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Poinsettia Christmas Card

 Hello again and welcome to my blog  Todays little treat for you today is my sparkly Poinsettia card  When I first sat this set and the red velvet sheets I knew I had to do a velvet poinsettia but then I saw the balmy blue glitter sheets as well but had a I love it so much I don’t want to cut it moment which left it sitting on my shelf for a few weeks while inspiration grew to a I must cut this paper now and make this card moment! Well  I did it I cut it and the red velvet paper which i must admit i had to stroke a few time before i finally cut it ready for this project  What do you think ? Was it worth it  Yes i think so this card is soooooooo sparkly and Tactile I LOVE it !  So where to begin .......  I will admit this card would have been a lot easier to do if I had brought the dies to match the stamp set ! I however sat and fussy cut out all the elements to this card so it is possible to do without the dies for those of you that do not have a ...

Christmas gleaming box

 Hello and welcome back to my blog today I thought I would share a Christmas box ideal for gifting chocolates in fact this one has been designed to go around a 4 pack of dairy milk. The box measures 5 1/4” x 3 1/4” by 1” high  I decided that rather than use DSP on this box I would do a bit of stamping and water colouring using my wink of Stella pen and am really happy with the gorgeous shimmer over the stamped images, making the box even more festive !  Isn’t it gorgeous I just love the read red ribbon and colour on all the ornaments  I even made the base of the box in real red !  So how to make this box I  started with  a piece of card measuring 7 1/4” x 5 1/4”  and scored at 1” all around  I then got another piece of card that measures 6 3/4” x 4 3/4” scored at 3/4” all round  I frost constructed the larger piece into a box base then using that base I created the lid by wrapping the lid around it so that it fit snugly  I then took...