Cluck Cluck

A few weeks ago over on And Sew We Craft it was baby week. It was to celebrate the fact the Cate was in the last few weeks of her pregnancy. Over there I shared some things that I recently made for my cousins new baby. But while I was making those gifts I was also making some things for Cate.

And well she is now in the last week of her pregnancy and she has received the gifts I sent to her now so I can share them here.

The package included these cute little baby pants that I made for her.

And I packaged them up with a bib and a onesie that I had made a little while ago too.

Do you give handmade gifts often?

Bunny time

Last week Mahli got not one but two party invitations and straight away I started to panic about what to give the birthday girls. We only have one supermarket here and I am not keen on giving the birthday girls a heap of cheap plastic stuff, so I asked Mahli what she wanted to give the girls and was a wee bit excited when she said that she wanted me to make something.

We decided on some stuffies. Bunny stuffies to be precise...

I made on of them on Saturday afternoon and now just have one more to go.

We will be including a pencil roll and note book in the gifts too.

Do you do handmade gifts? 

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Sweet gifts

Last week I had an awesome mail day! And it was just what I needed to put a smile on my face. It was also the day of all the arguments with our property manager and the insurance company...

I was lucky enough to receive this gorgeous parcel from Marissa. In it was a gorgeous pouch packed full of lollies and chocolate and not one but two postcards full of glorious words.

I mean look at the cute bunting! It matches my blog header! And she even included Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! They are my favourite!

Thanks so much to Ros for organising this swap and to Marissa for my gorgeous gifts.

DAVID TUTERA™ Celebrate Cards #Tuteracelebrate

Last month I recieved a rather large box on my doorstep. It was full of the new range of David Tutera Paper Crafts and I was just a little bit excited by this.

I mean look at it all! How could you not be excited by all that? The new range is called DAVID TUTERA™ Celebrate and the system is really easy to use.

It is a 3 step system- So you select your card and then your layer and then your embellishments and away you go.

And I am not joking, it really is so easy-

Okay so this card is for my Father In Law as his birthday is this weekend coming. So I chose a blue base-

Then a white spotted overlay and used a roll on adhesive to stick it down

And now it seems I got distracted and didn't take any photo's of the next step. But it is easy. All you need to do is stick on you embellishments and ta da! You are done!

There is still a tonne of things in the box that I haven't even opened yet, I have been hesitating because it has been school holidays here and I didn't want to share with the kids!

But now that school is back I have some big plans for all of these products. Not only do I see greeting cards in my future, but some other gorgeous paper crafts too!

You know what else is fantastic? You have a chance to win a David Tutera Celebrate prize pack valued at $300! Details are below!

Three lucky winners will receive a $250 grand prize pack of supplies from
David Tutera’s Celebrate cardmaking line AND a personally signed book from David
20 additional winners will receive a $50 Celebrate prize pack!

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If you would like to keep up to date with the goings on of the David Tutera Celebrate line you can find the details below:

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The David Tutera Celebrate line is available exclusively through Jo-Ann's:
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You can also check out a load of other projects made with this fabulous line below.











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DIY: Photo Tile Coasters

For Father's Day we went the handmade diy route (no surprise there really!) and they were a hit.

We decided to make some Photo Tile Coasters and the great thing about this project? I had everything on hand! So it was great for the budget too.

I used this wonderful tutorial as a guide but I changed a few things to suite us.

We used some floor tiles we had in the shed from when we built the house and cut them in 4.

Then I selected some photos of the three kids and re-sized them, converted them to black and white and then printed them out on normal printer paper.

 

Then they fun began with some Mod Podge!

We glued squares of felt to the bases and then tied some twine around them and ta da, they were complete.

I would have liked them more if we were able to cut the tiles better, but we are still learning how to use the nifty tile cutter my grandfather lent us.

The kids loved making them and have already told me that we need to make some more.

Did you give handmade gifts for Father's Day?