Ladies' Christmas Tea 2011 Part 1

Few! Finally finished creating. This past Saturday my church hosted a Ladies' Christmas Tea and it was so much fun. My friend and I went all out on the decorating. I look forward to this event every year and so do the other ladies. There were 70-74 ladies came. There were 9 tables and I hosted one of the table. My friend co-hosted with me. Each table had two hostesses to do decorating and baking. We all had to make 60 cookies of 2 kinds. That's a lot of cookies and goodies. But who is complaining, right? You can never have too much. I mean this is the time of year we get to indulge ourselves in the goodies and not feel too bad about it. hehe

Anyway, this is going to be a long post so grab yourself a cup of tea or your favourite drink and enjoy all the pictures I have for you to see. I tried my best to take as many pictures as possible. Not easy decorating your table and at the same time go around and take pictures. I'm so thankful my friend did most of the decorating so I can go around and take pictures.


Here it goes. There are no particular order to the tables.

Table #1

Nice a simple red and white decorations.

Place setting. Folded fan like napkins. 

I like how the silverware was put into a cute folded napkin pocket.

Table #2

Greenery decorations. I love the centre piece.

Place setting. Cute little pine cone with a ribbon on top.

Close up of the pine cone.

Table #3

Very simple and elegant decorations. Kinda antique like. 

I think that's what it is.

Place setting. I love this place setting.

Table #4

Red and green decorations. Very impressive table.

Place setting.

Not sure what this was. Might be a water jug. Should've asked.

Cool personalized sign.

Don't you just love the chocolate fondu platter in the middle there?

Here's a close up of the fondu platter.

Table #5

A sweet factory table. Yummy decorations. You can get your sugar fix here. hehe

Yummy candies trees.

Place setting. I love the beautiful tea cup and saucer.

Wonderful sweet verse from the Bible.

More tea cups and saucers. They are all so different and unique.

Another sweet verse. Love this verse.

Aren't these the cutest marshmallow snowmen?

Here are some more snowmen.

Table #6

 Lots of candy canes here. Red and green decorations.

 Place setting. Shiny green charger. 

I never knew what a charger was before until I hosted a table a few years ago.

Don't you just love this centre piece? I think the hostess made it.

All real decorations here.

Table #7

 Another simple and elegant decorations.

The place setting is beautiful. To bad I didn't get a close up picture of it.

 Angels and star decorations. They were praising God in highest of Jesus birth.

Nativity scene on a cake.

Unfortunately I was unable to take pictures of one table. We rented at a community so we had to start on time and the hostess was late. I try to take pictures without people because some might not like their faces all over the internet. Hope you enjoy all these wonderful pictures of all the tables. I'll show my table on the next post.


Merry Christmas!

Deanna

Pennant Ornament

I was playing with the Petite Pennant Builder Punch and I came up with this ornament. Isn't it cute? It is about 3" in length and hang nicely on my Christmas tree. I'll have to try it in different colours.

I added mini flowers to each pennants and 2 flowers hanging on gold cords. I think snowflakes goes nicely on each pennants.

I'm off to make some projects for the Ladies Christmas Tea. My friend and I are hosting a table and we have been busy making stuff to decorate the table. It is this Saturday and I'll take tons of pictures to show  you of the other tables.

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Tag Reindeer

Isn't this little reindeer cute? It is made with 2 tags, joined together on the sides, from the Two Tags Die. I can't take credit for this. Someone made this little reindeer in an easel card. I made mine into an ornament to hang on a tree.

The eyes are made with two 1/2" circles and two glimmer brads. The nose is a corduroy brad that I had for awhile now and it is perfect for the nose. I punch holes at the top of the tags and string a baker's twin through the holes for hanging. Add 2 tiny candy cane for antlers.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Christmas Musical

I just want to invite those who live around the Greater Vancouver area to a Christmas Musical at my church this Sunday. Join us for a moving Christmas story with familiar Christmas songs, an encouraging drama and special message from Pastor Conner.

Here is the address to the church: 4440 Victoria Drive in Vancouver.

Hope to see you there.

Deanna

Christmas Cards Stamp A Stack

Did a Christmas Cards Stamp A Stack today. I have not had any classes for a long time and it felt like I had to relearn everything.

 

 This card was made using the Christmas Lodge stamp set from the Holiday Mini 2011.

Not sure if you can see it on the photo but there is Dazzling Diamond on the roof of the lodge.

This card was made using the Winter Post stamp set. Love this set especially the reindeer. One ladies stamp the main image using the reindeer and it was very pretty.

This card was made using the Welcome Christmas stamp set. Had to omit the little girl from the stamp image because the oval die is not big enough to fit her in it.

This card was made using the Merry & Type stamp set. 

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Altered Gum Tins

Happy Monday everyone! I altered a few of these gum tins over the weekend. I'll be altering a lot more of these this coming week. My brother gave me a box of these tins many years ago. I move them with me to every house I move too. I could never think of what to do with them until now. They were filled with gum that tastes okay but they stick to your teeth. I emptied them and will be filling them with other kind of treats. These alter tins will be for my sisters to give away this year. I made Christmas favours for them every year to give away. They always enjoyed them and of course the recipient love them too.

I measured the tin to get the measurements so I can cover it with Designer Series Paper. I used all the retired papers I have on hand for these tins. I die cut the snowflakes using the Northern Frost Die. Such a nice snowflakes die. The little flowers are made using the Trio Flower Punch. I punch a hole on each side of the tin with a Crop-a-dile. So easy with the Crop-a-dile. I don't have to drill holes anymore. Yay! These tins can also be hang on a Christmas tree as ornaments. Now I'm off to finish altering the tins.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna 

Canadian Demo Christmas Cards Swap Group 2

Here is the second group of cards from the swap I joined.

by Jackie Stalker

by Karen Steeves

Cute stockings!

 by Jenn Souch

by Sarita Chapdelaine

by Belinda Keays

Canadian Demo Christmas Cards Swap

Here are the cards I got back from the swap I joined in October.  I joined in 2 groups and I'll show you the first group today.

by Stacey Gillis

by Kim Stathakos

 Inside of the frame of Kim's card.

by Kathy Brookes 

The snowball with a bird on it moves around.

by Michelle Clarke

 by Susan Anna Mac Donald

Inside of the frame of Susan Anna's card.

12 Days of Christmas Projects Tutorial For Sale

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3D Trees Card

Good day everyone! I'm finally done scanning the work samples for September and October and send them to the homeschool teacher. Now I need to do the November work samples.

I did take a little break and did some stamping. I made a card.

I've finally ordered the Petite Pennants Builder Punch and I love it. At first I had no idea what to do with it so that's why it took me so long to order it. I made a 3D Christmas trees. I punched the pennants out using the Old Olive card stock, run it through the Big Shot using the Petals-a-plenty Embossing Folder to embossed the pennants and glue them together. I used three pennants punch outs for each tree. The trunks was made by punching 2 Chocolate Chip card stock using the Word Window Punch. Everything is fast with punches. My favourite tool.

Thank you for visiting today!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Canadian Only Christmas Cards Swap

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful Remembrance Day long weekend. I sure did. We had a birthday party for our 2 daughters. One turning 9 tomorrow and the other turning 5 on Wednesday.

I made this card for the Canadian Demonstrator Only Swap. I joined 2 groups so I made two different designs using the Merry & Type  stamp set. Here is the first one.

There was a lot of colouring on both cards. I made 5 each for each design.

Here is the second design I made. I used the Letters to Santa Designer Series Paper for both designs.

For this card I added Crystal Effect on the ornaments. Not sure if you can see it in the photo.

I'll show you the swaps I got back in another post so this post wont be too long. They are all very awesome cards.

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a great day!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Christmas Bird House

Good day everyone. It has been 2 weeks since I've create anything. Life has been busy around here.
Here is a bird house I made awhile ago and finally decorate it. I wanted to put lots and lots of snowflakes and flowers on this bird house but I have to contain myself. I used the Northern Frost Die for the snowflakes.

I top off the bird house with snowflakes and ribbon. I used the seam binding ribbon and loop the ribbon a few times to get the full puffy look. Love this ribbon. The lid of the bird house opens up and you can put treats in it. Makes great Christmas gift. Wrap it with a cellophane and tie it with a ribbon.

I sponged the snowflakes with Crumb Cake ink. The flowers are made using the Trio Flower punch (retired).


Thank you for visiting today!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

12 Days Of Christmas Coming Along

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Happy Stamping!

Deanna