Make it Crafty Christmas Event and Crafty Ribbons Advent Event

Good morning!! If you are here for the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps December release hop you will find it HERE
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There are only 16 days til Christmas!

The MiC gang thought it would be fun to have a ‘grown up’ advent calendar as we count down the days til Christmas full of inspiration just for us creative minds! Each day a sneak peek will be revealed on the MiC store blog with a link for you to follow “to open the door”.

All you have to do is stop by the store blog each day to open the next door!

Make it Crafty are also sponsoring the Crafty Ribbons Advent event today. You have the chance of winning a $25 store voucher from Make it Crafty and it's so easy to enter. You will find all the details HERE

PLUS Zoe has Christmas Candy full of lots of crafty goodies that you don’t want to miss out on!

AND THERE’S MORE GIFTS

But what’s even more exciting is that you will have a chance to win the Make it Crafty goodies that I have played with today!!

By leaving a comment on this post you could win

Cute Christmas Fairies Digi Stamp Collection

The comments will stay open until the 31st of December and the winners will be announced in the New Year on the MiC store blog. You can join us for all 24 days – giving you 24 chances to win some MiC goodies! If you join us late, simply go back to the start and catch up!

I made a banner with my MiC goodies. I've also used some fabulous Make it Crafty Chipboard embellshiments from the Christmas Borders and Cog Snowflakes collections.

The whole banner.. 

I made the rosettes on each of the circles by cutting a 1.5" x 12" strip of patterned paper and scoring it at every 0.25inches - it was one of those ideas that seemed great at the start but by #5 I was questioning my sanity!! lol. 

Fairy Star

Fairy Tinsel

Fairy Bauble

The Merry & Bright title is made from white foam Thickers. 

Fairy Gift

Fairy Twinkles

Fairy Bear

Well that's it from me today. I hope you enjoyed today's window & good luck!

Sandie

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A Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Baby Washing Line

Mornin' bloggers! Today I have something a little different to share. I recently signed up for one of Crafty Ribbons impromptu challenges. The challenge was to use ribbon they sent me to create 2 or more projects - and the ribbon had to be the main focus of those projects, not just an add on to pretty things up. 

Anywhooo.. when the ribbon arrived I laid it all out on my table and I really liked how they looked all layered up so I got my first idea instantly. 

 

I took the washing line ribbon and machine stitched it to make a pleated trim, then I layered up various ribbons. I finished off by using one of the new Waltzingmouse Stamps Compact Sentiments, stamped in black to make it pop out.

My second card started out as one thing and ended up something else, lol. I originally wanted to make a ribbon flower, using the 3mm Apple green ribbon as the stem and the 10mm Apple grosgrain for the leaves... but as I was making the petals I kinda liked how it looked more like a pom pom or rosette! So out went the flower idea! I doubled the ribbons over and stuck them down onto a circular piece of cardboard. Once I had them all stuck down and secured I threaded a very large button with the 3mm Pearl Pink and stuck it down into the centre.

I used 3 of the 3mm ribbons to make a braid  for across the bottom. The sentiment on this one is from Waltzingmouse Stamps' Say it Loud collection.

At this point I was running out of ribbon, lol, but I knew I could squeeze another project out so I made a cute tag. First I cut out the tag and added a little patterned paper. Then I stuck down 3 different ribbons and cut into them at an angle from each side -  this was kinda tricky as they kept moving but it worked out!!

I threaded more of the 10mm grosgrain through the top and tied them together with the 3mm. The Labels 25 is stamped out with Stampin' Up - Pretty in Pink and I hand cut it. The little footprints is a wooden stamp I have as for long as I can remember - I just have no clue where I got it.

I really had a whole lot of fun with this challenge, and I will certainly be investing in more of these uber cute ribbons!

Sandie

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