Quilled Christmas card

Another Christmas card. This one is a fairly simple quilled snowflake with some free NitWit papers and a foil snowflake.











I'm entering this into:

- Take a quill pill challenge 3

- MSE winter wonderland

- Totally Papercrafts Snow and snowflakes

- Delicious Doodles challenge 1 

Catch up after half term

Last week was half term, my daughter just started back today. We did a fair few craft projects getting ready for Christmas.



We made soap and bath bombs in mini cupcake moulds - chocolate scented to match the lipbalms. I'll make some boxes to put them in and DD can decorate and give to our family.

DD has been invited to a few birthday parties. For the one little girl we made a memory wire bracelet - I'm a convert after the one I made for my Mum and invested in a few supplies from Sanctuary Beads on eBay. She made the pinky one and I made the other two for family.




She also made all the Christmas cards for her classmates.

I've had a good craft week too. I won my first candy :D




A beautiful selection fromSamuel Taylors. It had some lovely things that I haven't played with before. Haven't had the time to play with it - just looking and stroking :) I'm hoping to have a day to play next week.

Today was my craft club we played with resist techniques and distress inks.



I'd like to enter this one in the latest MSE challenge.





I bought Do Crafts Creativity magazine and I am on page 78 with a card I made for the competition





Lastly added to my stash with these quilling dies - great fun.




Phew - long post! Should have restored order and be back to normal by next week.

Christmas gift

Just finished this lovely bracelet for my Mum. It's a memory wire bracelet so should stretch to fit. I made it from a kit bought on eBay. It was fairly easy to do.

Craft club week 1

We made 2 cards this week. First one is a really simple and elegant Christmas card.




There's a snowflake embossed pattern. There was a sentiment that I didn't have time to stick on but I lost it on the way home. I like it as is though.

This one was using distressing inks.




I found the proper ink applicator made it much easier to get a smooth effect. We squirted water and blotted to make the snow effect. Didn't have time to colour it in during the class, so I painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours when I got home.

Christmas wrapping

I've spent the morning making boxes and tying ribbons for the Christmas presents I've done so far. Love the Crafters Companion Ultimate Pro for making boxes - it's very quick.



I've got quite a big family but I'm nearly done. Just a few of the more awkward people to buy for - thought I had them sorted but the gadget shop cancelled the order as they are moving warehouse. I'm waiting for the shop to reopen. I've also got to make some soap and bathbombs with my daughter for her to give.

More Christmas cards

I made a big batch of cards last week with the Smirk Christmas kit.


The kit was only £10 and I've not used much at all.






They are all very simple as the backing papers are very decorative.












The remaining papers are simple so I can do some stamping and more elaborate cards.

Painting for my Sister

I painted this picture for my Sisters Christmas present with acrylics - they were her 3 dogs who passed away. I distressed a plain pine box frame and added decorative quilling to the mount.

Christmas Crafting

I've had the day at home with my daughter as my husband had to go back to work at the airport today to help with the Pope leaving. We did two craft projects.



We made 10 little pots of chocolate lip balm. They need decorating, but my daughter has already decided one is hers. The kit was from http:\\bathbomb.biz and was very easy to use. There are enough raw ingredients to make a few more, just need to get some more pots to put it in.

We also made 24 little Christmas tree ornaments, again from a kit. This time from create and craft. They were nice and simple for daughter to do. I just cut the pipe cleaners and made the loops for her and she did the rest. They look very sweet too, will be nice on a tree.

Quilled Chess Set

I've made my first Christmas present - a quilled chess set. With the base made from chip board. This is for my Dad

First Cristmas cards of 2010

So I made my first Christmas cards. They were made with some Dufex topers I bought in the sales last year.