A Quilled Christmas Tree

This little tree measures about 5 inches high and was an experiment as a topper for my Matchbox Advent Calendar (details to follow)

• I just cut a 7" circle and used one quarter curled round to make a cone shape.
• put double sided tape round at 1/2 increments all the way up ( this varies on the size of your cone, less of a gap makes a fuller tree)
• use frilled quilling paper or make your own by snipping/fringing 1/2 inch wide lengths of coloured paper, the larger the tree the wider the paper would need to be
• stick round the cone so that each layer slightly overlaps
• fluff up the frill to make it stick out
• add some mini pompoms

your done :-)   You can make this any size you wish, or even a whole forest of them.
TFL
xx

Birthday Smash

Basic Ingredients

I have never done this before and I am not sure I have got the true meaning of a Stash Book down here but it's my version.  I found it hard to break away from the Scrapbooking regime and found having a more random approach quite a challenge but I worked fast and didn't give myself to much time to think which helped a bit.  I found the ideas for these online, I had not heard of them before so it shows how I am out of touch with what's trending right now :-(

I was very spoilt this year for my birthday and had some beautiful cards and gifts from family and friends.   The gifts came in such lovely bags and had my favourite thing right now, Owls on so I "deconstructed" them to make the papers for this book.  Gift bags make the covers, envelopes are reused to make pockets, elements from the left over bags cut out to use as embellishments and the ribbon handles are also used in the book.

Stash used

Birthday Gift bags, cards and tags

sticky tape, binding rings, ribbons, card stock, Tim Holtz dies, Cropodile, chip board, googly eyes

Photo's

K & Co Neopolitan Stickers

I won't bore you with all the details just let the photo's speak for me

thanks for looking

x

Quotations mini book

Nestabilities mini album I made as an alternative to a Birthday Card for my friend.

Used:

Plain cardstock

patterned paper Basic Grey

Cuttlebug folders

Nellie Snellen Frame Die

Paper and fabric flowers

Binding ring

eyelets

Cropodile

Ribbons

Colourbox Eye chalks

Blending tool and foam

Grungeboard die cut shapes

Brads