It's a Creative World

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards...

I was asked to make some Christmas cards to sell.  It's for the Charity I'm working with to raise funds for people in Western Kenya.  I'm going out to Kenya in January 2012 for a month and we are raising all the money we can to take with us.  Anyway, I set myself the task to make 50 cards, with a small budget but quickly as possible as I didn't have much notice (the cards were needed for a stall that was coming up very soon).

 

I like the look of embossed cards and have a Cuttlebug.  I bought an embossing folder with 5 pretty Christmas baubles on the front.  It's made by a company called "Crafts-Too" and was £4. 

I bought some packs of Christmas peel-offs with different Christmassy greetings on them. Usually I'm not a big fan of peel-offs and had considered stamping the greeting on the front of the card but it's risky as I'm a bit of a smudger and didn't want to waste any cards.  Then I rummaged in my stash for lots of teeny flat-backed gems. 

Ages ago I had bought some packets of nail-art gems from the poundshop.  The gems are really small and pretty and really cheap, so I used them too. 

I put the cards into packs of 5, in cellophane covers.  Hoping to sell them soon and raise some money to help the Kenyan people :)

Mandyh

TEENY TINY

Hello, Eleanor here again, with a photo of my youngest son, at 3 weeks old:

Many of us have experience of premature babies, either our own, or maybe a relative, friend, or colleague has given birth somewhat earlier than ideal.

Special Care Baby Units up and down the country welcome small garments to keep these little ones warm and cosy whilst in their care, and so I've been using patterns available free from Wye Needlecraft, to make these teeny bootees and bonnet:

It takes very little wool, (I used some sock yarn left over from my first pair, and I know the bootees don't match, but hey, don't you think they look funky?) and less than an evening, to knit up a tiny pair of bootees and/or a bonnet; if you feel you'd like to join me, please click the link and read more.

Had these been available for Rick to wear 15 years ago in SCBU, I would have been so touched and grateful that some kind person somewhere had spared the time and effort for him. 

Here he is, still small, but finally ready to come home in June 1996:

Cheerio for now

x

 P.S. He's taller than me now!