 thank you so much I really appreciate it.
Morning Peeps! Just two more sleeps until the Big Day, is your life calm and already organised or still full of craziness and frenzied preparation? My world fits into the second category, but then it generally does so why would it be different at this even busier time of the year ha ha!
I created the base card using some nice heavy weight cardstock which is a little more'marsh' green than kraft, but makes a lovely sturdy card. It's C6 size but with the fold at the top.
The lovely lacy reindeer image is from a set of stamps by Inkadinkado, which I've had for a few years now and never tire of. Stamped with Versamark and heat embossed using gold sparkle embossing powder.
I then mounted the white image layer over a slightly larger piece of red mirri card and attached to the base card.
The sentiment was stamped from one of my current favourite sets by Penny Black. Stamped using SU! Raspberry Ripple ink.
That's it from me, I'll leave you to continue with your Christmas preparations if you are like me, or continue to relax if you are completely organised!

Happy Saturday Bloggers - as it's the last weekend before the Christmas holidays I expect you'll be busy, busy, busy today! I'm away from home, collecting my Dad to come and spend Christmas with us so I'm mega excited as I love to have him here with me.
As part of the journey to collect Dad, I'll also be visiting my Daughter and seeing my Grandsons, which will be a bittersweet moment as it's going to be the very first Christmas day that I won't be seeing my Daughter since the day she was born, and the first Christmas that I haven't spent time with my Grandsons. A very different Christmas for me this year, but my Son will be here with me as well as my Dad and Hubby, so I realise how Blessed I am compared to many people.
I've pre-scheduled this post as I'm travelling so hope it publishes OK!
So, without further ado, let's get on to today's project, which is a couple more of the pillow box treat holders, which I've been really enjoying making since I bought my We R Memory Keepers score board.
Once again I've used some of this fabby text printed white cardstock which is perfect for box making.
I also used the set of stamps and matching dies I purchased recently from Clearly Besotted Stamps. I'm just loving them, all of the stamps and accessories are so cute and the dies cut very well - I can see endless permutations for future projects using them.
I've used the cute reindeer image for these boxes. Firstly diecutting the shape and then stamping the image onto it using SU! Raspberry Ripple ink.
The banner was also stamped with the RR ink using one of the stamps from a Penny Black stamp set, cut out and adhered to the pillow box.
That's it from me today, short and sweet - hope you enjoyed your visit today, thanks so much for popping over here to my little bit of Blogland.
Happy Thursday Peeps, we've got a new challenge starting for you over on the Cute Card Thursday Blog today. This week our theme is 'Celebrations' - of which there are certainly plenty at this time of year for most of us! Our prize this week is sponsored by Whimsy Stamps.
In my book, celebrations just aren't complete without the addition of chocolate! "My name is Wynneth and I am a Chocaholic" ha ha! So, today's project is pretty packaging for choccie bars.
Using some magazine freebie papers, I created a wrap the right size to cover the bars, then added a length of lush festive ribbon around the wrap to close off the open ends and stop the bars sliding out.
I created a poinsettia flower embellishment using the set of Spellbinders Poinsettia dies and red cardstock. After diecutting each layer I used a ball tool to add dimension and make the petals stand up, then I layered them up. The final touch was a gold centre made using a Waco Pearlmaker Pen. I then attached the flower to the centre of the ribbon.
As a final touch, I created a tag by using an image from a Penny Black set of stamps, stamped in SU! Raspberry Ripple ink and fussy cut out. I attached the tag just under the flower and, as I know what's inside the package, the sentiment was perfect!
Hope you've enjoyed your visit and like this method of turning a very 'ordinary' bar of chocolate into a super pretty little gift.
Good Morning Peeps! I hope you are well and having a good day.
Today the project I'm sharing is the last batch make of Christmas cards for this year.
This is just a small batch (5) of cards I made using a set of stamps and matching dies from Clearly Besotted. I just love the fun images in this stamp set, there are so many different ways to use them with all the decorative options. There are dies to match all the shapes, although the stamps can be used by themselves too.
Firstly I diecut the reindeer shape from white cardstock using my Big Shot, then stamped the reindeer image using Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto the shape. I could have diecut the noses then stamped them with red and glued them on, but decided to just stamp them with red ink straight onto the already stamped reindeer image - this keeps the cards almost flat for mailing. As the stamps are clear, it is really easy to line them up correctly for stamping onto the diecut shapes.
I then attached the reindeer over a layer of red, and slightly larger white layer, before attaching to the kraft coloured base cards.
The sentiment was stamped using a set of Penny Black banner stamps (which I Lurve) using SU! Raspberry Ripple ink.
Once again, a nice clean and simple design and using my current favourite colour combo of kraft, red and white.
Good morning dear Bloggers. Today I shall be finishing off the gift wrapping and writing my list for the last minute food shopping, which I'll need to do at the start of next week. Not a lot of crafting time for me right now, but I have a few projects created over the past couple of weeks which I'll share with you in the coming days. I warn you in advance that if you are in a state of 'Christmas card overload' my next few posts will probably make you groan!
For this card I created the wreath using a Martha Stewart frond punch, punching out loads from two different colours of green cardstock. (whilst punching out the fronds, my MS punch broke into pieces - oh no! it's one of my favourites and 'go to' punch for many uses. I had to get online immediately to find a replacement, which luckily I did via Ebay although the seller was in the US. It arrived very quickly which was fantastic).
I seem to be having a few 'disasters' with my crafting tools at the moment, managed to cut through my Splodge Mat last week at the workshop, and now 'exploding' my favourite punch! Hopefully I won't destroy anything else - for a while at least!
As a base for the wreath I cut a scalloped circle using a nestie and a scrap of light greet card which had sparkly dots all over (if you look closely you can just see some of the dots). I then glued each of the separate fronds around the edge, ensuring I kept to a circular shape, to create the wreath effect. I worked round three times adding layers of fronds applying glue to just the bottom tip of each frond for the top two layers to create depth and dimension.
I added a bow at the top, tied using a small length of narrow ribbon. The sentiment in the centre was stamped using a Little Claire's stamp and SU! Raspberry Ripple ink, the 'heart' shape in the centre coloured using a gold Wink of Stella pen. Using Frosted Lace Stickles I then added a snow effect to the top layer of fronds.
Finally, I attached the wreath layer to the base card, which had been covered with a piece of red and white striped paper.
This is a very simple design, but I was pleased with the finished result. As it's the card I made to give to my Hubby, it's not too 'fancy' or 'fussy' as he's not a fan of overly embellished cards. He loved it, so that was a great result in my book!
Thanks for taking the time to check out my project today. Have a great day.
Good morning Bloggers, hope you have a nice day in store today. I'm not sure what I'll be doing, but I just know it will get filled up, there's always plenty to do at this time of year!
Today the project I'm sharing with you is a couple of little gift bags - perfect for filling with a few treats for on the Christmas table.
Recently I treated myself to the We R Memory Keepers Gift Bag Punchboard and it does make bag making easier although I think it would be a great deal more useful if the width of the bags could have been adjustable as well as the height - the width is a fixed 2 inches and not adjustable. It's nice to be able to make a gift bag 12 inches high (or taller