Crochet

A friend of mine makes beautiful crocheted things, so I made her a CAS card with this theme for her birthday.

I bought a bundle of dies in a sale recently and this Crafter's Companion 'Needles and Yarn' set was part of the bundle.  The set also includes knitting needle dies.  I think the ball of wool die is suppose to actually cut out thin strips in the image, but I couldn't get it to cut right through, so I decided to leave it intact with just a pattern showing.  I used a piece of matching crochet cotton and attached it to the die cut crochet hook.  The ball of wool and crochet hook were layered on a white rectangle, die cut with a Sizzix 'Stitched Rectangle'.  Three blue pearls finished off my card. All the card, except for the base card was snippets, so I'll be sharing my card over in the Playground.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Snippets Playground Challenge #443 ~ Use snippets

NBUS Challenge #13 ~ Use Never-Before-Used-Schtuff (dies)

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge ~ Anything but Christmas

Allsorts Challenge Week 706 ~ Anything Goes without the option

Alphabet Challenge ~ R is for Reduce (CAS)

MTTC #496 ~ Anything Related to Sheep (lamb, shepherd, yarn, wool)

Hexagonal Cracker Gift Box

I've made all my Christmas cards, so something different today.  I made a Hexagonal Cracker gift box, following a tutorial I watched HERE.

I used a sheet of patterned paper from The Work and the snowflake is a Sizzix 'Flurry #2' die cut. The gift box is 7" long by about 3" wide, so a great size for a small gift.

The ends have a hexagonal piece of card inserted to stop the gift falling out, but can easily be removed to take out the gift.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Week 705 ~ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (Hope it's ok that it's not a card.)

Time Out Challenge #228 ~ Winter or Holiday Season

Moving Along With The Times Challenge #149 ~ Christmas

Country View Crafts December Challenge ~ Christmas

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #291 ~ Use Dies and/ or Punches

Thinking of You

The December Crafty Calendar Challenge begins today with an 'Anything Goes' theme.  Our generous sponsor this month is 'Lawn Fawn'.

My DT card is a CAS this month.

 

I used a Quickutz embossing folder which I've had for years.  It was pre-loved when I bought it, so was probably discontinued a long time ago.  After embossing the white card, I used my stamp platform to stamp the sentiment so it was in the correct place.  The pink flower centres were die cuts and I added a white pearl in the centre of each flower.  I layered the embossed card on a pink mat and added three pink pearls.

The Crafty Calendar Challenge ends on 28th December.  Please pop over the blog to see all the fabulous creations the DT have made. 

Star Easel Card + Snowman Tag

A Star Easel Christmas card today, which I saw demonstrated on Elisabeth Hogarth Design YouTube channel HERE.

I used Lisa Horton's 'Layered Stars' dies and a die from the Memory Box 'Twilight Snowflakes' set. I added a clear gem in the middle of the snowflake.  The patterned paper is from a paper pad from The Works. The original design had the points of the folded star at the back showing, but I decided to chop them off.

Here is a side view of the card.

 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Beccy's Month of Holiday Cards Challenge ~ Do what you love - I love making fancy fold cards

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #198 ~ Monochrome

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge ~ Anything Christmas or Winter

International Art & Soul Challenge #147 ~ Fancy Fold

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #291 - Use Dies and/ or Punches

I finished off this tag today.

 

I used an MFT 'Cross-Stitch Tag' die and using crochet cotton for the design.  

I am joining in with the following challenges:

Country View November Challenge ~ Tags