MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIENDS..

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS DT

 Hello everyone,

Our Imke is hostess over at LITTLE RED WAGON  this week and her theme, one of the easiest.. ANYTHING CHRISTMAS and this challenge is the last of the year so you have extra time to play..

Bird making day..

and painted numbers..

Oop's got a bit carried away with the sander..

so had to repaint and more gently this time.

Punches were out and punching round stamped sentiments from LOTV..

ribbon and music sheet papers stapled together..

Need attention up the top..

Pine leaves die cut and a pinecone or two, and popped the bird onto the 25..

added the sentiment which is a bit white but I fixed that,

 and then I splattered snow paint all over it.

So there you go, 2 weeks to play so come and join in with us

HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by,

 and a very Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a happy New Year 2025 to all..

luv CHRISSYxx

ANYTHING CHRISTMAS..DT

 Hello everyone,

Well, it is my last DT post for As You Like It  as I'm stepping down from this fabulous friendly team, but needs must so this is my last post for them and it is Larissa who is hostess and with the theme..

ANYTHING CHRISTMASSY..well, that could not be easier..

So I went with these tags using some left over 12x12 papers and a tag die.

then gluing the tags onto white card and carefully cutting them out..

Made some fancy borders or edges with an old punch..

Glued them onto my hand coloured image.

Then glued those onto my spotted tags..Tag on tag

and done..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I will hopefully see you tomorrow..

luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter...

Tag Tuesday   ( Anything Christmas )

ACTION..DT

 Hello everyone,

Hope all is well where ever you are and hope you can come join me in a new challenge over at ..

LITTLE RED WAGON  where Kate is our fabulous hostess this week and her theme is " ACTION "..

anything that moves or an image of something that moves, vehicles, animals planes etc..you get the gist..

now I'm hoping my video plays, I had it going last time, then it stopped, so I have my fingers toes legs arms crossed that I have it organized this time. ..

This project all started when I was given boxes with clear window in front and sandwiches and savouries were delivered in them to my sons store as they won ( Again) customers service awards and were treated to a morning tea...

So my idea was to threading string through the box with a stopper,

 here I use a piece of toothpick after 

Threaded it right across and through a hole at the other end and another stopper.

Then using these fabulous scrapbook papers and I made a background scene..

See..

Then I started filling it with water colour moon and a Santa sleigh flying across it..

trees and snow banks..

and with the lid in place I decorated right around the edges with die cut fir branches..

I'm so sorry it is so dark, I don't know why it did that but I think it has something to do with those papers, they are very dark and a lot of pink tone in them..

I made a wagon which you can see here and that was it really.

I pulled the string and the wagon glided across through the snow and wow that was neat....but something was missing..

How could a wagon ride on its own, I needed something to pull it but had nothing big enough.

and Holly was not interested in being stuffed inside the box to pull my wagon although that tail was tempting dangling in front of my die storage....very tempting if I was three.

ENTER TEMU..

I found this wonderful and quite large deer die on Temu, he was also facing the right way, most of my deer were too small and facing the wrong way, this guy was perfect..

So I coloured him up and attached the wagon  to his hip.

This shows the scale of the thing on top of my book case which is about thee feet wide.

Okay, here we go, the video is below to show it working..I'm so nervous..

So there we...do come and join us HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by, hope the video worked..

I'll see you tomorrow..

Luv CHRISSYxx

WEDDING BOOK..

 Hello everyone,

My, I have not posted anything for a few days and nearly forgot how..

I've been super busy, getting the beans and other veges out of the garden and freezing them ready for the winter, which, with this heat , seems like an eternity away..my corn maybe not as high as an elephants eye like last year, but I have 8 cobs growing bigger everyday..cabbage will be ready for coleslaw on Christmas day, Cauliflowers doing their thing slowly and broccoli already in freezer, so I'm all set..for the things  I don't grow through lack of space, I bought, today, and cut blanched froze this morning, so that is all done too.I even made several bags of mushroom sauce as the local vege shop had a special so I bought 3 bags of them and all sauced up, and you guessed it, in the freezer..

So onto todays post, it is not Christmas or Easter..lol..it is a wedding box and card...

I made the box 2 1/2 inches deep, so maybe a gift or something can be put inside.

The card was slightly bigger to make sure the box was " Comfortable " inside.

I glued the box onto the back panel of the cover

making sure the lid closed properly..

Then glued the spine and pressed it quick..

I had one sheet of this paper left, the woodgrain, so photocopied it several times to get enough of the papers to cover the box and card and lid..

This is the outside spine, reinforced with thick card stock then papers..

This is what I had to do as I ran out of the off white card stock for my mats.

I cut strip and glued into white, the added the papers and you cany even tell..

See..

So the box was done and ready for decoration..

The card all fluffed and beautiful..

The advantage with the deep box you can go bow and flower crazy..

See..it nestles in ther just right..and with room to spare..

The cover of the box, lace panels flowers and pearls..

then I added a little handle to the box front..

done..

So there you go,

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you Wednesday..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Had a top 3 spot..

                                                       

TAG IT..DT

 Hello everyone,

Time for a new challenge over at Little Red Wagon and our lovely Brenda is hostess and her theme that we are all going to play along with is ...TAG..You're it.

Oh, my, I have really become a fan of tags, they are quick easy, colourful and mine are always big and rarely do I make one...this time I made four!..

There was a lot of prep done and some fiddly bits, but I had a lot of fun and a stress free day so made a whole day of it, die cutting, snowflaking and all that stuff..

first my wagon from Spellbinders, I love this cart/wagon and added half a TH tree, just the top section, that is how I got it smaller..

So one in the wagon and not the other..

Been asked many times about the wheel, 

so this is how I do it without a die..

A circle frame...cut sticks, glue them on around the frame

add the circle in the center, 2 of them, one brown one black..

Flip it and trim it..after adding another frame for stability.

Nearly there,  just a little metal touch..

I add a metal nut in the center to finish off..

and whipped up three of them..

and with leftovers too, how neat..

tree, all layered up,

 and no bad language was coming from this room today,

 everything went smoothly..

Time for the tags..1..2..3..4..

Inked the edges..

Splattered paint everywhere..

Ripped leftover card into snowbanks..

and die cut these fabulous snowmen..great size..

Everything ready to go..

these look the same but in fact, the first ones were the big ones,

 I had to remake these and they are 2 sizes smaller..look the same though.

time to build tags...

step by step...not hard.

Just layer and glue...

Two trees, two wheels and two birds...done.

Lovely crunchie snow and added snowflakes..

small trees and very happy snowmen..

and there you go..four tags..DONE!!

So come and join us HERE   with your tags..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you tomorrow..

luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter..

Merry Little Christmas   ( Anything Christmas goes)

The Four Seasons Challenge  ( anything goes Winter )

A Cut Above   ( Anything Goers with a Die Cut )