Christmas Cutlery Holder

Hi everyone Happy Thursday, I've got 2 cute little cutlery holders to show you today. I got a Joann's catalogue last week and they had some nice ideas. I took some inspiration from a Cutlery holder they had in there from David Tutera's products and I thought I would make my own using my Cricut. I cut 2 of everything for Greg and I. So first I cut a 5 x 7 postage stamp style rectangle from Art Philosophy from some lovely glittery paper (Greg bought me a great stack last time he went away for work), I also cut 2 more from some green mirror card (from the same stack) and just glued the sides and bottom. I then used my Artbooking cartridge to cut the red lattice layers. I sized everything in the Cricut Craft Room as it made it a lot easier. I then cut 2 green patterned borders from Artbooking as well. I cut 2 fancy labels from Elegant Edges and then from Doodlecharms I cut the cute reindeer face and Santa. I added some Christmassy cord through some holes I punched and I made up one for the photo, I'll do the other one nearer to Christmas. I tied some gold chiffon ribbon around the cutlery and added a tag. Thanks for looking.

More Christmas cards

Hello just showing some more cards I've made over the past couple of days, mostly stamping and cuts from my Art Philosophy Cartridge. The bauble is from my Winter Wonderland cartridge and I stamped and embossed in white. Thanks for looking : )

Treat Bags

Hello I made these treat bags today. Every year I just do a small treat for the owners of the dogs I walk to say thanks for letting me look after their pooch. I just used plain brown lunch bags and I cut some off the top with pinking shears and then punched two holes. I stamped a greeting in black and then a little candy cane treat on each side. I filled them with the chocolates in the photo, Greg and I sampled the one in the silver wrapper, wow they were nice, they were an Italian one and tasted like coconut. The other is a classic Ghiradelli square, they bring out the Christmas peppermint bark flavour each year and that is very nice also.

I've half completed the treat bags for the dogs, I'm just waiting on the Christmas dog biscuits to come in at the shops.

Have a nice day!

Christmas cards

Hello from a snowy Chicago, can't believe the snow stared already, oh well it's nice to be inside looking at the snow falling and glad we're in here together!

I made some simple but yet nice cards to give to the owners of the dogs I walk, I'll be doing a few more but these are the first two. A new Joann store opened up near us on the weekend so I got a great box of glittery and sparkly cards for only $4 so I used two of these and also whilst at Joann's I got a great UK magazine called "Make Christmas Cards" it came with lots of free goodies including papers, sentiments and some clear stamps. I thought the reindeer stamp was so cute so I decided on using him for these cards and coloured him in using chalks and markers. I also used some of the paper and sentiments. I cut the oval and circle from my Elegant Edges cartridge.

I also give my dog parents a little treat as a thank you for asking me to care for their dog, usually a little bag of chocolates so I'll put the card with this and a little bag of treats for the dogs and everyone will have a Merry Christmas : )

Forever Friends bear card for Christmas

Hi everyone Happy Friday, the sun is shining here which is nice but it's cold but to look on the bright side it's sunny!

I made this card for my friend Christina in Germany for Christmas, I love the Forever Friends bear and I'm sure she does too so I''m sure she will like her card. I used a white square card and then I matted on top a red spotty later as well as a strip of light green and grey spotty paper. I used my Teresa Collins December 25th cartridge to cut out the circle frame. I used Art Philosophy to cut out the green circle and stamped a sentiment and did faux stitching with a gel pen. I added the bear to finish.

Greg's Christmas Card

Hello everyone I haven't put anything on here for a while I've been enjoying my knitting when I have time (which isn't a lot at the moment) and my skills are constantly improving but I decided to make another card for Greg for Christmas as I did make him one but I felt it was more of a wintery themed card in the end, so I'll still give him that but I made a Christmas one as well. I cut a snowglobe card shape from my Doodlecharms cartridge, I put it in the Cricut Craft Room to make it into a card. I cut a layer from some snowy paper and then cut my own bit of "snow" to which I added glitter. I cut a Christmas tree from Art Philosophy and decorated with rhinestones. I cut my font from Simply Charmed and I used a cute Forever Friends die cut I got with a magazine. I know Greg will love this, hope you like it too : )