A biscuit tin full of cards

I have a brother who lives in Tasmania and it is always difficult figuring out what to send his family for Christmas. My sis-in-law is also studying at the moment so I know she is limited for time so I decided to send them a biscuit tin but I took out the biscuits and filled it with cards. Cards that they can use for Christmas and birthdays and friends etc. I hope they like it......

This is the lovely biscuit tin

inside it fits two piles of cards neatly side by side

I had 6 different cards with matching envelopes, 3 of each design except for the Christmas cards and they were 5 of each design.

Hopefully they won't feel ripped off that they didn't get the biscuits!!!

Sweet little paper handbags

At my last workshop in June we made these sweet little paper handbags that are a perfect size to pop in some choccy's or a small gift to give to someone. They would also be great for a little girls birthday party bag with treats to give away to her guests. I promised to give you the link to the instructions so you can go and make a bunch of them so click here to go to the very talented Makeesha Byl's pdf instructions that you can print out and have handy whilst making.

Here are a few of the ones I made (in a rush to photograph before the sun went down and I didn't iron the sheet in the background-doesn't look the best!!!)

World's Biggest Morning Tea

I recently went to a 'World's Biggest Morning Tea' party that one of my friends from my kids school put together. I must say they did a fantastic job. All money raised gets donated to the research for cancer. They asked lots of people to donate things for lucky door prizes, or items for people to buy etc. I was asked to donate 'something'! I made these cute little love note boxes (a love note is a small card measuring 3inches square) and put 3 love notes in each. I used Washington Apple DSP.

Mother's Day Special Workshop - Sat. 1st May

I have a special Mother's Day workshop I will be holding at my house (please email me if you need my address) at 9:30-12:00noon on Saturday 1st May. Cost is $15 for everything you see which includes 'Roses' chocolates. It all packs up into a cute little box, ready to give to mum or mother-in-law, or god-mothers or step-mothers, or anyone you like!!

I used last year's Designer Series Paper on this box as I was just trying out the design to see if I liked it - Well I love it, so your boxes will be a different colour using current DSP. I hope you can join me, don't forget to RSVP.

March Easter Workshop

As promised, for those of you who missed the workshop this month, I have uploaded the photos of what we did. Firstly we made a very cleaver "Bag-a-lope" which converts an ordinary envelope into a gift bag, and in this case an easter egg treat bag. If you go hereyou will see a tutorial on how tomake it. Then we made these cute little easter egg baskets. Of the 3 I have here, 2 I have covered in Designer Series Paper and the purple one (lavender lace) I stamped straight onto the cardstock with Elegant Eggplant ink. Click here to find a tutorial on how to make these lovely little bags. You could make one for your child's school teacher or the like....

Wednesday's Workshop 12th August 09

We had a great night Wednesday, we made a lovely elegant Thank you card using the 'Elegant Thank You' stamp from the Spring Mini Catalogue and the 'Bella's Border' wheel. We used bashful blue ink and cardstock and chocolate chip cardstock and grosgrain ribbon. We also used the scallop edge and scallop square punches.

Next we made a really easy and cute little gift bag idea stuffed with lollies using Designer Series Paper (I used Washington Apple), the fabulous Crimper to do the edges and the scallop circle and 3.5cm circle punches for the little tag with the sentiment from the hostess set 'Best Yet'. I used bashful blue and pumpkin pie cardstock and pumpkin pie stamp pad for the gift tag also. Everyone loved this and was impressed by how easy it was and how it would be a really great idea for party bags for kids birthdays!!