25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 26

              

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 26 sponsor is My Favourite Things

This post means that I have taken part on each of the 26 days...

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!!

  

So I am back off my week's holiday and back in my craft room - so I can get organised for the last few tags! I'm afraid commenting was put on the back-burner!

Here are my tags:

I was inspired by Marieke Slaats

 on Day Twenty Six with this lovely tag. 

Mine were a kraft tag with twine with a wooden frame - I happened on these when I was looking for something else in my craft room! I then added the sentiment (Happy Little Stampers) in black on a red die cut banner (from last year's Advent Calendar) Finally I added some die cuts and pearls. These dies are from Tim Holtz - Festive Greens.

I will link these to the main hop post

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 24

             

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 24 sponsor is Heffy Doodle

One of my favourite stencils is from Heffy Doodle...

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!!

  

So I am back off my week's holiday and back in my craft room - so I can get organised for the last few tags! I'm afraid commenting was put on the back-burner!

Here are my tags:

I was inspired by Zsofia Molnar

 on Day Twenty Four with these lovely tags. 

Mine were just a die cut tree (unbranded die) on a kraft tag with twine. Plus a sentiment in red on white (from the unbranded stamps I have been using all hop) and a few sequins.

I will link these to the main hop post

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday #600

              

It's Wednesday again - so I am linking this post to the Stamping Ground.

But a very special Wednesday as it's the 600th WOYWW!

I managed to visit some of you last week - but the internet was against me in the holiday house  - however I am home again after a lovely week...It was great to see the granddaughters and even do some crafting with them.

My daughter and I have been making some simple felt Christmas Tree decorations. When Jasmine saw them she wanted to make a flamingo...

Anyway here's my desk picture for WOYWW 600!

First - I have yet to turn over and make my December calendars...

I am in the process of making my last few tags for 25 Days of Christmas Tags. I have now made at least one for each day! The desk is scattered with Christmas embellishments - part of a gift from the virtual retreat with Hillbilly Scrappin'. You can also see an envelope - this contains the prize I won on the Coffee Lovers Hop from CAS-ual Fridays - a selection of stamps...

 

These are the hexagonal tags you can see: 

I cut and drew the hexagon bases using my Cricut. The dots are Distress Oxides through a stencil. I then gold embossed the star stamp.While I was playing with my Cricut I also made the hats for these tags:

Apart from this I have not done a huge amount of crafting although I did do this bit of Madhubani Art after following a workshop by the London Drawing Group.

As it was December the 1st yesterday I put up our Advent calendar - made about 35 years ago by a friend (while I looked after our 6 kids at the time). The tree was made by my brother...

And I lit Day 1 of the Advent candle...

Have a happy 600th WOYWW !!

Tis the Season Day 24, December 1st

            

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 make on Leigh's info page...

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Today is December 1st and the first day of Summer here in Australia -

so what better than a picture of the sun?

This is based on Modhubani Art as demonstrated by Bandana Agarwal in a workshop with the London Drawing Group.

I started by painting my page with turmeric and then drew the design using red and black pens.

Happy Hopping!

 

Patterned Paper Challenge - December 2020

 

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!