Sugar Nellie DT - Annie with Present

Hello Everyone! I hope you had a good week. I am going to be crafting for the rest of the day in the warm. The perfect day! I have a Clean and Simple Sugar Nellie card to share with you today. I recently picked up these pre-embossed Papermania cards and thought that they would be lovely for CAS Christmas cards and a great way to use up my scraps.

I used some scraps of Echo Park 'This and that Christmas' papers which I cut with a Dienamics Fishtails die and layered them up at the bottom of the card. I coloured the Leanne Ellis 'Annie with Present' image with my Promarkers and then cut her out before adding her to the card with foam pads. I added some glitter to her hat as a finishing touch. I added a little wooden snowflake to the top right of the card to fill a bit of the white space and finished with a little gem. Have a lovely Saturday!
Jane
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Elzybells Bear door hanger

I started crafting again yesterday having taken a little break for Christmas. I made my DT projects that are due at the end of the month and then had a little time to have a play with some of my Christmas presents.

I received a lovely little package from my DT buddy at Susie's Sassy designs full of lovely blue goodies including this door hanger. On Christmas Eve I went to see my Friend and her little boy Patric had just moved into his first bedroom so I thought this door hanger would be perfect for him.
I used an Elzybells Teddy Surprise stamp to make the topper and coloured him in with Promarkers.

I used some American Crafts backing paper to cut scalloped rectangles which I added to the back and the front of the hanger. I had inked the edges of the chipboard shape with an orange promarker and then inked the edges of the blue paper with orange ink. I added Patric's name to the back of the hanger with American Crafts stickers. To finish off, I sewed little buttons on to Paperchase felt stars which I then stuck on with my new hot glue gun (such fun to use!) abd added a little ribbon.
I apologise for the quality of the photos but I got a new camera for Christmas and I still need to get used to it!
Am off out for the day now with my Friend for a bit of retail therapy. I never seem to buy anything apart from Craft goodies these days so it will be strange to spend a whole day shopping with no Craft chat!
Jane
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An alternative leaving card

One of my good Friends at work had her leaving drink yesterday lunchtime. She has worked at the Weather centre for about 27 years and is well known and loved by Everyone. We knew a lot of people would want to sign a leaving card for her so I set about trying to think how we could do things a bit differently...

I decided to make a 'Box of Good Wishes'. The box is made from 2 12x12 sheets of Papermania cardstock which were scored, folded and cut to make a square box. I then filled the box with sheets of card which were stamped with small images or embellished with stickers and then everyone filled in a card with their good wishes. I made dividers so that the box was easier to look through and we also put some old photos in the back of the box.
I decorated the box with Paperchase wrapping paper, a sizzix tag cut from some K+Co paper, Papermania and Making memories letter made up the greeting on the tag and some Prima flowers held together with an Imaginisce brad finished it off.
I made a wallet to hold some cheques as she had asked for any collection money to be donated to some Cancer charities. This was made by folding a sheet of A4 card and I added a ribbon tie to close the wallet. The same papers and flower were used to decorate the wallet.
This is the box 'in action', you can see the dividers inside the box a bit here. She was delighted with the box and I am hoping that if she feels nostalgic and misses work and her Friends she can just reach for the box and pull out a few cards to read and cheer her up!
I hope you are having a good week. I am glad it is Friday, even though I am facing a weekend of standing around in the rain! My youngest has a Football match Saturday and my eldest has a Cross Country meeting. I think I am going to get wet! I am off to buy wellies tonight. I got very muddy last Saturday and I am not going through that again :-)
Jane
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