Mothers Day Card

This card was easy to make and very quick, especially using my new punches. I treated myself to the label punch and the postage stamp punch which is from the spring mini catalogue.

Handmade Christmas Crackers

Have a go at these Handmade crackers, you can really personalise them plus you get to choose an individual gift for all of your guests.

Supplies:

• Holly  Berry Bouquet Speciality 12x12 paper
• toilet roll holders
• ribbon
• pines and poinsettias stamp set
• Inks
• cracker snaps
• Joke/riddle
• paper hats/ masks
• adhesive snail, sticky strip and stampin dimensionals
• Paper trimmer and perforator

Method:

• Trim one edge of your paper so it is 20cm long,giving you an oblong.

• Make two perforated lines paralel to the short edge, 10cm from the edge of both the short sides. 

• Glue the cracker snap in place along the long edge, leaving enough space for the sticky strip.
• Put a length of sticky along the edge of the paper.

• Place the three toilet roll holders along the edge, opposite the sticky strip.
• Roll the paper around the toilet roll holders. When you near the edge pull off the backing for the sticky strip and stick the paper down. 

• Line the toilet roll holders so that the middle one is central.

• Pull one of the end rolls out slightly (around 2 finger widths) and then gently squeeze the gap between the rolls  using the length of your pointing finger and your thumb. Pull it out a bit more and squeeze it again. Repeat this a few times. Now, gently, twist the end roll slightly then push the two rolls together again.

• Now it's time to fill your cracker with your gifts and jokes etc.
• Once you have everything inside repeat the previous step to close the other half of the cracker.
• Tie the ends with ribbon and then embellish with your own stamped images, beads, buttons, ribbons or whatever might take your fancy.( I only had whisper white ribbon so I coloured it with the real red stamping pad.)

The colours that co-ordinate with the paper pack are cherry cobbler, real red, chocolate chip, very vanilla, so safron and wild wasabi.

To purchase any of these or other products email marianardone.mn@googlemail.com.