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Daring Cardmakers - Trim The Tree Craft Challenge - Cross Stitch Card

Hi Everyone, It's the start of another week, and I'm fresh from seeing some of my favourite musical friends, for the first time in a long while, at our Christmas light switch on. I have some video, but I have never edited video clips in my life, so while I figure out what I'm doing, time to catch up on some other blog posts. I have joined in and submitted craft projects to the Daring Cardmakers Challenge before, and it's been great fun. So I just want to thank everyone who has commented on my previous posts, and add to this weeks challenge 'Trim The Tree'. I am working my way through a few small cross stitch kits from magazine free gifts, and this tree design really stuck out from my stash. It was easy and fun to stitch, and I even tweaked it a bit to add some gold glitter for the star at the top. Instead of hanging it in the supplied aperture card though, I found a plant pot topper with 25 on, and mounted it on a card just above that. The finished car

Gift Tag Project Using Mama Makes Stamps

Hi all, This week has gone by so quick, I hope you have been enjoying gift tag week, if you've missed any makes be sure to head over to my channels (links below) and check out the pics. I hope they will give you some inspiration. So now it's time for the last one, and I thought I'd put a little tutorial on the blog, as it's one of my favourite designs. What I Used: White card. Hole punch Ribbon Black ink pad. Cosmic Shimmer Colour Cloud Blending Ink in Clear Day. Pearl accents tube. Coppoloppolaro Christmas stamps from Mama Makes . LotixChrly – Sending Hugs stamps from Mama Makes. Sleigh stamp from issue 114 of Papercrafter Magazine. How It's Made: Cut a circle around 10.5cm wide to make the base of your gift tag. Punch or cut a small circle around 2.5 cm wide and fix gently with some blue tac in the top right hand corner of the tag. Using a blending sponge cover the rest of the tag with blending ink and leave to dry. You can remove the small