12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 8 & 9

I didn't even turn my computer on yesterday!! WOW that's a huge thing for me, I was soooo busy gardening and spending time with my FAMILY ALL DAY that the office was not a place I visited!
So my apologises for combining 2 days of Christmas together!! I'm sure you understand!
I have some more of my FAVOURTIE cards that I've designed this year and also a sneak peak at what I'll show you tomorrow!!
Here is the first on my TOP FAV cards I've been happily writing on this last week

And now the red theme continues with some more Real red and textured background....

What's your favourite one here??? Red is such a classic Christmas colour don't you think!?!

Lastly here is my sneak peak for tomorrow.....

I'll be most excitedly (is this a real word?? hmmmm) showing you step by step through this little Christmas Tree!!! I feel in love with it in the Idea Book and Catalogue and it was a MUST to try and make, so I'll show you HOW!!!
Until then have the most wonderful day, eve, afternoon, morning

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 7

One of my favourite Stamp-a-stack cards this year would have to be these....

I think it's the colour of the rich red with the Early Espresso, perhaps because I've used one of my favourite ribbons, or that there are some pearls which I think always add that special touch! Either way, I'm loving that I have at least 10 of them and that they're all written in waiting to be given to my lovely friends!

Have you got all your Christmas cards made? Do you have them all written in?? (my little finger is STILL hurting from writing over 40 on Wednesday! he he)
Have the most wonderful Friday,

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 6

For the last few years I've wanted to hold a Christmas party! What a wonderful opportunity to get together with close friends and celebrate the season! In saying that it all comes soooo quickly that before I know it it's TOO late to send out invites and so it sadly gets passed by! When thinking about this last year we decided to do a New Years Eve party, this turned out SUPER FUN and everyone had a fabulous time. This year however I really wanted to get on the job early and so it was soon top of my "to do" list and it went ahead! YAY!

If you're thinking of having a party, whether it be for a few or for many it's not too late to organize one.... perhaps a New Years one is the way to go or even one in the New Year, early Jan! It can often seem too hard but the rewards of hanging out with those you love (chosen to love) are great and you certainly wont regret it!!!

Stampin' UP! have some really wonderful invitation sets and with some glitter for the season and an image you have them done.... EASY! (of course I'm big on texture and adding more ink, ribbon too but they can be involved or as easy as you like!!) I had lots of fun designing these and was really happy with the end result! Oh if you'd like to stamp the envelope the Winter Post stamp set is FANTASTIC for this with it's post mark stamp and vintage style!!
I hope that you are getting some great ideas for this Christmas time, I'm sure enjoying sharing them with you!!

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 5

One of the most fabulously FUN things that I have made this Christmas would have to be the Bingo Game set! Oh what a great time it's been, colouring all the images and working out were to put them on each board (you have to place them in different spots so that it's fair when winning time comes!) and then playing the game!!

My Grandad when he lived here would LOVE to play a game of Bingo with me and the children, so this game has fond memories of precious moments past. The Jolly Bingo Bits goes PERFECTLY with the Bingo card Background stamp so it's a snap (as they say in the US) to make! I went with the colours from the NEW DSP Letter's to Santa and then punched out the disc's in the paper too!
It was fun watching the children play, I would call out the image (from the larger disc's) and they would place there coloured disc on the correct spot. The first one to get a ROW shouts BINGO and that's who WINS!!

Zeke made a pattern with his disc's,
I love that he went with Red and Green!
When I played I used all the colour disc's to make
everything co-ordinate,
it was very interesting to see how
everyone chose different themes.

Of course that's not enough for my treasures, they have to see who wins first in covering the WHOLE BOARD! One of my friends calls this WIPE OUT! It was such a blast and I've since then made at least 7 Bingo packs for friends!

What a super duper fun and cool gift for you to make! LOVE IT!!! Just LOVE IT!!!

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 4

Just a quick one today! (soon as there is only 1hour left of TODAY! he he)
This gorgeous card was given to me on Saturday by BEC! How awesome are those silver ornaments!! How did she do it I hear you ask?? Just glue Foil to card-stock and run it through your big shot embossing folder, punch out the desired shape and..... there you have it!! :) Oh and how cool is that scoring line at the bottom! Who thinks of that!?? It's such a great touch!!!
Thank you Bec for a lovely card!! See you tomorrow for more Christmas ideas!!

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 3

I recently held a Christmas card Stamp-a-stack and had the most wonderful time making these cute little cards! They were SUPER easy and the little images were soooo fun to play with and make up different combo's!! I got my inspiration from the lovely Danielle Daws HERE. Every year I buy in a new Christmas set and this year I chose Jolly Bingo Bits! The children and I have had a blast making Bingo games too! (will see that in a post soon!)

Gorgeous Belinda getting her Jolly images right!

The very lovely Heather stamping away!

Bec (my talented down-line) and others!!

So here are the cards we made!!

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 2

Hopefully by now you've got your tree up and your home is looking festive! I've had lots of fun making different decorations this year, one of them being with the wonderful Fabric that Stampin' Up! sell!! I recently ordered the Deck the Halls pack and got my big shot to work cutting out various sized circles in the 3 patterns of fabric. From there I simply layered them, put on a packing piece (for when they sometimes spin around on the tree) and added a button or a brad! I glued on the backing piece with crystal effects... SO LOVE THAT STUFF!!
It was then to my ribbon draw to choose some favourites and they were all done! EASY!! Perhaps you could give them a try, I'd love to hear if you do!
Happy making