On a Roll...... :)

OMG I am certainly on a roll this week.  It's either a feast or a famine! LOL :)
Hello.........
Thought I would share yet another one of many posts with you.
Ok so here's another Chrissy present I made, this one was for my daughter's Primary School  Year 7 Teacher (Male).
I made this concertina box, which I got my inspiration from a Docrafts Creativity magazine. 
The first picture is of the top of the box, and I have used "Wellington Bear" papers and stamp to decorate and chipboard letters from my stash and coloured them in with my black promarker, (also used on the image) spritzed it with my homemade spritz and glossy accents over the top.  Inked around the edges of the lid. Also used the papers to cover the bottom of the box and inked around all the edges.
The second picture is of the inside of the box, with the concertina book inside.
Here's the concertina book that I made using bazzil cardstock from my stash, white background and then layered with dark brown. I used the "Wellington Bears" cutouts from the paper pack, I have also added some "teacher sayings/jokes", which I found on the internet to each page.
I used some black ribbon from my stash to make a pull tab, and laid the concertina inside the box, which I then filled up with chocolates and Christmas candy sticks and put in a cellophane bag and tied together with some ribbon, also from my stash.
I think the teacher liked it...
I hope you like it too....
Thanks for looking.  Bye for now, Jo :) x

More Chrismas Presents :)

Hi there,


Just a small note with photos to follow of the rest of the decorated Christmas presents.


 This one I made, for my Sister, Michelle along with a matching calendar (below)

 

This one I made for my other Sister, Debby, with a matching address book.

This is for my niece, Shenae, along with a matching address book.

 

 

This one is for my Sister-in-Law, along with a matching calendar.

This is for my Mother-in-Law with a different type of matching calendar.

 

Then I found these brown paper bags in Red Dot, and thought they would be good to decorate for each person to pop their pressies in.  So here they are.

 

And a close up of them.

 

 

  Well I hope you like my Christmas gift presents I made for my family. Time to sign off now, and will hopefully not be so long for my next post.  Take care & bye for now :) x

Hello again! :)

Hi there everyone :)
Well I have another post to go - woo hoo......
This is still Christmas stuff, but it is stuff I have decorated for family members for Chrissy presents.
I bought some Jotter Pads from Spotlight for $3 each and then went back the next week and they were marked down to $1 each, so I purchased some more, and also got some address books for $1 each, which I also decorated.

This is the Jotter I decorated for my Mum, covered it with paper from my stash, Made the flowers using the Tim Holtz tattered florals die and used a wooden flourish and coloured it in with my promarkers and used glossy accents on top.  I also added coloured ribbons through the binders.  Here's a close up photo of the flowers.

I made a calendar to match.  I made similar flowers to add on, just a little smaller and added some leaves from my stash, coloured in the Tilda with my promarkers and added a laminated sheet to add any notes.



Well I hope you like my Christmas present for my Mum, I will add more photos, which are the same sort of Christmas present for different family members done in different colours.

I will sign off on this post now, as if I add all the photos on here, it will be a long posting.
Bye for now :) x

Oh my Gosh how time flies....

Well hello there :) I can't believe how long it's been since my last post.  I guess I don't even know where to start with or what to post first!

Ok well first I will start with some of the Christmas things I made.  The first photo is of my homemade Christmas crackers, which I made with a template I found on the internet.  Then covered them in purple Christmas paper, I also bought the cracker sticks off eBay and filled them with jokes I found on the internet and some Christmas chocolates.

 The next photo is of Christmas hats I made, which I was going to put inside the crackers, but found them a little too hard to fold up, so I just left them out and had them on the table on the day.  I used a template I found on the internet and cut them out and added the "Merry Christmas" around them.

And last, but not least the next photos are of some Christmas goodie bags I decorated, (bought some little gift bags from a craft shop) and I was inspired from something I found on the internet, which gave me the idea.  I Have put my own touch to them and made them gift bags and filled them with chocolates (lots of chocolates for Christmas! Yum yum)   As you can see, I made some reindeer ones and some Santa ones.  Using some craft punches, some cricut cartridges for all the different shapes added & embossing folder.  These were a hit with the family and my Mum loved them so much she asked if I could make some for her friends at the hospital (where she goes to do dialysis 3 times a week). 
Ok that seems to be all for Christmas craft, and I won't bore you all with the rest of my craft stuff today, otherwise it would take up my whole blog page and go on forever, so I will say bye for now, but watch this space - there is plenty more to come.
Thanks for looking & take care,
Until next time :) x