A different christmas ornament each day

This year at work i decided to gradually decorate my school hatch by adding a home made ornament each day!  Seemed a good idea at the time but it has proved to be a job and a half and the time it has taken me i now regret doing this even though the children appear to have enjoyed finding a new item each day!

Same picture different cards

After the christmas fair i was asked by one of the school teachers to make her two christmas cards. One for her parents and one for her sister and husband.  She wanted names on them and as her brother in law is from south africa and called Werner it wasn't exactly an off the shelf name lol.
In the end these are what I came up with.

Aston by Sutton Xmas Fair

A month ago I paid the PTA £10 to have a stall at their xmas fair.  Since then I have made christmas cards and decorations to sell.

Well yesterday was the sale!  To be honest I was surprised by the supprt as this is the first fair I have been to since starting work at the school.

i was really pleased with the comments on my work, its so nice to hear positive comments from people who you don't know, at least you feel they are honest and not just said to appease.

The card stands that my hubby had made for me worked well but being wood are far to heavy, it meant more trips to and from the car, but that is a minor moan!

I actually took £86, not bad when you look at the prices set on items.

The only downside is that my knee has taken a hit from me standing still for so long.  Having gone back to work last week after only having a week off after tearing the menisci in my right knee, standing without moving  was just too much too soon, but at least i have a day to rest it before work tomorrow.

Have a heart

Have heart and craft!

So i got this patchwork heart from handmade harbour, and one evening inspiration struck!  I decided to make a flower with the heart being the petals.  So armed with my trusty promarkers i set to work.  A tad fiddly with some of the smaller sections but well worth it.

The left over coloured hearts i used to make a notelet card,    

Santa sweetie decorations

I have been watching youtube recently for more ideas to make christmas decorations.  There were a number of  films showing santas made with punches.  Now as you will see from previous posts I am having ongoing problems with the punces i own.  But i do have a selection of spellbinders dies.  So i sat down and had a play with the ones available to me.

A scalloped oval cut down for the beard works well, and with careful cutting can produced two beards.  My five petal flower was converted into the moustache, and yet again made two!

The smallest flower and there was the pom pom on his hat. The smallest circle makes the nose and the third smallest is great for the face.  A bit of scissor work and i had the hat fur, finally a hole punch supplied me with the eyes.

Must be fairly good as hubby actually recognised it as a santa lol

The cats decided to "help" by throwing items off my worktop, feng shui kitty style!

Christening card

So a friend of my daughter wanted a christening card made for her nephew.  Not a theme i have made before, but armed with two rubber stamps from Lili of the Valley, i had a go.

Coloured with promarkers and layered over doileys cut using Spellbinders dies.  The finished accents were the three matching blue flowers made using a die from Spellbinders.

Quite happy with the finished item, to make it complete i stamped the church on the insert for the inside.

As this fits the theme of men and boys i have decided to submit it to Handmade harbours" challenge at 

http://handmadeharbour.blogspot.co.uk/

Halloween treats

I wanted to take part in the handmade harbour challenge this week, the theme being Halloween.  The shame is unlike the states we still aren't big on the whole event over here, although it is becoming more popular.  So it was abwaste of time making cards.  But having been making tree sweet decorations this past week for Christmas i decided to make treat packs for any trick or treaters that come to our house.

I used the ghost image from handmade harbour,  coloured with letraset markers and cut out with spellbinders dies.  The sweets the little ghost is holding were made shiny with crystal glaze.

A few sweeties later and the bags were atapled shut, with the image covering the wrong side of the staples.  I think the kids that call here should enjoy the finished items!