10 Daily Makes 7/10

Daily Make 7 - Paper dolls. I downloaded these templates from the '12 days' class I signed up recently but you can see lots more dolls here by Kirsty Neale.

I adapted them to make grandparent dolls to give to my grandma and grandad for Christmas. They look quite cool (my grandad doesn't usually look so 'on trend') For the skin I used a beauty ad from a magazine and cut out the shapes. The shoes are made from scraps of leather and the clothes are made from patterned papers and magazine pages.

Really pleased with how they have turned out, just didn't photograph it so well! I hope they like it x

JYC 2010 Day 17, 18 & 19 & 10 Daily Makes 6/10

Day 17 - The Perfect Gift. This prompt was a great opportunity for me to visit dreamland and dream of all the wonderful gifts I could think that would be perfect. A diamond ring was at the top of the list!
Day 18 - Christmas Dinner! After the presents this is the highlight of Christmas day right? It made me really hungry just thinking about it! We always have the traditional roast turkey with all the trimmings! For the last few years my mum has threatened to cook sausages and mash instead, so she won't get as stressed with all the preparations! But so far she hasn't followed through! phew!

our Christmas menu!

Day 19 - Letter to Santa..... Dear Santa, I have been a really really really good girl this year so please could I have.....
Naughty or Nice? I promise I am nice!

Daily Make 6 - Origami Christmas card. I found this tutorial here on the Hobbycraft site so gave it a go! It says that it would take approx 2 hours to finish but think I did it in about 30-40 mins! and I think it looks really cute!

10 Daily Makes 5/10

Daily Make 5 - Quick bookmark! these are so cute and very quick and easy to make and you can personalize them as gifts for family and friends.

I cut out a rectangle of cardboard and then covered it with some patterned paper and made a little power flower, it may get squashed a bit inside the book but it will look cute till then right?

10 Daily Makes 4/10

Daily Make 4 - Butterfly collage. I know that these aren't new but here is a little one I created using a Martha Stewart punch! I have hand cut them before like here and they can look equally lovely but they do take forever so thought that this would be a quick make!

I used an old little atlas as the paper and then just added a few pearls.

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!

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!