Little Santa

Here is my Little Santa - finished in time for Christmas Eve. I made Angels in 2011 designed by Sue Dolman of Candle House Crafts and  more recently sent away for her 'Little Santa' pattern.

Here he is on the tree:

I was making him at the last Cardinal Colours Crop and thought the girls might like to see him finished.
Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Gift Box for Christmas Decorations

I made lots of friends and family sets of Walnut Christmas tree decorations a few years ago, and recently my sister asked for some more, her theme being pink, white and silver. So I set about making another 12 decorations for her. Once made I wanted a box to present them in that she could also use to store them in together with those I made her before.

Linda had given me some strong colourful boxes she no longer needed, and I remembered one of them was pink. Then  I selected some patterned papers from Papermaze - Sugarplums by Doodlebug Designs.

I decorated the box with two papers from the collection - Tiny Trimmings for the top & Christmas Trim for the sides. I used a Sizzix die to cut the lettering from corrugated cardboard, and painted them with Distress Paint (acrylic paints). They were then sprayed with pink iridescent glitter spray. Difficult to see the sparkle in the photos. I added some ribbon and a bow.

Inside of the box - lined with egg carton covered in Christmas tissue paper. with room to add the existing decorations.

Merry Christmas Sylvie
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Decorations with Carol

I had the opportunity to have a go at Carol's 'make and take' workshop at this year's Papermaze Christmas Crop.

Christmas baubles using an MDF bauble shape, painted with Acrylic paints, stamped with a script stamp and then decorated with a die cut poinsettia (Sizzix Movers and Shapers) and punched fern leaves some gems & Stickles glitter glue to add some bling. Finally it is topped off with a ribbon bow and a twine for hanging on the tree. The smaller flowers are tiny rolled roses. I added a dew drop to the centre of my poinsettia. The leaves and flowers were created with Bazzill cardstock.

Here is the bauble I made:

I will certainly be making more of these - maybe not until next December though!

Many thanks to Vanessa and Carol.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

New Tradition - Maybe?!

We actually had all three of the 'children' at home for a few hours this morning. Andrew arrived back from Brighton late last night, Emily and her fiancé, Jack came to us after a show they had been to see in Wembley and Catherine arrived this morning as she has a rare day off. So they shared a few hours over a late breakfast in pyjamas!

Who would have thought they would enjoy building a gingerbread house with a difference so much! This year it is a Lego model, a limited edition for 2015 - this delightful Lego model, which is more complicated to build than it looks, and has many more pieces that I expected. 

It caused a great deal of fun and laughter without any washing up!

I wonder if this could become a new tradition for Christmas in the Cooper household.

The rear elevation:

Single room property, with rom to develop the loft space.  Stained glass windows, and skylights with removable chimney, edible home decor, comes flat-packed and ready to assemble. Mature gardens surround the property. I may just have been looking at too many property details recently!

Lots of fun for the 'no-so' little ones!
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Christmas Accordion Cards with Die'sire

You may have seen these cards I made featured on the Papermaze blog. I have been having a play with some of the Die'sire Classiques Christmas Collection Dies, and here are my first attempts:

For the first three snowflake cards I used:

Create-A-Card Christmas Collection- Snowflake Accordian Card
Crafter's Companion Classiques Christmas Collection - Snow is Falling
Crafter's Companion Classiques Christmas Collection - Snowflake Circle Overlay

Crafter's Companion Classiques Christmas Only Words - Merry and Bright

Bazzill Cardstock & Doodlebug Designs Inc. Sugarcoated Cardstock

Miri Card and scraps of metallic and other cardstock
Sizzix Bigshot for cutting and embossing dies
Flat-backed Self-adhesive Gems and pearls

Liquid Pearls and Stickles

for the cards with Bells I used the following in addition to the items listed above:
Crafter's Companion  Create-A-Card Collection - Circle Accordian Card

Crafter's Companion Classiques Christmas Collection - Jingle Bells
Crafter's Companion Classiques Christmas Collection - Jingle Bells Circle Overlay

Crafter's Companion Classiques Christmas Only Words - JingleAll The Way
Ribbon

These cards are fun if a little fiddly to create, but worth the effort for those special people you want to send greeting to at Christmas.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Christmas Cakes in Miniature

Miniature Christmas Cake gifts cards created by adapting a design for a birthday cake card by the lovely Zoe from a class I attended back in 2011. These are for my lovely friends at Papermaze.

Cake boxes with tea light cakes, decorated with Basic Grey Christmas papers from Christmases past.

 Merry Christmas Vanessa and Lesley

I used: Bazzill Cardstock
Patterned papers - Basic Grey
Punches: Corner rounder, scalloped circle
Tealight (battery operated)
Liquid Pearls
Ribbon

Score board

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

A project for the Papermaze Make and Take sessions at the Christmas Crop earlier today. Several years ago my lovely friend Anita made these snowmen for all her friends at a crop and I was lucky enough to receive one. When thinking of something to do for a quick make and take session, I remembered these, worked out how they were put together and adapted them a little.

Here is my Snowman:

Hope you all enjoyed making these ladies, they make great tags, or table decorations.

I used:

2 x Circle dies
Tealight (approx. 1 ½”)
Circle punch 1”
heart punch (mini)
SU Word Window Punch
MS Branch punch

Ribbon 10”

Big Shot or Cuttlebug

Cardstock – White (4” x 6”),
Cardstock scraps in black, brown & red

Glittery red cardstock

Chalk Ink – pale blue

3D sticky tape
Stickles
Liquid Pearls

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x