Archive for December, 2011:
Day Thirteen
That was badly planned that I end my Christmas Create Down day 13! I hope I do not bring bad luck to Christmas… No I am sure it will be fine. I love Christmas eve we have so many little traditions that have formed over the years and my beautiful little niece who I just love and adore more then anything are so excited for Santa to come. Tonight we are building and decorating our ginger bread houses, we also have late dinner which is just the adults which is so nice because tomorrow is all about the kids, after dinner my sister and I will wrap all the kids gifts and set up the room where the gifts are for the kids to go crazy in the morning. We normally did not get much sleep but it is such fun.
It is only fitting to show you what I have made to go on my Christmas table this year, I always like to have a little sweet gift at each place setting, inside is 4 Hershey Nuggets, I love the little bell hanging off the bow.
Now I do have more Christmas project’s and simple cards that I made through the year, I will pop them in a folder in my facebook to help with Christmas inspiration next year. I will not wish you Merry Christmas yet I will pop back tomorrow and say that but happy Christmas Eve.
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Christmas is only days away, today I have my last market and class for the year then I have a few weeks off to relax, create and get organised for 2012. I have only a few projects left in my Christmas Create Down, this time around I have this cute stocking cash wallet, I have heat embossed all the stamping in Cherry Cobbler EP and I added glass glitter which I am a little in love with. I am SO happy SU! now have a 1″ square punch and it works perfect with the new postage stamp punch, such a cute couple.
Open the flap and I have the cash…
Day Eleven…But Posted a Day Late
That’s right I talk myself up on day 10 about how good I have been posting then completely forget to post on day 11! Sorry, but I got all court up in Christmas preparations, baking which did not go as planned and making items for our last market of the year. As I mentioned in day 10 I was baking sugar cookies, well I did have a little helper my niece Bailey, the plan was to bake these cookies and put them in boxes I had made to give to some of our close family friends and I also made boxes that different images from “Creatively Yours” and give to some of my neigbours BUT baking is SO not my thing, my sister is amazing at it and everything she bakes is yummy… ME normally always fail! Long story short after3 batches I had no cookies I was happy to give away or feed to a human so that mission was cancelled now I have lots of these boxes below to store until next year when I try this baking thing again.
Side view.
Day Ten
Wow I am in a little shock I have made it to double digits in my Christmas Create Down YAY 10 days straight of posting that must be a PB {Personal Best}. Anyway I will keep that chatter short, my to do list is longer then my arm with things to do before Christmas and having Bailey {6} off school means I don’t get as much as I hoped achieved, you know what I mean as you shake your head. I have sugar cookies in the fridge chilling and I am about to pop the first batch in the oven but you will hear more about them tomorrow… for now I have a card I make in a Stamp-A-Stack in December…
Day Nine
I was going to start this post singing the worlds to Joy to the World until I googled the correct words and realised I have been sing the wrong world for year and I was not even close to what it should be! Who knew the words were so meaning full I have just being singing that “Joy to the World, the lord has come: to sing and bring peace, let earth sing and praise the King, let heaven and earth sing, let heaven and earth sing and praise the King, Oh joy to the World, the Lord has come.…. I will stop killing the words to this Classic Christmas Carol. I am sure my parents are so happy they sent me to Catholic’s school for 13 years and I get the words so wrong, I am a little embarrassed that I am so dumb….I don’t think I should even be sharing this. Anyway all that chatter was about the card below “Joy” I have have used the same stamp set as yesterday Tag til Christmas and sizzix die to cut J and Y. I have used more glitter paper which I am a little in love with at the moment.
Day Eight
Are you on the naughty or nice list this year? I always think be naughty and save Santa the trip {lol} one of my favorite Christmas stamps is this one below from Tags til Christmas from page 24 of the Aust Catalogue, it is just the perfect greeting for many of my friends. I am going with the sweet treat theme here in day 8, inside I have a Ferrero Rocher. For those who are playing along at home and wondering how I made the packaging I have used the Two Tags die from the Catalogue in the same way I made the little Santa’s and Marelle Taylor has a tutorial here showing us how….. Thanks Marelle!
Day Seven
We are on the down hill run to Christmas! This time {as I type at least} next week it will the big day, the gifts will be open, kids will be playing, the adults will be lying on the lounge wishing that had not eaten so much at lunch {lol} well that is what will be happening in my house. Today as part of my Christmas Create Down I have Elf Kisses to share which I made as gifts for my little niece’s to give to friends. They are cute I think and I am pretty happy with myself because this is one of the first times I have ever used Garden Green from SU! It is just not my kind of green but it was a good match for the green kisses. I stamped a little on the header but mostly I designed the tag and headed on the computer… I am hanging out big time for Stampin’ Up! to bring MDS to Australia… Maybe I should drop an email to Santa and tell him I want MDS for Christmas {lol} I hope on the nice list this year?
Day Six
Do you have the Christmas spirit? Why you ask? Well, I have a little story to share with you. Yesterday {Friday} I was driving Bailey my who is 6 year old niece to School like I do most Fridays, we always have lovely little chats or sing {badly} to the music playing as we drive and it is always the best part of my day but this yesterday she hit me with a hard one, that bad I wanted to pull my card over and cry on the side of the road!
Bailey: Aunty did you know that if you don’t have Christmas lights on your house you don’t have Christmas spirit?
Teneale aka Aunty: Really? Are you sure because I think I have Christmas Spirit we put up my Christmas Tree weeks ago and I have lights on the tree, we are driving in a card that has a red noise and reindeer ear, plus I started making Christmas cards in July. I am more into Christmas then anyone in our family!
Bailey: No Aunty, no lights means no Christmas Spirit {said as she pulls a funny face and shrugged her shoulders at me} I don’t make the rules Aunty.
This left me in shock, being the last day of school I had made her gifts for her teachers so I played a large size “elf” helping her hand our the gifts… which I think is very kind knowing that I don’t have Christmas spirit! As I drove home her little voice was ringing in my head, when home I pulled out every Christmas light and decorations not being using and started putting them up on the front of my house, which was a massive job to get it done before school pick up but I was on a mission to find my Christmas spirit by 3pm… I am happy to report my lights are shining bright and that means I have Christmas spirit finally…
For day six of my Christmas Create Down I have this Christmas card for you, it was one of the first Christmas cards I made this year and it was published in issue 90 of Australian Scrapbook Creation magazine, I was pretty happy with the card and really like the colours. A card that is perfect for a special someone who will proudly display the card, I know the perfect person who keeps all my cards I give her and you know what she is my favourite person to give my cards to because she is always so delighted to open the envelope.
Day Five
In the worst off-pitch karaoke style voice I am belting out… You better watch out, you better not cry, better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town! It is a great open to this blog post with a Santa theme, today I have a simple card that I did as a Stamp-A-Stack in November and I loved so much I made some from a few of my friends. Super easy to create I have used Real Red for the Santa Suit which I think is just the perfect Santa Red and Silver Glitter paper for the buttons and belt buckle.
Inside, I have kept it very simple inside the card and the reason I loved this card so much was for the greeting, which is a old stamp I had before my SU! days but I had never used it, I think it was perfect with this card. I have a group of friends who are all getting this card and they are just going to laugh when they open the card, I know it is not the greeting to give to everyone!
I made up a bunch of this to be given with the Santa Suit card from above and some are hanging off bows on wrapped gifts, I should of taken a photo of that but I just did not think! I have made them using the small tag punch, this idea was inspired by my little Stampin’ Bestie Marelle Taylor who a few years ago showed me how to punch a longer than standard tag shape by folding the “base” upwards with you cut the card stock and she prepared a tutorial HERE it is not for the same thing but if you follow the first 5 steps without the stamping and that will show you how to punch the tag shape. I have punch a little Hershey Nugget inside.
I hope you are liking my Christmas Create Down…
Day Four
Woot, Woot… Two blog post’s in one day… This is just unheard of! I mean I am maybe the worst blogger in the world! LOL Well I hope you enjoyed my non Christmas CASE Study post from earlier in the day and now we are no to day 4 of Christmas create down…. With this cute little Santa owl…. A cute little card I have used punches to make him the owl punch, the pennant for the hat and large square for the greeting. I am LOVing the glitter paper from the Summer Mini which you can view online HERE.
