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Well Hello There, long time no see!

Lots have things have kept me uber busy lately such as family visits, the obligatory shopping trips, making Christmas pressies and lots of other general festivities. As a result I have sadly neglected my poor old blog, I’ll just have to give it lots of tender loving care for a while to make up for it ;) I hope you have had a lovely Christmas and will have a fabulous New Year, my Christmas day was spent in bed as I fell victim to the glorious Norovirus on Christmas Morning but as I’m feeling much better now I shall surely make up for it on New Years Eve mwahahaha!

Unfortunately I completely forgot to photograph many of the things I made over Christmas but I managed to snap one of this years cards I sent out, I made this suspension card in few colour ways using a snowflake from set 5, some glitter effect papers from Dovecraft. I used some co-ordinating organza ribbons and my favourite embellishment for this year – Jingle Bells! I just love them and have added them to everything this year like they are going out of fashion.

xmas card 2011

These were the tags I attached to my gifts, As a typical crafter I like to use my scraps so I used up the circle cut outs and any spare snowflakes from the cards and added some scalloped circles and a little ribbon.

xmas tag 2011

Some of the projects I didn’t manage to get posted will have to wait for next year now but this little box will be useful at any time of year.There is a cut file for those of you with digital cutting machines and a template version for those of you who don’t as it’s a simple enough shape to cut with scissors.

I made 24 of these little beauties, filled them with wrapped choccies and made a dispenser for them to be used as my Advent Calendar. I made a tall box and lid with a gap cut out at the bottom to pull them out in turn, as you take one from the bottom all of the ones above it fall down to fill the gap and you open the top to put the empty back in, simple and yummy :)

advent calendar 2011

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Box 2 Template by Bird

Here is your cut file – formats included are ai, dxf, gsd, pdf, studio & svg:

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Box 2 by Bird

Box 2 Digital Cutting File by Bird

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Box 1

Well Hello There!

I have been MIA for a week or so due to what my fella calls ‘plague’, basically flu. Its nearly gone now so I’m keen to get back to it as Ive got a lot of catching up to do like family Christmas cards, this years advent calendar and a boat load of gift tags. I’ve also given myself a bit of a challenge with creating part of this years pressies for a couple of my family members too so if everything goes well I’ll be able to share those after the big day.

I have a cute little gift box for you today, I took a while to get it just right so it should be a perfect fit when you put it together. There is a printable (template) version and for those of you with digital cutting machines there is a cut file too.

I cut the box  about 10.5 inches long, just short of a full sheet of A4 (letter sized) and this gave me a 2.5 inch cubed box which is a great size for small gifts like jewellery but also small enough to hang on a Christmas tree. To make it easier for myself, I decorated the lid of my box before I assembled it starting with an eyelet in the back corner which I thread some seam binding through to hang it with. I tied a bow in some more seam binding and stuck it down with a glue dot just in front of the eyelet, added some gems in front of it then made up a paper poinsettia from this cut file and nestled it into my bow with another glue dot. All you need do to put the box together is fold the score lines, add some strong tape on the side tab, fold the bottom flaps together and you’re done.

box 1

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Box 1 Template by Bird

Here is your cut file – formats included are ai, dxf, GSD, pdf, studio & svg:

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Box 1 by Bird

Box 1 Digital Cutting File by Bird

Hope this comes in handy for you this Christmas :)

 

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Inside and Out

Hiyah!

I have a window card cut file for you today and as I think it would be fairly easy to cut out the windows with a ruler and a craft knife I have included a template for those of you without a digital cutting machine.

When I sat down to make my card I realised I had to decide whether I was looking in through the window or if I was inside looking out, well it would be a good way of getting 2 more Christmas cards under my belt so I did one of each. I used the Christmas Tree cut file from the last post for both cards, if you don’t have a digital cutting machine the Christmas Tree Digital Stamp would work equally as well.

Inside looking out – I wanted this card to look as though you are looking out onto a winter snow scene. I layered my card by attaching the front layers to the rear of the window panel starting with the the first snow drift then the first tree etc ensuring they are face down. I added my ribbon then covered the entire area with my backing paper in this case the 3rd darkest paper from Bird’s Snowflakes. I added some gems and a little tag to the ribbon bow to finish.

window card looking out

Outside looking in – The same method applies to this card, I attached the layers to the rear of the window panel from the front layer to the back layer face down. I wanted this card to look like you were peering into someones living room so my first layer was the curtains, then the tree, I then added the ribbon and covered over the entire panel with some wallpaper type patterned paper. Again it’s finished off with gems, a tag and some jingle bells.

window card looking in

Here is your cut file – formats included are ai, dxf, GSD, pdf, studio & svg:

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window card

Window Card Digital Cutting File by Bird

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Window Card Template by Bird

I really had fun making these cards and hope you will too :)