Christmas Candles

Hi Crafty Friends

Of late, I seem to be obsessed with ovals! Last week it was an oval Santa stamp and an oval bag handle. This week I got to use a new(ish) filigree oval die, with a golden oldie candle die (Memory Box, I think). I used 2 embossing folders; I particularly like the one used on the aqua oval. It's an oldie which came with a magazine.
It's a very quick card to  make. Everyone finished early, so we had plenty of time to enjoy June's delicious 'not-so-sweet' Rocky Road 😋 on Tuesday, and Sue's M&S scrumptious biscuits on Wednesday. There was also time to cut extra die cuts/embossed panels from all the scraps. I'm looking forward to seeing what becomes of them.

happy crafting

jx

Santa Card and Gift Bag

Hi Crafty Friends

This week I was aiming for a simple classy design, and I really wanted to use my new Creative Expressions Santa stamp (a great bargain from a craft show). It's a great image and stamps beautifully. Another bonus, it just fits my Nellie's Multi-frame ovals die set. 🙂

 We just did a little bit of layering and embossing for dimension. We glittered the image and recessed it into the oval aperture, although in the pic it looks like it's matted onto various layers. It was quick to do so after a speedy cuppa we cracked on with a gift bag, which Margaret had been requesting for some time.

I'd had the idea of using a die which is intended to make a flip flap card, to make the handle of a bag. The bag part is basically a piece of A4 scored and folded. Everyone chose their own stamps and colours. I was pleased with how the bag design worked out. Now I need to make some more, paying closer attention to the stamping. This is just a quick make to demonstrate the idea.

happy crafting
jx

Paper Pieced Robin

Hi Crafty Friends

I've been looking forward to using this lovely robin stamp from Woodware. We just paper pieced him with some First Edition papers (Perfect Christmas) with the addition of some brown pattern from who-knows-where. Then all it needed was a bit of layering to make a simple background and the addition of some ribbon (from Boyes)

Happy crafting
Jx

Four Squares Card - Christmas

Hi Crafty Friends

This week we returned to the 4 squares design we've done before, but this time with a Christmas theme.  I was looking forward to using this paper as I'd known from first sight I wanted to do one of these cards with it. MY first disappointment was that there was not enough for everyone to have 4 squares the same, so I had to add the paper with houses on. Then I discovered this blue looked terrible with navy so my colour scheme went out the window. It took ages to find an alternative (I'm not too good at this). But hurray hurrah, people loved the houses - and the aqua/blue colour scheme. There's a reason why this blog is called Serendipity 😀

I'm happy to know several of us have been making more of these at home.
Happy serendipitous crafting
Jxx

New from Old (and vice versa)

Hi Crafty Friends

This week we tackled the annual up cycling gift box project, only thanks to Margaret's porridge loving family we had a supply of Flahaven's Porridge tubes. These are much fatter than our usual Pringle tubes. Luckily, I had some extra large sheets of patterned card from Lidl's which just fit.
Because the patterns were all quite busy, I kept the decoration simple round the lid.

That was the new from old; here's the old from new

I went to a Powertex class at Purple Meadows (newish local craft shop) and had a really fun time making this old rock.

Rock on
jx