Merry Christmas

If my plans have worked then this post should be up on Christmas day (and not before).

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my readers a wonderful, happy and healthy Christmas, and I hope you are fortunate enough to have friends and family around you to celebrate with. If however you do not celebrate Christmas then I hope you still have the chance to be surrounded by people you care about and I wish you happy holidays.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, please call back again soon, maybe next time you will leave me a comment so I know you have been. Take care Dawn x

3D Christmas

We made one of these stylish crackers at our 3D Christmas workshop along with a gift bag.

Firstly we wiped our cracker shape with an anti-static bag and inked up serene snowflakes with versamark ink, randomly stamping over the whole design, we then embossed this with white embossing powder.
Using black ink we stamped a snowflake onto whisper white card and punched with a circle punch. We punched a black scallop circle and covered this with versamark ink and added heat and stick powder, we sprinkled dazzling diamond glitter over the top and briefly heated again, making a very bling scallop circle to layer our snowflake on to. We stamped, also with black ink, two tiny tags with a choice of words, mine say "merry" and "handcrafted" and punched these using the tiny tag punch.
We assembled our cracker tying the ends with ribbon and bakers twine for texture. We added the scallop circle with foam pads and the tiny tags with more bakers twine to bring the whole design together.

What do you think...? I think they are very stylish and with the black and white theme they go with everyone's colour scheme.
Thank you for visiting, until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x

Welcome Christmas

Here are three cards I made using the Welcome Christmas stamp set available from Stampin' Up!

The snowflake stamp is from my favourite set Serene Snowflakes.

The last card was one we made during our Christmas workshop. Please email me if you would like details of my planned workshops for 2012.
Thank you for visiting, until next time Happy crafting Dawn x

Christmas or not?

As you may of guessed I do love my house mouse designs and well this stamp is actually more birthday, as originally the mouse had a birthday candle balancing on his nose and naturally in my head he had a snowflake, I think it works....?

Thank you for visiting, Merry Christmas and Happy crafting Dawn x

Christmas Tags

Here are some of the tags I have made for Christmas this year.

I used a Tim Holtz die to cut the snowman shape and then cut the word wish, using another die. I inked around the snowman shape with a light blue ink, you can't really see that in the photo. I coloured the nose carrot orange and the hat black, I then glittered the hat with black glitter. I stamped the merry and punched out with a tiny tag punch, both from Stampin' Up! I added a small bell around its neck for the final touch.

                     I made a simple gift box with a window to keep them safe until I need them...

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog, until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x

Thank you gift bags

Here is what my regular ladies had as their Christmas present from me...

...obviously I can't tell you what was inside yet as they should be under their Christmas trees!
The gift box was cut from cherry cobbler card and stamped with matching ink using my favourite stamp set serene snowflakes. I cut the snowflake border from whisper white card and stuck around the bottom edge and the tag was cut also from whisper white, using a cuttlebug die, saying simply "thanks"
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for supporting me during the year as without you I simply couldn't do it! I have made some wonderful new friends while sharing my passion for all things crafty, Thank you and Merry Christmas.
Happy crafting Dawn x

Chocolate decorations...

Here is my daughter's first attempt at hand made Christmas chocolate decorations, all on her own.

She decided to mix white and milk chocolate. She loves baking and now she's getting older I let her go for it!

The idea was these were going to be a present but, yes you guessed it they were eaten before I could even think about the packaging, in fact I only just got this photograph, the next batch didn't get that far!!!

Dawn x

Happy Birthday Danielle

Well today is my daughter's 16th birthday, and where has the time gone? 

Like myself she adores gorjuss girls, so a card for her had to have one, and here it is...

The card base is elegant eggplant, layered with perfect plum, then perfect plum designer paper and pieces of perfect plum embossed for texture. The numbers were blank stamps and I stamped the design over the top. The main image was stamped with momento and coloured with promarkers, I am really happy with how this turned out, I have been practising colouring with promarkers to get this kind of blended effect.
Danielle loved it, she knew I would of made it but thought the image was printed so that is a real compliment for me.
Anyway, happy birthday my special young lady, Mum x

For everyone else, thank you for visiting, feel free to leave a comment, until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x

Christmas cards...

Got to play with house mouse stamps over Christmas too...?

I really like this image as it doesn't have to be Christmas. A simple card but cute?
Happy crafting Dawn x