Monday, 6 July 2015

All That Glitters

Welcome everyone to the latest Challenge over at Ooh La La, and it's a first time for hosting by the lovely Deborah.  She has gone with the lovely theme of

All That Glitters

So this one is wide open for both birthday and Christmas makes - in fact any sort of makes as long as they are glittery!

For me, I decided to make a start on Christmas cards - shamefully this is my first Christmas card of the year! I used a fantastic image form the CD Festive Funnies, layered it up them sprinkled with glamour dust.  The result...


and a close up,

Trust me, there was a lot of glitter on this one - perhaps more on me now, but it was added!

Challenges;
Crafty Calender - Christmas in July
CHCC - Include a sentiment
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Kitty Bee Designs - Christmas in July
Winter Wonderland - All That Glitters
4 Crafty Chicks - No stamping
Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes Jx


Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Retirement

Today's card was made for one of the doctors at my husbands work who retires today.  He is a keen cyclist and I'm sure will be cycling all the more once his stethoscope gets hung up for good.

Best wishes David for a long and happy retirement!



So for my card, I contacted Wendi at Ooh La La for help - I wanted a cyclist, but not a cartoon character one and so she sent me files from the Carnival of Colour CD - available here to work with.  Thank you so much Wendi, I love them - the image and papers are just perfect - and look, I even did a card insert!


Challenges;
Cardz 4 Guyz - B for bicycle
Crafty Cardmakers - Sentiment - Continued on the inside so it's kinda a feature!
Robyn's Fetish - Add lace Jx


Thursday, 25 June 2015

Sewing

Today the MAWTT challenge is hosted for the very first time by Emily and she has chosen the theme of;

Sewing

For my card, I chose another All Dressed Up image, this time Purrfect Together, coloured with Promarkers then set on Ooh La La papers - these CD's come in handy for DP's too when you are looking for a colour match!  Finally, lots of dies in action, my stitched Simon Says rectangles along with my Magnolia tag - for a hidden greeting and my La La Land banner.


Challenges;
All Dressed Up - Anything Goes - Challenge 37
Cutie Pies - Cats & Dogs - but really just cats!!!
Stamping Sensations - Dies & Punches
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Use pearls
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Papertake - Triotastic - 3 pearls
Crafting for all Seasons - Cute and summery - well defo cute! - Sorry to see you close. Jx

Monday, 22 June 2015

Happy Birthday

Today's challenge at Ooh La La is set by Avril and she has chosen the lovely easy one of

Happy Birthday.

Think we will have loads of entries this time so bear with us as we try to comment on all your cards!

For my card I have again used the Paula Oakley CD - can you tell I love this one already!  I've made an A5 card this time and decorated it with a ribbon flower.  I was so into making these last year and thought it was about time I fished out that tutorial from Bonnie and made another!



I even decorated the inside of this one, and that doesn't happen very often!

Challenges;
A Gem of a Challenge - Summertime - flowers in full bloom
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - Anything goes + blue
Frosted Designs - Summertime blues
Kitty Bee Designs - Birthday
Simply Papercraft - Anything goes Jx


Friday, 19 June 2015

Man's Best Friend

For clarification, man's best friend may well be the dog, but this woman's best friend is defo her cat!  I haven't mentioned the lovely Merlot in a while, so just in case you were wondering, he's still as lovely as ever.  He now has a fantastic Elvis styled lip curl which is more pronounced when he's on the attack and his favourite place remains to be on my lap sound asleep afer a day of cat action.  (I will not give details as he's a bit of a lad!)

Anyway, back to Bertie dog off the latest Ooh La La CD by Paula Oakley.  Isn't he lovely - he too looks like he has a lot of character and would be a fun guy to have around.


Challenges;
CD Sunday -Four Legs and a tail
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Furry Friends Jx


Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Plain Jane

I've got a new toy - two actually all because of Sarah  (not Debs this time!!!)

It's a stepper card die used to make the card below only the die was too big for my big shot so I needed to buy the bigger plates - but plates are boring so I got the new teal coloured Grand Calibur instead and I love it!


So, back to the card - kept it simple with a few dies and paper piecing. The stamp is a beautiful All Dressed Up one which I love, well actually I love most of their stamps!  And the papers, LOVT Country Meadow.

As for what's new, well Colin is now back working at Mackie's Ice-Cream and Alan is loving working with the oil company Nexen - both just Summer jobs.  And as for me, well the phlebotomy went well last week, real blood has now been drawn and my training is ongoing.

Challenges;
All Dressed Up - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Oh so Pretty
Passion for Promarkers - No squares allowed
Top Tip Tuesday - Cut it out
Crafting When We Can - Paper Piecing
Glitter n Sparkle - Include a die cut
Crafty Calender - Fancy Folds
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Pearls
Crafty Catz - CAS
Stamping Sensations - Dies & Punches Jx



Thursday, 11 June 2015

To The Happy Couple

Challenge time once more at MAWTT, and today Gail has chosen

To The Happy Couple

So that could be an engagement, a wedding or an anniversary card - it's up to you.

I went with anniversary, as my husband and I celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary last month.  I looked it up and apparently the appropriate gift for said occasion is a sculpture, so I'll keep you posted if one appears!  (Perhaps not!!!)


Anyway, back to my card and the stamp used, it's a Penny Black showing a lovely sun set, and it just reminded me of our honeymoon in St Lucia and the sun sets there.  I had never seen a sun set so quickly and was amazed that you could be on the beach sun bathing then about half an hour later the sky was black and it was night!



Challenges;
Sweet Stampin - Something Old  - PB Stamp, Something New - Tattered Lace borders from a die
Stamping Sensations - Dies & Punches - Corner & border dies
Without Words - Summer holidays
Addicted To Stamps - Summer Colours
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
C4C289 - Sunshine  Jx

Monday, 8 June 2015

Here Comes Summer

I so hope the title of this post is correct, a nice spell of hot weather would be so welcome so fingers crossed! Not that I want it too hot, as I have a busy week ahead getting some practice in at phlebotomy (taking blood).  To date I've only practiced on dummys so I'm guessing I'll be hot enough with a real arm in front of me!

Anyway, enough of that and back to the latest challenge over at Ooh La La, where the theme is

"Here Comes Summer!"

Now for this one I just had to use my new Paula Oakley CD and a gorgeous deck chair image.  So reminds me of the prom at Brighton.  We spent so many hours down at the beach there, swimming in the sea and sun bathing and on sunny days the hire of deck chairs was big business!


Challenges;
Brown Sugar - Anything goes
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Summer fun
Fussy & Fancy - Fun in the sun
Cute Card Thursday - Summer colours - well you only get a sea that colour in the summer!
Crafty Gals Corner - Summer Fun
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes Jx

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Texture

Morning everyone and welcome to the latest challenge over at MAWTT, chosen this time by Mrs Duck. She's gone with the great theme of
Texture

So grab those embossing powders and folders, your charms and ribbons and anything else you can think would add texture to your work.



To add texture to my card, I went with die cuts and embossing folders.  I've gone for a simple colour scheme and a gorgeous Hannah Lynn image and finished my card off with a LOTV sentiment and ribbon.

Challenges;
Polkadoodles - Girly but no pink
Clear it Out - Girls and die cuts and stash items... Image printed and coloured months ago/ old ribbon.
Fan-tastic Tuesday - texture
TopTipTuesday- All about the hair
Make it Mon with Kraft - Emboss
Make my Mon - Kraft

And poor Mrs Duck is feeling poorly this week, hope you feel better soon and have learned your lesson, keep away from the chickens!!! Jx


Monday, 25 May 2015

Circles and Squares

It's almost the end of the month folks, May has all but been and gone, the garden is brightening up and the grass is growing like mad!  Things are going to plan in Aberdeen, Colin's flat is looking good but as with any property, there are always things to do!

Anyway, back to today, and Wynn's challenge over at OohLaLa.  This time we are looking for

Circles and Squares

So get your thinking caps on.  Be that a paper pattern, an image or dies, as long as we see both, you meet the challenge.

For my card, I went with a square base and circle decoupage.  This was a first for me and I must confess I did find it tricky lining up the dies on the image.  Any tips on this process would be much appreciated as several circles had to be binned cause they had either a white rim or when stacked my circle pyramid was wonky!!!

Who said DT members knew what they were doing???

Anyway, here is my card, it uses a lovely image off the Shaun Jenkins CD called Birdhouse.


Challenges;
A Gem of a Challenge - Flowers
Allsorts - Happy Birthday
Crafty Calender - Things with wings - Blue tit
Wags n Whiskers - Lots of Layers

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Let's Get Fruity

Hi everyone, hope you're all well.  This is a scheduled post from me as we are currently in Aberdeen for a spell, sorting out a flat for Colin amongst other things.  Once I've got it to my liking I'll show you pics.  It's in the same block as Alan's which we are delighted about and will make visiting very straightforward.

Anyway back to today and the new challenge over at MAWTT, chosen by Carole, and it's

Let's Get Fruity

A nice fun challenge for this time of year and one that enabled me to use yet another gorgeous, hand painted image from the latest Ooh La La CD - The Paula Oakley collection.  So love this CD and have printed off loads of images to use in the coming weeks.


Challenges;
The Crafters Cafe - Feminine (Hope this is feminine enough with the doily & pearls?)
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Jx

Monday, 11 May 2015

Use A Pre-Coloured Image

Good morning everyone and welcome to the latest challenge over at Ooh La La... set by me!  As you can probably tell, I'm super excited to be at the helm and for my theme, I've chosen...

Use A Pre- Coloured Image

Hopefully a nice and easy one with lots of scope for using art pads, CD's or printed sheets.  Now with it being an Ooh La La Challenge, I obviously went with an Ooh La La CD - The Shawn Jenkins collection to be precise, and not only did the image come off the CD, but also the lovely matching papers, so all I needed was my charm, pearls & punch!


 As with many of the images on the CD, there was the option to go decoupage, so that's what I did!


Challenges;
Little Claires - Use kraft
Brown Sugar - Layers - decoupaged
Fussy and Fancy - Lots of flowers
Creative Moments - Anything goes
Fab n Funky - May Flowers Jx

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Cat Challenge

Well Wynn, you certainly picked a theme that I'd jump at this week - there's no way I'd miss a cat challenge so as soon as I saw your CD Sunday post, I knew which CD I was headed for.  Yup, you guessed it, it's the latest Ooh La La CD, the Paula Oakley collection and without further ado, here's my card!


The decoupaged image and papers are all from the CD, all I did was add a diecut and pearls.

Challenges;
CD Sunday - Curious Cats although he's not too curious just now!
Make My Monday - Trees or leaves - hopefully the cat is lying on sufficient leaves
Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes
Natalie & Amy - Animals
Paper Creator Crafts - Animals Jx

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Recipe

You'll be glad to here, our snow has all gone again, still very cold, but at least the sun has reappeared!

Today at MAWTT Hazel the boss lady has given us a recipe to follow - I was hoping for cake or biscuits, but no it's a recipe for the perfect card!  So all you need this week is;

1 Digi Imade; 2 Design Papers; 3 Embellishments 
& a pinch of glitter!

And that according to our Hazel will help you create the perfect card, so here is my attempt...


Now first off, I apologise for it being another round card - no shaped cards from me and then 2 in close succession! (Those dies were expensive you know so I gotta get the good of them!)

Anyway, it's another sweet All Dressed Up image - Little Star to be precise.  First Edition Up Up & Away papers and 3 pearls as my embellishments - the banner & hearts don't count!

So, over to you now kiddies, let's see what you make. Jx

Challenges;
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - Things With wings
SSS Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
All Dressed Up - 33 - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge - Shaped card
Passion for Promarkers - Easel does it!
I Love Promarkers - Release the glitter - glitter wings!

Oops, just realised this is Wed not Thurs! Sorry folks I'm a day early, the current MAWTT challenge is still running! Jx

Monday, 27 April 2015

Nursery Rhymes

On Saturday, I was out cutting the grass and tidying up the garden, been in the garden most days this week, enjoying the Spring sunshine and getting things in shape.  But yesterday, the weather had different plans, it snowed for hours, blizzard conditions returned and everything was white.  Luckily it hasn't stayed for long, just a few pockets of snow remain and hopefully I'll get back to my gardening soon! In the mean time, it's challenge time again over at Ooh La La and this week it's the turn of Susan to pick her theme and she has selected

Nursery Rhymes

Now as I don't have little toots any more I don't often make really kiddy cards however I scrolled through my bits and bobs and decided on the rhyme;

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Bare with me on this cause I do get there! So, in said rhyme the maid was in the garden...hanging out the clothes, right, when down came a black bird, and pecked off her nose!

You will be relieved to know that my card does not depict a hidious scene of said event, instead, it was a snowy day like yesterday, so the maid hug the clothes up inside, avoiding said bird!!!

And here is my card, made from the lovely Ooh La La CD - Everyday Occasions.



Challenges;
Crafty Gals Corner - 16 - Girls girls girls
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Use a die cut - Stitched rectangle for sentiment
That's Crafty - Keep it simple
Papertake - Cute as a button - Well I think she's cute washing her dolls clothes
CD Sunday - Layer it up - do faux layers count?



Sunday, 19 April 2015

Agapanthus

It's been a while since I just made a card, not for a DT project or a specific person in mind, but the other day I had time so I did!

Think I'm inspired by all the lovely images in the new Ooh La La CD - The Paula Oakley Collection.  There are so many gorgeous images on that CD, and I never realised they were all hand painted by Paula.  Well I never really stoped to think about it actually, but when you do, you realise just how lovely they are!

So starting at the beginning of the CD, with the very first image, I chose Agapanthus - a gorgeous purple flower which was great fun to layer up in decoupage.

Backing papers were also off the CD - and look - an insert too - all printed to match the papers used and you guessed it, off the CD!





The card was then finished with lace and pearls and will be entering the following challenges;

CD Sunday - Purple Crazy
Fantastic Tuesday - Pearls
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Wonderful Wednesdays - Anything Goes
Everybody Art Challenge - Pearls (320)
Card Mania - Flowers
Woopsie Daisy - Flowers
The Corrosive Challenges - Floral Frenzy


Thursday, 16 April 2015

Anything But Square

Today's challenge over at MAWTT has been set by Kelly as...

Anything but Square

And this is something that I rarely do so it was indeed a challenge for me.  Made easier by the fact that I recently purchased some large circular dies with this challenge in mind - and you know what you're like when you get something new!


And talking of new - that stamp is too!  It's by Beccy's Place, and I won it a couple of weeks back in a challenge.  It's part of a set called "Catitude" and it has some brilliant quotes on it - which you will see in the coming weeks! (Thanks Beccy for my prize>)

Paper is a MME sheet, (Lost & Found) and colouring by Promarker.

Challenges;
Di's Digi Designs - Include an animal
Craft Your Passion - Anything goes
Eureka Stamps - Four Legged friends
Crafters Cafe - Animal Antics
Crafting By Designs - Shaped cards
Crazy4Challenges - Pet, cat! C4C281
Di's Digi Designs - Include an animal

Jx

Monday, 13 April 2015

Lots of Layers

Well that was a quick week, Colin's week's holiday has flown past and it's now Monday again, which means it's a new challenge over at Ooh La La, and this time Pauline has chosen the fabby theme of

Lots of Layers

Which is great if you do lots of matting and layering of your images, but also great for doing decoupage - so come on you lot, get those foam pads and tubes of silicon dug out and get layering!

Obviously with an intro like that I chose to do delightful decoupage, and here is my card...




Now the image was quite big this time so I kept my card simple, one paper, a diecut and a sentiment, and that's it!  But with an image as gorgeous and colourful as this, is there any need for any more?

I'm also going to try and learn how to resize these bigger images as it's something I can't do for now - I've been getting help and advice from the lovely DT ladies, so watch this space!!!

Challenges:
Crafty Calender - Add A Sentiment
4 Crafty Chicks - Diecuts - the grass
Creative Knockouts - Birthday Wishes
Crafting for All Seasons - Animal Magic
Deep Ocean Challenge - Things with wings
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes & Die/Punch - I chose my grass die
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Try It on Tuesday - They who have wings

The image and papers today come from the Ooh La La - Shawn Jenkins Collection CD, available here.

And finally - my tulips are in bloom! So I guess they are Spring after all!



Sunday, 5 April 2015

Happy Easter

No card to share with you today, but rather some news and a photo!

First off, Happy Easter everyone, hope you all have a lovely weekend, and that the sun is shining where ever you are.

And now for my photo - obviously it's several years old now, but it just brings a smile to my face every time I see it!

This is Colin & Alan one Easter Sunday...

Both boys would have left the house, with little baskets in search of eggs left by Easter bunny - clearly big brother found the majority and little Colin was not pleased!!! Look at his face - brilliant!


Obviously both boys got the same amount of eggs despite Alan finding more - but Colin didn't know that as the photo was taken!

Anyway that's the photo - now for the news..

As you all know I'm now on the Ooh La La DT and it is from there my news originates.  There is a new CD launching from Ooh La La next week, and it will be featured on Create & Craft by Kathryn Sturrock on Tues 7th April at 2pm.


Now you can see samples of cards we've already made over on the Ooh La La blog and I have to say it's a really lovely CD.  If you want you can pre-order it here or if you prefer to wait till the C&C launch make a note to be seated at the telly on Tues at 2pm!  I know I will be as the CD is just brilliant!

So, that's my news for the day.  Hope you are all well and enjoying the holiday weekend. Jx

Thursday, 2 April 2015

Birthstones

April already folks, boy this year is flying past! Next week we have both boys home from Uni for their Easter break, Alan gets three weeks off but Colin only gets one :(

But before all that, we have a new challenge over at MAWTT, and its Hazel who has set our theme.  She has asked us to make a card using our birthstone colour.  And in case you are struggling to know what that is, here's a helpful little chart;



Now my birthday in March so I'm aquamarine and after much searching, I decided that this image off the Ooh La La CD - The Shawn Jenkins Collection kinda captured the colour I was after.


I love the sentiment on this card, and the card itself is very plain - the image says it all!  It's just layered up then finished off with pearls.

Challenges;
7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything goes
Try it On Tuesday - They who have wings
TPE292 - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes
CD Sunday - Sentiment - love it!

Monday, 30 March 2015

Spring/Easter

So, Spring has sprung and we are now into British summertime, brrr! Hope you all remembered to change your clocks.  Not so hard to remember nowadays with mobile phones automatically moving the time over for you, but I know in the past, when the boys were little I was caught pretty and couldn't understand why Corrie wasn't on at it's usual 7.30pm - so it took me till then before I noticed! Oops

Anyway, back to the latest challenge over at Ooh La La and this time it's Michelle in the driving seat, and she has chosen
Spring/ Easter 

as our theme, and as I'm doing a Birthday card I chose lovely tulips, they are a Spring flower right??? Hmm, will have to check that actually cause that's us into Summer and still no tulips, so forgive me if my gardeners world facts are not quite accurate!




My card today uses a gorgeous Shawn Jenkins art set again from his lovely Collection CD.  All that was added was a ribbon, pearly flower and sentiment.

Challenges;
Crazy 4 Challenges - Lets think Spring
Speedy Fox & Friends - 255 - Birthday card with butterflies
Creative Corner - Spring has Sprung
Crafty Ribbons - Anything goes with ribbon
Creative Knockouts - Spring is in the air
In The Pink - Lots of layers - The layers aren't pink but the paper & flowers are, hope that's enough?
Crafters Cafe - Spring flowers
Crafty Creations - Chevrons or stripes - stripes
Paper Shelter Challenge - Blooming
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Add A Little Dazzle - 67 - Spring Inspiration
Jx

Crafty Creations Challenges Winner! Thanks ladies and thanks Beccy's Place for my prize.


Thursday, 19 March 2015

Tag You're It!

Hi everyone, it's me who's hosting at MAWTT this week, so I'd love it if some of you would join us in my

Tags Challenge

A simple one really, stemming from my love of those little LOTV sentiment tags - Debs, you get the blame for that!

For my card, I went with my new All Dressed Up digi called Little Bookworm, a 12x12 double sided DP, some ribbon and obviously my tags!

Really pleased with the end result - as was my niece as it was for her Birthday this month!


Challenges;
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - For a Child
Papertake - Happy ...Anything
Passion for Promarkers - Check it out
I Love Promarkers - The Beatles - Paperback Writer
All Dressed Up - Challenge 31 - Anything Goes  Jx

Monday, 16 March 2015

She's In Fashion

Today sees the start of a new Ooh La La challenge, this time set by Lynn, and our theme is...

She's In Fashion

Think it will be a popular one, and I can't wait to see all those lovely ladies in the coming two weeks.

My ladies would have probably been in fashion in the 1930's .  They were pulled from the gorgeous Yesterday's Memories CD by Ooh La La, (of course!)


Co-ordinating papers also came from the CD then the card was finished off with a die-cut bow, HobbyHouse pearls and my La La Land filigree corners, (I do like them!)

Challenges;
Through The Purple Haze - For Mum/Lady
CHPP - Patterned Paper
My Time To Craft - 283 - Special Lady
CD Sunday - Shabby Chic - Never quite sure what this means, so I may not fit the challenge? Jx

Thursday, 5 March 2015

Show Us A Bunny

It's challenge day again over at MAWTT as well as my birthday and with team A at the helm, Judith has chosen

Show Us A Bunny

So it was a tough call between a PB or an LOTV stamp this week - both do delightful bunnies, but in the end I went with PB for the stamp as I've not coloured this one up before - and LOTV for papers, from the Nit-Wits, Country Meadow pad. Also in action were my lovely Simon Says Stamp stitched dies again and an old favourite, my Magnolia flower dies.



Challenges;
Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes with a twist of green - Ivy!
Sentimental Sunday - Anything Goes

Happy BIG Birthday Liz!!!

What am I like, no cards in over a week then 2 in the same day!  There is however a reason for such over production, it's my sis's birthday today...

Happy Birthday Liz!

Hope you love being on my blog - I know the girls will love seeing you here, he he he! And I also hope you have a really lovely Birthday!

And for the ones that know me well, you will have therefore concluded that it is in fact also my birthday as we are twins!

So, my card for Liz - uses a family photo lots of dies and a special 50th ribbon - in case that had gone un-noticed!  You actually are lucky to see this card, as it was handed over before I remembered to photograph it, however John cane to the rescue and took me a quick snap - that's why the photo isn't to the usual high standard!!! Lol!


Finally, another old photo taken on a disposable camera, massively over exposed, but of such a happy day out!  Before either of us had kids, we took the ferry and went on a day trip cycling round Millport (Isle on the West coast of Scotland).  We had such a laugh that day, it was really sunny but also really windy and we giggled and carried on the whole time then arrived home rather red and rather sun burned - but it was still a great day out!  Thought Liz would like to see this one too to bring back some memories. (...of the bus!)


I'll need to raid my parents photo albums for more childhood photos tomorrow, so if you pop back at the weekend hopefully I'll have a few more photos of us up loaded by then. 




And in case any of you are wondering who's who...I'm the more active child in all the pics, poor Liz just had to put up with me - still does!!! Jx

Monday, 2 March 2015

Lots of Folds

Today Julie has picked a fantastic challenge theme for us over at Ooh La La - I say fantastic, but normally I shy away from this challenge as it's

Lots of Folds

Again it's up to you what you make as long as you follow the theme, and I knew from the off, loads of my teamies would make fancy cards in all sorts of shapes and folds - but I find them hard! I'm a square/easel girl and that's kinda it!

But, as it was a design team theme I had to think of an easy alternative and not skip it.  This is what I found...

Paper Gift Bag Tutorial - On YouTube

Simples!

I'll make you a paper bag!!!

These are made from an A4 sheet of printed paper - that's it.  Just fold away, no measuring involved and pick a closure of your choice - I did a variety.

So, I pulled out my Ooh La La CD's, printed off a couple of sheets of paper and got some ribbons and started folding...the results are below.


These are sooo easy - honestly, I'll never buy a little gift bag again!  Perfect for cream eggs, jewellery and other little treats, so once I'd mastered the art I couldn't stop folding!

So now my gift bags can co-ordinate my cards...


Challenges;
Crafty Calender - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner - Fancy Folds
Creative Moments - 62 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Jx