Secret Santa Time

Been busy today marzipaning three christmas cakes and wrapping pressies. I made three of these crackers for various people and this one is for my secret santa at work. It's filled with nail varnishes. I used the sizzix Pro cracker die and various poinsettia and Timmy christmas dies and huge amounts of glitter!!!!! The only thing is my recipient will know exactly who their secret santa was - me crafting is a bit of a giveaway!!!!!!

Santa's Grotto Door Swap on UKS

Well finally finished my door to send out - late I know but it has been rather manic here lately!!!!

I went for the same type as the halloween door/house and gathered all my christmas goodies up to pop in the configuration style boxes. I do hope my swappee will be pleased with it :)

Sorry about the rogue dodgy blurred photo in the middle - it won't let me delete it!!!!!

It's beginning to look a lot more like christmas now!!!!

These are my contribution for the UKS Christmas Decoration swap being hosted by gemmasteele.

I didn't want to do a tree decoration so went down the home decor line and decided on a Christmas Countdown. Each of my group will be receiving one of these. Don't want to spoil the surprise but I do hope they will be please with them. It was a great way of using up the christmas scraps from Jade's advent calendar and a couple of other collections I had in my stash.

Off to get on the the Santa's Grotto door swap that I'm hosting on UKS now!!!!!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like christmas........

Well I've been mega busy in the craft room and am now covered, along with the dog in glitter!!!!!

I've made a kaisercraft advent calendar for my son's beautiful girlfriend - we're going to fill it full if lovely girlie pamper treats for her :). I have used an oldish kaisercraft paper collection called Silly Season - the colours were just perfect. The second photo shows more detail of the flowers.

Thanks for looking

And the winner is................

Thanks to everyone who left a comment on my giveaway blog post - TB pulled the name out of a hat and the lucky winner of the altered muffin tin is.......

Scrappyjen :D. 

Well done - I shall be contracting you shortly for your addy details

Now for next project - an advent calendar or my christmas configuration stylie curio box thingie wotsit?

Giveaway!!!!!

Finally my crafting mojo has returned and I'm full of ideas and inspiration again :D.

 I'm impatiently waiting for some goodies to arrive for my Christmassy configuration box project so in the meantime, to keep my mind and fingers busy I thought I'd do a little giveaway - I'm going to give this away :D

Oh but wait.......

Just keep popping in to see what I do with it over the next week - leave a comment whenever you wish and I shall get TB to randomly pick someone leaving a comment to send it to once I've finished the altered project :)

Thanks for looking

Netty xx

Updated to include project WIP so far - anyone fancying owning it just needs to leave a comment

25th September 2013

Well it have finally finished the halloween giveaway - five comments so far but I will leave it until 7pm on Sunday 29th September 2013 and then get TB to pick  the lucky winner - I will contact you via UKS private messaging to get your addy details. Piccies below are the finished item :)

Thanks for looking and don't forget to leave a comment if you would like the altered muffin tin :)

Spooky door swap

I decided to join a swap after such a long long time away from UKS. It's a spooky door swap for halloween - I made my door added a few bits and pieces and then went a bit crazy!!!!!! I ended up with a spooky halloween house!!! Hope the recipient doesn't find it too creepy!!!!

I'm planning on making a larger version for christmas for myself using some configuration boxes:)

Thanks for looking :)

Hoping the mojo has returned......

Been away from crafting now for soooooooooo long.........I just hope the mojo has returned because I really, really want to get back in the craft room again - dust down all my inks, stamps, gadgets, dies and sewing machine and get crafting. The girls from work gave me a beautiful Cath  Kidston wallet full of bamboo knitting needles to replace the set I lost long ago - I fancy knitting some squares to make throws for the living room - who am I kidding!!!!!!!!! I will probably managed half a throw!!!! But........half a throw would be a start wouldn't it?  :)

I bought a set of Banksy stamps earlier - an artist who will always inspire me so I'm hoping to create a collagey type canvas for my son's room (he's a Bansky fan too) can't wait for them to arrive.

I love mixed media, rubber stamping is my passion along with my die cutting machines but as previously mentioned I knit and also over the past twelve months have got into quilting - another project I'm hoping to complete is wrapped up in the craft room at the moment.


I hope to be sharing some of  my arty farty projects with you - here's one to be getting on with - its a technique I learned from an Andy Skinner online workshop - just love this technique