Christmas in July!

Well this is a first!! I have actually made a Christmas card in July! I must add that this staggering feat is in no way down to me being ridiculously organised, more that my lovely upline Jenny challenged her downlines to make a Christmas card. I feel way ahead now and will probably leave the other hundred odd to a week before Chirstmas lol!

Have a great week peeps!

Kate x

Recipe: (All supplies Stampin Up)

Stamps - Perfect Presents
Ink - Ruby Red/Old Olive
Card/Paper - Chocolate Chip/Whisper White/Holiday Treasures DSP
Other - Tag Punches/Scallop Edge Punch/White Grosgrain Ribbon

Holiday Treasures Tree

Morning everyone and happy Saturday! I'm looking forward to relaxing weekend (I hope!), aiming to get some crafting in today before I sit down to my Saturday evening treat of a huge bowl of ice-cream and Strictly Come Dancing hee hee! I'll admit it I'm addicted! I wonder if John will stay another week?!

Today's post uses the yummy Holiday Treasures DP from Stampin Up. I've been wanting to make one of these trees for ages - instructions here. I love how it turned out - really simple to make. It's just lots of strips of paper folded over and pinned into a polysterene cone. If you can't find one in your local craft store Panduro Hobby sell them. The trunk is just a wooden stick pushed into a polysterene ball which sits snugly in the terracotta pot.

I used normal headed pins for most of the tree because they can't be seen under the layers, but for the top layer I uses pearl headed pins and adhered 3 red bows for a finishing touch.



This would make a lovely gift this Christmas - if I have time I'm going to make a few to decorate the house, think about all the different colour trees you could make!

The card is simple simple and would be great for mass producing -tree stamped from the Perfect Presents set stamped in ruby red, same Holiday Treasures dp and a bit of bling to finish it off.



I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Tree:
Holiday Treasures designer paper (SU)/pins and pearl headed pins/red bows/real red ribbon (SU), polysterene ball and cone, terracotta pot.

Card:
Stamps - Perfect Presents (SU) Ink - Ruby Red (SU)
Card/paper - Very Vanilla/Chocolate Chip/Holiday Treasures DP (all SU)
Other - Chocolate Chip ribbon (SU), rhinestone brad (Making Memories) corner rounder punch (SU)

Ink and Rubber challenge

Brrr - isn's it cold!! The weather kinda suits making Christmas cards thought doesn't it. The snow sadly hasn't reached us yet here in Somerset :(

This is my card for the new Ink and Rubber challenge - the new Stampin Up! challenge blog. A simple one to get us started - Jo challenged everyone to use ANY UK/Europe Stampin up set on an A6 card & post the new blog onto their blog. Hope you get a chance to play too!

This card uses the yummy Holiday Treasures papers along with the Perfect Presents set. Pretty straightforward really - thanks for looking. Keep warm!!

Recipe:
Stamps - Perfect Presents (SU)
Ink - Old Olive/Ruby Red/Chocolate Chip (All SU)
Card/Paper - Hoiday Treasures DSP/Ruby Red/Choc Chip/Whisper White/Old Olive (All SU)
Other - silver cord/silver eyelets/silver brads/photo corner punch/crafter's tool kit