All DP's and images are freebie downloads found via Digifree.
Fae asked me to make 2 money wallets for my friends little boys Christmas pressies, so what better than to combine the 2 challenges lol!... the PTW challenge and Fae's. I decided not to make money wallets cos I've already made them from us lol! I'd made a couple one of these sour cream container earlier in the year for my great niece who thought it was fabby. I followed the instructions here which were simple to follow. I used DP's and images from Pink Petticoat Rainbow Christmas and curling ribbon out of the January sales.
Card One ~ CS ~ stash, DP's ~ free download, netting, peel-offs and gems ~ stash, image ~ Hampton Art Stamps coloured with WM's and blinged with Glamour Dust.
I followed a tutorial from here. DP's ~ Pink Petticoat, button ~ stash. I've just noticed the picture on the gift card that you can just see dont half look like Eloise ..... ooooohhhh spooky! I've covered some of our message on the left, thats what that extra bit is if you were wondering lol!
CS ~ stash, DP ~ PP and a free download from somewhere, image ~ google search engine and sentiment ~ Cupcake sprinkles (another free download).
So, if you hadn't guessed these are the before photo's lol ... can you tell I hate having my photo took?
And this was taken about an hour ago. I honestly can't tell from the photos. I know I've lost weight cos those clothes no longer fit! Would be interested to hear what you think!
Mimi and Pig stamp. I just love this stamp and have had my eye on them since they've been released but not been able to afford them. I don't know if I've told you before but I'm Rylee's Mimi! When Fae told us she was pregnant I spent hours looking for different names for grandparents. I didn't want to be a grandparent anyway I was only 38, but thats what happens when you have kids when your still young lol! Everyone else (Scott's parents, my parents and the outlaws) had already got names .... Granny & Grandad, Nan & Gramps, Grandad & Nanny, Grandma and Great Gran ... there was nothing left for us! I eventually google searched "Grandparents names" and it came up with Mimi & Pops, among other things lol! Fae and Scott decided that they liked Mimi & Pops the best and thats whats stuck. Rylee knows who Mimi is but most of the time calls me Jill lol, and he knows his Pops but has decided to call him Poppy at the moment .... bless him. So thats why I love these Mimi stamps so much!
Not very good quality photo I know, the camera must be playing up again pmsl! I've made 10 of these, I know there's only 5 in the photo but they're not mine so they're not complete (still have one end left open for VBF Vicki to put her bits and bobs in). I followed this tutorial which gave me the exact dimensions to cut the wrapping paper .... a job I left Andy doing last night whilst I went to an Ann Summers Party! So, I used empty toilet rolls that I sterilised in the microwave (about 5 secs on high power ... tip from Fae when she worked at a previous nursery, before they said that loo rolls etc weren't allowed to be used in construction play!), wrapping paper on a roll, curling ribbon, red holographic card and scraps of cream and red card and my good old faithful glue gun. The photo actually doesn't do them justice, they look a lot better IRL.
On to the card ..... on Thursday when I collected Rylee from nursery my VBF Vicki was unhappy so once Rylee had gone home I set too making her a card full of hugs and some snowman soup minus the snowman lol! Which me being me forgot to photograph ...doh!
Scott's sister had a baby girl yesterday, that makes her 3 girls! I thought I'd use this sketch to make a card. CS ~ stash, DP's ~ Kay Millar and some leftover pink spotty paper and checked vellum, image ~ paper pieced and coloured with WM's and Sakura Stardust pens, dots are liquid pearls (seen Tab do it so many times on her cards and it looks fab ... lol not quite sure about mine!) flowers, brad and beadcap ~ stash, senitment ~ I forget where I got them from but they were a free download as is most of my stuff!
This next card was totally inspired by another blogging buddy Tab, she makes the most gorgeous cards and has an inspirational blog. I used CS ~ stash, DP's ~ dreamsfulfilled, Winter Wonderland, image ~ RAK but I forget who, coloured with WM's and blinged with diamond stickles, snowflake brads and ribbon ~ stash, sentiment cut again using Hippy Chic Alpha's.
Right I'm off to make my crackers now, but I'll be back later to post the card I made for yesterdays Friday Sketchers and of course my crackers!
I've used CS ~ stash and printed the image directly on to it. I've then printed the image out twice more and decoupaged it. The image is the fab Police Officer George available from Charmed Crafts and is part of the George at Work Collection. I've coloured George and his Police car with WM's and added a silver button to the wheel. 
Another pregnancy card this time .... it seems to be either one or the other just lately! CS ~ stash, DP's ~ Summer Driggs, ribbon ~ Poppicrafts, blooms ~ Poppicrafts, pearls ~ Crafts Central, beadcaps and gem brad ~ stash.
I've got to pop to Wilko's tomorrow for one of those tree skirty thing-a-ma-jigs. I didn't think about one of those with being used to my nice red pot! So thats with the flash off ...... and this is with it on ......
In case you can't tell from the photo the tree is decorated with icicles, snowflakes, jingle bells, 3 birds (not real ones) and some green feathers. Don't really think I could've fitted the baubles on anyway lol!
And then finally my faithful old swag .... I made this with a swag from Poundland and some lights and baubles from there too about 8 years or so ago. Most years I have to glue some of the baubles back on but I think it still looks pretty good! Now I just gotta clean up all the mess this task seems to generate.... yipeeeee!
Needed to make some quick and easy Christmas cards. CS ~ stash, embossed using snowflake and swiss dots cuttlebug folders, image ~ Panduro coloured with WM's, sentiment ~ pc generated.
CS ~ leftovers, DP ~ Summer Driggs, image ~ Magnolia coloured with WM's, button ~ stash, flourish ~ leftover from another project, sentiment ~ Rubber Romance.
