'm sure she will post it on her blog soon. I hadn't used my Winter Wonderland Vellum stack much at all, saw her creation & just had to pop it on a card, apart from the fussy cutting it's quite a quick & easy card.
I listened in on a SU! webinar this am, so cut a few more reindeer, ready to go!

Embellished Ornaments

Another Black & Gold on White.
Its hard to see in the pic but there's a 1 3/4" circle punch of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper behind the Gold bauble & IRL is so pretty, the new Black Glimmer paper looks great as well, I used that to die cut Merry. Christmas stamp is from Holly Jolly Greetings & is gold heat embossed & I again used the  Softly Falling embossing Folder.

Wine bottle sleeve

There are wine bottles in various shapes & sizes & once you make one it it easy to adjust the scoring to suit, which is what I did for mine, love how easy it is to create the top & bottom of the sleeve with the Gift Bag punch Board, you can view one of a few videos on how to here

Square Pillow Box Die Extended

I used an A4 Whisper White sheet of CS & scored it in half on the short side, you will have left over after die cutting the 2 so if you want cut the A4 down to 5 3/4",
see pic below for placement.
The Softly falling embossing folder fits perfectly on the front piece of the pillow box.

Sleigh Ride Edgelits with Delicate Ornaments Thinlits

Edgelits, Thinlits, love them all!
Keeping with the Black & Gold colour combo, not too simple, has a few runs through the bigshot! a little heat embossing in gold, impression on the white with the Softly Falling Embossing Folder & finished with some Gold Cording Trim.

Square Pillow Box Thinlits with Wondrous Wreath

One of my favourite products from the Holiday catty is this die.
Also from the holiday catty I used Home for Christmas DSP & Buttons.
I die cut the centre of the wreath & front of the pillow box at the same time & added some acetate to get a peak inside.

Holiday catalogue

I just had to make this star thats in the holiday catalogue, Pam showed how to at North Americas Inspire Create Share.
I love the Square Pillow box thinlits Die.
The Festive Flower Builder punch makes it so quick to create a poinsettia, I will be making some white & pink ones for Christmas.

Christmas party favors

The Lindt chocolate slider box's were a hit in red. In this post I wrote to score at 1/4" on 2 sides, it should be 1/2" sorry!
The Santa Curvy Keepsake favors had a couple of Chocolate after dinner mints in them.

Chocolate Slider box

 Pacific Point & Gold wraps this bar of Lindt Chocolate just perfectly. I will be making a few for a work Christmas party but this one is for a friend to say a little Thanks.
It's so easy to put a slider box together, just with a bone folder create a pattern using the edges of the chocolate bar to measure where the folds need to be on the card stock, like tracing.
On this slider the Pacific Point cs measures 8 3/16" x 3 3/8", scored in 1/4" from 3 sides, the Vellum is cut at 7 11/16" scored at 1/4" along  2 sides.
A couple of snips for the tabs at the bottom of the box & some adhering to assemble, the Ribbon is Stampin' Up's! Gold satin, so easy to tie bows with this ribbon, I adhered a couple of glue dots to the ribbon to keep it on the bar so the recipient will see it actually slides the chocolate bar out.

Christmas gifts & more

 I had my bi monthly team meeting here last month & we did a shoe box swap & i quickly wanted to share what we created.
Renee's cute "Color Me Christmas" card with washi tape, Donna's clever bottle topper, Tracey's Wishing You card, My Winter Frost Bon Bon, Kowhai's stamped Wooden Block & Michelle's star ornament. We had a lovely couple of hours creating.
I have loved making easy Bon Bons with the new Envelope punch Board & the ones shown here are using 1 sheet of the DSP stack & the left over punched out bits make the sweet flower to embellish.
I love the Mini muslin bags, I stamped Love & Joy with Gold Encore ink.
I haven't made many Christmas cards this year, sigh! & the ones I have made I have used or given away & below are the only ones I managed to photograph. I'm up for a couple of hours tonight to whip up some more, if I don't manage to get them all done it will be Happy new year cards for some instead! so if I'm not back before Christmas, have a wonderful, safe & happy Christmas xx Thanks for you your support, lovely comments & stopping by my blog.

Christmas cards

I just wanted to share a few of the Christmas cards I made, The first one I think is my favourite, double embossed Cherry Cobbler water coloured image from "Greeting Card Kids", such a cute set. The next couple are a case of Stampin pretty, I just changed to a butterfly on one & emboss stamped in Pewter -just gorgeous IRL. 

I saw this card on a display board at the Penrith show in November & loved it so much I had to CASE.

this one came together very quickly with all layers & embellishments left over that I wanted to use.

Our Christmas tree.

Have a wonderful Christmas & a blessed 2013

Ornament Keepsakes Bundle

 These are some of my favourite ornaments I made this year, some made beautiful keepsake tags on presents.

Lip gloss teachers/ friends gifts

 I found in Myer Benefit 6 pack of mini lip gloss's for $49 & thought I would come up with individual packaged gifts. These were the first pack of 6 I bought & made for Teya's dance teachers but Matt spotted them & thought he would like them for his managers wives so they were gifted to them at a work dinner we had. I went & bought another pack & had less time so came up with the "Scentsational Season" decorated ones below which did go to Teya's dance teachers, I liked how quick & cute these ones turned out so that led to the Lindt Chocolate gift cards in the previous post where you can follow the tutorial. The insert for the lip gloss is actually from the pack that I cut down to fit & I punched a 3/4" hole which fitted the lid of the lip gloss nicely. The bottom ones are sunblock Ella Bache bought from DJ's in a 3 pack for $29 & those being a little taller I packaged using the Petal Card Double Punch & the window sheet tube that measures 4 1/4" x 4 1/2" scored at 1", 2", 3" & 4", sticky strip to assemble & only on the bottom petal card punch. The top holds in place by wrapping a strip of dsp or CS & the ribbon runs through the inside, looped to create a hanger & knotted at the top & bottom so you can open & close the lid without tearing the box. I hope this helps if you like this idea & want to make some yourself.

Scentsational Season Lindt Teddy card Tutorial

Score a 3" x 9 3/4" strip at 3/4", 1 1/2", 2 1/4", 3", 6" & 6 3/4". 

 1 1/4" circle punch on the 1 1/2" score line.

Apply Sticky Strip as shown

Fold in all score marks & adhere to the back portion.

Stamp greeting from "More Merry Messages" to top inside 3" panel. Run a piece of Gumball Green CS that measures 2 3/4" x 2" through the Bigshot in Petals-a-Plenty Folder & adhere to the inside for added interest (optional)

Adhere the large Scallop from the Scallop Square Due in real Red to the front.

Layer a piece on top that measures 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" of Whisper White that has also been embossed.

Stamp & Die cut the tree & star from "Scentsational Season" Bundle & dimensional those. Add your teddy choc & done!