Show the way Jolly Bullfinch

My poor markers are getting a bit of a work out right now - its that time of year when I love to colour - its almost Christmas time!

I was going through my stamps on the weekend and came across a few that I hadnt inked in a while. The new Magnolia club that arrived last week meant that I had a great masking opportunity at hand. 

The only stamp from the Winder Wonderland collection is the "Show the way sign", the rest are from much older collections. I love how you can collect stamps over the years and they all come together to make a scene :)

Its all coloured with Copics, some snow tex added with some stickles and doo hickeys and we're done. 

Thanks for stopping by! See you again on the weekend.

Christmas Ornaments

Hi Friends, 

Today I would like to share some cute little ornaments that made for my boys.  

I have decorated two kraft board letters that I found  at the local hardware store.

This is Aiden's ornament. He has Ski Edwin with Snowflakes and some more green touches. This kid is in love with green. 

And this is Jarred's ornament. He love blue so it has blue moonstone brads and flowers. He has Edwin Skiing from the Winter 2008 collection on his ornament. 

I wrote a little message on the back of each ornament and dated them too.  

The boys were really excited when they saw the finished result. I was too :) I think I have started a new family tradition - "Mum made" ornaments to each boy each year :) 

I should be back tomorrow with something else to share. 

Until then 

Have a great day!

Brrrrr... its beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Hellooo... wow, I feel like I have been on my blog a lot these last few weeks :) It is great! Since I went back to work in August I slowed right down craft wise so it is nice to get back into it a bit more. 

My project that I am sharing with you today is some wrapping I made for a gift for a friend. The gift was already wrapped in the store but I wanted to hide what it was and to personalise it a bit. The stamp is "Winter Night Background" from the Winter 2008 Magnolia collection.

It was so simple to make and so much fun. 

Well.. that is it from me today, have a wonderful week. I hope you are all organised with your food and gift shopping. ... not like me :o)

Hugs Kylie

I lost count - how many Chrissy cards do I need?

How is everyone going? Well I hope!  Oh...its Thursday already, gosh the weeks just fly when Christmas is looming.. and I have so much still to do...like almost all ofmy Christmas shopping! eeek! Its a bit too late to do it online to, lol.

If you saw my WOYWW post yesterday you would have seen that I was in the midst of making a card and had bits and pieces all over my desk and that I mentioned that it was possible that the whole thing could very well end up in the rubbish bin? Well I am happy to say that despite a massive heat embossing disaster the card survived and I have it here to show you now.

After enjoying my gold embossing attempt last week I thought I would give it another go with some American Crafts "Zing" embossing powder that I have been hoarding in my drawer for some time.... well it has been put back safely in the drawer never to surface again! It is silver embossing powder with glitter through it, but instead of the result being nice and luxurious, it was thin and flat and uneven. Terrible. I did keep the sentiment panel that I embossed so you can see that further down the post...

Oh - and a little warning... I went a tad photo mad because the card has a number of opening bits so I wanted to make sure I had a pic of each of them.

So here is the front...the papers are Bo Bunny Midnight Frost. I have little Edwin sitting on his little gate panel with his pressie. The edge is punched with a MS border punch "Swirling Lace".

And here is the front panel with the gate section opened and a little close up of Edwin. Its a little hard to see in the photo on the left, but I've cut a large snowflake frmo acetate on the Cricut and covered it with glitter. It is really sparkly IRL. The trees are Winter Forrest from the Santa 2008 collection. They've also been given a large dose of glitter :)

 This is the inside with the top flap up. I've used Tilda with Christmas Stockings from the Winter 2008 collection.  The swirls on the paper have been glittered and there is another acetate snowflake behind Tilda.

Finally, the last two photos... the left photo is the embossed Merry Christmas sentiment. I'm definately adding some new silver embossing powder to my Christmas list, lol. The photo on the right shows the last panel which has a pocket folded into it to put a note and a gift card or in my case, some tea satchels.

 

There is a great tutorial for this card HERE if you want to have a go yourself. I altered the size of my card to be 6 inches tall x 5.5 inches wide.