Christmas chocolate

I wanted to make something for Tabitha to give to her classmates this year for Christmas. It had to be something easy, as I had to make 21 of them and as we all know, time is at a premium at this time of year. I found some Chocolate Santa lollies, and decided to make some 'envelopes' to put them in. This is how they turned out.

I used Rich Razzleberry ink on the neutral cardstock, and white craft ink on the razzleberry cardstock. I used the Scandanavian Season stamp set, and stamped over the cardstock, then foldered it into an envelope. I secured the envelope with some silver elastic cord, and added a stamped tag so everyone gets a named present.

I hope they like them.

In other news, our family has been hit with some very devastating news, which is going to make the coming months very hard. I may not be blogging much, as my energies will be diverted to concentrating on helping people who need my support. Difficult times.

Play time...

...play as in the nativity kind. This year, the girls nativity play was called 'The Stable Boy'. Tabitha's class were donkeys this year, and Ellie's class were angels. Last year, Tabitha developed her sickness after 1 performance (there were 3 and we had tickets for the third), and we didn't get to see her on stage, although her LSA did tell us she was none too impressed. This year we got tickets for the first performance, which was today. We were a little apprehensive about how Tabitha would be, on the stage, in front of an audience, who clapped, but there was no need to worry. Tabitha was fantastic! She actually took part in the play (with her LSA operating her arms!!), with a great big smile on her face. She is so loving this new year group and is joining in so well with them all. Here are some pictures of her on stage, sorry they aren't very clear, but no flash photography was allowed.
Then the angels came on, and Ellie was there, the brightest star of course, with a huge smile on her face all the way through the performance. She was born for the stage that one.

Tonight, we are very proud of our 2 girls. :-D

Card request

A very old friend of mine asked me if I could make a card for a very good friend of her's who is turning 50. I used this request as an excuse to buy in a few more supplies, namely patterned papers that I have coveted for a while, and this is what I made.It uses the Elegant Soiree papers, and stamps from the Occasional Greetings and Simply Said sets, with some basic grey taffeta ribbon. I used the scallop square punch to punch out 8 shapes, then used the teabag folding technique to create the rosette.

Inside the card, I added this.

I used my neglected craft robo to cut out the Very Vanilla cardstock, and cut out the 50. Then I rounded 2 of the corners, and stamped over them with one of the stamps from the Tiny Tags set.

All in all, I like it. I just hope my friend (and her friend) do!