My Favourite Projects of 2017

For the last day of 2017 I thought I’d revisit some of my favourite makes of the year. For each month I have picked my favourite project, I hope you like the project’s I’ve chosen.  If you would like to see the blog post for the project click on the photo.

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Pootler’s Design Team – Week 4

Thank you for joining me for the last Pootler’s Design Team Challenge.  I would like to say a big Thank You to my upline Sam Hammond for giving me the amazing opportunity to be a designer, I have had so much fun creating projects with the stamp set you chose for us. This is also […]

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Sneak Peak and Comparison of the New Embossing Pastes

When I first saw the Embossing Paste in the Annual Catalogue I wasn’t really interested in it.  After a few months I decided to give it a try and I’m so glad I did.  The effect looks great on projects and it was so easy to use, it’s like spreading butter on your toast. Stampin’ […]

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My Christmas 2017 Makes

With today being Christmas Eve I thought I would share some of the projects I made for Christmas. I didn’t manage to make everything I had planned to, our daughter Kayleigh was rushed into hospital towards the end of November and had emergency surgery on December 1st.

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Envelope Punch Board Kinder Chocolates Box

Every Christmas Eve Geoff and I always put chocolates in everyone’s stocking and this year I made little boxes for some Kinder chocolates.  Our children are 28 and 25 and they still like to have a stocking, Kayleigh still likes her stocking put at the end of her bed.  I thought they would have grown […]

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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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Pootler’s Design Team – Week 3

Thank you for joining me today for Week 3 of the Pootler’s Design Team challenge.  Today I have a quick and easy holder that I made to store my watercolour pencils, paintbrushes, scissors etc.  Have you entered my Crafting Forever Clear Mount stamp set Giveaway? click here for details.  No purchase necessary to enter the […]

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Quick Last Minute Box of Goodies

I have a quick and easy last minute Christmas gift today. Do you get unexpected visitors over Christmas and realise that you haven’t got a gift for them? This always happens at our house but not this year, I have several bottles of wine that I made Bottle Covers for and I also have a […]

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Elegantly Gift Wrapped Kinder Chocolates

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I have a really elegant box that I would like to share with you. This really is a quick and easy project. After wrapping the box, I added some gorgeous black and white striped ribbon, stamped the sentiments, did a bit of die-cutting and hey presto.

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Quick and Easy Pretty Pencils Stocking Fillers

Today I have a quick and easy stocking filler project.  While I was going through my cello bags I found some 2″ x 8″ cello bags that I thought would be perfect for a few pencils and a bit of simple decoration.  I also found a few 1″ cello bags that were retired stock and […]

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