Happy new year 2018

 

Source: Love Ginger

 

Here's wishing you a year of many happy mojo filled, creative hours. 



New Beginnings

Time out challenges have this cue

 

 

My new beginning is the birth of a baby

 

 

I will also be entering this over at Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge where it's

'Anything goes'

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Scrap booking scrap

Rolfes metallic pen in silver

Pattern: Laura's cards Card making on line e-pattern-dc020e

Small wobbly eye

3 jan

 

Five Parcels

Pinspirational challenges have this photo for inspiration

 

 

and here is my card

 



 

 

I recently showed a small card which I made using a portion of this pattern here.

I will also be entering this over at Sugarpea designs where it's

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Scraps of red satin ribbon and twine

Pentel gel pen in red

Pattern: 101 ideas for embroidery on paper by Erica Fortgens

Paper: Free download: Source unknown

1 jan

 

A tag

I am taking part in a new to me challenge over at Stamplorations tagplorations

 

 

My project must include a tag so here goes

 

 

I made a different colour version of this tag here.

 

I will also be entering this at Just add ink where it's

 

 

I choose tags and trees.

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 200gsm in green

Single hole plier punch

Pentel felt tipped pen in black

silver tree charm

Twine

paper: Scrap

Cuttlebug

Die: Tag: wPlus Timeless 2

        Triangle

Double sided Foam  squares

Pentel felt tipped pen in black

31 dec

 

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 

 

Gift wrapping 2017

Here are some pics of my gifts from this Christmas.

I always try to stick to a theme and this year it was Duck egg blue and kraft.

 

We moved house in late November so I didn't have much time to be creative this year so kept the embellishments simple

 

 

and some close ups

 

 

You can see some of my past gift wrapping ideas here,  here and here.



My choice of Christmas card for 2017

Now that Christmas is over I can show you the cards that I sent out this year.
I tried a variety of slightly different colour combinations

 

and this

 

and this.

 

They fit in perfectly with the challenge over at Uniko studio where it's still

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Scrap booking in yellow/gold and red

           80gsm in emerald green

Pentel gel pen in red

Thread: Green: DMC 704

             Gold: DMC E436

             Red: DMC 029

             29 dec