A Festive Family Feast

We had family up from London during the last weekend in November, to celebrate a pre-Christmas feast (as Pete's Mum & Stepdad would be in Sri Lanka over Christmas).  It was lovely to gather round the table and enjoy the fabulous feast prepared by Pete's Mum.  She always makes such an effort, and her food is delicious, so I gave her the A+ sticker in the accessory kit, layered on top of the kraft bunting, and drew round it with white pen for emphasis.

The page was based around the 'family tradition' card in the centre, because of course the Christmas meal is the most important tradition of the season, attached to a 4x4" card using the Christmas tree paperclip, and finished with the small tree sticker. 

The small 2x2" cards were filled with a mixture of 2x2" cards, and a 4x4" card cut up.  I improvised with the 'A Little Something wicked' card by sticking a kraft label over 'wicked' and stamping "I made earlier', using the Rotary Stamp. 

I used my trusty Project Life Corner punch to round all the corners of the cards and photos, making the page look softer, and finished it using lots of stickers to for embellishment; snowflakes, christmas trees, labels, numbers, letters, (and I still have lots left!) 

I also want to show you another page I made really quickly with this kit, so you get an idea of how simple or how fancy you can make a page. 

I literally threw the photos in, chose some 3x4 decorative cards and cut a 6x4 journaling card in half for the middle two. I used a couple of stamps from the Day to Day Project Life Stamp Set, and simply rounded all the corners. Easy, yet effective. 

Seasonal Snapshot is such good value for money, especially now it's even cheaper with up to 60% off in the End of Year sale.  Go check it out via my online shop.

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Thank you

This morning I made a thank you card for my lovely mother-in-law who came all the way from London with a car full of home made festive food last weekend.

The card was inspired by a stamper called Mercedes Weber, who makes the most beautiful creations.  I had seen it a year ago on Pinterest, and pinned it in the hope of one day re creating it.

I used the Winter Wonderland DSP that I had ordered in for my Christmas Paper Stars, as background.  The card is a small 4"x 4" note-let, so the stripey background piece was cut to 3 7/8" x 3 7/8" to fit snugly inside.  I ran the smaller butterfly die from the Butterflies Thinlits set through my Big Shot using Gold Glimmer Paper,  then used the Hello You thinlet words 'thanks' and 'you' (I cut the 's' off thanks) with whisper white card (top tip: don't use the thicker card for intricate thinlets like this, you will be there all day, just use normal whisper white card and layer a small piece of wax or baking paper in between the card and the thinlet, this helps the words slide right out).

Lastly, I used the framelit from the Balloon Framelits set to cut out gold bunting for the top left corner.  Next came the tricky part of layering it all on top of each other.  I started by sticking a small section of a doily, ripped off rather than cut perfectly, onto the stripey golden background.  Then the butterfly came next, the bunting and lastly, the words.  I finished off by decorating with gold sequins from my gold sequin trim.

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