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Sunday, 16 November 2014

Takeout Box hostess gift


This is a bit elaborate for a demonstration, so I prepared a lot of it at home in advance, but I really wanted to show my hostess and her guests the wonders of the Takeout boxes! These are perfect for packing up homemade biscuits and treats for Christmas gifts, and look so lovely when decorated.



Saturday, 15 November 2014

Around the World Challenge... and Caturday, too



Well, this is a bit awkward, because the Around the World Challenge has fallen on a Caturday. And, as regular visitors will know, Caturday is all about the cats!

But rules is rules, so here is my Around the World Challenge card, which was a colour combo challenge, to use Real Red, Hello Honey and Baked Brown Sugar. (Scroll down for your Caturday fix!)


Psssst! Don’t tell anyone but I cheated ever so slightly. You see, you can’t buy Blendabilities in Real Red (yet – who knows what the future will hold?), but I do have the Cherry Cobbler set. And of course, now that I have tried Blendabilities, I am completely hooked and didn’t want to use the Stampin’ Write markers for colouring, so that’s where I cheated. Only a little bit, mind.

I’m still enjoying this Visions of Santa stamp set. I know it divides opinion, but those silly Santas just make me giggle. And I especially love that this one looks so miserable, which is why I chose to stamp “very merry Christmas” next to him. In keeping with the quirky nature of this set, I decided to angle my layers slightly ... no I hadn’t been at the mulled wine, I meant it to look like that!

And now it’s your turn... have a go at this challenge yourself and join in the fun! All the details, and more inspiration, can be found HERE – you’re looking for AW29.




And now it’s Caturday... and I have three little kittens for you today. These are the dictator kittens (because two the litter have Hitler moustaches – only one of them is pictured here) but they couldn’t  be less like dictators... they’re extremely sweet. And they’re growing fast, as you can see... 



Friday, 14 November 2014

Festival of Trees on a snowy hill


I really am loving this Festival of Trees stamp set. Here I had fun stamping it repeatedly in various shades of green, stamping off for paler shades. To create the snowy hill, I simply tore a piece of scrap paper and used that as a mask. 

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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Festival of Trees shaker card in cool blues


This week I have been focussing on the Festival of Trees stamp set/punch bundle, which is absolutely fabulous. I hadn’t realised just how versatile it was until I started perusing Pinterest. Then I had to stop myself because I realised it was nearly Christmas and I should make some things! (Pinterest has a lot to answer for.)

Here I’ve added a fun shaker element and stuck to cool blues, with bright white and shimmery glimmer paper. Love it! (Oops, did I say that out loud?) I’ve just used two ink pads; Basic Gray and Lost Lagoon, stamping off with the latter to get the pale trees at the bottom of the project.

I’ll be demonstrating this bundle (but not this project) at a party this Friday. Really looking forward to showing yet more gorgeous Autumn/Winter products to a lovely group of ladies.


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