Celebrations

Hi

I hope you had a very happy Christmas.

At Crafty Boots Challenges we are still in the party mood and the current challenge is all about celebrations.

I have designed a wedding invitation and RSVP card for a friend who is getting married in the spring (I thought it best to delete the personal information, sorry about the gaps in the text).  The colour theme of the wedding is purple so the invitation had to have lots of purple and a slash of silver.

Make sure you check out the blogs of my fellow design team members, they have come up with some pretty stunning ideas.

I hope you all have a very safe and prosperous New Year.

Dionne

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

I think I shall have to make this my last Christmas card post for 2011 because the big day is rapidly approaching.

I hope you all have a very happy holiday and I wish you and your family peace and goodwill.

Dionne

Magical Winter

I make and send a lot of Christmas cards every year and as much as I would like to stamp and colour every one, I just do not have the time but this year the fabulous Nikky Hall came to my rescue with her Magical Winter CD.

These images are so sweet and all I had to do to them was print them on some of the Crafty Boots Deluxe Crafters Card, add glitter and polar white Flower Soft.  A little glitter card for the background and then add a die cut shape or some buttons and I was done.

Oh, the sentiments were also from the Crafty Boots website.

Oh Christmas Tree

I recently saw a card where someone had used a die to emboss directly into the card, it was very effective and I thought my new Christmas Tree die would be perfect for this.

I was very impressed, it was quick, easy and quite sophisticated.  After running the die through by Grand Calibur, I added some colourful flat backed gems and a sentiment from Kanban Crafts.

Next year everyone could be getting this card from me!

Christmas is Coming

I have at last finished making my Christmas cards.  I am normally far better organised and I make my cards in August but this year August was very hectic and I only made about 30 cards.  This week I made another 65 and I hope this will be enough.

In the UK, yesterday was the last posting day for guaranteeing second class post to be delivered before Christmas Day.  So, early yesterday there I was, in the Post Office, buying my stamps.

Whilst all of my Christmas cards are different, they are all very similar so I do not think I shall be posting them all here as it could get rather boring.  But here a few of them .........

I really love these star and the Christmas tree dies from Memory Box and they feature very heavily in my cards this year.  Oh, you will probably notice that I also love using glitter card on my Christmas cards, I really think you have to have a bit of glitter at Christmas.

All of the stamps I have used for the above cards come from the Sugar Nellie range and the sentiments are from Kanban Crafts.

If I have time, I will post a few more of my Christmas cards later.

Crafty Boots Challenge Blog Hop

 

Hi

My thanks to everyone who left comments on my last Crafty Boots DT post and entering the blog hop competition.  I am delighted to be able to announce that the lucky crafter who has been randomly selected to win some crafty goodies is ....

CLAIRE

To claim your prize, please email Stephanie-Emma your delivery details.  Her email address is:

stephanie-emma@craftyboots.co.uk

Congratulations Claire!

Dionne

Snowflake Christmas Tree Decorations

Hi

A big welcome to everyone who has found their way here via the Crafty Boots Challenge blog.  The current theme is Christmas.

I think I may have been watching a little too much Kirstie Allopp for I have definitely stepped outside my comfort zone with this project.  I do not think I have baked biscuits since I was at school and I have never been so ambitious as to attempt to bake my own snowflake shaped Christmas tree decorations but I thought that this year I would give it a go.  I don't think they turned out too bad.

Don't forget to visit the other DT members blogs, they have made some pretty spectacular things this again this week.

Right, I'm off to start stringing popcorn.

Dionne