A cute child's bookmark

Are you giving books to any child this Christmas?  Why not make them a cute little magnetic bookmark.  These are ideal as they stay in place and cannot fall out of the book.  This encourages children to read more if they can easily find which page they are up to.

On the left is the actual bookmark (please excuse fuzzy photography) and on the right you can just see it peeping out from the pages of a book

The stamp set is a sneak peak from the new summer mini catalogue - Animal Stories that I was lucky enough to have received when I was Karen's guest at their Regional Training Day in September.  I couldn't tell you then what it was but can now.  

I made a few of these children's bookmarks to take this afternoon to Karen’s Christmas get-together she was having with her Stampin’ Up team (the WOW PaperKrafters – of which I am lucky enough to be an honorary member!).  These were for the swap and I received some neat swaps back which I will photograph and show you later.

Hope you had a nice day – I know I did.

A new look … what do you think?

Would love to have your feedback on this new layout.  I think a lot of people have given up clicking on links to my blog as it wasn’t formatting correctly and individual posts were appearing at the bottom of the page necessitating a lot of scrolling down to find them.
I am hoping that this will solve the problem and make it easier for my visitors to view. There is still a bit of tweaking to do such as adding in my list of sites I visit, but hope to have this done shortly.
Thanks and look forward to your comments.

A Stem Silhouettes birthday

This is such a lovely stamp set – versatile and practical as it can be used in conjunction with quite a number of other stamp sets.

Today I have used it to make a card for a man.  Kingsley is a keen gardener and though I didn’t quite want to make a flowery card for him, thought this was very appropriate.

I originally made this card, but with flowers instead of the stem silhouettes at one of Karen’s classes so decided to use this concept as it adapted to the stem silhouettes beautifully.

Kingsley is presently recovering from a heart bypass operation so hope he enjoys this and is back in his garden soon – oh, and Happy Birthday!.

PS:  Three blog posts in one day – a record for me!

More Christmas cards …

Variations of the same card that I have been making using the lovely Stampin’ Up set “A Wish for Peace”.  If only all wishes came true!

To get a better look at these, click on the picture to enlarge.

The card on the right has been made using the snowflake technique and looks quite effective.

Well back to creating.

Looking back & catching up

Looking back at recent posts have decided that I have definitely been very lax in posting photographs of projects I have made either by myself or at classes.
Well, now is catch-up time and I have been busy photographing these projects which I will now explain to you.
These are Christmas projects that I have made at either Karen’s classes or at Extravaganza at the beginning of the month.

A flat gift box (based on the pizza box).



          
Above:  Left is this cute box folded up and on the right you can see all the little drawers which slide into one another when closed.  To open, just take off the lid.
  
   
   Two more goodie boxes for Xmas.


Above:  An easy-to-make Christmas cracker and on the right a decorated Christmas candle.

Left:  Post-it holder.




Right:   Santa goodie bag.
        

This is a set of three gorgeous little Christmas gift cards.





You may find it hard to tell but the greetings panel is clear acetate stamped with Seasons Greetings in white craft ink.



I love this card, so simple yet so effective and a great way to use up all those scraps of designer papers.



Hope you have enjoyed seeing these.  A lot of them, complete with recipe can be found on Karen’s blog.  Thanks Karen for the great ideas.