Secret Santa

I love Secret Santa card swaps!!
This is the beautiful card I received from Melissa Ladd in the Waltzingmouse Christmas card exchange.

The lantern is gold and sparkly with lovely paper layers behind it.
The central panel is one of my favourite colours and perfectly co-ordinates with my sitting room!!
Thankyou Melissa....your card took pride of place on my mantelpiece.

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Memory jar 2013

We saw lots of ideas on the internet for memory jars and Niamh fancied having a go....the idea is to write on a slip of paper every time you do something exciting, or if something good happens or you're especially happy about something. All the pieces of paper go into the jar and at the end of the year you open it up and look back at all the good stuff.
So here is Niamh and her empty jar...just decorated with a few stickers.

Look out for an update in December with hopefully a jar full of goodness!!  :)

 

I think I might make one for myself too....after all we all need some happiness!!

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Nearly there!!

Nearly Christmas and I'm nearly ready!!!
Thought I'd post a few pics of my last makes....had to keep some of them under wraps till Niamh got home from university.

First is Niamh's advent calendar for this year...I know there are only 12 drawers  but she had the first half of it at university!
It's made from matchbox style drawers covered with a selection of papers and jewelled brads for handles.
The number tags and trees are detachable so the drawers can be used all year round!!

This is a lantern I made at a craft club I go to...inside is a battery operated tealight. It's really effective shining through the vellum windows.

Last of all...a  card for my daughter...pretty in pink. It is a box card with a Lily of the Valley stamped image  inside and pink and silver poinsettias to decorate inside and out.

Have a lovely Christmas everyone!!

Sarah  xxx

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Christmas Bazaar

Yesterday we had  a Christmas Bazaar at our church and I offered to make cards and decorations to sell.  Niamh came home from Uni and was a great help on the day!! She was also the photographer as I forgot to take any  pics of the things I had made!!!

Rudolph candy cane decorations

Chocolate handbags to hang on the tree

Bells!!

Reindeer food

Candles in glass jars decorated with vellum and silhouette peel-offs

A selection of cards

We had lots of fun and sold most of our stock. We came home with lovely cakes and Niamh found some pretty jewellery on the bric-a-brac stall so she was happy too!!

Now I've just got to make a few more cards to send to family and friends!!

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Thanks a bunch

Just a simple card today as I needed a quick thankyou card for my daughters friend who helped me out by doing some printing for me....must look at the printer again and try and get it working!!

The card looks an odd shape but that's my "photography skills"!!

The patterns are made with Waltzingmouse stamps and a selection of inks...

I really need new colours...my inkpads are fast wearing out!!

The trim is sticky ribbon that I found at the bottom of my ribbon box and it's still sticky.

A paper flower and a brad to finish.

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Snowflake

Just a quick post today so I can link up to this weeks waltzingmouse sketch challenge.
A simple white and silver card with a snowflake theme.....

I used a mix of dies and punches. The stamped snowflake is from a Waltzing mouse set called "Santa's coming to town" with a silver brad in the centre. A few extra snowflakes and crystals   all done!!

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Hold Christmas in your heart...

My card today is for the penultimate Rudolph Day challenge here...

I used Kraft card on a cream background, a diecut cream circle and Waltzingmouse Nordic Spring stamps.
I think the little woven hearts go well with the Nordic feel.
Hope you like it.

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