CCw Christmas Countdown - Day 27

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 27

28 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 27 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from Susi, she has made some pocket warmers to share with you. Pop across to Susi's blog here for more pictures.

Pop back tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 26

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 26

29 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 26 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from Sarah M, she has made a gorgeous envelope book to share with you. Pop across to Sarah's blog here for more pictures.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 23

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 23

32 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 23 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from Ali who has made some gorgeous mini christmas tree's to share with you. Pop across to Ali's blog here for more pictures.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 22

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 22

33 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 22 of the CCW christmas countdown, today's festive project comes from Susi who has made some gorgeous truffles to share with you. Pop across to Susi's blog here for more pictures.

Pop back tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 20

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 20

35 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 20 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from me, Lou. I have been working on a christmas LO. This is one of my favourite pictures of Poppy and she is desperate to get outside to go see Santa.

I have used:
Echo Park Very Merry Christmas collection pack
Tea Dye Distress Ink Pad
Holly Embellishments - from own stash
Brown ribbon - from own stash
Susibees buttons - available instore at Creative Craft World 
Thank you for joining in our Christmas countdown and don't forget we would love to see your own makes if we have inspired you throughout the countdown. Pop back tomorrow for another great project from Sue.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 18

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 18

37 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 18 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from one of our GDT members Tamsin. Pop across to Sue's blog here for full instructions and more pictures.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 17

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 17

38 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 17 of our countdown, today its my turn to share another project with you. I have been making some christmas gift tags as I have decided to wrap my presents in brown paper and really decorate with ribbons so wanted my gift tags to match with this theme.

See the page at the top of my blog for instructions should you need any but this is the finished results, I have used Echo Park Very Merry Christmas and Teresa Collins Christmas cottage both available from Creative Craft World.

I will take photo's once they are on the gifts too and share, I need to do my christmas shopping before I can do that. Been so busy making things I haven't done the shopping yet. LOL!

Thank you for popping in and see you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 14

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 14

41 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 14 of the CCW Christmas countdown, today's festive project comes from Sue, who has made some Origami Santa's which are easy enough to make with all the family between dinner courses. Pop across to Sue's blog here for more pictures and instructions.

Thank you for popping in, see you tomorrow for another festive project.

Don't forget to check out the monthly scrap map here

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 13

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 13

42 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 13 of the CCW christmas countdown, today its my turn to show you what I have been creating and it is the beginnings of my December journal. I have never done one before but with the girls growing up so fast I wanted to try and capture all those magical moments you get throughout december and leading up to christmas.

The front cover of my journal:

A close up of the flowers:

 I have used the Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage advent kit to start with but have added in other papers and embellishments from the same collection. Here I have used the flowers with a gem brad centre. 

The pennant underneath is part of a 12x12 sheet and a banner strip from the banner pack.

I inked around all of the papers and flowers before adding them on and then added one of the stickers from the sticker sheet so I can put the month and year onto it.



Inside pages include:

Page 1:

I have mounted all the patterned papers onto black bazzill, created pockets on the pages using co-ordinating papers so I can tuck in some journalling tags and any extras I may have throughout the month.

December 1st is normally when I put up the christmas tree as you cannot beat the feeling on cold winter nights with the twinkling of the lights on the tree. It's so magical. This is why I chose to stamp the christmas tree stamp on this page too. 







All of the pages are different shapes and sizes as I quite like the mixed look in the smaller albums. Day 5 is a rectangle shape and quite plan as I didn't want them all to be very fancy as some days throughout December are busier then others for us.

Page 7:

 
 Day 7 I have just left space to add a photo and can add a small journalling tag once the picture is in place.
















Day 10 this year is a special day as we will be celebrating my daughter's 1st birthday so I wanted to make this day abit special and give myself room to add in extra's as there will be alot of memories throughout the day. Here I have added a small pocket to the corner of the page where I can add in photo's and journalling tags to journal some of the memories.

Then my final pages to show you are christmas eve, well I don't want to ruin the posts throughout december too much by showing it all now. Christmas eve is a special time in our house as we tend to sit down to a lovely meal and are given a new set of pyjama's so we can all have baths and put our new pyjamas on, put stockings out, a drink and snack for Santa and Rudolph. I also tie the magic key to the front door so Santa will be able to get in as we don't have a chimney for him to come down.

I will show you all the pages throughout December as they are filled in so make sure you pop back then so you can see it all. 

Thank you for popping in to see my post and I hope I may have inspired you to have a go at capturing your festive memories.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.


Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 12

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 12

43 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 12 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from Sarah M, who has made some gorgeous Cello bags . Pop across to Sarah's blog here for more pictures and instructions.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 11

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 11

44 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 11 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from Sue who has made some easy envelopes to share with you. Pop across to her blog here for more pictures and instructions.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 10

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 10

45 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 10 of the CCW christmas countdown, today's festive project comes from Morag who has made a wintery LO. Pop across to Morag's blog here for more pictures.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.


Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 9

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 9

46 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 9 of our countdown, today's festive project comes from Ali, who has made a gorgeous gift box to share with you today. Pop across to Ali's blog here for more pictures.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 8

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 8

47 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 8 of the CCW christmas countdown, today's festive project comes from one of our GDT's Natalie who has made a gorgeous christmas banner for you using her Silhouette Cameo. You can find all the instructions on the top of the challenge blog

 
See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 7

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 7

48 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 7 of the CCW christmas countdown, today's festive project comes from Trish, who has made some christmas cards. Pop across to my blog here for more pictures.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 6

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 6

49 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 6 of our countdown, today's festive project s a LO I have been working on. It is Poppy seeing Santa last christmas, this was the first time she had met him and at just 2 she was abit scared, this year will be completely different as she is already asking to see him.

I have handstitched all around the layers on this LO, I was inspired by some projects on the Echo Park blog, so using the very merry christmas collection pack I ended up with this.

I would like to enter this in the Scrap365 December sketch challenge.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 5

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 5

50 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 5 of the CCW christmas countdown, today's festive project comes from Sarah M who has made some gorgeous decorations for you. Pop across to Sarah's blog here for full instructions.

Pop back tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 3 & Scrap Map

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 3

52 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 3 of the CCW christmas countdown, today's festive project is linked with our monthly scrap map. Pop across to the challenge blog here for more projects.

This is a LO of the pictures of Poppy from her 4D scan at 32 weeks, when she was born and on her 1st and 2nd birthday. The journalling is my memories of the times and what I wish for her as she grows up. We will be celebrating her 3rd birthday at the end of the month so watch out for some more pictures and LO's then.

See you tomorrow for another festive project.

Lou x

CCW Christmas Countdown - Day 2

Christmas Countdown 2012 - Day 2

53 Sleeps to go

Welcome to day 2 of the CCW christmas countdown, today's festive project comes from Ali who has made some gorgeous FImo embellishments for you. Pop across to Ali's blog here for full instructions.

See you tomorrow for another festive project to share.

Lou x