Christmas Cards

The design I decided on for this years Christmas cards is below. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the rich razzleberry colour from Stampin' Up! and decided to use that as my christmas colour this year. I saw a technique video on You Tube, which showed how to do a split negative image, and thought that would go perfectly with the the Scandanavian Season stamp set that I had from the 2009-2010 catalogue.

I was so pleased with this design. I can only hope that the people who received my cards this year liked them too.

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.

Christmas Preparations

I have been being a naughty crafter. I've been buying things, and hoarding them. That's not the plan!!!! When you buy, you must use! Last night, I got everything ready so I could sit in the lounge with my hubby, watching I'm A Celeb, and crafting at the same time. Imagine my disappointment when I'm A Celeb was cancelled for football. Grr. Still, everything was set up, and I got on with the job in hand, which was making Christmas tree decorations. I decided to make them double sided, as these things never hang the right way when you need them to, and here they are.

They are in Rich Razzleberry (which is my favourite colour at the minute) and use the Tiny Tags and Scandinavian Season stamp sets. I sprayed the Razzleberry cardstock with a glitter varnish before I punched out the Scalloped Circles, just for an extra bit of interest. I punched holes with the Crop-a-dile and threaded through the silver elastic cord. I'm really pleased with them and will be making more. By the way, they have chocolates between the 2 halves ;-)

In other news, we seem to not be making much headway with getting Tabitha to understand the significance of her glasses. Some days she'll leave them on fine, others she just throws them. She has 2 pairs, so that if one gets broken, she still has a pair to use......in theory anyway. Earlier this week, I discovered her usual pair were a little twisted, so I have been using her spare pair until I can get her into the Opticians to get them fixed. I put her spare pair on this morning, strapped her into the car, and drove to school. When we arrived, this is what she had done.

I have no idea how, but they are totally trashed. So, after school today, but the Opticians we go. At this rate, I'm beginning to think that laser eye surgery might be the cheapest option for Tabitha's eye sight!