Thursday, 25 October 2012

Christmas Card Buffet Workshop - Berkshire



  Hi All,
 
How would you love a diet friendly buffet?

  Well I am running a Christmas Card Buffet session.
No calories, just fabulous Christmas Cards

  The session is on

Monday 12 November - From 7:45pm
(Howard Palmer Room, St Sebastians Hall,
Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham, Berkshire,RG40 3BA)

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You’ll get to make 16 Christmas cards in total, that’s 4 each of 4 designs.
Price is £15and includes everything you need to make them as well as their envelopes, plus Tea & Coffee and maybe even cake!

All abilities are welcome.

If you are interested please either email me (sassystampers@gmail.com) and I will send you details of how to book and pay. Please do pass this on to anyone else that you know who might like to come.

Look forward to seeing you soon

Happy Crafting,
Elaine

ww.thesassystampers.com
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Candy Canes

 

Aren’t these just gorgeous?  I first got the idea when blog hopping around the internet.  Now the project stuck there in the back of my mind but the blog where I saw it hasn’t.  So apologies to whoever you are that first had it on your blog – please get in touch so I can credit the idea back to you.

I took a strip of Real Red Cardstock that was 12 cm longer than the candy cane and wider than the hook at the top.  You can get the candy canes in different sizes so you’ll need to cut it to size depending on the ones you have.  I know there are some very cute little ones around.

On mine I scored the Real Red cardstock at around 6cm to provide the flap.  The background was made using Whisper White cardstock cut approximately 0.5cm smaller than the Real Red width and the length to under the score line.  The tiny background was made using the little stamps from the Polar Party stamp set in Real Red, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive.

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Using my Crop-a-dile, I punched 2 holes to go either side of the candy cane and threaded some gorgeous dotty ribbon through that I had left over from an old project.  It really just lent itself to this project.  However, if I had had any left I would have used the Old Olive Scallop Dots Ribbon from the catalogue.

I stamped the Christmas Greeting in Real red using the stamp from the Tags til Christmas stamp set and punched it out using the Scallop Square punch.

If you are worried that the candy cane might move just add a couple of Mini Glue dots to the back of it before popping it onto the card and tying the ribbon.

That it for now.

Back Soon

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