A little something for the table

I’m spending Christmas Day at my Aunt’s place and I thought a little ’something’ for the table would be nice.  I was advised that the “theme” for the table was burgundy, white & gold.  Now that’s nice & easy ~ It could have been “Star Wars vs Spongebob Square Pants”, now that would have been [...]

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Time to trim the tree

Here’s a very, very cute ornament that I have become addicted to . .well, addicted to making.

How cute are these? No need to answer as I think that they are SO cute and won’t hear a word against them. Can’t you just see a tree decked out with these?  Each wreath starts with 8 rectangles [...]

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Rubber Wonderland (A Christmas Carol)

RUBBER WONDERLAND
(Sing to Winter Wonderland)
Rubber calls…are you listening?
Glitter falls…bright and glistening.
We’re happy tonight, Our stamping’s so bright… Wading through a Rubber Wonderland.
In the craft room we can stamp a snow card, Send it on its way to a friend.
They’ll say did you make it? You’ll say “Yeah, man…and you can stamp one too, yes you [...]

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Keep It Simple . .

You had grand plans in July to make cards for all your loved ones, family and friends and now you’re thinking that perhaps you may have left it a little late for the grand production number that you had sketched out in your head.  Okay, now it’s time to spring into action to make something simple, [...]

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It’s all blue for Christmas . .

 .  .with a touch of white and Kraft too.  I’m not normally a ‘winter-scene-on-your-christmas-card’ type of person.  It’s the middle of Summer in Australia at Christmas (and those of you that live here know that ), where  is the sense in having glistening trees, snowflakes and Robin Red Breast adorning your Christmas cards? [...]

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I’ve been stamping . . . stacks . .

The Stamp-a-Stack season is officially underway.  There have been 2 already at the Chelsea Heights Community Centre and the ‘regulars’ are well on the way to getting their Christmas cards done.  We do 10 cards in a session and I provide 4 (suggested designs), but they can be flipped and rotated in any which way, [...]

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Time to start trimming the tree

 This was another card that I made while I was away- Relaxation can be so inspiring! For this card I’ve used Kiwi Kiss, Bashful Blue, Riding Hood Red inks and used Holiday Treasures DSP and the wonderful eyelet punch. I think that this will feature at some card classes later in the month. It’s a [...]

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Merry Christmas and happy (almost) New Year!

I have just realised that it’s been an age since I last posted.. I got caught up in the Christmas rush, was busy with classes at the Community Centre and Photobucket hasn’t been playing nice, so I couldn’t show you what I’d been doing…. you get the gist.  I gave up on the posting for a little while [...]

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How quick is this? Very!

Here’s a very quick Christmas card using the Very Merry stamp set 2 sizes of square punch and 2 sizes of star punch – Very simple, very easy ~ really!

Colours used are Real Red, Certainly Celery & Whisper White.  ‘Nuff said!
Michelle

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Bloomin’ Merry Merry..

Or should that be Blue Merry Merry?  I was inspired by my something in the recent Cardmaking and Papercraft & not surprisingly, it was my upline, Jayne.  She had used some of the in colours ~ Soft Sky & Blue Bayou and Purely Pomegranate ~ which she had used to create some lovely Christmas cards.  [...]

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