Christmas Emporium Graphic 45

first off a HUUUUUGE THANK YOU to the gorgeous Dyan Reavely for sending me a winning prize of a set of her fabulous stamps!!!!!

i absolutely love them .... i promise to dip my toes into 'your world' soon Dyan!!

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ok .... i have actually made something that was NOT t!m designed!! LOL!

i had a bit of a break for a week or so as i got a bit of craft-block, and have been fighting off man-flu!!

i recently stumbled across Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium papers and fell for them immediately!!

http://www.g45papers.com/products/christmas-emporium-category

so i ordered the 8x8 pad and chipboard tags 1 and set about making some cards!!

the first 2 of the designs below were published on their site, and as this was new territory to me i tried my version of them as best as i could;

http://g45papers.typepad.com/graphic45/2011/11/wednesday-nov-16.html#entries

tying ribbon bows is not my favourite thing in the world!!

.........so i got a bit of confidence - finding my 'decorative' side and spent a few hours over the past few days playing with the papers and came up with these:

[i couldnt resist adding a little bit of distressing and tim's vintage lace -- my latest favourite!]

paperartsy stamp sentiment

again a paperartsy sentiment
- another newly found love!

as with all of my cards recently, these will be given to the Sussex Beacon charity

more christmas!

here is another bunch of christmas cards

very much using the 12 tags of christmas from last year

as inspiration

i have been making the same design in batches of about 5

as they are all going to be sold for charity and i want to make at least 50 to 100 if possible!

gilding flakes on 'noel'

the 'home for christmas' is from my new
 Paperartsy stamps

again, the saying is from my new
Paperartsy stamps