Festive Pocket Tissue Holders

  I love this time of year and I get so excited counting down the number of sleeps until Santa visits our house on Christmas Eve.  Christmas crafting is definitely my favourite, the Christmas CD’s go on and I happily sing away whilst getting covered in ink and glitter and make lots of mess. On […]

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Poinsettia Over-the-Shelf Easel card

The new Autumn/Winter catalogue is full of great products but have you had a look at the Clearance Rack recently?   There’s DSP, Dies, Punches etc. from last years Autumn/Winter catalogue that are discounted by upto 60%.   Today’s beautiful card was made with the Detailed Poinsettia dies, they were on my ‘Wish List’ last year and […]

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Cute Chocolate Coin Holders

  Aren’t these little chocolate coin holders adorable?  I think any child, or adult, would love to find one in their Christmas stocking.  These are a great way to use up some of those scraps of cardstock and DSP that we all keep for a ‘just in case’ moment.  Well I do, do you?  In Asda […]

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Large 8″ x 8″ Gift Box with unusual Bow

Happy Sunday everyone, I hope you’re having a great weekend and maybe you found some time for crafting. I really love to make boxes and I hate waste so when my order of 12″ DSP and cardstock arrived I wanted to use it to make a box but not waste any of it.  One of the […]

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Cute Little Elf Jacket Lolly Box

Today I have an adorable little Elf Jacket box that holds a Chocolate Elf Lolly. This is the 2nd box I have made for these elf lollies, the 1st box was for my 4 year old Godson Oliver and I needed a more grown-up box for my Godson Connor who’s nearly 10.  If you would […]

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3 Ways to Gift Wrap Tic Tacs – Old Meets New

Are you ready for the festive season or are you like me still doing Christmas shopping and wrapping presents? I have been looking after Kayleigh for the last 2 weeks, her surgery went well and she is now at home and getting better every day. Yesterday it snowed here and everything looked so pretty, it has […]

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Pootler’s Blog Hop – Autumn/Winter Catalogue 2017

I’ve been really looking forward to today because it’s time for the Pootlers Autumn/Winter Blog Hop.  My fellow Pootlers always create wonderful projects and when I hop around everyone’s blog I’m always bursting with ideas and inspiration and I know you will be too.  To continue hopping please click on the ‘Next’  button at the […]

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Thoughtful Branches Accordion Card

I love the new Thoughtful Branches stamp set and the coordinating Beautiful Branches thinlit dies from Stampin’ Up! As soon as I saw them I knew I wanted to make a card showing how beautiful the tree would look for each of the 4 seasons. As soon as they arrived I went straight into my craft room and had so much […]

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