3D Christmas Cards

Hi There, It's such a busy time of year - but I finally got chance to play with Kaisercraft Glisten Collection; so elegant and lovely to use for all sorts of Christmas crafts. But you could create these 3D cards using any paper you have in your stash.

Using  those wooden trays that chipboard is often sold in, I created these 2 3D Christmas cards, that can be used as wall hangings or door greetings.

I had such fun creating them, and I think they just make a change to give your loved ones something they can keep.

I also used a whole heap of Prima flowers from my stash.

Love that Black, gold and red colour combo.

I'm nearly on track now for Christmas - just 6 sleeps to go !!!

Debi xx

Christmas gift set

I was in need of christmas tags - so quickly and easily made these with Kasiercraft Silent Night collection :-)

Christmas Tags

Here are some quick easy Christmas Gift tags I made for some homemade gifts I created- candles and bath bombs etc.

As its summer here in New Zealand- while I wanted the tags to be obviously Christmasy - I didn't want yo use traditional colours- so I opted for pinks and purples.
Tag created easily, with simple sponging, asking and stamping, using Distress inks, and stamps from Stampin Up!
Once the gifts were wrapped in the pink cellophane the tags with some gold bells really rocked a summer christmas look I think.

I'm entering this over at the Craft Stamper Magazine challenge- Christmas .

Christmas Advent Block

It's been nearly a year since I blogged on here!
I've been doing all sorts of stuff..... just not blogging.....

But I'm back with my latest 3D altered creation- and advent block.
I've wanted to create one of these for a while, and this year I finally did :-)

Allsorts of goodies on here:

I've used mostly Graphic 45 papers - both Christmas Carol and 12 Days of Christmas, Each box has been inked with Ranger Tea Die Distress ink to age it a bit.
Some of the boxes have Chipboard on from Graphic 45 Christmas Carol. The centre part of the block is stuffed with Prima flowers and a little chapel from Retro Art Cafe, covered in faux Gold leaf, and a little artificial candle inside.
I had such fun creating this, and the kids found and old are enjoying the goodies in the boxes.


I'm entering this into the following challenges :

Papervines Christmas Challenge

Unruly Readers Art Quest : Gingerbread houses and Candy Canes,

Shabby Tea Room: O Christmas Tree

Happy Seasons Greetings to you all.

Hola! Mexican Christmas

Hi again, my regular followers will know that most years I do a theme for Christmas- it's the way I handle a hot Christmas here in New Zealand.

This years theme was Mexican, here are some photos from the day.

a quiet seat

the table

Frida Kahlo Shrine area

me, dressed Frida syle

my Frida headdress made by a friend :-)

one of the table centre pieces

the table complete with some of the food

Its a lot of hard work, but I love creating this experience and memories of the day

Deck the Halls

It's that time again, and as we are rapidly approaching Christmas, the lovely Hazel over at Craft Room Challenge, has chosen the theme of Christmas Decorations- now we don't want to see cards, just lots of decoration fun!

I finally ( It's been sitting barely touched, since I started it 2 Christmases ago!) finished my Christmas inspired Configurations boxes- these are such fun!

Christmas configurations

You name it- and its probably in the box! 

sorry the photos aren't the best :-(  

I can't wait to see what fun you have with this.

Our generous sponsor is the delightful Crafty Individuals.

Have a great week.

Vintage Christmas at Craft Room

We had some lovely entries in our Create your own background at Craft Room Challenge, and as always it will be hard for us to pick our winners.

For our next challenge we've gone with the nostalgic Vintage Christmas, I think you're going to have fun with this one.

Vintage Christmas inspired Card

close up of Vintage Christmas

Our sponsor is the gorgeous Crafty Individuals.

Have a great week everyone, and don't forget to check my lovely teamies creations!

Simple Snow Hugs

Over at Rogue Redhead Designs blog we are sharing with you Holiday ideas, so that you can get ahead ;-)

This month we're creating one layer Christmas cards, I've made 2 cards using the set Snow Hugs.

I've stamped the main image, and then using the small background stamp, created the background. If you want to join us - check all the details at Holiday Inspiration Club.

It's a bit strange for me creating snow cards, when we finally have some hot summer weather here in Wellington, New Zealand :-)
Where ever you ar win the world, have a great week.

Vintage Christmas at Craft Room

Vintage Christmas using Midge

Time is scary flying by.... I'm not at all ready for Christmas :-( so it was cool to have teamie mervi at Craft Room Challenge choose Vintage Christmas as her theme, cause that meant I actually made a Christmas card.

And also cool is that Rogue Redhead Designs who I am on the Dt for are the sponsors for our challenge.

Close up of Details

I hope you're still having crafting fun during this busy Christmas time :-) and I can't wait to see what you all come up with, and don't forget to check out the DT samples cause they are all stunners this week.

Feathered Friends

Christmas Birdie

I know I say it every fortnight but wow the new challenge comes round quick! Thank you for all the cool ATC's :-)

Hazel has chosen the theme of Feathered Friends for our next challenge, I've made a Christmas card, something that I've been putting off Lol.

Our sponsor for the latest challenge once again is Crafty Individuals.

Craft Room: Use Your Scraps

Christmas Tags

Well my Christmas tags for the new Craft Room Challenge of Use your scraps is perfect for today, cause it's snowing down to 500 metres here in Wellington, New Zealand. 

I love the prettiness of snow, and it is one of the few things I miss about England- snow falling and the pretty snow covered trees.

We had snow down to sea level in 2011, I'm ever hopeful it will happen again this year ;)

Now onto our new Challenge:

Esther has chosen the fab theme of use your scraps, I have a lovely box filled with things I think I'll use one day ;-) as I'm sure alot of you do too.

So I went rumudging  and came up with a heap of Christmassy scraps, and so here are the tags.

Our Sponsor is Stamp Addicts, who have some cool stuff so make sure you check them and the DT creations out.

Christmas Page

All this hot weather has been inspiring me to create in really bright colours- here's my latest digital scrapbook page created using My Memories version 4. I love those colours!

Gecko Galz Winner!

It's already Christmas Eve here in Nz, in fact its the evening already, so not long at all now until Santa brings his gifts!

Thank you to all of you that entered my giveaway, as with all these giveaways there can only be one winner :-( and so.....

The winner of the $25 Gecko Galz Gift Voucher  is Terry, my hubby picked her name out of the hat- Congratulations Terry- Have fun spending :-)

I want to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Safe New Year or Lucky 13, as I'm calling 2013.

Here's a Christmas Ornament made with a Gecko Galz winter image.

O Come Let us Adore Him

I've steadily working on my Christmas craft list, here's one of the Christmas cards I've made this weekend. I've embossed the image with black and a little glitter and then sponged the sky. 

I love the sentiments from this Stampin' Up! Set as it reminds me of singing carols in church when I was at school :-)

I'm entering this over at Just Add Ink where their theme Music.