Christmas Curly Wreath

this one is the larger ring with Jolly Holiday papers

its a lovely christmassy red and green combo, off to make another couple today and hopefully feel inspired to start my christmas cards

Curly Christmas Wreath

this wreath is a smaller inner ring and made by curling strips of Stampin up designer paper - First Edition

it looks like book print/old newspaper type and really effective- curling book pages or reals newsprint wouldn't work as the paper isn't strong enough to curl

finished off with striped grosgrain ribbon

Timeless Portrait Paper Wreath

a paper wreath made with SU designer paper - timeless portrait- fab for christmas or brightening your home once your decorations have been taken down in January

i have class dates booked- please contact me for details if you fancy learning how to make your own

christmas decorations

 2 versions of gift box using the petal cone die, Old Olive and Cherry cobbler above and Black with Cheery cobbler and Very Vanilla below

 Good old Dazzling Diamonds glitter on a polystyrene ball, with real red ribbon

step card- tutorial

 Some of the ladies at Ellon craft group were asking the measurments for this card

so.... here goes, it looks complicated when you see the numbers but once you've made one its not so bad

there are 2 ways to do this score then cut or cut then score - i prefer to cut using my square quilting ruler and craft knife but if you score first then its easy enough just to use a steel ruler and knife-or your trimmer

 cut a piece of A4 in half lengthways (so you have a long piece 10.5cm wide, then trim it down to 28cm long. 

*cut 2.5cm in from each side from 11.5cm to 25.5cm (or wait til you have scored the lines then cut)


score at 11.5cm - but only the first and last 2.5cm (so you have a gap in the middle with no score line)
score at 14cm - but just the middle section (not the 2.5cm at either side)
score at 23cm - only the first and last 2.5cm (not the middle bit)
score at 25.5cm- again just the 2.5cm at each side

make mountian folds at 11.5 and 14cm score lines, valley folds at 23cm and mountian folds at 25.5cm - so you have a step at the bottom and a staggered fold at the top

 the front mats are 5.2cm x 11.2cm and 4.8cm x 10.8cm and the side panels 2.2x10.8cm (but on the christmas sample i used the new lace boarder punch so didn't cut side panels

once someone tries this let me know if it works for you- i took a couple of attempts to get this to work without fold lines at 1/8th of inches ect

Pink Christmas

Crumb Cake and Pretty in Pink

I used the Candy Wrapper Die for the little cracker and the Reindeer stamp is called Dasher

pennant parade

 my usual clean and simple style - i really don't think this card needs anything else.Colours are Wild Wasabi, Baja Breeze, Daffodil delight and Pretty in pink

and my new scarf - i've found these darker nights have made me dig out my wool again