Two Styles of Acetate Boxes For Christmas

Hello there,
I hope your Christmas preparations are going well? I have just a few more nights at work and a little house work to do before I can slow down a bit and enjoy the celebrations! But, the presents are wrapped and I feel like I'm getting there, slowly....
So, I think this may be my penultimate post for Christmas makes on here (unless I find something else I've forgotten about) and its a fun and easy couple of makes today making two different Acetate Boxes feel a little more festive. You could decorate these first, Tiny Treat Boxes, for the Christmas Day table as they are super quick to decorate with any festive DSP you have at home. For mine I used the cute Christmas Around the World paper...

I simply wrapped a strip of the paper around the outside of the boxes and filled them with celebrations choccies :-)

I added a layer of garden green card under a square of the paper and topped them with a mini gold glitter deer from the Card front Builder Dies.

And for the second box I used one of the Acetate Card Boxes and simply dry embossed it with the snowflake embossing folder (sadly it appears this is now sold out) but you can try this with any of your 11.4 x 15.7 cm (4-1/2" x 6-3/16" ) sized folders, extending this to something you can make all year round. 

It makes a lovely and quick way to package some cards (or chocolates or smellies etc....) as a gift :-)

Well, That's all from me for today,
I'll be back soon with those last Christmas makes!
'Till then, happy stamping :-)
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Painted Harvest for a Christmas Wreath

Hello!
Here at cards and a cuppa HQ I have been furiously trying to get the last of my Christmas makes finished these last couple of days, I think I have just 5 more cards to make! How is your Christmas crafting going?
Anyway, for my last class of this year, a few weeks go, we used the Painted Harvest stamp set and one of the projects we made was a set of mini (3"x3") cards (that could also be tags). I've loved seeing so many wonderful ideas around using with Painted Harvest (which is carrying over, yay!), including this idea of a Christmas wreath. As this was a late class (after autumn)  I knew I just had to show my customers this too! I teamed the cards with a matching pizza box to either store or gift them in, let's see...

I used Garden Green and Cherry Cobbler with a gold heat embossed sentiment from Labels Of Love.

I used one of the mini card fronts to make a topper for the pizza box.

And they were a big hit at class too!
Right, I'm off for today and I'll try my very best to get another post for you tomorrow too :-)
Thanks so much for looking today,
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:
Coming soon...

Wonderful Life stamp set! It's not just for Christmas :-)

Hello there,
  I'm still alive, just! So this week I have been mostly working, finishing some magazine commissions, trying to get the house ready (ie: clean, tidy and finishing any last minute jobs that have to be done) for the Christmas decorations to come down from the loft and trying to kick this latest round of cold/flu. I have been powering through ok but today I am wiped out, hence sitting down and listening to Christmas songs while I'm catching up with my blogging ;-)!
Anyway, I do have a card for you today :-) If you follow me on social media then you will have seen my epic fail when I made this card. My original vision was not exactly like this but, can I say, what a save...

 I totally blanked when I upended the ink pad on this card, a lot of that was because I left it till just an hour before I needed it to make this card but, thanks to Rachel who suggested I cut the top off the stamped part and this is what I  ended up with :-)
So, to make this card I stamped the present stack at the bottom of this piece of shimmer white card, stamped it again onto a post-it-note, masked and restamped. Repeat 'till you are happy with your present mountain.
TIP: You may need two or three masks.
After colouring I added some dimensionals along the top of the gift stack edge and glued the bottom down flat.

Sentiment is from the "Happiest of Days" stamp set which I stamped and then added clear embossing powder to and heated it to to set.
There's a sneak peek on this card, did you notice that sequin embossing in the background #comingsoon

 So, I'm pleased with this card in the end, despite it's disastrous beginnings, what do you think?

OK, back tomorrow with another make,
'till then
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Happy Stampin'

Products Used to create this project:

Wonderful Life Photopolymer Stamp Set*	Happiest Of Days Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad	Aqua Painters	Shimmery White A4 Cardstock	Powder Pink A4 Cardstock	Marina Mist A4 Cardstock
Perfect Plum Classic Stampin' Pad	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

Christmas Decorations for a Jems Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to a Jems Blog Hop :-)
Today we are hopping around 8 lovely blogs with a theme of Christmas Decorations.

Before I share todays makes, can I quickly mention that SU! have started their sales! Eeep! With many discounted products and quite a lot of stuff that is now is only "while stocks last". 

So if you've had your eye on anything please do order it in my SHOP, asap ;-)

OK, back to today's makes! Unfortunately we haven't managed yet got our tree up but now I've made this I am excited for when I do ;-) and of course I'll share more photos with you when it actually goes onto the tree! I was inspired, at a home show I visited last weekend, to make a concertina paper chain using the Merry Music DSP. I remember making these at school and making this was a great fun way to occupy myself while sitting in front of the telly for an hour or two this week.

This Merry Music paper is just perfect for making these chains as it's a tiny bit thinner than regular dsp but you could also use any of the regular dsp SU! sells...

Simply cut the dsp into 2cm strips, glue the end at a right angle and fold over each other till it runs out, glue the next strip to make the colour block long as you'd like. For mine I did three sets (6 pieces) of white then two (4 pieces) of black. Repeat until it's long enough to wrap/hang where you want it :-)

And just as a one off with my last few foil snowflakes I made a 3d snowflake, very easy to make and pretty too!

OK, so I hope you liked my homemade Christmas decorations. Next you're going to hop and see what delights Sarah has made for you! Thanks for looking today :-)

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Stampin' hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper

Foil Snowflakes

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

Inspire. Creat. Stamping Challenge #006 - Fancy Folds!

Hi there!
Today it's time for another challenge at Inspire. Create. Stamping challenges.
I can hardly believe it's already week #006! And the theme this week is "Fancy Folds".
Now, I don't generally too make many fancy folded cards, I've been tending to stick to CaS cards of late, so I decided to dig through the archives on here and revive a fold that once I had re-made it I do wonder why I haven't made more of them! And it's always good to be pushed from your comfort zone, amiright?
So, to see the original design with a FREE tutorial too, go HERE. And this is my updated version using the Christmas Around The World DSP...

 I love the images and also the grey snowflake background on this paper. This is the same piece, just different sides. I'm always torn which side to use when they are both this nice ;-)

So, you can gently ease the top out from behind the tab at the bottom...

And then you can write on the back of the piece with the circle or the centre panel. I chose the circle panel and decorated it with some offcuts of DSP.

 So, the original tutorial used punches (including the retired 2.5" circle) and if you have them already, great! However here are the correct sizes to make this card with the Layering Circle Framelits :-)
The hole in the card base can be made with the second largest circle die, the small tab can be made with the smallest circle die and the popped up circle can be cut with the third largest die...

...but, I used the stitched edge die (for the popped up circle) which is the same size as that third largest die I mentioned before.

 So, I do hope you have a go at this card, it really is much easier than it looks and make a fun change to the regular shaped card which is always fun!

Don't forget to hop over to the Inspire. Create blog and see what the rest of the DT have made :-) And you can share your creations there too!
Thanks for looking today!
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Christmas Around The World Designer Series Paper

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

1" (2.5 Cm) Circle Punch