Christmas Trinket Box

Hi Crafters,
Are you all ready for the big Day?
I'm almost there, just a little bit of food shopping to do tomorrow and that's it, phew!
There's such a lot of work to do to prepare for a couple of days isn't there?
We will get to see family and friends that live away and it's a great time for catching up though.
Now for today's post I would like to share a little Christmas Trinket Box I made recently.

It started life as an ordinary brown cardboard box and I painted it cream and then added a strip of embossed speciality paper around the circumference of the base. Then added this gorgeous tassel trim at the bottom and around the lip on the lid. I used a small doily inked with Antique Linen distress ink and embossed the edges with gold embossing powder to cover the top of the lid. In the centre of this is another circle of the embossed paper also edged with gold EP. The fun part was adding the flowers, glass beads and ribbon to decorate the top. I had this on my stall on Friday and it sold within the first five minutes, I was so pleased.

Challenges

Not Just Cards - #9 ATG

Creative Fingers - #61 ATG

Bearly Mine challenge - Christmas Decoration - anything BUT a card

 

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Gift Bags

Hi Crafters,
I have been busy making some more gift bags for my stall tomorrow at the last market before Christmas.

They all have matching tags too.

Challenges:

Crafty Catz #259 Last Minute Christmas

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #59 Snowflakes ( they all have snowflakes on them)

Fussy and Fancy - #129 Snowflakes and ribbon

CHNC Christmas Challenge - #207 Urgently Needed for Christmas

Not Just Cards - #8 ATG

TTCRD - ATG

Deep Ocean Challenge - #93 Christmas is All Around

Diva's By Design - ATG
CHNC Christmas Extra Challenge - ATG

 

This is a flying visit today I'm afraid, but will try and catch up with you all during the day.

Thanks for stopping by,

 

Lorraine

Happy Retirement

Hi Crafters,
I was asked to make a retirement card for my husbands' work colleague and although he doesn't have a specific hobby right now I am sure that when he retires he will soon find some interest to fill the days ahead. So I went for a generic theme on his card and here it is...

I got out my 'All Occasions Dies' by Robert Addams and cut out the tools twice - once in silver mirri and once in a blue cardstock and layered them together to look like real tools. I found a picture of a peg board on the internet and printed this out to 'hang' my tools on. The wood paper is from My Minds Eye (forget which pad) and the sentiment was cut on my Silhouette Cameo in blue cardstock and layered on silver mirri cut to form a shadow. The pegs are tiny black gems that I found in my stash.

Challenges:
A Creative Romance - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - #60 Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - #237 Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Diva's By Design - Anything Goes
 

Hope you enjoy your day, whatever you get up too.

 

See you soon,

Lorraine

Fizzy Moon Wedding Card

Hi Crafters,
Although Christmas is on the horizon a lot of couples choose this time of year to get married and so I have been making a few Wedding cards for my stall - here is one of them...

This was created from the Fizzy Moon 'Mr & Mrs' Decoupage and Paper Pad. I used some grey pearlescent cardstock for matting and organza ribbon.
Don't they look a cute couple?

Challenges:

A Creative Romance - Anything Goes

Sister Act - #87 Anything Goes

A Little Bit Crafty - Anything Goes But NOT Christmas

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - December Challenge

 

Thanks for dropping in today, I will be round later for commenting.

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine



Carrying on with the Christmas Theme

Hi Crafters,
A short and sweet post today - lots to do but I thought I would share these cute little Santa gift boxes I have made to package some small gifts in for family at the Christmas table.

I've been using my Silhouette Cameo again and made eight of these for my Christmas table favours this year, - now to find suitable presents that fit inside. I read on Annette's blog that she had the same problem, maybe I should have done it the other way around, presents, then box -  ah well, they're cute anyway.
On a completely different subject, I've had to change my comments to embedded for the moment because of Blogger's silliness. Everyone has had this issue over the past few days with word verification being automatically switched on with the pop-up box comments and although you can still leave a comment without adding the numbers, a lot of people will not comment because they think they have to fill in the box. Also, although it has disappeared from some blogs that had it previously, it is still present on mine and is a bit irritating so therefore I have changed to embedded commenting for now. Hope this doesn't affect too many people as I do love reading your comments.
So glad you could join me today,
See you again soon,

Lorraine

613 Avenue Create Challenge #102 ATG / Gift Bag or Box

Hi Crafter,
Hello again, today it is Team B's turn at 613 Avenue Create to inspire you for the challenge this time of Anything Goes/Gift Bag or Box. A list of sponsors and their links are further down the post but here is my Gift Bag and Card this time.

Here's a closer look...

...and here is the matching 6 x 6 card.

Recipe

Image - Reindeer by Oak Pond

Promarkers

SB Classic Ovals Die

SB Floral Ovals

MFT Die-namics Fancy Flourish Die

Stampin' Up Border Punch

Papers - Dovecraft Back To Basics Christmas 8x8 pad

Stampendous Frantage - Shabby White Embossing Enamel

Seam binding

Glitter card and pearls

 

We are sponsored this time by

 



   Oak Pond

 



  Bugaboo Digi Stamps

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Not Just Cards - #8 Anything Goes (Gift Bag)

Crafty Card Makers and More - #129 Christmas

Passion For Promarkers - #277 Bingo Board ( Die-cut, Free, Glitter)

I Love Promarkers - #249 Pearls and Swirls

Creative Moments - #57 Anything Goes/Winter

A Creative Romance - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - #259 Last Minute Christmas

Sister Act - #87 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #60 Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy - #129 Snowflakes and Ribbon

Noor Design - Merry Christmas

 



It's not long now until the Big Day, I hope you are all ready and organised.

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club Challenge # 26 - Non traditional Colours

Hi Crafters,
This is the last CCC this year and our theme this time is 'Non Traditional Colours' chosen by Margaret .
I have used a Crafts U Print decoupage sheet for my card this time.

 

This was a very quick and easy card, just a bit of fussy cutting and layering and a few silver peel-offs which I am trying to use up. A rather fun little card though.

 

Challenges
Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Buttons
Scribble & Scrap - #33 Anything Goes
Come and Get It - Merry Christmas
Crafty Card Makers and More - # 129 Christmas
TTCRD - Anything Goes
 

Pop over (tomorrow) and take a look at the other cards that the ladies have made, (list in the CCC tab) there is some fabulous inspiration to be had from them.

Well that's it from me today I will see you all again I hope for my 613 Avenue Create DT post tomorrow.

See you soon,
Lorraine

 

 

Lorraine