Wednesday Wow - Peaceful Place lit church & winter scene...

Loved creating this project for display at christmas time... 

Using the Peaceful Place papers (sold out!),  Tombstone Treat boxes, Welcoming Window & Giving Gifts dies (sold out too)...  and a few battery tealights 

As well as a lovely tray picked up from "Poundland"!! Though it did cost much more than £1....

Merry Monday - Farmhouse Christmas Trio... Lit Box Frame, Bridge U Fold Card & Bakers Box Light

I have had a lot of Tutorial orders over the past few days for the Trio of projects I made last year using Farmhouse Christmas along with Winter Woods, Rooted in Nature and Merry Christmas To You... (all of which have stamps and co-ordinating dies but only available separately now)

So I have realised that most of the products used are still available OR replaceable... so I thought I should share the information again in the one place... with pointers for creating something very similar this year... 

Just click on the Add to Cart button below to order and pay for the Tutorial bundle. This covers the Box Frame, Bakers Box and Bridge U Fold card  - and is a 15 page pdf document with lots of photos. Payment and currency conversions handled by Paypal. No Paypal account needed as Paypal or major credit cards can be accepted.

Edited 11am UK time to add: the "Paypal button glitch" has now been sorted! Thank you for your patience...

But firstly, Farmhouse Christmas is sadly no longer available (unless you are lucky enough to have it on the Clearance Rack in your territory! Even if you only have the dies for those fences!)

But an alternative tree or a deer would look nice instead.... or we have a few houses around... albeit mostly smaller... such as From Our Home to Yours...

Or Still Scenes

Or Rustic Retreat

Or even Grandmas House...

And you could even make a simple "Hygge" style one of your own! And there are lots of stamp sets with bare branch trees around... Natures

Here's the card example with a couple of Dashing Deer deer instead of a house... yup that would work nicely!

Secondly, the Twinkle Twinkle papers are not around... but there is a fabulous copper foiled stars on Night of Navy sheet in the Brightly Gleaming pack... so that's a really easy replacement...

Incidentally  (as I write this post) Brightly Gleaming has just come back into stock in the UK and so is orderable for us again (in Europe) though I have just checked and it is already on back order... but you can still order it now and it will arrive separately when it is back in stock...

And the Bakers Boxes are still available...

Or you could easily produce a 12x12 background sheet using inks as I did for the Bridge U Fold Card

The wood Merry & Noel embellishments are not around either... but easily replaced with about 5 die-cut Merry Christmas "merry"s - all stacked on top of each other to add the depth...

And last but not least... those die cut fences... I'd just go with an extra snow bank...but...

A picket type fence could be made using the Classic Label Punch and scraps of Whisper White card... shorten the punched shape down to about 1" with the point left to form the top of the picket fence...and stick onto thin strips of white card... with about 1/8"-3/16" gap in between. They won't be as intricate as the pictured fences... but they will do the job...

These projects were incredibly popular last year in classes... and I am definitely glad this is a set I wrote up the Tutorials for... though that was a "labour of love" last year I can tell you!!!

And I am now really looking forward to getting these all out again this Christmas... though I am quite tempted to make the alternative I have just described!! 

3D Thursday - Brightly Gleaming Shadow Box Frame

Sharing the last of the Quarterly Team Training projects using the Brightly Gleaming suite of products...

And this one was definitely not the least!

Designed by Monica ...

Something very special and 3D for our Christmas home decor this year...

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And scroll back to Monday and Tuesday this week for the Brightly Gleaming cards we also made at Training...

3D Thursday Wreath...

So before I made all my Bloom & Grow Thank you cards up... I just couldn't resist!

And I know many a girl that would love to make this as a Home Decor project... so maybe one day I will have a finished article for you too...

Oh... and whilst I am here... the circular version too..

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Merry Christmas to You and Yours...

I hope that you all have the loveliest of days... spent with the people most precious to you... doing things special to you all...

We for one will be "en famille complete"... brother over from the US... son back from university... and all of us over at my mum and dads...where I have to pretend that I do know how to operate their oven properly!!

Though I did learn years ago... to take everything for the meal over on trays and in pans etc so I don't need to spend hours searching amongst every cupboard in the house!!!

And I am REALLY hoping to be organised enough this year... and the timings right... for us younger ones to go out and get a lot of fresh air around the Harewood estate!!

So this is the Farmhouse Christmas Box Frame variant I have made for my mother... as she does prefer her neutrals...

Papers flipped to the Grey Granite stars side... And the addition of lots of red gemstones onto the large christmas fir tree at the front... wish I had thought of this detail for the rest... but hey better late than never...

Recipe and more information on the Tutorial for this make can be found here... 

3D Thursday Home Decor Box Frame with Kusudama Flowers

 

Remember this Delightfully Detailed & Twinkle Twinkle Box Frame home decor project we made earlier in the year...

And remember this one it then inspired... by my SU! upline, Julie ... using Garden Impressions, Festive Farmhouse and Delightfully Detailed...

Well Hilda merged the 2...and made this for a special friend...

Didn't she do an absolutely  wonderful job.... thanks for sharing with me Hilda... and allowing me to share on here...

Spirited Snowmen Bakers Box Light for 3D Thursday

Yes... I know... I said I was putting them (Spirited Snowmen) away!

But before I did.. I had another thought... and then I just couldn't resist combining this Bakers Box Light with this card...

Love the end result...

And for those of you that have already bought the Farmhouse Christmas Trio of Tutorial(s)... here is  a bonus fourth project for you! I just replaced the house with the Snowmen...

And added hand torn, sponged and glittered 11cm (4 3/8" )wide x about 2 cm(3/4") and 3cm (1 1/4") pieces of Whisper White card...

Shorter glued to the front of the light & tab...

And higher across the back from tree to tree (roughly) - so kind of diagonally... you want yours to go down to the floor on the base! Not a bit raised like mine (as I had a momentary lapse of concentration as I stuck things!!!) And (with hindsight!) I also wish I had put this behind the tree to the right hand side ( though I would have had to cut out a notch then for the tree box!)!!

All finished off with a 1 1/4" punched circle  - dazzled up with Wink of Stella - and Hearts Come Home stamped Santa on his sleigh!

Sunday Shiny Share...

So we are doing some more of these today... and these... and these...

Love it when a project makes my ladies this happy! And yes this photo is for you Elaine... as we did miss you so... and I hope you have been able to finish off your projects from your kit...

And here we are all set up for today... with extra stove cards at the ready if I have speedy crafters!

As I don't know if my ladies today are speedy or not! As I have the rare treat of meeting a couple of groups of my blog followers...for the first time... They are all travelling over 2 hours to make these projects... I think it is going to be a special day for all of us! And I really hope that they go home very crafty happy!

 

And for those of you not near enough to craft with me... then tutorials are available for you for these projects... just click here for more details... or these can be yours for free if you are in the UK and order £25+product... and what a great time to do so when there is a Sale on! Click here for the Sale items & the Online Store... Remember to quote the Host Code showing at the top RHS...