10 Daily Makes 3/10

Daily Make 3- Ribbon Wreath

I recently bought this polystyrene ring with the purpose to do something festive with it, so here is what I have come up with. Took me just over an hour and only broke one nail, so not too bad!

I have seen these around the blog world lately but usually they have been made in a particular colour scheme, but mine however has no such thing and instead is a complete mix of colours, sizes and textured ribbon!
Finished it off with a glittered snowflake which I pinched from my tree. Sorry tree! x Let me know what you think.

10 Daily Makes 2/10

Daily Makes 2 - leather feather earrings

I have lots of pieces of scrap leather that I have collected up for a while but now takes up the best part of a shoe box, so thought that I would have a go at making some earrings from the various colours!

I make my sister earrings every Christmas and she sort of expects them from me now, so made the blue pair with her in mind. Hope you like.
I still have loads of pieces left over so will make a few more pairs and maybe make them bigger! I have a textured gold piece which I cant wait to use!

JYC 2010 Day 14 & 15

Day 14 - Gifts! I have developed a long list of people I need to buy gifts for this year so decided that I would try and make some. I make my sister earrings every christmas, but I have tried to branch out my handmaking ideas and create different things. I will post more about these in my 10 Daily Makes mini series!
Not entirely happy with this page but here it is anyway. Can you tell what my favorite pen is yet?
Day 15- Visitors. Taye and I had the pleasure of our friends coming round to exchange gifts last week! (they are going to Australia for 3 weeks, lucky things) Taye and Yasmin (one of his girlfriends) were chatting away about all the presents that could potentially fit under the tree! While little Annabelle just wanted to pull the tree over!

10 Daily Makes

Not satisfied by doing Journal your Christmas and other Christmas preparation things, I have challenged myself to make something everyday for 10 days (because there are only 10 days left to go) and post about it here! I'm crazy right?

This year I was determined to make a lot more gifts but so far I have only made a few, so this challenge will help me to follow through with all my ideas.

So my first project is inspired by these here over at Martha Stewart crafts!

Daily Make 1 - Mitten tag clips!

I made a template of a mitten, cut it out in various papers and then decorated them. I have popped an initial on the front instead of the persons name and attached a mini peg on the back. I have made mine quite small but if you have bigger pegs you could obviously make the mittens bigger.


Just wrap your chosen gift with ribbon or string and clip on the tag! Remember to label with an initial!

JYC 2010 Day 12 & 13

Day 12 - Tales of Christmas Past. Journaling this page made me really think about the changes that have happened to our Christmases over the years! The main one is being able to see the joy and excitement of Christmas through a childs eye again, which is so great!
Day 13- Music (but it was also my half birthday, incase you wondered!) Anyway I wrote down my top 10 Christmas songs! I love love Christmas, and nothing gets you festive than a classic like 'White Christmas'
Fa la la la la la la la la!

JYC 2010 Day 9, 10 and 11

Wow, the first time I actually uploaded the images in the right order! Anyways here are my pages for days 9, 10 and 11!

Day 9 - There are so many traditions to talk about! it brought back memories when I wrote them down. We have a selection of family games we always play when we are all together at christmas, so I wrote about these and popped them into the little envelope. I hope that I have started a new tradition this year by buying my first REAL tree! Yes I know many people do this every year but I love mine so so much. It has made me so christmassy!
Day 10 - Wrapping! Now this was a great prompt for me as i'm a little bit of a wrapping paper horder I mean Collector! I made little presents out of my chosen Xmas wrap and arranged them on the page in a little stacking. Cute!
Almost forgot the date tag, but found a place for it in the end!
Day 11 - Christmas tree! My REAL tree is decorated in bright stars, baubles and twinkly lights. Colours in fushia, turquoise, purple and silver! Yay it looks so good! Want to keep it forever!

JYC 2010 Day 8

Day 8-Sights of the Season. I have made a start to todays prompt but will add a photo page (like on day 2) to hold more photo's of the festive season. I love seeing all the window displays, especially in posh department stores! So I shall wait to take some more pics of all the lovely things I see around and will add them later!
I took this photo from a bakery window, they had a little winter scene and had carved houses from loaves of bread! It was really cute!

JYC 2010 Days 6 and 7

Day 6- The Tale of two Christmases! This prompt really allowed me to relive some old festive memories as well as the ones that are being made now! One of the memories that is stored in my head is that of when I was probably about 16 or 17 and remember Dad coming into my room really early saying "get up, get up, he's been, Santa has been!" He was jumping up and down like an overactive child! All I wanted to do was spent a bit more time in my bed! (a teenagers need for sleep doesn't stop at Christmas you know!)

We always go downstairs to open the presents with Christmas music playing, Bacon sarnies and Bucks Fizz! Bliss

Day 7- Still to do! As I love making lists, this prompt was perfect for me, although writing everything down has actually scared me by the amount that I still have to do! Are you the same? or are you more organized this year?
Took this photo of my fave decoration this year! Its funny as I didn't like the colour last year, but loving it right now! Used Shimelle's 'in focus' prompt to help with the blurring too, so there you go!

Hope that you are enjoying the class too x

JYC 2010 Days 3 4 and 5!

So here are pages 3-5!

Day 3-Cards was the one I think I had the most trouble with, it took a lot of 'going back too' and still not convinced that I am fully happy with it, but I guess I can 'go back to it' anytime right?

I love these pages though, maybe I should have used the picture on the 'cards' page as the image was cut from an old Christmas card. Just reminded me of perfection!

But that was todays prompt anyway! Christmas Perfection, so I wrote about all the things that make Christmas perfect to me, such as those yummy Christmassy smells, listening to children singing 'jingle bells' and 'when Santa got stuck up the chimney'. Oh and the joy of giving out presents! oh and eating too much yummy foods etc...........

Day 5-Counting Down, Again there are bits of this page that I love and parts that don't quite look finished. I decided to write down the 25 things I love about Xmas, and wrote over a little Kraft envelope! It's sooooo cute x

I made a magnetic advent calendar this year, blogged here so included a little snap of it on the reverse of the envelope!

Check back soon to see the next few days from the class! (Which I am totally still loving btw!)

x

Colour Throwdown no:121

So I had a little break from JYC this morning and made this little card using the colours from the colour throwdown challenge blog. I don't usually use any type of blue, but actually found that I had lots of blue bits and pieces around my desk so it wasn't as challenging as I thought it would be!

Supplies:

Folder card: Hobbycraft

Stamp: My Minds Eye

Lace border: Paper Cellar

Letters: Thickers

JYC 2010 Days 1 and 2!

So I though I would share with you where I am at with the JYC class! I am really enjoying seeing everyone else's journals taking shape! So exciting

Day 1- Christmas Manifesto

I wrote down my reasons for keeping this Christmas journal and listed all the things I hoped to do this time! So hopefully I will stick to them if I read them everyday. It works in theory anyway!

Day 2- The weather!

This was so apt for those of us that live in the UK as the snow fell in the middle of the week, covering everything in a white blanket!

I love the snow until it becomes all grey and slushy and everywhere becomes slippery!

We had a little walk around the village yesterday and I found some of my favourite old buildings looking gorgeous and white, like the old fire station in the picture below! It looked so cute, that I just had to take a quick snap!

I bought some Photo holder pages at the same time that I bought the album (paperchase) which I placed in the middle of the snow page. It just enabled me to include more pictures of the snow yay! So now you know

Leave a comment if you like! Thanks for looking!

JYC 2010

Hi all, this is a very exciting day as its officially the start of Shimelle's legendary Journal your Christmas online class!

Today I have been busy making lots of numbered tags for the pages and have used up lots of number Thickers! But had lots of fun doing it.

It has taken a while as there was lots of cutting and stamping and sticking going on, but I can't wait to use them on the pages.

Day 1 prompt, was about our Christmas declarations and journaling all the things that we hope to achieve in the journal etc...

Check back soon to see my first few pages of this years JYC x

Supplies:

Numbers stickers: American Crafts: Thickers, Papermania

Tags: WHSmith

Snowflake punch: Hobbycraft

Cardstock and ribbon from stash