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Sunday 23 December 2018

Hello my crafty friends, Merry Christmas and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all well and ready for Christmas if you celebrate it. I'm nearly ready, we've just got food shopping to do in the morning and I've a couple of presents to wrap for my lovely husband. I broke my little toe on my right foot a few weeks ago which is why I've not added a post for a while (and my mojo is still rather on the thin side, I'm hoping some crafty goodies in the sales will fatten it up in the new year)you might be puzzled why a broken toe would affect my ability to craft and in some ways it hasn't, what's been the challenge has been getting into my craftroom in the first place then trying to elevate the foot as I craft and to be perfectly frank my crudy is too small to comfortably do either. At one point I did grab a couple of crafty items along with my trusty Big Shot machine so I could craft with my leg up and I made 24 double layered Christmas tags for the presents. I did manage to get a couple of hours crafting in my actual crudy and though my mojo is in slow Mo mode I made two birthday cards. One is for my great niece who is one on the 27th and the other is for my youngest nephew who will be eleven on the 29th. The first card is a side folding card featuring a Fuzzy Lemon carasel horse which I embellished with golden hooves and pole, gold stamped flowers and confetti glitter on the saddle, mane and tail. I mounted the horse on black card to make it pop and made my own glitter card by adding a tacky glue to the outer edges on another piece of black card stock and then sprinkled more of the confetti glitter onto the sticky glue. Both black pieces were die cut using a nesting die set from my stash. I covered the front of a pre-made card blank with some funfair paper from Dovecraft, it's from a few years ago and has lots of glittery papers in the stack. I added the layered pieces on the front and added a mini envelope inside so I could add some money to the card. The second card was made using the Whizz Kids collection from Dovecraft - it's one of my favourite collections and I have quite a few of the paper packs, although I'm not a huge fan of decoupage, I do wish I'd picked up the pad when I had the chance as it would has been very useful for this card. I ended up using a couple of the stickers from the sticker pack, a photo frame, a sentiment sticker, a couple of blue buttons and papers from the 6"×6" paperstack. I made my nephew an impossible card with a mini envelope containing money at the back of the main image. This made it very top heavy so I made a folding stand which I attached next to the mini envelope so the main topper stands upright but it all still folds flat. I had to make a bespoke envelope using my envelope punch board which I also used to make the mini envelopes in both projects. I am writing this on my phone which erases all paragraph breaks and won't allow me to add photos within the main body of text so the photos will follow after the writing ends. I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and until next time - keep crafting! Love and crafty hugs, Sarah xxxxxx