Christmas Challenge #40: Kellie Stamps Christmas Letter Box

I've been playing with lots of paper products lately and this time I thought it would be fun to make a little letter box for my boys and I to exchange letters in over christmas. I also thought this would be an awesome idea for Elf on the Shelf if you have one, your kids could receive letters from your elf in this little letter box and may be even send some letter in it.

I found the cut file for this box in the silhouette store, I simply cut it with white card stock and then covered it with the red polka dot paper.  I did make one adjustment to the letter box and that was that the door was seperate and I didn't want my boys to loose the door so I cut a diagonal in the side of the door and then glued the bottom part to the main part of the letterbox so that the door just folds down. 

With the door and the flag it has two moving parts. I then stamped a Kellie Stamp from the Merry Joy release, I was originally going to stamp another sentiment like "lets get merry and send letters" but I ended up leaving it. I liked it how it is ;) I then added a flower that I had coloured with some dylusions ink and then fussy cut some leaves to add to it as well.

I just had to add another Kellie Stamp to the flag that says joy, because when isn't it a joy to receive some mail! We don't have a mail/letter box where we live so this is going to be such a treat!

I'm loving that this could be a fun little thing to display in my home over christmas. It could be used for lots of things....you could put an advent treat in it each day for your kids or loved ones. I'm pretty sure that my boys are going to have a lot of fun with this one!

In fact I'm pretty sure that they are going to have a lot of joy joy joy whenever there is mail in there!

You can find this Christmas stamp HERE!

Christmas Challenge #39: Deer Card

Somehow this year I went from having one set of christmas stamps to now a pile of them. How did I only have one christmas stamp set all of these years??! My hubby randomly bought this one for me and I gotta say when your hubby surprises you with a  new christmas stamp set  you know you got a good one ;)

So I am playing with making lots of cards with all these stamp sets and usually I would just make a giant batch of cards and let that be our card for the year, but this year I'm still undecided. I may give these away for others to use or give random cards or, well Im not exactly sure!

So anyway this was a Hero Arts stamp set you can find it here. I love that the tree can be layered and I also love the detail of the reindeer.

There will probably be a whole lot of cards in this christmas series because I have all of a sudden become a little obsessed with them and watching a tonne of card making you tube videos!

Snail Mail Outgoing

I've been dying to share some snail mail that I sent, mostly because I had so much fun making it and it turned out how I had imagined it (a rare occurrence)!

 I purchased a mail box and painted the inside of it with a few coats of blue and white paint. I added some cute Easter bunting with Washi tape.

 I wrote a letter and stapled it inside of this card that I had made last year, I finally had someone to give it to!

 I made a bunny softie I am making a few more too.

 I added in some little eggs for my pen pals little one.Of course there had to be some polka dots in there!

 I also popped in a bunny jar. When I wrapped this one up it didn't fit so I ended up putting a different one in.

I wrapped everything up in tissue paper and sent it off. I love mailing snail mail that has a theme, ahh so much fun!!!!

My lovely pen pal has made me so many lovely things I must share them here soon!!!

Have you sent any Easter Snail Mail??

Easter Series: Make a Door Bunny

Instead of an Easter wreath for my front door I thought it would be cute to hang a bunny on my door.

 Somehow I only managed to get a few photos from the beginning stages of making the bunny but I think you could make a similar one from the pictures

 To make my bunny I used:

a large cardboard box

a texta to draw

a craft knife

hot glue gun

paint

felt 

and a handmade paper flower

 I cut extra pieces of cardboard for the ears, eyes, nose. I've used felt on the nose ears and feet and then used paint to create the eyes and mouth

 I've hot glued the the pieces on to the bunny and hot glued the head onto the body and also hot glued some string on the back so that I could tie the bunny onto the door.

 It came together pretty quickly, I think there is still plenty of time to make one for your door. You could decorate the bunny how ever you like, it would be cute with a bow or even make a boy bunny and put a bow tie on him.

I think I might make some eater bunting to go under the bunny to add a little more cuteness to my door!

She Scraps

I got out the paint set again and played with some blues and greens. I think that it is my favourite thing to play with when I get the paints out, I love colour and I love mixing and making new colours, I could do it all day long.

 I had this cute photo of two of my boys and I that I just had to scrap, my hubby has a beard right now and I really should scrap some photos of it because his little bit of facial hair has caused a lot of contoversy, so funny! 

 I used a lot of wood veneer and Heidi Swapp products on this one, I kinda am in love with her products at the moment. I added gold paint to the word 'adore' and then sprinkled some glitter on it to make it all sparkly.

One of the polka dot bags from my last post is tucked in behind the photo and has a project life card with the journaling on it again. Tucked away for little hands to come and find.