Hi Crafters, what a glorious Sunday it is here in Porto, the sun is shinning, the skies are blue and its pleasantly warm which is more than I can say for the North East of England where I come from......brrrrrr comes to mind.

I have a box or two full of bits of card, designer paper and mulberry paper so I decided to try and use some of it up making Christmas cards. This Santa card is what I came up with using the bits in the box.  Hope you like it.

Products Used:

White Cardstock 1 x Large Scalloped Circle

White Cardstock 1 x Medium Scalloped Circle

Pink Cardstock 1 x Small Circle

Pink Cardstock 1 x Medium Oval

White Cardstock 2 x Very Small Hole Punched Circles

White Cardstock 2 x Leaves

Red Cardstock 1 x Rectangle piece cut into a triangle and folded

White Cardstock 5 x Diecut Snowflakes

White DL Card base x 1

Red and White Cardstock for the centre panel

Designer Paper for the centre panel

Stampin Up Ink in Pink

Hello friends, welcome to my very first post.

After 2 days of rain showers here in Porto, the sun has come out and its inspired me to finally start my blog about my crafting journey.

I love all things to do with crafting and I often get waylaid when I start a project as my imagination starts to run riot.  This time of year though is one of my favourites, as it means I can put my crafty ideas into making cards and gifts for my family, friends and customers, using lots of bright and sparkly things.

Here are a couple of the shoppers notepads I have been making, which are really quite easy to make. All it needs is a little bit of inspiration and imagination to create a lovely gift.

Products used:

Shopper notepad

Ribbon

Punch Flowers

Bird Stamp

Artoz Gemstone

Stampin Up - Designer Series Paper, Stamp 'You make me smile', Cardstock