A Victorian Christmas Box

I found a round box at Target in their gift-wrapping section and I thought it would be really great covered in some SU Designer Paper! I made this one using the Victorian designer paper in the Holiday Mini "Deck the Halls". I love the colours here, it makes me think of England, not sure why, probably just evoking images of Dickensian London.

Here's a close up of the lid.

Recipe
Stamps : Christmas Postcard
Cardstock : Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Watercolour Paper, Deck the Halls
Ink : StazOn
Accessories : Circle Scissor Plus, Large Scallop Circle Die, Big Shot, Waffle Paper, 1/2 Pearls, Aquapainters, Reinkers, Victorian Lace Ribbon, Big Designer Buttons, Antique Brads

Crafting Heaven

What do you call it when your mum and your sister travel from England to spend a week crafting in your basement? HEAVEN!!!! Hee hee.

Here's a snap shot of some of our projects ... quilting, knitting, stamping!

Yes, that's a knitted luggage label and luggage tag (the hat)! How sweet are they?

My sister, Sarah, is staying with an old friend of the family when she leaves for Dublin later today. Libby will love her little gifts ... now if I can just squeeze in some time to make a card to go with them ...

Baby Congrutulations

My cousin, Kate, had a baby girl yesterday. Minna Julia Rose Jackson was born on November 10th at 1am UK time. I can't wait to see a photo :)

First job of the day was to make a card to post off today. Card details are below.

Recipe
Stamps : Baby Bundle
Cardstock : WW, Watercolour Paper, Night of Navy, Pink Pirouette
Ink : StazOn
Accessories : Reinkers & Aquapainters, Hearts Pinking Border Punch, 1/2 Pearls

Christmas Shabby Chic

I was hoping to stamp all weekend, but those plans went awry after I had another outbreak of swollen lips, red purply spotches half way through Club on Friday. What a pain in the bum! I am back to the doc next week because I'm not sure I've been diagnosed correctly. However, that's a story not relevant to this blog. So, long story short, after my wonderful buddies helped clean up for me after Club (thanks so much Dawn Marie, Laura and Susie), I put myself into bed and in between sleep I managed to read our new 'Stampin Success' magazine which is a free monthly publication just for SU demos. Well, right on the front cover was a wonderful array of cards, but the one that stood out for me was using the Tasteful Trim XL Die along with SU's Deck the Halls fabric. Here's my take on it. I love how it turned out.

And here are a few close ups of the fabric and button.


Recipe
Stamps : Sentiment from Snow Swirled
Cardstock : Crumb Cake
Ink : Always Artichoke
Accessories : Big Shot, Tasteful Trim Bigz XL Die, Crochet Ribbon, Deck the Halls Fabric, Deck the Halls Big Designer Buttons, 1/2 Pearls, 1/2 Rhinestones, Large Oval Punch, Always Artichoke Seam Binding Ribbon, dimensionals, sticky strip, mini glue dots.

New Club Starts TONIGHT

I am so excited ~ my new Round of 'CLUB' starts tonight! And, as usual, I have only just finished my 3rd project! So all that's left to do is clean the basement, set the tables, prepare the projects, bake a cake and take it to my friend, Elaine who has just had a 2nd operation this week, have a cup of tea with her and Sue, come home, hopefully to find my great friend and SU demo, Dawn Marie, waiting for me, go out for something to eat, hopefully have another great friend Laura join us (have I ever told you how many fabulous girls I've met on SCS?), come home, run Club .... collapse into bed!

Oh, and up at 6.30am to get Sarah to school for her 7.30am PSAT examination!

And people wonder why housewives have NO TIME TO STAMP! Hee hee. Might have something to do with the movie audition I had yesterday in Detroit. I won't say anything about that (unless of course I get the part!!! FAT CHANCE).

Happy weekend everybody!

Christmas & Scotties

I just wanted to post a couple of pics of some cards I made last week. A Christmas card and the last one is the Scottie Dog from 'Friends Furever'. I wanted to practice my watercolouring. I'm getting there with that, I think it's a case of practice, practice, practice!

Recipe
Stamps : Christmas Collage
Cardstock : Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake
Ink : Crumb Cake
Accessories : Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon, Linen Thread, Deck the Halls Big Designer Buttons, Glass Glitter (champagne), 1/2 Pearls

Recipe
Stamps : Friends Furever
Cardstock : Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Watercolour Paper
Ink : StazOn
Accessories : SU Markers, Aquapainters, Sewing Machine, 1/2 Rhinestones, Pinking Hearts Edge Punch

Ten for $20

This post is to advertise my "10 for $20" Class which is being held on Friday October 22nd at 7pm at my home. You will make 2 of each of the designs in the pictures below. Let me know if you'd like to attend and I'll get all the details to you.