Easter Makes for our good Friends

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week and are ready for the weekend ahead. I am home alone today. My husband and his brothers are off to see a house they own to try to decide what to do with it. My plan  is to work on the card I am making for my husband's special birthday this year. It is quite complicated and will take me a while to complete. It is okay for me to share about it here as he never looks at my blog. He is very supportive though.

I bought our friends a small bottle of flavoured gin for Easter. I was looking at the bottle and I decided to make a gift box for it. Then I made a matching card. Finally I made a matching gift bag for the fudge I bought at the same time as the gin.

Lets start with the card.

I have had the Gerberas Dies Pop Out Panel from the John Next Door range from Crafts-Too for a while now. It was easy cutting the panel three times to make this card. I did press each of the petals out. 

I decided to make an Opera Box for the gin. I wanted the box to be taller than the original die. So I checked on John's Blog and I cut the card to the length I wanted it and I scored five panels at 5cms each. The Pop Out Panel fitted nicely onto the box panels. I backed each panel with yellow. I made a Gerbera for the top of the box. 

On my blog I have a page for making a gift bag. I made this one a little taller so the Pop Out  panel would fit. 

Our friends were thrilled with the gifts and the card. I know they liked the gin they sent us a photo. I do hope they make some more panels that will fit the Opera Box die set. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) end of Year Challenge - Anything but a Card

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When you read this blog post I will be in Brighton for the last of the Bootleg Beatles Christmas Concerts. It is a lovely thing to do before Christmas with our special friends.

As the title suggests this is the end of year challenge for the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) and the theme is Anything but a Card. Some of the design team are offering prizes. This time we are being sponsored by Crafty Ribbons

I made some gift boxes filled with foil covered sweets to help someone with a fund raising coffee morning. She told me that on the day she raised £560. 

If you love ribbon you will love the Crafty Ribbons website. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

Our challenge is lots of fun why not join us. 

This shows the top of the box with the Poinsettia and the ivy. I used the stamps and matching dies from John Next Door to make the Poinsettias. 

I used acetate behind one of the cut panels so that you can see the contents. 

This is the prize I am offering. There is a little bit of everything. 

I need to make some more of these boxes to hold table presents. I am sure all the jobs will get done in time. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

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Easter Boxes made with the Opera Box Die Set

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I have had two days catching up on things and the weather seems to be improving which is nice.

This will just be a quick post today. I wanted to share the boxes I made for Easter. Most of them were used on the table for Easter lunch. Others I gave to friends. They were all filled with chocolate. They were all made with the Opera Box die set from John Next Door. I do like the flexibility of these boxes. I can do taller ones I have yet to tackle wider.

Here are most of them together. I tried out some different designs. 

This box is a bit taller than the others I wanted to try out the Gerbera panel die. The box just needed to be a little taller . 

I fitted in 5 small chocolate bunnies and a packet of mini eggs into each box. 

I did try out different designs in the boxes. 

This is the panel that comes with the Opera Box Die set. 

The flowers on top were all made with the Gerbera die that comes with the Opera Box die set and the Star Flower leaves. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 4 at te Crafter's Castle Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

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Happy Valentine's Day and the 70th Wedding Anniversary of my husband's parents.

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Happy Valentine's Day to everyone out there. Today is the 70th Wedding Anniversary of my parents in-law. There has been an article written about them on the Charity Today website which you can visit HERE.  My husband's father gets support from the the Blind Veterans charity as he is loosing his sight to age-related macular degeneration.
They needed to have a special card and as it is a Platinum anniversary I wanted to use lots of greys and silvers.

I decided on a twisted easel as I wanted more space to decorate also as I was going to hand it too them I could show them how to display it. I used the corner dies from the Sandwich box set from John Next Door to make the lattice. It is very easy to match up the pattern when you layer them over each other. 

I scanned one of their wedding photos and printed it on to photo paper. I cut is out with the Heart of Hearts die set. The flowers are the ones from the Opera box set by John Next Door. You can just see the small lattice in the background from the sandwich box set. 

The 70 was cut with some X-Cut dies. 

This is a Tatterlace die. It is one of the most useful that I have. 

I used the Stitched Flag dies to make the stopper the sentiment is a Signature die,  

Here is their favourite photo from their wedding day. They had a copy of this on show at the party. 

This is what they look like now. 

This is the cake that one of the grandchildren made for the celebration. 

I made this tag to hang on a plant we bought for them. My husband's mum doesn't like cut flowers. That is why we opted for a growing plant they last longer too. 

They did like the card and the plant and they enjoyed their party. They were very tired the next day but it was worth it. 

I hope you have a lovely day whatever you have planned. We went out on Monday for a meal and to see the Greatest Showman. We thoroughly enjoyed the film.  Today we are going to stay in and share the Valentine's Day Meal deal from M&S. 

I would like to enter challenge 45 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog, challenge 360 at the Crafty Creations Challenge blog  the Be My Valentine Challenge at the Crafting By Designs Challenge blog , challenge 45 at the Craft Rocket Challenge blog and the February Challenge at the Not Just Cards Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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