Crafting for Christmas 2010, lets begin again......

whoopidoo

artydoll wrote: »

Heres my first Christmas present for me to hide,Hope my grand daughters are not looking,





All your items look so professional,mine always look hand made,lol.

He is gorgeous - I always think the same about my stuff I think we are our own worst critics. Your Grand Daughter is going to have such a gorgeous suprprise Christmas Day, I always used to love unwrapping my Mums knitted creations at Christmas.

in-the-beach-hut wrote: »

Mary - I bet the pebbles are gorgeous - great idea :T. I hoarded a load of pebbles at christmas to use in crafting but never got round to it, so they're just festering in a bag. May use this idea once I can face the rain and wind in the garden again! Did you paint freehand or do you have a stencil? Don't think I'd be brave enough to freehand!

Also wanted to share with this thread a notebook idea - I've blogged about it too but basically I've just covered some notebooks and made them look like a fab book I've recently read (pictured on the left), and given to friends as pressies. Here is the original book, plus my two covered notebooks.



I know notebooks have been discussed here before and the options are endless of what you can do with them, but couldn't resist posting my pic! Hope you're all getting on well with your crafting :wave:

What a brilliant idea - they look so effective, I thought you had done all 3!

Laura_D_3

Princess Tiger - I've got the decorate the cupcakes on my list already as I thought that may be relatively simple, although I'm glad that you suggested it as that means it must be a good idea :j

in-the-beach-hut

artydoll wrote: »

Heres my first Christmas present for me to hide,Hope my grand daughters are not looking,





All your items look so professional,mine always look hand made,lol.

He is lovely - my two-year-old is leaning over my shoulder as I type shouting "teddy" - he likes him! Bet your grandaughter will love it too :T I agree with Whoopidoo - we are always more critical of our own stuff but you shouldn't be - your ted is fab.

Came across this fab site last night to create beautiful word clouds:



You just type in a load of words (repeating those that you want to appear large), and then it creates a pretty picture like the one above. Might make a nice Christmas pressie for someone (if you did Xmas words in reds and greens) or just a personalised one with adjectives describing your mum/sister or other family member? You could print it out on nice paper and frame it to make a nice picture.

Check out the gallery for some more ideas.

PS I have already wasted a whole evening on this site so beware - enter at your peril!

whoopidoo

Oh I love that site - I did this scrapbook page with it a while back :P
Hmm - it's not letting paste the piccie link in. Keeps coming up broken link.

It's here though in-the-beach-hut if you fancy a peep

chillin_nutta

artydoll wrote: »

Heres my first Christmas present for me to hide,Hope my grand daughters are not looking,





All your items look so professional,mine always look hand made,lol.

WOW this is BEAUTIFUL and looks professional. I love it - i'd love this for a xmas prezzie all on its own gorgeous!

mary-op

artydoll -love the teddy:T

beach hut -thanks for that link. I'll have a proper look another day
Had another dizzy spell today so taking it easy and only briefly popped on here
Think its trying to do button necklaces sending me silly...........:rotfl:

Off to doctors Monday to get my ears checked out again

in-the-beach-hut

whoopidoo wrote: »

Oh I love that site - I did this scrapbook page with it a while back :P
Hmm - it's not letting paste the piccie link in. Keeps coming up broken link.

It's here though in-the-beach-hut if you fancy a peep

I'm such a blog virgin I'd never heard of wordle but having just peaked on a couple of blogs it's obviously very well used by lots of people! I love what you've done with it whoopidoo - great idea to keep a record of LO's words. My 2-year-old can't say Grandpa but says "bummer" instead - very funny :rotfl:

Hope you're feeling a bit better Mary x

susan42

I thought i`d ask you lovely ladies and gents,

do anyone know where i can get a machine that with shape card into corrigated squares, i dont know what yoou call them, i used to have one but cant find it anywhere,

i want to make paper/card like you get on cupcake cases. (Valleys and folds)

Hope this makes sense, not easy explaining by type, take care all....xxx:rotfl::rotfl:

Princess_Tiger

susan42 wrote: »

I thought i`d ask you lovely ladies and gents,

do anyone know where i can get a machine that with shape card into corrigated squares, i dont know what yoou call them, i used to have one but cant find it anywhere,

i want to make paper/card like you get on cupcake cases. (Valleys and folds)

Hope this makes sense, not easy explaining by type, take care all....xxx:rotfl::rotfl:

Hello! I call them 'paper ribblers'.

Kelda_Shelton mentioned them back on page 66, post number #1312 and posted some links (sorry, I can't post links yet).

You'll definitely be able to get one from Ebay, so give there a try.
Hopefully, it'll be easier to find them online know that you can put a name to the product
Hope that helps.

Sarah x

mary-op

beach hut - Feeling better today (I think) least no dizzy spells but woke up with stinking headache that won't go no matter what I do or don't do.
Didn't get around to doing much apart from covering cappacino box, punching holes and threading ribbon through the top.........just right size for egg box with bath bombs for foster daughter for easter. Oh and wrapped her pebble plant markers in a little bit of cellophane with ribbon round the top.
Fiddled with sons birthday card.........didn't seem quite right but I'm happy with it now.;)

whoopi - sorry -forgot to say yesterday...........fab scrapbook page :T