Calling all Crafters!

Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Patterned Paper Challenge - December 2020

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Here is my make as part of the Design Team of
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge!!

a monthly challenge to encourage crafters to use their patterned paper

Do take part as you may win a prize...

Love to craft
Fall in love
6" x 6" paper pad
8 designs * 24 sheets * 120 gsm

This is a similar chocolate box to the one I made in August

The back and front are made with pieces of card hinged together at the top and then covered with patterned papers. The box section is then added to hold the chocolate bar.

These are the pictures from then...

This time I used Graphic 45 papers.

Hope you will take a look at the fabulous DT makes and join the Patterned Paper Challenge!

Happy Crafting!

Monday, 30 November 2020

Tis the Season Day 23, November 30th

Once again Leigh is hosting a "stay crafty @ home" Blog Hop to help keep our spirits high, creatively inspired and busy while celebrating the season safe at home during this terrible pandemic!

This is a 2 month long hop to celebrate Fall/Autumn, Winter, Christmas and Craftmas and the hop ends December 20 at 11:55pm pacific!

Join in as little or as often as you like...

For more details go to

LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Presented by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

I will be sharing today's crafty makes on Leigh's info page...

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My daughter and I decided to make some felt Christmas Tree decorations - with an Australian twist. Yesterday's were kookaburras.

However today we went for a different theme as Sophie and I had our nieces/granddaughters to play...

Jasmine (12) managed a flamingo of her own beautifully!

Happy Hopping!

Sunday, 29 November 2020

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 25 again;

This is my third year of participating - I really enjoyed it last year (and the year before!)

And when it came to Christmas, I had more than enough tags made!!

It is hosted by Tracey McNeely and you will find the main hop post here
She works really hard to organise this hop and secures many sponsors!

Day 25 sponsor is Pretty Pink Posh

Each day I will CASE or be inspired by at least one tag...! Usually there are several that I am inspired by. Then visiting and commenting on other participants means that I see ideas that I have missed or see more inspiration!!

Here are my tags:

I was inspired by Tracey herself

on Day 25 with these lovely tags!

This time I went with the poinsettia!

These are my versions:

Recipe:

The decoupaged poinsettia are from a design from Crafts-u-print from a long time ago
I cut these out and layered them up.
One came with its oval background; the other I added to a kraft tag.
The sentiments are from Happy Little Stampers, stamped in black Versafine.
Twine or red spotted ribbon.

I will link these to the main hop post

Happy Crafting!

Tis the Season Day 22, November 29th

Once again Leigh is hosting a "stay crafty @ home" Blog Hop to help keep our spirits high, creatively inspired and busy while celebrating the season safe at home during this terrible pandemic!

This is a 2 month long hop to celebrate Fall/Autumn, Winter, Christmas and Craftmas and the hop ends December 20 at 11:55pm pacific!

Join in as little or as often as you like...

For more details go to

LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Presented by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

I will be sharing today's crafty makes on Leigh's info page...

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My daughter and I decided to make some felt Christmas Tree decorations - with an Australian twist. Yesterday's were pelicans.

These were the second:

Happy Hopping!

I love Winter! Winter is cold.

This is my make for the DT team of Outlawz

Sunday Songs and Rhymes

The challenge for this month is to...

Find inspiration in the song or rhyme:
Winter!
Author Unknown
I love Winter! Winter is cold.
It's Christmas with sleds.
It's warm snuggly beds.
It's silver snowflakes.
It's skating on lakes.
It's snowmen that stand.
in a snowy white land.
It's blue jays that feed
on sunflower seeds.
It's angels that pose
in wintertime clothes.
It's a polka-dot sky.
It's winter. That's why...
I love winter.

Note: The theme doesn’t have to be taken literally. You may use any word or phrase out of it for your project.

Here is my card:

I started with a black card blank. I used three of Distress Oxides. I smeared these across the Stampin Up trees embossing folder and spritzed them with water. I placed a piece of white card inside and rolled it though my Big Shot. I then left it to dry...

I trimmed this to size and then added the image coloured with markers and cut out.

I then added some snowflakes and stars.