White And Gold

Hello and happy Friday! Hope you had a good week (but if not the weekend is nearly upon us ... yay!) !

November already! Can you believe how fast this year is going? Christmas will be upon us in no time, so I would like to share an idea for a classic card that would be good to give to men and women alike.
 

I have used two of the Wplus9 Christmas sets- Heartfelt Holidays  and Woodland Wreaths (sorry OSS but a lot of the other wreath images in the store would look gorgeous behind this die-cut)- and a die set - Stag Trio Die.

I heat embossed the more sparse wreath from Woodland Wreaths in white and then embossed the berries on top. The sentiment is from Heartfelt Holidays and I have heat embossed this in gold. I have cut the large stag from gold metal but you could you gold mirror board for a similar effect.

The card layer is the smaller stitched frame from Mama Elephant Basics Set, this is such a great set of basic die cuts and I am forever reaching for this die for my card layer!To finish I have added some Gold Twine from Lawn Fawn to pull the card together.

Hope you liked todays card!

Have a great weekend!

Hugs Lydia x

Last minute gifts

Morning all, if your house is anything like mine at the moment then I'm sure that crafting is pretty low on the agenda of things that must get done.......

However, however much chaos is around me, I usually have a few last minute homemade gifts to make so need a few inexpensive and easy to make ideas up my sleeve and thought I'd share one with you today that you can make in under 5 minutes and costs just pennies which has to be a good thing right?

Now I must admit I've used a set that is not in store - but as the store will be closing down shortly, you might find we keep tempting you with out of stock sets so you have lots of lovely inspiration for when we re-open in January.

I bought these paper blocks for 99p from Waitrose a while ago and one block will actually make two of these little Christmas notelet sets.  I simply clamped them tight (an extra pair of hands is helpful here!) and then stamped the twigs and berries from Woodland Wreaths by Wplus9 and then added one of the greetings to the centre.  A little cellophane and a bit of ribbon and hey presto a perfect little gift for around 60p but looking like it cost a lot more!

I actually bought a lot of note holders in the John Lewis January sales that have been waiting to be turned into Christmas gifts so I added my stamped notes to them (and yes I really could have made them MONTHS ago instead of my usual last minute panic - will I ever learn????)

As I said, the wreath is out of stock, but if you don't have it, you could use just about any stamp set you have from a simple sentiment to some flowers or even fruit and vegetables - just clamp the edges of your paper tight as you stamp on them.

I may well have another last minute idea next weekend so I'll see you then!