Glitter Me Silly

Yes indeedy it has!  The first of my trees went up a week ago (I have one in the lounge and one in the family room/kitchen) and there is Christmas music playing as I write!  We haven’t had snow exactly but with it being -5degrees outside everything is perfectly white.  I am going for a theme of red and white this year – a bit Scandanavian with a homespun/folksy kinda vibe!  LOVE!

Anyhoo, onto todays card.  There is a brand, spanking new challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey which is, appropriately, CHRISTMAS!!!  Yay!  With everything I have been doing for the last few weeks for the school fair (see post below!) I am a tad behind with my cards.  Never fear though, I have come up with a few simple designs that I can mass produce and hopefully get them done. 

I LOVE the combo of Pure Poppy and Aqua Mist so will be using this a fair bit I imagine!  Hope to see you over on the blog and having a go at our festive challenge – just remember to use one PTI product in your creation!

Hugs,
Caryn xxx

Good frosty morning all – brr, it’s a chilly one!  I have been a tad quiet on the blog of late as ALL my spare time has been devoted to making goodies for the school Christmas fair which was yesterday.  Over the past few weeks I have fallen in love with making these felt hanging heart decorations so made a bundle of them to sell at the fair.  They went down really well and I even came home with orders!!  I sold them for £2.50 each which I thought was pretty good.  They are so easy to make too if you have a Bigshot and some nesties!

Next I made some little chocolate tree decorations using some Elizabeth Shaw mints (the ones that come in a hexagonal box and arranged in a circle).  Now I take no credit for this idea at all, it was totally pinched from THIS blog – have a nosey, some great little ideas for Craft Fair type things.  I used my nesties and a circle punch and decorated them using my Tiny Treats: Christmas stamps from PTI.  I added a loop of bakers twine to each one so they can be hung on the tree.  These sold for £2 each.  By the way sorry for the photography – all the photos were taken in a hurry so they’re not the best!!

Finally I made a bundle of little treat bags using the Favour It dies 1 and 2 from PTI.  These are so easy to make and decorate and are the perfect size for little treats.  I filled mine with home made Macaroon bars and home made tablet (two traditional Scottish delicacies kindly created by my mum).  To decorate them I used the Tiny Treats: Christmas set again and 2009 Holiday Tags both from Papertrey Ink.  The papers were just some I had lying in my cupboard from last year – amazing what you find that you forgot you had!

Right, now that the fair is behind me, normal service will hopefully resume!!
Have a great Sunday everyone and hope those of you with snow are coping ok.
Hugs,
Caryn xxx

WELCOME TO THE PASSION FOR PROMARKERS BLOG HOP!!

Over at Passion for promarkers challenge this week we are celebrating the change of design teams with a blog hop.  I’m sure you are as excited as I am as there are lots of lovely goodies up for grabs!!  We also have a few new faces on the design team so I hope you will leave them a nice comment to welcome them. 
Firstly if you’ve arrived at my blog from ANJA’S blog you are in the right place, if not return to the challenge blog and start your hop again.  Our blog hop challenge will last for 2 weeks so you have plenty of time to enter your card (or cards) and hop around the whole design team. 

Our challenge theme for the next two weeks is “old & new” i.e. a brand new stamp/digi with old papers etc.  Please can you tell us your old and new items in your post.  Don’t forget to use your promarkers or aqua markers to be included in our prize draw.

The “OLD” in my card is the stamp (from last year which I never used!!) and the “NEW” is the snowflake charm.

As you’ve read on the challenge blog the design team are also offering some candy of their own, so please leave me a comment on this post and I will randomly draw a winner for a promarker prize courtesy of Letraset. 
You also have a “mystery word” to find and my contribution is the letter “R”.  Make a note of my letter and then proceed to DEBS for the next part of the hop.  If you get lost on the hop at all just return to the challenge blog for full directions. 
I just want to let you know the wonderful prizes up for grabs for our blog hop challenge: