Looks like it will be a cosy night in watching Great British Sewing Bee and Skyfall, and a bit of gin might be consumed.
I, like millions of others, are heading for Tier 4 lockdown on Boxing Day. Will be sad not to see the wider family over festive time, but all presents have been delivered and the house is warm and full of food - I also feel very lucky that all my family are still here and healthy.
Wishing you all peace and harmony over Christmas
I also wanted to make some some masculine cards, as they make great metallic type backgrounds used on embossed black and kraft card stock
I bought it because it would be great to help make cute kids birthday cards ....
and the images are great for both boys and girls!
Whilst tidying out some drawers during lockdown, I came across these hand written notes of my daughters time at nursery school 15 years ago. I had completely forgotten about them!
With all the lovely photos of her playing, they were ideal for making up some scrap book pages
These are all 'Work in Progress' - the great thing about scrapbooking, is that you can go back to them and add embellishments and decorations once you have sorted out your layouts.
So many weddings have been postponed this year and there is still no certainty that large weddings with lots of family and friends will be allowed for a while yet.But despite that, I've made a wedding card!
It started off uncovering the 3 leaf charm toppers at the bottom of a box of bits and pieces and thinking 'what the heck can I do with them?' I matched them up with some other odd bits such as the ribbon, flowers and hearts to make a silver and white based card with touches of glitter.
I've just found them when routing around for something else, They are a selection of presents, snowmen, snowflakes, Santa etc
I've threaded them on red velvet or silver ribbon and layered them on scraps of sparkly Dufex that I have had kicking around for years.
Having a break from making Christmas cards ( you can have too much of a good thing!) So I decided to have a play with the tonic goodies I won last week.
The floral cuff die has a lovely clean, crisp cut and comes with 5 matching graduated flower dies
The embossing folder makes a nice clean pattern too - I think I will get alot of use from these in the future!
Plus this fab golden sparkly robin background paper!
I also treated myself to Creative Stamping Magazine (issue 89) to inspire me through the next few weeks of lockdown.
It has encouraged me to do a bit of heat embossing - a technique I have sorely neglected for a while.
There are lots of papers and toppers, an embossing folder and 10 stamps!
Plus a fab Floral Cuff die and loads of ideas in the magazine to inspire you to use it - a great giveaway!
Why not pop over to her blog and see what she is giving away this week, she posts one every Friday and the winner is drawn out of the hat on Saturday! You could be lucky like me.
I've already made some lovely bird themed Christmas cards
as well as a couple of birthday cards using the toppers, papers & embellishments - and there are still plenty left!
Which today I have turned into a variety of different Christmas cards for this year ....
using lots of stamps that haven't seen the light of day for a long time!
A very good way to spend a rainy day.
I just love a traditional 'robin in the snow' Christmas card - and luckily so do some of my friends and family!
It also seems wrong to make Christmas cards when it is still hot and sunny. So, earlier this week the weather cooled down and I went and rummaged in the cupboard under the stairs to dig out my 3 boxes of Christmas goodies. Really I have so many stamps, papers, dies and embellishments, that there is no excuse to buy anymore this year.
