Last minute gift by Joanne Wardle

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To fit in with this month's challenge of gifts, cards and tags, I decided to share my last minute gift ideas. I often give Amazon vouchers as gifts, but any voucher that prints out onto an A4 sheet of paper will work.

I simply fold the voucher into thirds both ways to create a "z-fold" and then add covers (8cm x11cm) (be aware that the cover is attached to the top left corner of the voucher so make sure that there isn't any important information there.

The covers can then be decorated anyway you like. I have used Stamps from Stampotique.

Santa stop here...... by Julie Dandy

This week I was inspired by T!ms 12 days of Christmas day 4 tag but made it in to a Santa stop here door hanger.

I started by covering my wooden door hanger with Pink Paislee Santas list patterned paper.
I inked it with and then splattered and spritzed on water to give a nice mottled grungey look.

I used Viva decor Inka Gold on the wooden edges which I found easiest to apply with a semi dry baby wipe.

Th ruffle on the bottom is made with pleated tissue tape - I put a piece of double sided tape on to the base first then pleated the tape along it.

My lace was coloured by putting distress stain on to my nonstick craft sheet, adding a little water to soften the colour and squishing the lace in to it until I was happy with the coverage.
I glued it down with Claudine's matte medium.

I ran a piece of acetate through my big shot with the TH snowflake border embossing folder and cut around the snowflakes.
I attached this with a little DST along the edge that would be hidden by my embellishments.

My snowman and snowflakes were cut from grunge board then painted with pearl acrylic paint dabber.
I coated the snowman with Rock Candy crackle glaze and left it to dry thoroughly , when dry I highlighted the cracks with distress inks.
I added the snowflakes with glossy accents and added buttons to the centres.
I tied some scraps of ribbon and fabric round his neck for a scarf and dangled some buttons strung together with jump rings from it, then attached him to the hanger with foam tape to add some dimension.

My little sign was hand written on to the back of an journalling ticket and pinned on with a memo pin

The last thing I did was smear on lashings of Rock Candy distress stickles to give it a lovely sparkly frosty feel.

Have fun,
hugs'n'snogs,
Julie xx

Creative Cardmaking

If you're out and about and see the latest issue of Creative Cardmaking, pick it up and have a look, it has an article by some of the DT Members in it. It's out today and it's issue No 36.

Still obsessed

These boxes from the shop are the thing I just want to decorate all the time as they are so quick and fun to do.

This one has been painted a rusty brown colour, a bit of rubber stamped text for the background before given a quick rub over with some Inka Gold. The charm and Tim Holtz sprocket gears and spinner were rusted before being glued on. I also added a few bits of old watch pieces from my personal stash.

The faux knob is a button from my ever growing stash of vintage buttons.

These little boxes are the perfect size for cufflinks and earrings so if you are stuck for a christmas present go make one and get the warm glow of giving a present that you have made yourself.

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Box

Paint

Text stamp

Inka Gold

Charm

Tim Holtz Gears and Spinners

Multi Medium for glueing

A Shabby Gift

A wee while ago in preparation for Christmas I made this  Configuration box for a gift, not saying who for yet!  This is half of a 5.75 x 10.75 box. I seperated the base and lid and split the inner boxes into two sets, one set to go with the base for this project and the other and the lid for another project.

I painted the back of the main box and the insides of the inner boxes in a sort of shabby style, then starting covering it with Pink Paislee "Sweetness" papers and a pot of Claudine Hellmuth Matte Medium. When filling the compartments I wanted to build o nthe floral and shabby feel of the papers so went for a selection of winged things and flowers including a Prima Butterfly perched on a wooden cotton spool; a cupid made from Cosmic Shimmer Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals in a sugar paste mould; a Dragonfly charm coloured with Inka Gold paints and Glitz stickles; a Prima Can Can flower and pearl bling Scrabble Tiles and more pearl bling

A Teesha Moore Christmas

Hi,  have created a small canvas and a large tag, these are both going to the same person as gifts for Christmas.

The small Canvas had been painted and inked, stamp by Teesha Moore and the moon was created with Gesso and Texture Paste as I wanted it to look like a round of Camembert........

The large Tag has piano backing paper which was masked with the Clock Mask of Tim Holtz and sponged with Distress Inks.  Stamp and Cut outs by Teesha Moore.  All available at Happy Daze.

Looking forward to seeing your creations this month for this great versatile challenge.
Hugs Annette x

November Challenge Winner

There were thirteen entries this month including one via the facebook page. When they all went into the Random number generator it choose Number 13, unlucky for some but not for Lucy Edmondson who is the winner of the £15.00 voucher plus free Postage from the Happy Daze shop this month.  This is Lucy's second win, she mus have luck on her side.  Lucy your voucher will be on its way to you soon.