Christmas Crafting Ideas by Flyingpig - Its Good To Share.

li'l_p

For those of you that liked flyingpig's baubles and are mortified that Hobbycraft's are now £4.99... I have an alternative!

I found these in Poundland (woop!) today. You get 4 in a pack and I only bought one pack just in case my experiment on them didn't work. They have some blue strands of lametta in them, but I managed to take the top off and poke about with some tweezers and it all came out pretty easily, leaving you with a clear bauble, for you to fill how you wish.

They are plastic baubles too, which are great if you have children and pets as they don't smash if they fall off your tree! I have very few glass baubles left for that very reason.

I hope this helps everyone.



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Bubble16

HB in Newport had 7 packets of CDM minatures left at 5.30 this eve!

Hollie84

wookey hole fab makes i love them

bitsybeans i use cellophane bags to put my reindeers in,i ordered quite alot from there site but i know they sell on ebay aswell heres the link and there ebay link is on there somewhere

http://www.flowerhour.co.uk/Living-Vases_B2379H.aspx

Emzy81

wookeyhole Your makes look great, your bah humbug's look very professional and love yours and Bitsy Bean's reindeers :T

Great idea with the baubles li'l_p plastic ones are much safer for me because when the cats climb up the tree and knock then off they won't break

Flower08

Lots of nice makes again today

I went to my local Home Bargains today, got some humbugs to do the 'bah humbug' carton for OHs dad. Will hopefully get that done tomorrow. They still havent had their delivery of Cadbury minis - fingers crossed they will have some more in soon!

Emzy81

Any ideas on how to make a stocking holder? One that sits on your fireplace IYKWIM
They seem to be around £5 each and don't really want to waste £10 on those so was wondering if there was anyway I could make something to do the job instead.

li'l_p

For sticking on tiny gems I use a Fine Tip Glue Applicator, filled with PVA glue. The nozzle is pin hole (0.5mm) so it dispenses the tiniest amount of glue. I got mine a few years back but a quick search has brought up the supplier named on the bottle I have:

http://www.finetip.co.uk/buy-now.html

They are £3.25 to buy here but if you search around you may find one similar/cheaper - I don't want people to think I am promoting this site, I am just showing which product I use to help those that might find it useful.

That said, I'd highly recommend having one as I use mine all the time, and PVA glue is really cheap and goes a long way, so you'll get your mileage out of it. I use mine for gluing small dies cuts too; things like the quickutz shapes which can have small or thin pieces.

macpep1

Hollie84 wrote: »

i have spent this afternoon making the 3 nappy cakes needed by customers this weekend,just need to tie the bow round them and add the ingredients card then there good to go.off to town tomorrow to stock up on bits i need and hopefuly my round punch will be here so i can get on with the tree choc decorations

How do you keep them tiers together, I have bought all of the things to make a nappy cake as my cousin was due yesterday :eek: but I wanted to wait until she had baby so I could top it off with pink/blue teddy & ribbon, I have saw a few saying using dowels but I must be dim as I have no idea what they mean??? TIA x

li'l_p

Dowel is a very thin rod of wood, usually available in places like B&Q. I think Hobbycraft also sell dowel in their dolls house section.

People usually cut the dowel to the height of the nappy cake and push right down the centre to keep it all together.

macpep1

wookeyhole1 wrote: »

heres my humbug boxes. i got 3 out of 1 a4 sheet and done the stripedby hand, they have 5 humbugs in each and got 9 boxes filled with 1 pack of humbugs from £land



here is my flannel cupcakes got the flannels in the sale for 20p and the pearls was about £3 for 30 in the sale






here is my flannel reindeer the white flannel was 5 for £1 at asda, the brown were 3 for £1 at wilkinsons



sorry for size i dont know how to change it im doing calendars at the moment but using box card instead of beer mats as i dont go to the pub. im also making some bags of sweets and jars of snow balls. will post pics when finished xx

Great makes :T & well done, I only got one humbug carton out of an A4 sheet (cut it to 27 x 18cm!!) I printed the stripes off on the pc as I didn't have a brown felt tip pen to hand (at work) :rotfl: