Happy New Year

 Happy New Year to You and Your families

Let’s ring out 2022 and say hello to 2023 and all the new possibilities with your crafts.

I hope you all had what you wished for from Santa and here’s to a

 Happy and Peaceful 2023

Who knows what I will be crafting in 2023 but I will be sure to share them with you so keeping dropping by and lets keep sharing our ideas and enjoying our crafts.

I did get some craft. Items from my Santa list

Magnetic sheets for my new dies

Das Clay to try out some vintage embellishments for decorations and boxes.

So here are a couple of makes for 2023.

I also want to do more sewing but getting the time to set up and sew is not so easy.

Also a big Thank you to all the great artists and crafters on YouTube, Pinterest etc that so generously share their time and makes with us. 

See you all in the New Year

Dee

Pretty Christmas Decoration

 Another Christmas Decoration

This hanging Decoration is a great way of using your dies in a new way. Another project found on the web that I just had to try. 

The die used for this project is Spellbinders Bow die. You use one of the bow sections which has a small round at the end with a hole. Cut 4 to make the base of this decoration. The 4 sections are then put together with a brad. You can use ribbon threaded through the top section for hanging. I have then added the roses and ribbon bow with a hot glue gun and a tassel has been attached to the brad at the base.

Warning: A little patience is needed to. Make this as you need 4 die cut bow sections each has to be poked out to make the clean lattice look, although the Spellbinders die is very good at the lattice cutting. Having said that I loved it so much I bought another set dies so I could cut 2 at time. 

Now I have 2 sets I cut another decoration with gold card. This time using the smaller bow. I cut 6 sections to make a shorter more round version. 

I decorated with red rose, cream ribbon and pearls and added a gold dangling star.

Take another look at your dies and see if you have a die that can been used in other ways. Lots of us have bow dies, lets make the most of them. 

Happy Crafting 

Dee

Decorations for Christmas

Christmas Lanterns 

We are all getting busy with the run up to Christmas so my posts are less frequent, but here is one for you to add to your decorations 

This is not my own idea I got it surfing the net one day and decided to have a go, and i really liked the finished project, so I bought some tassels to finish them . 

For this project you will need:

1 piece of wire approx 8” 

Some beads

Paper to cut 9 pieces 10” x 3/4”  and 2 x 2cm  circles. This is best about 100-160gsm and heavier and it becomes difficult to shape.

Ribbon for top loop and tassel (optional)

Cut your pieces of paper and then cut each one in half so that you have 18 pieces 5” x 3/4”

Next make a hole in each end about 1cm from the end and half way in.

Cut 2 x 2cm circles and add a hole punch to the centre

Next take your wire and thread onto the wire your top bead or decoration then one of the 2cm circles with the pattern facing up. Bend the top over to make the loop and wind around the wire to finish smoothly

With 6 strips of paper at a time thread them onto the wire below the circle, then add another 6 and the last 6.

Once all the strips are threaded on with the top circle curl them around and thread the bottom hole onto the wire. The papers will curve to allow the wire through and once all the strips are threaded top and bottom add your second circle face down this time .

Add any bottom beads before bending the wire into a loop and securing it. With this process there will be a natural bending of the papers and shortening of the sphere as the wire and beads push up. You can determine the size of your circle before securing the beads.

If you want to add a tassel it can be threaded into the base loop before securing or added with some thread afterwards.

When this is all done you will have a bunch of papers. Gently slide them around to form the lantern.

You can make these out of classic papers, Christmas colours and glittery papers or silver and gold. I have chosen gold matt prints for a classic look then brightened them with the red tassel. I can use them to decorate the tree or hang in the room. 

As you can see I have decorated the lanterns with a large pearl bead at the top and 3 graduated ones at the base.

Happy Crafting 

Dee