Espritpatch

  December has not been very productive in terms of craft but I am happy to have at least taken time to create cute personalised labels for my gifts with my Cricut. I had found those beautiful labels on a facebook group and they came out very pretty. Since I used some plain paper, I asked my artsy daughter to colour them in for me, task she duly accomplished! I also made 2 personalised wallets to give concert tickets/cash which came out very pretty I think. Linking to  D esign  Wall Monday ,  Midweek Makers ,  Wednesday Wait Loss ,  Happy Needle and Threa d ,  Put your foot down ,  Brag about your Beauties ,  Off the wall Friday ,  Can I get a Whoop Whoop ,  Peacock Party ,  Patchwork and Quilt . Céline

The Cricut has had some airing time for Easter. I had seen some beautiful crafts online and selected a few to try. In the end I ran out of time to try all I wanted but I managed to make some carrots (14) for the kids for Easter Sunday. It was a team effort really, I cut it all out and hubby did the gluing! All filled with little Easter eggs to decorate the table.  I made some rabbits for the adults but didn't seem to have got a picture! Plus with those, I cut them out before finding eggs to fill them with so it didn't quite work out! And my youngest daughter made this lovely panel to launch the Easter egg race! Céline 

I have signed up for Pot Holder Pass #10 organised by Amy at During Quiet Time , she runs it on Flicker and it is always a good swap. I've already done a couple of rounds. This time I choose the Log Cabin option. My partner's choice of colours is cream, red and blue so I dived into my scrap boxes and played with the Log Cabin pattern to come up with this "Framed Cabin" and the "Cornerstone Cabin" On the paper craft front, I have sent over 50 of the announcements now and have about 10 or so to finish off but we have run out of ink again. And because this week, winter has come at long last, I haven't been able to go shopping for ink today. We woke up this morning to find that a thick blanket of snow had covered everything. Of course the kids had fun playing outside and building a snowman! but I stayed indoor in the warmth with Baby Daughter who is already 6 weeks today! Celine

Finally, I came up with something I liked for Baby Girl's birth announcement. I couldn't find an idea that worked or came out as I imagined it until recently... So before she is 6 weeks old, I have been busy busy in the last few days playing with paper and ribbons. We started printing the cards and of course, we quickly ran out of ink so that task had to be put on hold for a while. I printed the vellum - aka plain tracing paper and embossed it with my Big Shot Sizzix machine  before assembling the announcement and tying a ribbon around it to make it look like a ... Christmas present of course! What else for a Christmas baby...  I have about 70 of these to make and have completed 24 so far so I should be busy with paper craft for a few more days. Celine