Here is the layout of the Christmas celebration I had with my stamping buddies. A clean and simple layout so that you focus on the photos and it also meant I was able to use four large photos rather than smaller ones.
This is me with my stamping buddies, (left to right) me, Christine, Claire, Leanne and Judy. We had a great time at the Wattleseed restaurant in Healesville, the food was fab, the company was great, wonderful friends with a love of crafting in common and the table was festooned with gifts in packaging we had made for each other. What better way to spend an evening.
This will be my last post until after Christmas, so I will take this opportunity to wish you and yours the very best for Christmas and the New Year.
Here are all the goodies that I received from my stamping buddies plus their beautiful cards.
This fab card is from my friend Jackie in the UK (also a Paper Trey Ink addict) and a lovely necklace, which I have already worn, even though I should have waited until Christmas to open it.
My stamping group were meeting for our Christmas dinner last night and these were the little gifts I made. The larger packages (which are bulging) contain delicious homemade shortbread buscuits, made by my talented daughter Lauren. The smaller triangle boxes contain Lindt chocolates. Mmmm.
A closer look. All the stamped patterns were created using Paper Prey ink stamps.
These boxes containing their cards were created with my M & F Board (similar to a scor pal). The large leave stamp is Paper trey Ink, the small tag on the front is from - Stampin Up and the continuous pattern on the box wrapper was made using Rubber Stamp Tapestry peg stamps.
A side view of the card.
Lauren has been trying to make some money to buy Christmas presents by making fudge and selling it at her church. She has had to give up the waitressing because of the tendon problem. I have been helping her with the presentation by making these little decorative holders for the fudge, together we have made 40 of them, she already has orders for 28, a few are presents for friends, so she is hoping to sell the rest. Lauren has decided she doesn't follow in her mothers footsteps and paper crafting is definitely not her thing.
Lauren did her first open water swim at Mornington last weekend, it was 1.2km and she came third!! I am so pleased for her, the triathlon training has had to take a back step with her Achilles tendon problems, she has been hobbling round since August and has seen doctors, physios, sports therapists,a sports podiatrist, you name it and she has seen them. At last we have a diagnosis, acute inflammation of the tendon sheaths and as treatment has not helped, she is going to need an operation. So swimming, without using her legs has been the only training she has been able to do, not one to be put off competing, she decided to do this, just for the fun of it, not expecting to come anywhere, so no one was more delighted with the result than Lauren.
