Christmas Crafting Ideas by Flyingpig - Its Good To Share.

pinkprincess1975

A couple of things that made me think of this thread whilst out and about.

Sainsburys have small gold star shaped bowls at the moment with their napkins and disposable cutlery-may be useful for pots of gold? Apologies if already mentioned.

Also if any of you have a local SCRAP store it may be worth investigating. We are members of our local one and for a cheap yearly membership we get access to a whole host of unlimited recyclable materials for free-treasures include brown, green and red felt(perfect for Christmas), old greetings cards-envelopes still useful, ribbon,lengths of foil left over from chocolate wrappings and white card.

craftfairies

Total Nightmare!!!!

I have been at my mums this weekend and while i was there my email has gone down and i have lost everything!!
IF anyone has sent me an email since saturday can you send it again please as yahoo has told me they are gone forever!

Lisa x

Bitsy_Beans

Oh dear craftfairy that's not good!

Can anyone point me in the direction of a link to the pretzel bags used for the Liz Shaw mints? Can't find anything on ebay but I am tired and so might not be looking in the right place TIA

mummyslittleboy

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

Flyingpig - Fab cards, I bought some 3D gift tags from matalan 20 for £1.50 which I thought were a steal

JoG - Lovely beaded snowflake

I received my SU punches this afternoon (thanks Craftfairy) so have been busy making these




Run out of bags now so need to order some from ebay.

Just spent an hour stamping up some more cards and they look carp Just not in the mood for it tonight (am tired and very ratty ) Have torn them all up and binned them as they're just no good.
Anyway I hope tomorrow is better.........

They look fab well done :T

I darent do anything today as have had one of those days washing machine broke and cooker has started to play up :eek:

I got my extended cutting plates today I think I have a problem here with my post going missing as over the weekend I have discovered a couple of other parcels that I havent received sizzix sent me more cutting plates which were the second lot they sent and there's isn't the only parcel to go missing.:(

pretzel bags I got from here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260670192166

craftfairies

i too have had 3 parcels go missing lately and roayal mail really do not care! It is so frustrating, i get proof for everything i send now as i don't have much faith in them!! i spent 40 min on the phone to various people at our sorting office last week just going round in circles!

mummyslittleboy

craftfairies wrote: »

i too have had 3 parcels go missing lately and roayal mail really do not care! It is so frustrating, i get proof for everything i send now as i don't have much faith in them!! i spent 40 min on the phone to various people at our sorting office last week just going round in circles!

It's so frustrating isn't it, I have had to chase all my ebay purchases and ring all companys I have bought from to see if there is anything else missing has taken most of the day:eek: Maybe I just shouldn't buy so much:( The annoying thing is 2 of them were xmas presents and just hope no more go missing as it has given me a headache trying to sort it out.

Saint_Chris

WOW

I've just come across this thread, and i've not had the time to read each post, i've had to flick through, but i'm so amazed, by what you have all done.

I do make my own cards, and i can make nappy cakes, but i'm going to now start and make some christmas home made gifts.

but can i ask a few questions 1st.

1 - for the mini advent calendars, which are made with beer mats, how do you get the corners so neat, plus do you just put 1 page of a calendar on it, or stick the whole 12 months on.

2 - where can you get strip magnet from, for the back of the pegs.

3 - Somewhere early on in the thread, someone made gifts in small silver/white small tin buckets, where can i get these from?

4 - i fancy making some sock cakes, but how do i make the cup cake at the bottom,

5 - are the 3d toppers from matalan

Thank you so much for taking time to answer.

You really are very good at crafting.

flyingpig58

AS promised I have done a simple Peg Fridge Magnet tutorial. Hope I'm not teaching my granny to suck eggs, but I know there are a lot of non crafters here who might appreciate a very simple and cheap starter project.

You will need


Pegs from Poundland/Home Bargains etc. usually about £1 for 100 pegs.



Some good PVA glue



Some ribbon, for ease I’ve used Anita’s self adhesive ribbon (99p per pack – with careful cutting you should be able to cover 24 pegs with one packet), but any sort of narrow ribbon would be as good.

Some magnets (available from HobbyCraft either in small packs, a foam sheet or self adhesive tape).

I got some house shaped magnets that they had free on the counters in Barclays Bank a while back, I'd take SEVERAL every time I went in. I cut them up into stripes and lasted me ages







Plus anything you like to decorate the pegs with, I’ve used wooden beads from a 99p wooden bead set from Home Bargains.

Cut the ribbon to size and stick down on the peg.

Glue the magnets on the open end of the peg.

When the magnets are dry, turn the peg over and decorate the reverse side (directly over the magnet)

I’ve added a few wibbly wobbly eyes and some flat backed gems as an extra fiddle fart>

Simples!

flyingpig58

Hi Saint-Chris - I will help if I can ..... could you copy and past a picture of the Advent Calendar you mean and I'll help you from there.

mummyslittleboy

Flyingpig thanks the tutorials you do are great thanks for taking the time to do them.

Saint_Chris wrote: »

WOW

I've just come across this thread, and i've not had the time to read each post, i've had to flick through, but i'm so amazed, by what you have all done.

I do make my own cards, and i can make nappy cakes, but i'm going to now start and make some christmas home made gifts.

but can i ask a few questions 1st.

1 - for the mini advent calendars, which are made with beer mats, how do you get the corners so neat, plus do you just put 1 page of a calendar on it, or stick the whole 12 months on.

2 - where can you get strip magnet from, for the back of the pegs.

3 - Somewhere early on in the thread, someone made gifts in small silver/white small tin buckets, where can i get these from?

4 - i fancy making some sock cakes, but how do i make the cup cake at the bottom,

5 - are the 3d toppers from matalan

Thank you so much for taking time to answer.

You really are very good at crafting.

They sell strips and rolls of magnet in hobbycraft.

Not sure which buckets you are on about but if it is these ones



Then you can get them from hobbycraft they do a small one and a large but it is the small one i used if its not these can you quote it so someone can help

The sock cake are just a sock in a cupcake wrapper