MEET ME OVER AT SHEILA'S SUPER DUPER CRAFTY CORNER

MEET ME OVER AT SHEILA'S SUPER DUPER CRAFTY CORNER

As my blog name has been taken by another blogger (I don't know how that happened) I've decided the best way forward is to start over. So you will now be directed to my new blog - Sheila's Super Duper Crafty Corner. Hopefully I will have better luck with that one :0) See you there

If you are not re-directed please click on the attached link www.sheilassuperdupercraftycorner.blogspot.com

Papercraft

Last Christmas I wanted to do something special for The Tiddlers in the way of advent calendars, and saw just the thing in a book by Sandra Lounsbury-Foose.  She really does come up with spectacular ideas with very clear templates that are so achievable.  Anyway as I needed 50 for the calendars I decided to make one up on the computer to which I could add the numbers and make in different colours (Beth has to have a pink Father Christmas - of course!!).  They printed out really well, but did take a while to cut out.  I  have since got a Craft Robo which would have made life so much easier.  Each of the Father Christmases has moving arms and legs and had a sweetie stuck inside with a glue dot for easy removal and we hung them up with little pegs (well out of the way for safety.  25 chockies all at once is not good for the system we have discovered!)

Beth's had to be pink - of course!

Good old Ben goes with the traditional