Buttons, Bows and Brads at Crafty Time Challenges

Good morning.  Gosh it's February already. Unbelievable!! That means it is time for another challenge at Crafty Time Challenges.  Our sponsor this month is Aurora Wings.

My Card

Recipe
5" x 7" card  made from ivory pearlescent card stock - Crafters Companion
purple pearlescent card stock - Jellybean Crafts
Digi image - Butterfly Mask from Aurora Wings
Backing papers - Papermania French Lavender
Mask die - SB Venetian Accents
butterflies - SB
brads - ancient stash
heart shaped button - stash
lavender/silver ribbon - local haberdashery store
gems - from stash

We would love it if you were to join in with our challenge this month.  Please pop across to teh blog and check out what the DT have come up with.

Thank you for joining me today.  Take care. 

Cracker Boxes

Good morning and another extremely cold one.  It is certainly winter now isn't it? I didn't like waking up to the snow yesterday and it continued snowing most of the day but by late evening it was turning to rain thank goodness.

I realised the other day that I hadn't shown these cracker boxes so I have remedied that now.  We had some friends over for lunch at New Year and I did these as table decorations/gifts.  I filled the base with chocolates and in the top lid/box I put a couple of little glass Christmas tree ornaments already for next year. They seemed to go down very well with our guests.

My Project

main gift box

lid which is also a gift box

Recipe
Ivory pearlescent card - Crafters Companion
gold mirri card - craft shop in Evesham
ribbon and gems - stash
snowflake dies - SB Create A Flake 4 and 5

These little boxes look so effective and as the main box is 3.25 x 3.75 inches approximately  it can hold a decent sized gift. Overall the cracker box stands 5.25 inches tall and looks really great on the table.

Well that's it from me today and I am just off to the dentist for an early appointment, but only for a check up fortunately.

Hope you are all well.

Christmas Card Club - # 10 - Poinsettias

Good morning and I hope you are all well and enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend.  Friday was almost like winter here in Oxfordshire but yesterday, although it started very chilly turned into a beautiful warm sunny day.  When I drove to the next village to collect the newspaper the ice warning alarm on the dash came on, which gave me a bit of shock.  I assumed it was  a malfunction but no, the temperature was indeed only 3 degrees Celsius. I'm glad it was warmer because John needed some help in building a new fence and I told him that if it was cold he would be on his own!!!  I make a good labourer even if I say so myself!

My Card

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Usually our little Christmas Card Club post a card every two weeks but in order to fit them all in it was decided to fit in an extra one.  Rather took me by surprise so I had to hurriedly make a card. I had something in my mind but thinking I had an extra week I had to come up with something in rather a hurry.  This time it was Karen B's turn to choose and she chose  poinsettias.  They really are so indicative of Christmas aren't they?  Karen also celebrated her birthday on Friday so Happy Birthday again! 

My card is 5" x 7" and I used the Poinsettia Box Clear stamp by Woodware.  I stamped with Versamark and heat embossed it using Detail Gold embossing powder. I coloured it with Promarkers and then used tiny gold seed beads for the centres. It was matted onto green glitter card, red card and then onto the white base card. A gold bow and gold gems in the corners finished off my quick Christmas card.  This is a very flat card so very mail friendly.

If you are interested in joining our little group please contact me.  It is not a challenge club, we only want to get ahead with our Christmas cards throughout the year so there is no panic in the last few weeks.  If you would just like to see what the other ladies have made you will find their contact details in my right side bar.

Take care and enjoy the rest of the log weekend - particularly you ladies who work and so will really appreciate the extra time off! 

Entered into :
http://suzysmarty1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/completely-christmas-challenge-10.html
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/bows.html
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/chnc-challenge-175-something-beginning.html - bow, bling