Sweet as Candy

To create a quick gift for a friend of mine I covered and decorated a box, which was then filled with sugar coated almonds - which I know are her favourite treats.

To create the tag which nestles amongst the roses, I used a stamp from the Beautiful Dreamer clear stamp set from Glitz Designs - the Epoxy accent sit inside the decorative border perfectly.

Product used - Glitz Designs Beautiful Dreamer Damask BD3548, Houndstooth BD3562, Trim TR3395, Epoxy Words ES3364 and Clear Stamps ST3265.

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T.x.

Beautiful Dreamer

Its that time of the month when I get to share a couple of projects created using the wonderful Glitz Designs.

To create this page I hand cut and layered up the floral designs to sit beneath my photograph. I cut one of the Peek a Boo printed transparent embellishments down to create the frame around the photograph and used a combination of Cardstock Stickers and Epoxy Words to create the title.

Product used - Dance in Sunshine Birds DS3463, Floral DS3418, Damask DS3425, Whatnot WN3159; Beautiful Dreamer Polka BD3579, Toile BD3555, PeekaBoo PAB3173, Epoxy Words ES3364, Titles TS3081.

Using a large photograph on this lettersized page meant that the photograph remained the main focus, with the addition of a small cluster of accents to embellish.

Product used - Beautiful Dreamer Damask BD3548, Houndstooth BD3562, Polka BD3579 Cardstock Stickers JS3050, paper laters PL3111, PeekaBoo PAB3173, Titles TS3081, Trim TR3395, Rhinestones GR3326, Epoxy Words ES3364, Teeny Alphas TA3227.

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T.x.

Two Turtle Doves

They say old friends are always the best and over the past few days Ive reacquainted myself with one of my old familiar pals - Mr Big Shot!
He'd sat lonely and unloved, gathering dust on the bottom shelf of my craft cupboard - well not anymore!
Mr Big Shot and I are friends again - long may this new found love last :)

Two Turtle Doves
1. Cut an 8 inch circle with a 6 inch aperture from a piece of chipboard.
2. Using Festive Greenery die, cut enough pieces to completely cover the 8inch circle. I used 3 sheets if coordinating Bazzil cardstock.
3. Arrange and layer Festive Greenery die cuts around the circle and adhere in place.
4. Add clusters of Holly with berry centres punched from red cardstock. I used my CropaDile to punch out the berries and the Holly leaves were gently bent to add dimension.

5. Using the Sizzix Snowflake #21 die, I die cut three snowflakes from white Bazzil and adhered these in to place. The remaining star centres from the die cuts were dotted around the wreath.
6. Using the Caged Bird die, I die cut the cage from black foam board and attached it to the centre of the wreath using red thread. Thread red cotton through a bead and then thread through the hole at the top of the cage. Stitch the thread through the wreath to keep the cage in place and for it to be nice and secure.

7. The two turtle doves were die cut from white Bazzil, using the Bird #5 die.
I cut 2 dies per bird and layered them up using 3d foam pads before attaching them to the cage.
8. Finally to finish of the wreath, I added a red voile bow and additional beads were adhered to the bottom of the cage.

We are going for the "brown paper packages tied up with string" look for our Christmas presents this year - for the little ones in the family we are using red bakers twine with candy canes to decorate - for the adults I'm thinking red hessian bows with fir cones and cinnamon sticks - the above wreath I plan to use to decorate the front of a Kraft coloured gift bag, which will be for my Mom's gifts to sit inside  - because Mom's are special and need that extra little something to show them just how much you love them :)

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T.x.

Fancy That!

"Its the little things" from Fancy Pants has to be one of my favourite's from 2011.

Pencil Lines sketch 259

Pencil Lines sketch 255

Pencil Lines sketch 253

Pencil Lines sketch 250 - and finally one from my all time fav manufacturer - Sassafras - sad that the Sassafras brand will be no more but Ive had a complete blast being on there DT for the past few years.

A photo of my guys taken in 1998 - I cant believe my Bobs will be 18 in just a few weeks time - where have all the years gone????

I just wanted to post a little shout out to welcome the new members of the Pencil Lines DT - Camilla Eckman, Solange Marques, Kerryn Lawson, Carole Maurin and Sam Ball - Im looking forward to working alongside these talented ladies - go check out there blogs for plenty of eye candy.

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T.x.

So Tweet

After watching Kirtsie's Handmade Britain last week I couldnt help myself - I had to have a go at making a bird for myself.

Hubs thinks Ive got a problem because Im now hooked to squishing paper and tearing tape!!!

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T.x.