Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Happy Christmas everyone! and as the title says I really hope you all a have yourself a merry little Christmas.  So here's to good friends and happy families and I will catch you in the new year!

Lots of love,

Emma x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: welcome Christmas, notably ornate and borderlines.  Ink: whisper white craft, cake crumb and baja breeze.  Card stock: whisper white, crumb cake and baja breeze.  Accessories: antique brads, pretty in pink satin ribbon and dazzling diamonds glitter.  Misc: heat and stick powder and sewing machine.

Oh baby it's cold outside

Oooh hello! are you all getting ready for the festivities?  It may surprise a few of my friends but I absolutely LOVE Christmas.  Usually an old cynic lol! but this time of year and to the annoyance of my family I have the festive tunes on the radio, cd and tv! and don't stop singing.  I have officially broken up from work for a week and now can truly be merry.

My card today was inspired from a memory of nine year old me wearing an argyle jumper with this sort of pattern on it - gorgeous lol!  Have a great day everyone and I think I will be back before the big day - eeek! can't wait.

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Henry wheel and welcome Christmas, ink:  basic grey, riding hood red red, lucky limeade and not quite navy.  card stock: riding hood red and naturals ivory.  Accessories: very vanilla seam binding.  Tools: piercing tool, mat pack and spritzer tool.

Snowflakes that fall on your nose

Ooh hello!  just running by (zoom! did you see me lol) with alas a didn't catch the challenge card.  A cute little batch of these were made and thankfully are now posted or hand delivered.  I can get on with the gorgeous task of pretty packaging, which I absolutely love if I have lots of time.

I can still enter this over at allsorts (it takes two), charisma cardz (last min Xmas makes) and daring card makers (Nordic theme).  Have a great weekend everyone and see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps:jolly jingles wheel.  Ink: whisper white kraft.  Card stock: real red.  Other: Papertreyink snowflake die and twine.  Button from stash.

The hands on the clock

A little simple number for you today using the extremely gorgeous forever young stamp set.  This was for my father-in-law's recent birthday .  I will be happily entering it over Cute Card Thursday's anything goes, Papertake Weeklys anything goes with optional dangler and Let's Craft and Create round and round.

Well this is the last weekend of the season of craft fairs for me and I have a bumper crop of festive goodies already glittered and ready to go.  I am the Ostreme centre in Mumbles, Swansea tomorrow and the old Swansea museum on Sunday.  Please pop by and say hello if you are neighbourhood!

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: forever young, pennant parade and happiest birthday wishes (hostess).  Ink: charcoal distressing ink, basic black and pool party.  Card stock: basic black and very vanilla.  Accessories: mini vintage tags and first edition speciality paper.

Grandad we love you

A little bit of fun and a smiley card for you today.  This was expertly coloured by my son to give to his Grampa on his recent birthday.  I have my card that I made for him to show you soon - so I will be back.

Have a great day everyone x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: all in the family, happiest birthday wishes (hostess) and pennant parade.  Ink: basic black, real red, poppy parade, wild wasabi, marina mist and daffodil delight.  Card stock: poppy parade and whisper white.  Accessories: just add cake designer paper and daffodil delight taffeta ribbon.  Tools used: petite pennant builder punch, square lattice embossing folder and 3/4" circle punch.  Other: papertreyink fresh alphabet stamps and spiral notebook page die.

Deck the halls

Yes it's official the tree is up and halls are decked!  To share with you today I have a quick little card that I made several of to add to my not so large pile of Christmas cards.  I will be happily entering it over at Crafty Catz Weekly (colours of Christmas), Daring Card Makers (holly) and Fab n Funky's (anything goes).

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: curly cute and contempo Christmas.  Ink: cherry cobbler.  Card stock: cherry cobbler, wild wasabi and very vanilla.  Accessories: cherry cobbler seam binding ribbon and holly berry bouquet speciality paper.  Tools: ornament and dotted scallop ribbon punches.

Swing low

So how are you?  has the 'I haven't bought a blinkin thing' Christmas fever hit you yet lol!  I did recently have a small panic but now that has passed I can get on with the crafty projects ahead.  This little lot is from my last class where we had great fun with the spritzer tool.  Hard to see on the pic but the tree has a nice glow of spritz pool party.

We made a matching calender (had the idea for from this lovely lady).  We stamped each page and added a few flowers to some of the months.  Super Ann to the rescue for the calendar PDF too - thank you ladies.

Have a great day everyone and see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!
Stamps: Forever young (p65/No122570), hopeful thoughts (p82/No121203) and thank you kindly (p86/No111700).  Ink: Basic grey (p94/No.109120), pool party marker (set of 5 p 90/No123002), Cajun craze (p93/No119671), old olive (p91/No102277), calypso coral (p90/No122939) and pear pizzazz (p 90/No119784).  Card stock: Basic grey (p94/No121689), Cajun craze (p93/No121683), very vanilla (p94/No106550), pool party (p90/No124391) and blushing bride (p90/No121690).  Accessories: First edition speciality paper (p96/No121878), linen thread (p107/No104199), rhinestones (p110/No119246) and pearls (p110/No119247).  Adhesives: Stampin dimensionals (p114/No.104430), mini glue dots (p114/No103683) and multipurpose liquid glue. (P114/No.110755).  Tools: Lace ribbon border punch (p116/No122362), itty bitty shapes punch pack (p117/No118309), paper cutter (page 107 No. 106583), scorer (page 107 No. 104154), paper snips (page 107 No. 103579), bone folder (page 107 No. 102300), stamp-a-ma-jig (p115/No.101049) stampin scrub (page 107 No. 102642) and Stampin mist cleaner (page 107 No. 102394).

shiny stockings

Oooh I am cutting this a bit fine but I HAD to squeeze the challenge over at a passion for papertrey (Christmas themed).  I do apologise again for leaving this place a little neglected, just crazy craft fair time of year.  Had one in my son's school on Friday - talk about Captain Chaos - whooohaaaah! imagine a million kids swooping in and devouring everything in sight and as swiftly as they came they left lol!

Anyway I will be back soon - I have my class projects to photo.

Supplies - stamps: Paperteyink's signature Christmas and holiday tree. Ink:  Stampin' Up!s basic black and crumb cake.  Card stock: Papertreyink's kraft and Stampin' Up!s whisper white.  Accessories: scarlet jewel bitty dot satin ribbon, ripe avocado saddle stitch and topnotch twill ribbon, scarlet jewel felt, scarlet jewel button, vintage cream felt and holiday cheer paper.  Other - jewels from stash.  Tools: banner borders die. 

Santa Claus is coming to town

Yes indeed he came to town last night along with a magical  musical parade which was wonderful.  Anyway back to my projects today which were for (ashamedly) last months class, I  know I've taken ages to post  sorry.  The technique was using blender pens and we made a matching covered lunch sack (a la chick n scratch here) which I made smaller to fit the cute 3" x 3" cards & envelopes.

I will be back soon I hope (nothing made yet mind lol!).

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: polar party, ink: basic grey, concord crush, whisper white, old olive and poppy parade.  Card stock: old olive, whisper white, concord crush and poppy parade.  Accessories: pool party ruffled ribbon.  Tools: perfect polka dots embossing folder, blender pens, word window punch, stampa-ma-jig and snips.

Calendar girl

Howdy folks and happy Friday and happy convention weekend to all my fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators who are lucky enough to attend this year's convention in Disneyland Paris!  More projects from the recent craft fairs, the top one being a covered chipboard coaster memo set.  The others being my go to all time favourite calendar quickies - LOVE them ( tutorial from the lovely Lesley here).

Have a great weekend everyone and see you soon x

Birdhouse in your soul

Hiya! and hope you are well.  Will have to be super duper quick today as I would like to sneak a post in  but will have to leave you with just a little pic of the chocolate cabins/robin houses I made for my recent fairs.  I first saw these over at the lovely Jo's place.  I have changed mine slightly to add a crimped, inked and glittered roof.

Have a great day everyone and see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Card stock: real red, garden green crumb cake and chocolate chip.  Ink: whisper white craft.  Misc: dazzling diamonds glitter and word window sheets .  Tools: mini milk carton die, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1" circle punch, crimper, cropadile and bird builder punch.  Other: red bakers twine from stash and mini chocolate Christmas puddings.

Eights days a week

Well that's exactly how many days in a week that would be useful to me right now lol!  As you see can see I do have a good excuse for not being around for a bit, besides working full time and family stuff I have been to (what feels like a million) craft fairs.  These particular pics are from my time at Swansea's National Waterfront Museum.

A few close ups for you now on some felt hearts and good old snowman soup, for which my son had to taste test lots of samples! 

I do so love going to fairs but you must excuse as I go for a lie down in a dark room.  I have a few more projects to show you this week so I will see you soon x

Penguins & polar bears

What a find of a song title, honestly it's by the band Millencolin ?!  I know I've never heard of them (goodness I hope it's not rude lol!).  Anyway today completes the trilogy of cards made from the scrumdidlyumptious tags & tickets scrappin kit.

Have to scoot - I have a two day craft fair this weekend at Swansea's National Waterfront Museum and I am up to my armpits in glitter, marshmallows and robins - happy days!  I will be happily entering this over at Papertake weekly (anything goes) and Sweet Stampin (anything goes).  See you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: polar party and contempo Christmas. Ink: basic grey, poppy parade and baja breeze. Card stock: baja breeze and confetti white. Paper and die cuts from tickets & tags simply scrappin kit. Accessories: antique brads and baja breeze seam binding. Tools: two tags die and 1 3/4" circle punch.

There's a ghost in my house

Today shows the finale from this seasons Halloween projects which were served at Friday night's party.  Each guest had a wee bag (see a few posts down) together with my super quick mini bookmarks made from Stampin' Up!s two tags die.  Along with the mini milk carton die for Mr Frankenstein below they made a super quick treat-tastic prezzy & prize.

I will be happily entering them over at Crafty Catz (Halloween), Fab 'n' Funky (Hubble, bubble, toil & trouble) and stampin for the weekend (spooky!).  Be good everyone and remember if you can't be naughty be nice lol!

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Ink: basic black and whisper white.  Card stock: whisper white, basic black, pumpkin pie, rich razzleberry and lucky limeade.  Accessories: basic black grosgrain ribbon, basic jewels and clip assortments.  Tools: word window punch, two tags Bigz die, mini milk carton Bigz L die, owl builder punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, decorative label punch.  Other: Papertreyink Halloween treats & sweets stamps & dies, assorted buttons and Halloween paper.  Black twine.

It's my party!

It's my 'polar party' and here we are again with this fab set, together with the tickets & tags paper, die cuts and those antique brads which are stonkin!  The trio of cards I have made with this set were great practice for my 'blending' techniques class which is being held today, where we will be using this set along with some ace techniques with blender pens.  I have a couple of spaces left for my now bi-monthly class on the 4th of November, so please drop me a line for more details.

I will be happily entering this over at Charisma cardz (anything goes).  Have a great day everyone and wish me luck as I brave a houseful of kids for our Halloween party - oh lordy lol!

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: polar party. Ink: basic grey, tea stain ink from distressing essentials kit, poppy parade and baja breeze. Card stock: crumb cake and confetti white. Paper and die cuts from tickets & tags simply scrappin kit. Accessories: antique brads and baja breeze seam binding.

Ticket to ride

If I could insert a Homer like drooling sound I would do it for this paper kit from Stampin' Up!  It's called ticket & tags and is seriously gorgeous!  Although not obviously festive I think it works so well, this kit will also be fab for masculine cards to.  If I get chance I will photo the kit (minus some pieces used lol!) to show you just how yummy it is.

Anyway I have made a few cards from the kit and I think they will be my special people cards this year :D  I will be happily entering this over at Totally Paper Crafts (layer upon layer).

Have a great day & see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: polar party and pennant parade.  Ink: basic grey, tea stain ink from distressing essentials kit, poppy parade and baja breeze.  Card stock: baja breeze and confetti white.  Paper and die cuts from tickets & tags simply scrappin kit.  Accessories: antique brads and baja breeze seam binding.  Tools: jewelry tag and 1 3/4" circle punch.

Bat out of hell!

Along with a pussy cat, pumpkin and spider lol!  Yes this motley crew will form part of the Halloween festivities this Friday evening.  If I have time I will also be making some mini milk carton Frankensteins - we'll see.

I will happily entering them over at Allsorts challenge (Halloween), Charisma Cardz (embossing) and Creative Card Crew (spooky fun again).

Have a great everyone and see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: tiny tags.  Ink: basic black, whisper white and versamark.  Card stock: whisper white, basic black, lucky limeade, pumpkin pie and rich razzleberry.  Accessories: rich razzleberry striped grosgrain (retired), black grosgrain ribbon, basic jewels,  black cosmo glitter and white embossing powder.  Other: papertreyink Halloween treats & sweets stamps & dies.  Black twine, bakers twine and googly eyes from stash. 

Get your freak on

Morning and welcome to this year's Halloween invitations.  Every year (although I do say after each one I'm not doing another!) we throw a Halloween party for kids and adults at ours. 

As you can see an extra surprise inside!  I will be happily entering this over at Creative Card Crew (spooky fun), My Time to Craft (punches & dies) and Papertake Weekly (spooky hues).

Have a great weekend everyone and see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up! (R)

Ink: basic black, whisper white and versamark.  Card stock: basic black, whisper white and pumpkin pie.  Accessories: pumpkin pie grosgrain.  Misc: heat n stick powder fine galaxy glitter.  Tools: two tags die.  Other: PTI Halloween treats & sweets stamps, Bitty Halloween Treats & Sweets Die Collection, Halloween prints paper.  Bo Bunny spider web stamp, black twine from stash, sewing machine, computer generated sentiment and doodlebug letters.

Three is the magic number

Hello and I firstly must apologise for the tiny picture - I struggled a wee bit to get all three cards in the shot - I was hoping for more of a close up.  Oh well this is fodder for upcoming craft fairs and also these will be my go to clean and simple Christmas cards.  I am absolutely in LOVE with Stampin' Up!s polar party stamp set - the images are just fabby.

Have a great day & see you  soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: polar party, ink: whisper white craft and basic black.  Card stock: night of navy, crumb cake and always artichoke.  accessories: basic rhinestones.  Other: various pearls and jewels from stash.

Material girl

Morning! as promised (even though a little later than planned) some new Stampin' Up! designer fabric which I have actually used! and not just stroked and put back carefully into it's packaging lol!  It's called timeless portrait and it's beautiful.  I made this brooch/clip by ironing some heavyweight interfacing onto the fabric then to cut the flowers I used Stampin' Up!s fun flowers bigz die through my big shot - how easy is that! 

The other great thing is for the centre embellishment I used a designer button with basic rhinestones and pearls placed on top and added crystal effects glue on top and left to dry to make a super blingy centre to top it off.  Together with the top note die to present the whole shebang - I think it all looks pretty snazzy!

Have a great day & see you soon.

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: handcrafted, ink: whisper white craft, card stock: basic black, accessories: basic rhinestones, basic black designer button and basic pearls.  Fabric: timeless portrait.  Tools: top note die, fun flowers die.  Other: heavyweight interfacing and brooch/clip finding.

Rocket man

Morning! and apologies for it being Wednesday (nothing wrong with Wednesday you understand) but have been flat out with workshops and craft fairs.  A little lovin  for the gals over at a Passion for Papertrey and Let's Craft and Create with this number which was for my son's friend. 

I will be back soon with a little Stampin' Up! fabric booty to show :D

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Ink: signo gel pen, pacific point and real red.  Card stock: real red, whisper white, basic black and pacific point.  Accessories: star brad from hodgepodge set (retired)  Other: Papertreyink: tiny treats birthday stamps and banner die, Waltzingmouse: say it loud stamps, copics and quick cutz embossing folder.