It's about 1.00am on Saturday. I've just finished preparing for my craft fair tomorrow, so thought I would come on and share the rest of my creations! I've really enjoyed making the gifts this year, more so that cards. I would like thank Helen at
It's All Fiddle Fart for giving me so much inspiration, and also to Lisa over at
A Day in the Life of a Craft Fairy
I was inspired to make this jar of cookie mix after seeing it on Splitcoast Stampers last year, but never got round to it then. I came across some of these wonderful Kilner Jars whilst shopping in Asda a few weeks ago, and they were just £1 each! For a huge 1l Jar! I bought about 10 of them! I know Tescos/Hobbycraft are selling them for £2.50 each! I found a good recipe
here which is perfect for this size jar. I have layered in the ingreedients and made a simple label for the jar. I don't think it needs any more decoration. The pretty layers do all the work! I have baked up a batch and will be taking a few tasters along to display alongside the jars!
I bought a few boxes of the festive peanut M&M's. I didnt know what to do with them, so I ate a box. Afterwards, I had a flash of inspiration to make some of these sour cream pouches. I've never made them before and was amazed at how easy they are to make and how effective they are. I've used Doodlebug Christmas Doodles paper and have then added an eyelet and a ribbon, so that they can be hung from the Christmas Tree. I'm kind of hoping these don't all sell!
I found a couple of cute stumpy candles in the 99p shop, which I decided that this year I would decorate and embellish rather than sticking to the stamped candles which I made last year. I invested this year in a roll of Cello wrap from hobbycraft which I think makes displaying them a lot more appealing!
These are my little Elizabeth Shaw chocolate mint's which I've made using some of the Pink Petticoat Mini Christmas images. Sadly though I don't have the nesting punches, so each one of these has been cut using my nestabilities, one at a time! It did take a long time to make them, but I think it was worth it in the end!
This is a mini chocolate bar which came in a pack of 4 from Tesco's. I decided to re-cover them using my lovely sparkly red glitter paper and made a little santa belt for them using some black ribbon and a gold buckle. I've had that punch in my drawer for a long time and I think this is the first time I've used it! I have made a couple of green one's too, so Santa has his little Elf!
The next idea, I got from Little Pudding's Nappy Cakes blog, which I thought was a fab idea! Again, on my trip around Asda I decided that I would have a go at making some of these. I picked up a pack of 4 pint glasses at £0.88p!!! A pack of 4 white Asda value flannels and a pack of basic men's black socks. This was so simple and easy to make, It took me mintues to make all of them! I then searched a few blogs and found one (sorry cant' rember who) that had attached the beer drinkers version of the Lords Prayer as the tag. I've wrapped them in cello wrap and added a little black snowflake to the card, just to Christmasify it a bit! Although they would be great for any occasion! 
As If I hadn't had enough the first time round, I decided to make more of the Elizabeth Shaw style mints, only this time I decorated them as Christmas Puddings after seeing the post on Helen's blog. They took a lot longer to make than I'd imagined too! I must remember next time!
If you have managed to get to the end, then thanks for reading and I hope that these may inspire you as the did me!
I've used my favourite "kraft" card as the base for all of these cards, and have finished each one off with a Craftwork Cards sentiment. 
I had quite a lot of scraps! so I've repated this one a few times! My favourite was a black & grey version, but I seem to have sold that one without taking a photo of it first! oops
Well that's two posts in one day! I'm not sure what's come over me. I think I might need to go and have a lay down now! Hopefully it won't be too long before I get back as I've got a few more that I'd really like to share!
I actually made these cards towards the end of last year! I really like making cards that use just a few punches and nestabilities in this case. I really could do with some nesting circle punches though! It took me ages to punch out all of these circles in 3 different colours! Something else to add to the ever growing shopping list! Although I do enjoy making cards using rubber stamps and digi images, I find it more satisfying coming up with cards like this.
I think these flower punches are probably my favourite "embellishment of the moment" and they seem to be appearing on a lot of my cards. So there may still be a few more to come! I've also made a male version of this card which I'll show you later! (I hope!) If not, see you in a month or so, lol! Anyway thats it for this post, thanks for stopping by and looking.
This is my favourite from last year, my punched penguin!
Followed by the hand cut reindeer! I got the idea & template for him out of one of the craft magazines.
Another punched character, Santa!
I've stamped the image using part of an Elzybells set. The paper edged around the edge of the lid is Doodlebug winter asterisks as is the ribbon. I made the little label on the computer. I hope they go down well!
The red noses are bubblegum, which I found in a set from Poundland! I couldnt actually find anything else which was the same size as the malteesers and red. I did buy a pack of chocolate "Reindeer Noses" from Morrisons, but when I opened the pack they were more orange in colour than red so I decided not to use them.