Christmas Treat Box Card

I made 3 of these "Treat Box Cards" last night to give to friends in my craft group. The card is made with a folded box on the bottom that holds 7 little chocolates.....a card and gift all in one. I am going to try to make ones that hold chocolate balls in it today. I have also seen them with tealight candles in them. The card can be orientated in any direction....most of the examples I have seen have the treat box on the side. Overall I am very happy with how they turned out.
Hope everyone is enoying the holidays! and making the most of the time with sunshine that appears in between the rain.

What to do with ribbons????

I have started to re-organise my craft room. Stampin Up is releasing new colours in September when the new catalogue begins and some of the old colours are going. They have also organised all of the colours into new families. As a result I decided to rearrange my cardstock. I also have had a challenge of how to sort all of my ribbon spools. For ages I have kept them in a box...it really hasn't worked and it was always difficult to find the colour that I wanted (usually in the bottom of the the box). I thought I would look at some storage ideas on the internet...I found lots of great shelves/racks but didn't really want to spend a lot of money. I went to bunnings to have a look at wood and thought I could build a shelf unit myself. While I was there I saw this plastic storage box with holes that were perfectly sized for 8mm dowel. It could stand up by itself (definitely a bonus), so I decided it was worth taking it home to see if it would work. 10 mins later I now have a fully functional ribbon storage box. Total cost $11....what a bargin!

Patchwork Tablecloth

In my travels around the internet I have found hundreds of projects thatI would love to give a go....one of them was a quilt using a MODA charm pack. I decided that I would make mine into a tablecloth. While there are a number of little imperfections I am happy with how it turned out. What do you think????

Latest Little Bit of Creativity and a Giveaway

My mum and dad are nearly ready to take off on their next holiday. This time they are heading off to Cairns for Jaxon's birthday....I can hardly believe he will be 7 in 2 weeks. Anyway they are going to also be taking Christmas pressie's with them because that will save on postage.
So my first share is Jaxon's Chrissy card, I love this animal set for kids cards.
Then I also had to make a couple of Birthday cards for him too. He is having a soccer themed party this year so I made this card for mum to give him.

Then the paper I wrapped his present in has rockets and robots so this card is mine to go with it.

That's all for cards.

Now a sewing update...I saw this idea somewhere but can't remember if it was in real life at a shop/market or on the web but as usual I decided I could copy it myself. They are cute, flower pincushions, that are designed to just sit on the top of a spool of thread. Great to sit right next to the machine and also tiny for quick and easy storage. I love how I have found a project that is just perfect to use up all my scraps.

I have already made 2 of these so I thought I would offer up one as a giveaway....if you would like to win one just leave me a comment before Friday 6th August.

Stamping on candles

Over the holidays I experimented with some different stamping projects. One of them was to try a technique for adding stamping designs onto tealight candles. I was happy with how they turned out and thought they would make a great gift....so I also made a little box to package them into. This set I gave to another Visiting Teacher, at work, for her birthday.