The Glittered Poppleberry

Evening friends! My Christmas advent calendar is now finally finished, yes it took ages haha! The snowman is stuck into the snow on the ground now, so it is all ready to fill with treats. I managed to get a journal page finished today also and will show a step by step tomorrow. I would like to thank all those that left lovely messages on Wednesdays blog post. It is very kind of you all. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the step by step. Thank you for spending some of your day with me. Crafty hugs and see you tomorrow. Ellie x

Evening to you all. I have been spending the evening making more batches of tags for the Craft fair in December. I am having good fun making some tags that aren't Christmas related too! This is going to be the centre point on the front of some more tags. These are the generic ones to be used year round. I used my 'wink of Stella clear glitter pen on top of the jellyfish image. It's so sparkly but I don't think the camera has really picked it up. Everyone needs a glitter pen like this, I love mine. The stamp set used on this centre piece is 'so jelly by lawn fawn and 'tiny sayings ' by Lawn fawn also. Such cute little sets. Yesterday I recieved my order from Anna Marie designs. This was my trees to finish off my advent calendar. So I have painted them with green acrylic paint. This step was incredibly messy, I don't know how but I ended out with paint on my neck, face and clothes. Once painted and dry, I applied Super thick slap it on ( Indigoblu)...

Well hello and happy Thursday! Today is quite a busy day for me and I'm determined to squeeze in some crafting, on yesterdays blog I showed my drawers for my advent. Today I am putting the final coat of paint on the drawers before sticking the gold numbers on. It is getting very exciting now and all coming together. I have managed to get some Christmas cards made also. If you are getting into Christmas card making drop me a comment. This is the main body of my advent calendar without the drawers placed in. It has certainly taken several days to get to this point. I received some happy post the other day, it is called 'The purple tin' by Craft box, I am afraid looking at the site this morning they were sold out. I have included a link here so you can keep an eye out if this is something that takes your fancy. I must say I am again impressed with their products, the tin came in a beautiful red bag and the tin was crammed full of lovely goodies. It contains a...