Stamping on Candles in a Glittered box

Today I had a StampinUp craft workshop where we made a box and stamped on candles. The box was made and the hole cut in the top and perspect was placed in the top so you could see through it. The sides of the box were embossed with SU 'Heat and Stick' and we added glitter. The candles were stamped and added to the box. This has made an awesome gift box for anyone and the ladies had a great time.

Brayered Sunset

This is a brayer card I did tonight on CA. Brayering does make lovely sky or sea. I used the Stampin up stamp pads of Daffodil Delight, Peach Parfait and Tangerine Tango to do the brayered sunset. The snowman is a cricut cut from the Gingerbread cartridge. The trees and butterflys are small punches.

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Star Box and Star Card

I had a group of people come and we made star boxes. To go with the box I designed a card in the shape of a star as well. I love the way these turn out and they are such a great gift.

pillow box bag

CA last night we made a pillow bag. Thanks to Julia


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Sparklee signature

I have been playing round on Sparklee.com to make this bling signature for my posts. Love Sparklee and they let you do this for free if you have the sparklee.com added to it. So I have sparklee.com added. Real glad I let it added as I have gone back a few times to make different signatures and sparklie text. Check them out for yourselves.

Clam Shell Box for a man

I wanted to do a mans clamshell box to see what I came up with. I used the clam shell box design and have used Always Artichoke and More Mustard papers with the totally tools stamp set from StampinUp. I spritzed it with silver spritz to make it look old. Added faux stitching to the corners and handles and brads in Always artichoke. The stamps are stamped on very vanilla cardstock and hand cut and coloured with blender pens and ink pads adding basic grey and not quite navy to the colours above.

Elongated pillow box

Julia from Julias Cards is my upline in SU. She is a wonderful designer and is always coming up with intriguing ideas. This is the pressie she gave me at Regionals it is an elongated pillowbox. It was filled with pineapple lumps but as the label says" so much chocolate so little time"

Cupcake cards and box

A box of cards. These cards are only 2 inches square and they are soo cute. We made them art Regionals last weekend along with the box to put them in.

Top Note Die Draws

Over at Crafters anonymous we have a Monday night online course wher we make something we havent seen with instructions given to us via the chat. This has some interesting results and makes one realise how important communication is. I have often quoted

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

I think of this so often when I am doing the online class and it makes me realise when teaching it is so important to be able to communicate so people underwstand what it is they need to do.

This Monday we made a top note die set of draws. I didn't quite get them how they were supposed to be but I loved the way they turned out and the person I gave them to will enjoy them as in each draw I put 3 jokes to make her laugh. I hope you enjoy looking at my little set of draws.
The cardstock is real red from SU and the rose is made from the owl punch and the 2 scallop punches.