Reindeer Food and some Snowflakes

Here are a couple more craft fair makes. The reindeer food took abolsutely ages to make because the reindeer faces were very fiddly to put together. Finally done now. I used my plastic bag sealer for the first time on my reindeer food bags and it worked brilliantly. Had it a year and only just used it!


The reindeer food is made with oats (Tesco Value) and coloured sugar crystals (I bought Billington's sugar crystals and added red and green food colouring to them, mixed well, let it dry and mixed with the oats). The verse reads: Just a sprinke on the lawn at night, The moon will make it sparkle bright, As Santa's reindeer fly and roam, This treat will guide them to your home. The reindeer head is a Quickutz die.

These are snowflakes cut from vellum with a punch in a cello bag with a verse: So you'll be sure to have some snow at Christmas time this year, Santa sends these snowflakes in hope they bring good cheer.

Paperclip Bookmarks

These are bookmarks made with very large paperclips and a bit of card and paper. Very easy to make and I love them! I bought the paperclips from ebay (they are 76mm long), cut different coloured card into scallop circles with my Quickutz Squeeze and patterned papers with a journalling circle die. I have added a blank scallop circle on the back so they look nice and neat (have stuck the circles together with thin 3D foam pads and attached the paperclip with dst). Some of these will be sent to the lovely craftygranny for Alicia's Appeal and some for me to sell at my craft fair, now less than 2 weeks away - eeek!!!

Teabag Cards for my fair...

Here are my teabag holder cards. I made some of these for my fair in the summer and they sold really well so have made 24 for my next one. They have been a bit of a labour of love as they've taken me all blinking week to get made. One evening cutting, scoring and gluing the card, the next sticking on the ribbons and papers and decorating with buttons and other bits. Last night I printed the poem, stamped and coloured the dinky holly images, stuck the poems inside and adding the teabags. Whew, I need a cuppa now ;-)
The poem reads: On Christmas Day, At half past three, Make yourself a cup of tea, I'll think of you, You think of me, Underneath the Christmas tree.

My teeny tiny pots of Rudolph's Spares...

Finally got round to finishing my Rudolph's Spares tins for Christmas Day table favours (made 9 tins). I bought the tins from Sarah's Cards and was a bit gobsmacked when they arrived and were oh so tiny!!! Once they had sweeties in (Jelly Belly cherry beans), they looked much better I have to say and it is an MSE way to do the favours as I've used far less sweets as the tins are so dinky ;-)

I decorated the tins with some gingham ribbon and a holly punch with some red Stickles glitter glue added for sparkly berries. My handwritten tag looks pretty amatuerish but as they are for family, I don't mind x

Look what I received for the friendship card swap...

Wow, wow, wow, isn't everything beautiful! Thank you so much Karen, I love absolutely everything. The card is gorgeous, the verse inside reads: Your fairy is called Feather Goblinglitter, She is a bringer of riches and wealth, She lives in high places where the clouds meet the earth, She is only seen in the light of a shooting star, She wears pale blue and has gentle wings like a butterfly. Isn't that just beautiful!!!

Look at the fab stash Furrypig sent me...

Look at all this stash sent to me by the lovely furrypig for the October stash swap on Crafty Place. Everything is colour co-ordinated and blue is my favourite colour!!! Thank you lovely lady x

More Craft Fair Makes...

Sussed out the measurements for these little bags and made a few for the craft fair. They have Twilight mints inside. Idea nicked from here. If they don't sell I have something nice to munch ;-)

A few bookmarks. I am also going to try and make some using the 2010 calendar on Splitcoaststampers site and thinking of making some using paperclips but that's only if I have enough time and can find some big enough paperclips.

A few decorated notebooks. I used cheapie notebooks from Tesco. Have also got some smaller notebooks from Asda to decorate but not sure if I have the time to do those ready for the 1st fair.