Christmas Crafting Ideas by Flyingpig - Its Good To Share.

piglet27

Thank you sooo much for that , you are all great on here, very talented at the crafty stuff. First year i'm being crafty for christmas (normally only crafty with the kids so nice to have a purpose!) i can tick another job off my list now, wanted to do these for ages after seeing these posts.

hogshead

We have a cadbury oulet locally which have boxes & bags of minatures so I will see what price they are otherwise HB here I come.
Thanks for the heads up on red pom poms, I've masses of parcel paper & I know I have googly eyes....somewhere so just the brown pipe cleaners, hobbycraft me thinks.

Re the mini chocs how many in a box & £? again.

hogshead

mummyslittleboy wrote: »

They have got packs of red glitter noses in hobbycraft.

piglet27 they have some in the works 99p for 50.

Brill the Works, Cadbury outlet & Hobbycraft all on each others doorstep.
If I go to bed now tomorrow will be here sooner so I can shop.

RebekahR

flyingpig58 wrote: »

Chocolate spoons with hand painted handles.

These are gorgeous! How do you make them?

flyingpig58

Couldn't be simpler.

I got cream coloured plastic spoons and made the holly pattern using Sharpies pens - because they are sort of permenant and will write on plastic (buy packs from The Works etc and cheaper shops as they are expensive in WHSmith etc)

Any sort of plactic spoon will do though - this year I am using silver ones.

Melt chocolate and spoon a small amount into the bowl of the spoon.

The white chocolate stars are from Morrisons - sprinkle a few on the melted chocolate so that they stick on to it.

Leave to dry/set

When dry/set put in cello bag, add ribbon and tag.

Hope that makes sense

Hollie84

piglet27 wrote: »

Please can someone tell me where to get these bags from, been looking on ebay for an hour and am completely confused:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

i got these from a place called what,50 for £1 there self seal so keep the sweeties fresh,will have a browse on ebay for you but like Helen said they are the card ones,self seal.i do know hobby craft sell them but maybe a bit pricey:)

kemo_2002

Hello, some great ideas here! sorry to sound a bit dim lol, but if the bags are self seal, can you make then now and the sweets will stay fresh, only last year i made then without self seal and my marshmellows went a bit hard...

Thanks

Hollie84

kemo_2002 wrote: »

Hello, some great ideas here! sorry to sound a bit dim lol, but if the bags are self seal, can you make then now and the sweets will stay fresh, only last year i made then without self seal and my marshmellows went a bit hard...

Thanks

erm not to sure on that one,i have only made one bag of each up so that i can put them on my FB page for people to see then they can order in advance,im also doing a table at my daughters school after half term so will be making batches up for then:)

Hollie84

ladsmadd wrote: »

[QUOTE
there arnt any measurment on the packets :mad: will get my tape out and measure them for you when i get a few mins

hi hollie, thank you for looking for me, sorry for being a pain.[/QUOTE]
Hi i have measured the bags there 7 x4.5 inch wide or 17.5 x11.5 wide in cm
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/100-CELLOPHANE-QUALITY-SELF-SEAL-BAGS-5-X-8-/260673773376?pt=UK_Packaging_Materials&hash=item3cb15e1f40
have a look at these all i do is fold then down a bit lower then seal

just type in ebay cellophane self seal bags,or cellophane card bags

Bubble16

Hi Everyone, Some fab ideas and I am inspired to get crafty this Christmas! If anyone has a Buyology near them they are great for cheap "crafty" bits. I got a pack of new baby ribbon yesterday, five different designs, a metre of each for 99p yesterday which I thought was very good. They also have packs of 50 of the cello bags for 99p.

However I am after some pointers with die cutters. I have googled them so now sort of know what you are talking about but am still pretty confused as to how they work. Do you buy a machine and then but different plates or something for the different designs or do you design things yourself and then programme them?? :huh:

Thank you!