Origami Christmas Tree

Had a bad start to the week yesterday, got home from work to find smoke coming out of bonnet of car, all is OK now and will hopefully remain OK.

 So decided as i had the morning off  this morning i would spend it crafting,

so had a look on u tube to see what i could make and found these origami Christmas trees,

they looked very difficult to make but were surprisingly very easy

From starting from 4 pieces of paper i ended up with 2 different, but similar effects, the first being my favourite,

What do you think

Shel,x

Damson Gin

After several weeks of soaking damsons in gin, i decided its time to drain it and re bottle it ready for Christmas pressies

I covered a biscuit barrel with papermania Christmas tree paper, edged it with green ribbon and put some green merry Christmas ribbon around the middle

I wrapped the bottle of Gin in green tissue paper and let it spill out over the barrel

Nice Christmas present, i think

And the Gin tastes nice as well

Shel,x



Wedding Card No 2

I have had a very busy and enjoyable weekend card making

Wedding Card number 2 made, i think I'm happier with this one

This time i used a white card, i used a silvery/grey shimmer textured card from papermania as the background and edged it with silver stickles but my hand is not very steady !!

I made a wedding cake from silver angel hair, I used some of Tia's silver beads for the stand and some ivory beads for the pillars between the cake

Fairly happy with the out come

So which do you think is best?

Shel,x

wedding card

I was asked by a friend at work to do a wedding card for her cousin who is getting married

at the end of the month, never attempted a wedding card before, i had some ideas but they never really turned out how i hoped they would, so, i may have to try and do another one tomorrow, then she can choose one of them or decline them both.

I used the gold angel hair as a background to the cream card, i then used some cream ribbon from my collection to make a bow,  i used some die cuts for the wedding cake and congratulations sign and borrowed a bracelet of Tia's for the pink hearts

Unfortunately it didn't turn out quite like i hoped it would, hopefully tomorrows attempt will be better

Shel,x

snow flake cards

I love this range of cards, especially the snowflakes.

I used on odd piece of blue  paper from craft club as the backing of the card,

 then applied some silver stickles to highlight the snow flakes

I applied a 'happy christmas'die cut onto the same blue paper and edged it with the silver stickles

More of the same but slighty different coulours

This time i used a lighter blue as the background and edged it with papermania bluey sparkles glitter

 Very simple cards but very effective,

well i think so !

Enjoy

shel,x