New Craft Kits

Its been an exciting few weeks, I turned a corner in my Etsy Shop and added some Craft Kits of my designs, I really wasn't going down that route but after many requests I thought that maybe I should.. So what are the kits? Well they are laser cut designs from 3mm MDF allowing the buyer to put their creative twist on the design.

below is the kits I have so far but adding more soon. 

I should show you how I coloured them..

This one I am going to send to Family in place of a card this year, a gorgeous decoration that they can uses year after year.

These are a set of 2 Winter Mittens and Christmas Bells

Both are Hanging decorations.

Love a Christmas Farm Truck with a Tree.

'Twas the night before Christmas. Christmas Mouse.

You can view them all here https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JakHeathDesigns 

Iced Cookies

I’ve watching in awa of some of the iced cookies that I have seen, at Christmas I made the Christmas cake  and decided to use a cookie mould, this was a Karen Davies mould, and I iced with royal icing to decorate, I loved how it turned out.

Obviously it is a learning curve but it was fun and we enjoyed snacking on the cookies before cutting into the cake.

Maybe it was a bit adventurous for my first but I enjoyed the process.

Make your Own Chocolate Santa Sleigh

I made these chocolate Santa sleighs many years ago when my Grandson was very young and as he couldn't remember them I thought I would do it all again for this year, I think everyone would agree we have had a very weird Covid year and could do with something to cheer us up.

 

I filmed making these so that you can see how easy they are to construct.

I will place them at each setting for the Christmas dinner but they would be equally fun as a gift for someone.

Happy sleigh making.

Fancy Fold Card

I love working with paper, of course pretty papers help.

Paper pads have came down in price over the years and you can get get pads that have substance relatively quite cheap to what the used to be.

I used a 6 x 6 printed paper cut in half and scored in opposite directions then cut at an angle and butted together at the centre. a second paper underneath to make it pop.

layering up a Tim Holtz tattered poinsettia to use for the focal point.

the card was embossed on the front with an embossing folder then distressed slightly with a brown ink pad.

A Christmas Centre Piece

Still playing ahem... working with glass pieces but this time for the dinner table.

This was made from a balloon Gin glass.

Paper napkins were used alongside the starlight paints.

I little bit tricky trying to work from the inside of the glass.

Love the overall effect.

Making Christmas Gifts

Getting ready for Christmas and making some gifts.

Bonbon Plate

A large glass plate painted with Starlight Paints by Imagination Crafts and some Christmas napkins.

Love working with starlight paints and normally I work from the back side of the plate however was a frosted plate and wouldn't show the image so I worked from the front with this one.

I actually love how it turned out, quite different from working on the reverse as you see all of the mica flakes from the front.

As you can see from the above picture it is so sumptuous.

all in all I think both my Mam and my Mother -in-law would both love this plate.

Something that could be brought out each year.

Angel Camael

"There must be an Angel playing with my heart"

Actually it was me doing the playing with some Powertex in ivory, some Katy Sue Design Holly Berry trio Moulds and a plaster Angel Camael. 

Oh yes and an empty coffee jar.

 

I wanted a keepsake jar or maybe a bon bon jar for treat that wouldn't look out of place alongside my Christmas tree, I loved making this.

For those of you that haven't yet used the Katy Sue Designs Moulds you are missing a treat, they are so detailed and wonderful to work with as they release very easily. I can hear some of you saying I can get cheap moulds from other avenues but believe me I have seen them and tried them and they don't give a third of the detail and are made from substandard silicon unlike Katy Sue which are first class and will last you.

As you can see it is quite a tall piece as it was made around the large size coffee jar rescued by my lovely husband from his work place.

So now I have to decide what to put inside, do I fill it with my favourite chocolates and take the chance of the rest of the family digging into them or something that I don't mind sharing? 

What would you do?

Christmas in June

It's sooner than you think!

 

I'm back at Create and Craft TV at 9pm 22nd of June with the Hunkydory Christmas Craftinator, this a humongous kit that will tick all of the boxes for all of your Christmas cards.

I have decided to show some fancy folds with my demonstrations for the show, I know that I like to make and give special cards for my family at Christmas time and I am sure you will be the same.

As you can see from the image below you also get the special edition magazine with this kit to give you oodles of inspiration.

For thos of you that are planning to watch the show check out my poinsettia brooche that I made out of some of the mirri dazzle card from previous shows.

 

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Make a Chocolate Santas Sleigh

I thought it was time to repost this as it was so popular.

I stumbled upon this idea tutorial for a Christmas Sleigh gift and thought it would make the most fabulous place settings for the Christmas dinner table.

Well who doesn’t love chocolate? Not many that's for sure. 

The idea for the place setting only came when I gave my daughter a peek at what I was making for Jack and she cried “I want one too Mam” so what was once to be only two or three soon became eight that I needed.

I ran out of bits for my place setting so I still have 1 left to complete but I was itching to show you all.

Aren’t they sweet? (pardon the pun) I even found some little chocolate Santa’s to drive the sleigh.

As you can see we have candy canes, KitKat, miniature Cadbury chocolate, Kinder bars, chocolate coins and in the adult ones Dime Bars. I tied it all together with ribbon from Ribbon Carousel

Come on get out those glue guns and set to work on a treat to remember at the Christmas dinner table.

Click here for the link to the tutorial for them

Brusho Art

I took the plunge and opened my pots of Brusho paint which had been sitting on a shelf for around 5 years, mostly because I never had the time to explore them.

I took a pokey tool and made a hole in the top of each pot and then started to play, I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do with my pieces of background art but here it is, my first Brusho art.

I have to be honest, it felt good to get my hands dirty and my fingers are now stained with blue, turquoise and black paint but I’m sure it won’t take long to get them cleaned up.

I used the La La Land tree die on one piece of the background and die cut a couple of trees layering them up on another background and then used some snowtex paste to add some texture, finished with lots of distressing and matting and layering and a couple of gems on the trees.

I think the packaging may have changed since I purchased mine but you get the information on it.

Hunkydory Festive Birds of Britain

I'll be back at 6pm today Sunday with this gorgeous set, brilliant for winter birthdays too. I would hate you to miss out on this set as it is simply beautiful.

This is a couple of the cards that I made on yesterday's shows.

This is one from the robin topper sheet, the gold center embellishment was made with hot glue and the diamond sparkle glitter.

This next card was made using a sheet from the Little Book of Festive Birds and the Book of foiled backgrounds.

As you can see this set has stunning artwork.

Jak x 

Festive Splendour Hunkydory

I’m all for using up all of my bits and pieces when buying a kit and this seamed the perfect way, after using a couple of the toppers to make cards I can find that I have spares on the sheet and occasionally a background card too.

Festive Splendour from Hunkydory has so many pretty background sheets that I thought it would make a perfect designer gift box to accompany the card I had made.

I also used some Adorable Scorable for the box base in a contrasting colour.

Now pop in a few home made sweets or maybe cookies and you have the perfect Christmas treat in a beautiful gift box.

Christmas Wrapped Up

Well nearly anyway, I’ve just about finished, 2 more things to wrap and my job here will be done, This year I decided I would use lots of brown paper, I used a high quality roll 50 metres of the stuff and then some contrasting wrapping papers, red bows kraft gift tags and I am awaiting 2 x 25metre rolls of ribbon to arrive to tie packages together, if it doesn’t get here they will just have to wobble.

How are you all getting on?