Black and white crackers

So I need to start by apologizing for being MIA for most of this year. My Mojo has certainly gone walk about lately. But I have decided to share what I have managed to do as they fit into the Use your stuff challenge which is

'Anything goes'

and at Just add ink where it's

This is a very non traditional Christmas theme and so was the one I choose this year.

These are the crackers I made this year to fit my black, white and gold themed table.

I added cuticle oil to the ladies and chocolates for the gents.

You can click here for my crackers from years gone by.

Supplies:

Card stock: 180gsm in black

Paper: Gingham printed 80gsm 

Gold stickers

White and gold satin ribbon from my stash

'Bang' strip for pulling

Pink crackers

 These are the crackers I made this year.

My tables was pink and red hence the colour scheme

I added guest size soaps as the gifts inside.

Christmas for us this year was nearly 2 weeks late as my sister contracted Covid and so we observed the quarantine period.  

Inspired by these lovely ones

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Christmas crackers for 2020

The challenge at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge is

'Anything Christmas goes'

and Country view challenges has the same theme so I will be sharing the crackers I made for this year.

 

I used pages from an old road map and added nail polish for the ladies and choccies for the gents.

Here are the ones I have made in the past 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016

31/30 Dec

Crackers

Moving along with the times cue is

'Anything but a card'
and
Cupcake inspirations is



so here are the crackers that I made for this year

as we where having an all adult table I filled each one with a miniature bottle of locally crafted gin.
Needless to say they where a hit, even the chilli gin!
Here are some of the other crackers I have made over the years. 2018, 2017 and 2016.

I will also be entering these at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge where it's
Share anything Christmas that you haven't shared before'

Supplies:

Brown kraft paper

Card stock: 180gsm in cream used as inner support

                    180gsm in white

Cuttlebug

Die: Stag

Glitzing glam red glitter

Wobbly eyes

Green ribbon

2 Jan

Christmas Crackers

Moving along with the times have this cue
'Anything but a card'
So I thought I'd share my Christmas crackers with you.

 

I usually make a little something to put inside, you can see previous ones here 2017 and 2016 but this year my inners didn't really work so I just used some store bought chocolates.

The coloured paper is actually a wrapper from a discontinue line of soaps so it had printing on it. To cover that I up added the oval with the letter on it. I distressed the edges of the oval.

 

Supplies:

Cuttlebug

Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities small oval

        Letters: Lifestyle Crafts Manhattan

Ribbon in green and gold

Ink: Cats eye in lime



 



2018 Christmas Crackers

Simon says stamp blog Monday challenge is

'Party'

 

I want to share the crackers which I made this year.

As you know we moved house at the end of November and even though by the time Christmas arrived I did have time to be creative and make something special I'm afraid that my mind wasn't feeling very 'Chrismassy'. It's still very much occupied with furniture placements and how I can adapt existing curtains to fit new windows etc!

 

Anyway here are my crackers

 

 

I was very lucky to find this 'perfect for my table décor' gift wrap so everything matched nicely.

 

Inside I made this little gift. It's a hot chocolate spoon.

 

 

I used a liqueur glass as a mould, which didn't work very well as even though I lubricated it before pouring in the melted chocolate, once set the choc wouldn't come out. I had to place each glass in some boiling water for a couple of seconds to get it out, hence the slightly melted outside. Next time I will definitely use a silicone mould. I added a star aniseed for decoration.

 

I wrote the following on the back of the tag:

Place the spoon in a mug of recently boiled milk.

Stir

Enjoy 

 

Home made Christmas Crackers.

I decide to make my own crackers this year for Christmas and when I saw the challenge over at Cuttlebug mania I knew that they would be perfect. The challenge is

 

'A Christmas project in any colour just not red and green' 

 

 

So here they are

 

 

I made individual Mocha Coffee test tubes to put into each one as the little gift

 

 

and up close.

 

 

 I really battled to get test tubes and ended up getting pill bottles instead. Unfortunately they where not big enough to put the pieces of chocolate into so I had to make a little plastic bag for that. I attached the bag to the bottle with crochet cotton.

 

The recipe is:

1st layer: 7ml hot chocolate

2nd Layer: 5ml coffee

3rd layer: 7ml non dairy creamer. I used Cremora 

Fill rest of test tube with pieces or drops of Dark chocolate.

 

On the back of the label I wrote:

Tip the contents into a mug. Add boiled water and stir. Enjoy.

 

I will also be entering this over at Simon says stamp blog work it Wednesday November where the challenge is to use dies.

 

Supplies:
Cuttlebug
Die: Tree: Spellbinders Nestabilies 2013 Holiday trees
        Tag: Wplus 9 timeless tags 2
Tissue paper in white
Card stock: 160gsm in white
Scraps of hessian
glue gun
String
Small glass bottle
Cork
Non dairy creamer
Coffee
Hot chocolate
dark chocolate
Crochet cotton
Pentel fine liner in black.

27 dec