2015 Class Schedule

I hope you are all enjoying a nice relaxing time as we slide into the Christmas week.  I have everything ready apart from the food shopping and I am looking forward to spending time with family, friends and creating wonderful memories.

I have worked out a class schedule for the first 6 months of 2015, and hope that local blog readers will be able to attend.  The details are below

 

Coffee and a card is a new drop in event – come make a card whilst enjoying a great coffee in Hythe for just £5.  More details to follow in the new year.  My classes in Folkestone are £15 to attend, or free with a Stampin’ Up! Order.  We usually make 3-4 cards or projects over a 2 hour period in a relaxed small group in my home.

I do hope you enjoy the break over Christmas if you are getting one.  Spare a thought to those who have to work over the Christmas period x

Best wishes

 

Caroline xxx

 

It’s A Stampin’ Up! Crafty Hallett Christmas Week – Day 5

So time now for a Big Purple One!  Well actually 3 big purple ones.

I used Elegant Eggplant and Perfect Plum Card stock to make a box 3 inches square using the Box Maker Tool.  So quick and easy anyone can make perfect boxes with them.  A little silver ribbon to tie – just for decoration as the box has its own closure and the best bit for speed – no glue – it folds shut on itself and holds perfectly.

The tag is made with the Seasonally Scattered stamp on Whisper White with Perfect Plum, and i used the stars confetti punch to add a few stars to the tag – with silver glimmer paper behind.

And just as a reminder the last order date for Christmas delivery is fast approaching – you have a week – so if you want to order something dont delay. Click on the pictures to learn more about the products used.  Please pop back for tomorrow’s blog post when we will be looking at some pretty boxes decorated with the Letter Press Winter stamp set.

It’s A CraftyHallett Stampin’ Up Christmas Week – Day 1

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Every day this week I will be blogging a Christmas Card, packaging, gift or decoration idea.  So lets stop waffling and start with today’s project. This is a snowflake sparkle card.  The card, using only one Stampin’ Up! Colour – Island Indigo, has been cut using the Snowflake Card Thinlets Die and stamped with images from the LetterPress Winter Stamp Set and a sentiment from the Good Greetings set.  A couple of snowflakes are cut from Silver Glimmer Paper and a little DSP is from the All Is Calm Speciality Paper Set. There is a video from Stampin’ Up here which shows you how to use the die and to use the die to cut the snowflakes http://youtu.be/feQESSKQnfw Everything you need to create this card is listed below – click on the pictures to be taken automagically to my shop so you can check them out for yourself.  Hope you have a great week and please pop back tomorrow for another project. PS. Big Reminder:-  You only have one more day to take advantage of the great starter kit offer – pay £74.25 and get £130 worth of product – a fantastic christmas present to you from Stampin’ Up!  Click here for more details 

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Christmas Treat Boxes from Stampin’ Up!

We bought these really cute Chocolate Christmas Lollypops in Bruges this weekend and I wanted to make a box for them.  I measured the lolly to be 6 cm x 18 cms and worked out a box around it.  The original idea for this concept of a box book wrapper came from a lovely fellow Pinkie Demo called Suzanne – you can see her version here on her blog http://moonsongdesigns.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/a-little-gift/ if you wanted to make a little one.

There is a video here to show you how to make them.

The box base is made from a piece of card 12 cm x 23 cm and the wrapper is 16cm x 17.5 cm.  The Designer Scrap Book Paper wrapper is 15.5cm x 17 cm.  The lining piece is 17cm x 6cm.

The wrapper is scored at 7cm and 9cm with the short side at the top.  The box base is scored at 1.5 cm and 3 cm on all four sides.

Have fun making them.  I will be making some of these for my colleagues at work.

Stampin’ Up! Uk Festival of Trees video and a few quick tips

So a quick video today to show you this card

It was a quick and easy one using the Festival of Trees bundle of punch and stamps which is available in my shop order number 137640 for £24.95 for the 13 stamps and punch too – great value for money,

The card stock is whisper white and pear pizzaz and the stars confetti punch is also in the shop – click on the link to the right to go shopping

Anyway enough waffling – here’s the video link

Enjoy your day , it’s too wet and cold here to go out so I am staying in my craft room with the cat 😉

Advent Calendar Part 2 – Using Stampin’ Up UK’s 25 Days Set

Hope you like yesterdays advent calendar?  Just 21 days until we start counting down to the big man’s arrival.

Todays advent calendar is a little present for my head office colleagues – something for everyone to enjoy – one box at a time, filled with a little chocolate loveliness – so here are days 1-5 – a little cube, a shopping bag, a milk style pouch, another bag, and a triangle

Next up we have days 6-10 -some more of those pouches, and two crackers made on the Envelope Punch board

For days 11-15 I used the petite handbag die, the curvy keep sake die and one of the stars from the Many Merry Stars kit 🙂

Days 16-20 are meant to look like shopping bags and boxes, as that time of the year approaches

And finally the last five

Just had to make number 25 glittering gold glimmer paper.

I have put some pictures of the products used below if you want to get some from my shop, but WARNING, I used everything I could find on this set…

Advent Calendar using Stampin’ Up! UK’s Nifty little Boxes

Stampin up have brought out a great set of little boxes and a stamp set to make this cool advent calendar.

The boxes fold flat and need no glue to keep them closed.  The box is a 2 inch cube so perfect for your own chocolates or perhaps a poem or a riddle?  I punched the circles out from Pear Pizazz and Soft Sky cardstock and then stamped them using the 25 Days Stamp set.  Such a versatile set that is not just for christmas advent calendars – oh no this is the set that just keeps on giving.  How about using this set for

Thank you gifts, first day of school photos, birthday cards, border & backgrounds, labels, graduation cards, party favours, 25 reasons why you love your other half, anniversary cards and gifts, countdowns to a wedding, list of your favourite things, project life and scrapbooking, check lists, banners, clue for a treasure hunts and so much more…

The boxes are just £6.25 for 25 – click on the pictures below to buy them automagically from my shop.  Such good value even if you didnt want to make an advent calendar with them, perhaps gifts for the table on christmas day, or just little treat boxes.

Come back tomorrow to see the “alternative” advent calendar I have made using the same stamp set but some different ideas for boxes.

Lots of love

Crafty Hallett

Jingle bells jingle bells

I have been having so much fun playing with the new stamps and papers from stampin up. The new catalogue goes live on 29th August but until then you will have to contain yourselves with pictures

If you would like to find out about how you can order these lovely things please feel free to leave a comment or drop me an email- thank you

Christmas thanks

I hope and trust everyone had a pleasant christmas and got lots of lovely presents

Just a quick post to share the thank you tag I made for my dad, to thank him for the crafting goodies he bought me, including a voucher for artistic stamper which I had great fun spending yesterday buying supplies for my Andy Skinner workshop – but more of that later – here’s the tag

The first shows the tag asit was sent, the second shows what happens when you pull the ball of wool from the cats mouth

Lots of love
Caroline

More christmas and a little friend

Oh holidays are coming – I have seen the coca cola truck advert so it’s official now. I have also seen quite enough of poinsettias for these cards I have made
But first … We have a new family member – Salem has been with us a month now and we just love him – he’s very helpful – and loves playing in the craft room with ribbons or helping me blog on the iPad

Christmas Fayre Goodies

Here’s a small selection of the bits and bobs I have been making for my first ever Christmas market at the Cube in Folkestone on 1st December