crazy girl's pressie challenge: as nice, cheap, original & crafty as possible

butterfly2001

mary-op wrote: »

crazygirl - brilliant pressies :T

Not done a lot but did raid the sweet shop yesterday so now have
three ''make it yourself'' snowmen -gravy tubs covered with snowman paper, and filled with marshmallows, choc.matchsticks,flying saucers for hats,chocolate raisins and strawberry string for a red scarf
three chocolate bars covered to look like reindeer -two male one female-female has red shaped lips and done with lighter card........used some little pipe cleaners left over from last year for the antlers
Recipe index box I covered now all varnished and the ''recipe'' letters stuck on it........recipes I printed out all inside

Need to get some pretty paper from the card shop to make a couple of kitchen organisers........maybe do that tomorrow.:)
Oh and have diaries all ready to be covered:)

do you have a picture of the recipe box?

mary-op

Butterfly -sorry I don't have digi camera or anything like that.
It's basically and index card box I picked up from charity shop for about 50p(I think)...covered it with floral paper, printed off recipes and sectioned them into 'soups' meat' fish.desserts and a hints and tips section then put letters to spell out recipes on the front after I'd varnished it to protect the paper
Someone on here......not sure who now.....started one in January doing a recipe for every month.
I've had a look but can't find who did it...........her box was really pretty.

Edit - just found it.........NEGirl..............if you put her name or 'Recipe Index Box' in the search box you should find it. Blow me, name of her blog as gone out my head.....think it was Country Heart and Home..........or something like that.

crazy_girl

Bro In Laws Birthday:


2 x £15 JJB vouchers FREE
2 x Name beer mats packs 40p
4 x Weston pear cider £2.74
Pint Glass 22p (hubby engraved it with 'Happy Birthday Fat Boy')
1m cellophane 19p
3m Curling ribbon 3p


TOTAL = £3.58

mum2one

That cider one is absolutely brilliant. x

mary-op

crazygirl -well done :T

Sons parcel now all ready to post

SOS emergency box -box 98p -inside all bits and pieces like batteries, elastoplast,pins,rennies etc. taken from out own stuff
Key ring made from pebble with hole in.......pebble from the beach (I know I shouldn't) key rings I already had, Printed out info about 'hagstones' seems thats what those pebbles are called
Two tea bags in a card holder -free samples
Worry stone from charity shop -50p
Sketch book covered in fabric -freebie fabric and book I already had
Tic Tac snowman - ? OH got the tic tacs so not sure what they cost
8 Fabric heart decorations made from free fabric samples
Recycle bag -shopping bag from freebie board
Football worry doll -boot fair -10p
Reindeer covered choc. bar -choc.24p.paper I had
Cup of socks -socks were 50p - took two pairs from bargain pack on the market
Coaster calendar -coaster from local pub...printed calendar off internet
Coaster post it notes........post it notes 50p -coaster freebie
Peg covered with paper for tea towel holder -already had peg and paper
Fudge kebab - OH made fudge and bought sweets so not sure how much sweets cost.......?
Flannel snowman -flannel 50p, free sample of soap and little baby mittens for hat -25p

Around £4 + a bit (think depending on price of tic tacs and sweets

(dread to think what the postage will be............lol)

crazy_girl

sounds good mary-op, can we see a pic?

thanks mum2one

mary-op

crazygirl - sorry I don't have a digi camera or anything like that. Keep saying I'll have a go with my phone but I'll have to have a long sit down and study of the instructions before I dare do that..........lol Bit of a numpty with techie stuff..........lol:rotfl:

If you've got a vivid imagination it might seem better than it really is...........lol

Today I made a button necklace..........3 attempts before I could get past the first three buttons without the thread getting in a tangled mess.........lol Still, I got it done, then got my free fabric samples out and picked out some to make ''soft trees''...............got one done.............(memo to self -must try harder !)

crazy_girl

youve so done more than me!

little_miss_moneysaver_3

Hi guys!
Has anyone a pic of the flannel snowmen? Made the reindeers last year so would love to have a go at the snowmen.

LMMS xxx

mary-op

This is the one I used

http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/washcloth-snowman.shtml.

hth

Today was spent making little boxes for my fudge kebabs.........thought they'd look more 'presentable' in a box. 3 more to do and thats them done.

Checked sons girlfriends pressies to make sure I'd not forgotten anything and wrapped her box up.

She's got
Chocolate covered with brn.paper so its like a reindeer.................choc. 25p (paper & google eyes I already had)
Metal bookmark - freebie
Flannel snowman -50p flannel, 25p for baby mitten I used for a hat, soap was free samples I had (small so I put three in) -total cost 75p
Phone charm - free
Bag charm -free (took old necklace to bits and use the beads)
Red voile bag with some red make-up in -freebies
Diary - 49p (covered it with some left over scrapbook paper)_
Coaster calendar - coaster from local pub, printed off calendar and covered coaster with left over paper)
Tic Tac snowman -50p
Fabric covered sketchbook and pencils -Fabric was free sample, sketchbook one of my own as were pencils (don't know why I seem to have so many)
Peg -old wooden peg from peg bag covered with odd piece of paper
fudge kebab - OH worked out cost at app. 50p

Cost - £4.00
(I put it all in a box I'd had something in and covered with paper from craft shop sale -£1)

So far way under budget but think I'll have spent more on others..........have to wait till I tally that all up.:)