It's Christmas in 8 days OMG!!!

I can't believe it's only 8 days away, I'm no where near ready, I need more time. Still doesn't feel like Christmas anyway, maybe that's it, I'm sure Kye will enjoy it, Dina and Du being a little past the whole Santa thing (I think so anyway).

Last Thursday saw the gentle opening of our shop in Midleton, It's still very rough around the edges, but we'll get there. For now at least I'll be open there on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and I've taken the yarn and haberdashery supplies over at the moment. I'm hoping to squeeze a few craft basics in and squeeze basic yarn in here too, but it's going to take a little time to work out whats going where.

Thursday was also our last Scrapaholix of the year and we were working with dry-embossing. The kit colours were grey, white and black, which is such a fantastic combination that almost anything goes.

I thought the photograph I chose worked really well and this time I really didn't add anything to my basic kit, except for a little ink. The flowers and title were all cut using punches and the Sizzix. The alphabet is Retro Metro for those of you that are wondering.

Last night's club was a little quiet, however all that were present loved the cards I made using templates from Personal Impressions. Both the beer glass and the little girls dress make fantastic quick cards, which you can leave plain or decorate as over the top as you want. I'd be lying if I claimed these cards were anything but speedy. In fact I think I'd be hard pressed to make anything so good as quick.

This is the obvious card for those of us partial to a pint or two of the black stuff.

Here I've opted for the larger option, glitter card for the fizz.

This little dress card is just so cute, that I can see I' going to be using it for quite a while. The buttons are fixed using glue dots and add a real authentic touch.

Couldn't resit I'm afraid. I was always disappointed that my school never wore the gingham dresses that I know some of my peers got to wear. Perhaps that's where my fetish for all things gingham stems from.

Next Tuesday will be our last Card/Scrap club before Christmas and we're all going to make a card, have copious amounts of tea/coffee and eat a ridiculous amount of calorific treats.

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