Christmas Challenge #44 : Tea Pot Cosy

 Recently I was inspired by Meet Me at Mikes Tea Cosy its a super simple make and thats why I have added into my Christmas challenge, because I think this would be a super simple gift to make and you could totally have this made in just a couple of hours!

it is really just made up of two granny squares! May be you already have some granny squares from an unfinished project that you could use!

 I added a flower on top but you could add pom poms too just like Pip has! 

Oh i just love this one, such a happy make!

Christmas Challenge #43: Merry Present

I'm having fun playing with different decorations for my gifts this year. 

Have you started wrapping yet?

 This merry word is an Ali Edwards die cut and I've simply attached it on top of some tinsel.

Be warned, Im doing a giant catch up and am hoping to post a pile of blog posts today, I'm past most of my secret squirrel time and I can now share all of my Christmas fun with you! woohoo!!

Christmas Challenge #42: Mini Postcard

So now that I've made a  mini letter box and a mini envelope....What else goes inside a mini letter box? 

A mini Post card of course!

 Although this one did get a little bashed up between making him and photographing him, that's cool cos life's not perfect, right? I'm still loving this cute little car with cute little love heart puffs coming out of its exhaust!

Oh Boy my boys are going to be excited when I post this one!!

Christmas Challenge #41 : Kellie Stamps Digital Christmas TShirt!

At this point in time I believe that there are only a few of the awesome 'Merry Joy" set from Kellie Stamps left but never fear if you cant get you hands on them, her digital stamps are just as awesome!

 I used them with my silhouette and some heat transfer material to crate this fun christmas tee shirt! And I have to say that I think I will be making one for myself as soon as I can get my hands on a new tee shirt!

 I love this black heat transfer material, it is glittery but not over the top glittery. Just perfect for christmas here in Australia. Although how cool would this design look on a hoodie!!!!!

This one is going to be sent off before christmas so that its able to get some wear during advent! So fun! There is also a boy design and I may make some for my boys but I MUST make one for ME!!!!!

Christmas Challenge #41: Christmas Envelope

In my last post I made a little Christmas Letter box and of course no Letter box is complete with out letters in it!

  Since this letter box is quite small I thought some mini envelopes would be so cute inside!  I have a really cute little envelope die from Lawn Fawn and so I went ahead and die cut a few of them and then added the label and die cut words to the front of them. This one has a little lawn fawn deer stamp, isn't he cute! These envelopes fit so well inside the Letter box!

I love the little stitched detail on the envelope and I simply added a star and a die cut heart to close the envelope, now to write  a little letter to go into the mail box!

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!