Kinda the Same but Different

Hello Everyone out there and I trust that you all had a safe and very enjoyable Christmas and that now you are looking to cut back a bit on eating so many good things. Last of the left-overs went here today and so it's back to more humble things like sausages and beans on toast!!! Santa was very kind to me and I have some lovely gifts - some of which are yummy papers and a gorgeous TH stamp. I have two in that series already and I love them so it was great to get a third one. The other day my SU order arrived with my Christmas stamp for 2012. I hope to try it out later but time may run out on me as I have lots of January birthdays to make cards for. These are the first two and as you will have guessed they are for dear friends. I liked Joan's one so much that I decided to repeat it for Anne but just changed the embellishment of it a bit. They are both bound for the UK and usually I don't put 3D embellishments on but couldn't resist so I hope I don't have to take out a mortgage to cover the postage!!! Must go as I can smell the sausages burning. Thanks for visiting.

Never Ending Card

Christmas Eve 9.14am and here I am posting on my Blog!!! I have been up to the shops twice and paid a visit to the cemetery already. We were at the greengrocers at 6.15am to get all our fresh goodies ready for tomorrow. We then came home and had breakfast and now Harold has gone to golf (It is an absolutely GORGEOUS day) I nipped back up town, where I expected things to be hectic but was pleasantly surpeised that it was still quiet. I sailed into the supermarket, got my 3 items and sailed out again. Job done!!! Have a busy day ahead of course but I have plenty of time to plod along doing whatever needs to be done ready for tomorrow. ............In the meantime ............. I finished this Never Ending Card last night. We are going to make it a class in early 2012 so this will be the shop sample, I think, although I do need a birthday for a friend in the UK for Jan 6 so might use this one and make another for the shop. Took me quite a little while to work out the decorating/embellishing but subsequent ones will be a piece of ease now!!! I do love butterflies so I am quite pleased with the finished article. It may be a few days before anyone has time/chance to see this but that's OK. Have a lovely day tomorrow with your loved ones. Happy Christmas!

Merry Christmas

Just in case things get tooo hectic in the next few days I will post my Christmas Greeting to you all now.  Thank-you all who have visited my Blog over the last year and I hope you have enjoyed your visits and maybe I have even inspired some of you to have a go at some of my projects.  I have had my Blog for just 2 years now and I still enjoy sharing with you both my projects and my little stories which accompany them.  I have had a lot less posts this year than the previous year.  I'm not too sure why that is but there you go.  Now as we all head towards a little R&R I send peaceful wishes from our house to yours.  May you have someone you love and someone who loves you to spend this Special Time with.  If you are travelling I wish you safe arrivals and happy times wherever your destination is.  May 2012 bring you all good health and good fortune.  Love and hugs from Crafty Granma.XO

Final Snow Globe Card

This is my final Snow Globe card and is for my lovely husband. He is so supportive of all the things I do and this is my Thank-You card as well as my Christmas card to him. I don't remember to say thank-you as often as I should so I always make sure I say it in my Christmas card. All my other snow globes were with blue card and I thought white might be a bit boring but when I tried it our BEFORE sticking anything down I was pleasantly surprised and so decided to go with the white. I have NO more snow globes left now so need to replenish my stocks and maybe do some globes WITHOUT snow but with flowers and butterflies inside. I'll post them on here if/when I do some. I have all my Christmas crafting done now and have made a start on NEXT year's Christmas cards!!! Only joking!!!!! but I have made a start on January Birthdays and on class samples for 2012. If only the organisation and efficiency continued on (sigh!). Hope your week is going OK and you're not too frazzled. Thanks for visiting and I hope your visit was a pleasant break for you.

Success!!!

Hi Everyone on a freezing Saturday evening. I find it VERY hard to believe that it is Mid Summer Day next Wednesday!!! Anyway onto my post for today. Another watering can you say. Yes BUT this time it is big enough to be useful!!! I used the 150% enlarged template and it JUST fitted onto a 12 x 12 scrapbook sheet which was perfect. It is SOOOOO easy to assemble and SOOOOOO much fun to decorate. I love it. My butterflies are Peel Offs stuck onto acetate and carefully cut out. My flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the little catterpillar I made from seed beads and he is so cute!!! Inside I put a small gardeners soap (Lemon flavour) and a tiny tube of handcream both nestled in white tissue paper. A perfect wee gift for any gardener. Full marks for perseverence Elaine, full marks to Kate who had the idea to enlarge the template AND full marks to Ali for the suggestions of wee goodies to go inside the watering can. Thank-you ladies for your ideas I am well pleased with my wee gift. Right I'm off to find somewhere where there is a heater on and get warm. I hope you are cosy wherever you are tonight. Thanks.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

These cute little watering cans are just too gorgeous and so quick to make BUT they are too small to fit anything inside!!!!! So I took the template to the photocopy shop and enlarged and am ready to go with version two. I thought it would be a good wee gift for a keen gardener with a couple of packets of seeds and some plant labels inside it. (or something similar. If you have any ideas then please put them in a comment) This wee version fitted on an A4 sheet of card. The enlarged version JUST fits on a 12 x 12 scrapbook sheet. Right that's me done for tonight on the computer. It's back to the work desk to work Watering Can Version 2. How bad is that? Two projects on one day not quite working out as planned!!! B****R!!!

A Little Centrepiece

Hello all of you people in Blogland I hope you are well and happy despite the awful weather we are having (here in NZ anyway). First post is a wee Christmas centrepiece. I started out making a larger one but was quickly running out of flowers and so had to remove what I had done and make a smaller one instead. The foundation is a polystyrene cone and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I think the flowers are a bit too big for the cone here and I will order more flowers and make the larger one but it will have to wait until AFTER Christmas now I'm afraid. Love the idea though and am looking forward to making the larger one. Another post coming up soon.