Christmas Crafting Ideas by Flyingpig - Its Good To Share.

frankingmachine4u

Wow! i am a craft art lover!!! Thanks for sharing the images. I like them all. Actually, you just gave me a brilliant idea on what to give to my friends and co-workers this Christmas. So, big thanks to you!

mummyroysof3

hi, ordered a few thinks now so i can get making but i have a question, what sort of glue do you all use?

many thanks, charlotte

lizalloareds

macpep1 sending you hugs



hope everyone has a good day

hugs

Hollie84

macpep1 wrote: »

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:

:eek: how scary hugs x

vivw_2

craftygranny wrote: »

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

thanks so much - they look brilliant

genieuk

Oh this is annoying I am having to use code to add things, think my laptop is playing up lol. I have been making some Christmas cards using gift tags bought last year in the sale. But I have also had a go at making some of the treat bag with the chocolate bars in. Trying to be MSE here is not easy but have had a go.



This is a lidl mini choc bar - they come in a box of 11.


This is my first attempt using bags I already had along with some cardstock not used yet. I have a 2" circle punch already but not any nice stickers. So I punched out a circle from some cute gift tags I have. My writing is terrible free hand.


This one I have used peel-offs I have loads. The little chocolates I have left the wrapper on and covered with some free Christmas background papers from a magazine.

craftygranny

macpep1 Thats sounds terrible for you. Hope it didn't shake you up too much. As you say good thing the little one wasn't in the car.

craftygranny

genieuk wrote: »

Oh this is annoying I am having to use code to add things, think my laptop is playing up lol. I have been making some Christmas cards using gift tags bought last year in the sale. But I have also had a go at making some of the treat bag with the chocolate bars in. Trying to be MSE here is not easy but have had a go.



This is a lidl mini choc bar - they come in a box of 11.


This is my first attempt using bags I already had along with some cardstock not used yet. I have a 2" circle punch already but not any nice stickers. So I punched out a circle from some cute gift tags I have. My writing is terrible free hand.


This one I have used peel-offs I have loads. The little chocolates I have left the wrapper on and covered with some free Christmas background papers from a magazine.

Ooh they look fab i bought some like that but strawberry flavour i must do someting with them.

macpep1

MrsCrafty wrote: »

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 wrote: »

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.

Thats great guys, thanks, my accessorize stickers should be here (fingers crossed) by tomorrow, I don't have one near me so ordered them online, I got my Uni Ball Signo gel pen in yesterday and have already been playing with it I had to eat one of the CDM's to get the wrapper size :cool:

Thanks for all the wishes guys, I got home ok, guys in my work hoovered out all the glass and covered the back window up so I could get home, its getting sorted today so I took hubbys car.

flourgirl

genieuk. They look fantastic!!! I saw those in our LIDL yesterday. I hope you don't mind me saying this, but I think I would have put 5 in a pack, if they come in packs of 11 thats 2 packs and 1 spare to taste I love the paper you have used it matches the chocolate wrapper perfectly. I have made a note in my ideas book for another time, thankyou.