Christmas Crafting Ideas by Flyingpig - Its Good To Share.

jlp76

craftygranny wrote: »

Think it's only about 20 so just keep chatting and saying what you think of peoples makes and you'll soon reach it.

lil p my daughter brought me some of those baubles home today as she thought i could do something with them lol.

Thank you for replying Crafty Granny!

There some absolutely beautiful makes on this thread but I'm going to regret staying up so late looking at them all in the morning!

macpep1

lizalloareds wrote: »

Which B&M do you go to?

Hi, There are a few about me, I go to the one in Wishaw, I only stumbled on them by accident!

craftygranny

vivw wrote: »

i wonder if I can ask a favour - where in this long thread can I find the reindeer flannels - I really like the sound of them

Here are the instructions i think lots of the girls use . here

macpep1

cuddles123 wrote: »

Wow = the great ideas just keep on coming. Well done everyone.

I have cut out 4 more Gingerbread Men as I'm going to give one to each female family member with the Perfect Man poem.
Have covered all my CDM miniatures and need to decorate and personalise them as I'm going to use them as name tags on my present bags. Hoping this will work, and thinking about how to attach them.

What did you cover your CDM miniatures with? I got 5 boxes and have no idea what to do, don't want to put them in as they are?? Or was thinking of putting them in my reindeer boxes as is?? I cannot get a stall on 27th as its not for an organisation so I need to get a !!!!!! load of stuff done for the indoor car boot on Sunday :eek: and when I finished work, got into the car, closed the door, my rear windscreen shattered so glad wee man wasn;t in the car as I pick him up straight after work. Its getting sorted ,tomorrow and thats me £70 lighter that I really could be doing without :mad:

she_grinch

Well I spend one day with my darling Grandson and you ladies rush ahead and I have pages to read up on!!!!! Great makes all of you :T and the tutorials too :T.
I have spent the evening making more felt stuffies for GS2, tomorrow I hope to start 4 angels for my 4 daughters christmas trees, as for the first time since my operation 12 weeks ago I am alone tomorrow!!!!!

pointofnoreturn

Has anyone got the pretzel bag link to the ebay seller people are using. TIA!!!

Keiss_21

pointofnoreturn wrote: »

Has anyone got the pretzel bag link to the ebay seller people are using. TIA!!!

I got mine from here on Nov 1st. I got 200, so shouldn't need to get any more for AGES!!!

MrsCrafty

I covered mine with some darkish blue paper that came from a crafting pad from Lidl. You can buy big/huge A1 sheets of this from any art & craft store if you are making 100's for about £1.50. You should get at least 25 from an A4 sheet. You can do different colours as well. I haven't finished with mine yet. I am going to do some in red too!

flyingpig58

PRETZEL BAG LINK

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/50-x-2-x-9-CLEAR-Pretzel-Cello-Bags-/260688066504?pt=Uk_Crafts_Cake_Decorating_MJ&hash=item3cb23837c8

flyingpig58

To cover miniatures

I used three shades of blue A4 photocopier quality paper as it wraps round the chocolate quite easily.

Take one wrapper off a chocolate and either draw round it and make a template in cardboard to draw round ...

Or, as I did, make a note of the wrapper measurements and then cut new wrappers using a paper cutter or guillotine.

I left the original wrappers on the chocolates as they don't show once covered.

Using double sided tape put one strip at the end of the new wrapper , place the chocolate a little distance away from the tape.

Bring the tape over onto the chocolate and stick down

Then roll the chocolate onto the remaining wrapper, and place another piece of tape on the end and seal.

It may take a couple of attempts to perfect but once you've got a system/method going it's a doddle.

I've finished mine with Accessorize stickers (£1.75 a pack) and a bit of doodling with a white Uni Ball Signo gel pen.

Hope this all makes sense.