Advent Challenge Day Twenty Five..

... What Christmas Means To Me 

Christmas to me means all of the above but also spending time with family and friends.

I thought today would be a good day to recap all the designs over the last month, Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog and hope you have enjoyed my Advent Challenge.

I hope you all have a magical Christmas and a fantastic 2015 :)

See you soon

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Twenty Four...

... Santa's Sack

 HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE!

Today is my last day at work and I'm travelling back home to spend Christmas with the family, I hope you all have safe travels and have got all last minute Christmas presents sorted. 

Just one more day of advent challenge left (which I may post later as will be up to my eyes in wrapping paper, bucks fizz and tinsel tomorrow).

See you soon

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Twenty Three...

... Surprise us

Just a quick post tonight as feeling a bit poorly, just in time for Christmas :( - bad times!

But on a happier note today is Christmas Eve-Eve, YEAY!

Hope you are all feeling lovely and festive,

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Twenty Two...

....Wreath 

Happy Monday! I really enjoyed doing this one it just came together and I'm really pleased with it.

Can you believe it, we are SOOO close? I can almost smell the Christmas dinner cooking, EXCITED!

See you tomorrow,

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Twenty One...

.... Vintage Toy

Hope you're having a good weekend. I'm back to good old felt and freehand machine embroidery today to make this little train. I treated myself to some better quality threads and they're a dream, no more fighting with my sewing machine, YIPPEE!

See you tomorrow,

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Twenty...

...Three Kings 

This design is slightly different to my others. I thought if I cut the three kings all out of felt and stitched them, I'd get in a terrible mess and so I used Photoshop to add felt to one of my hand drawings. 

Wow.. we have got to the twentieth already, where is this month going?! Five more days to go!

See you tomorrow

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Nineteen...

... Dala Horse

When I was a little girl my Papa gave me a beautiful wooden horse decorated in brightly painted colours, I love it and still have it to this day. I never knew it was called a 'Dala Horse' until Googling what one was for this challenge. So here is my embroidered interpretation!

See you tomorrow,

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Eighteen...

... Festive Food 

I love a Christmas pudding motif, I think it's so jolly! So I'm glad I can include it somewhere in my advent challenge! 

Only 7 more to go! 

See you tomorrow

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Seventeen...

... Frozen 

This time next week it will be Christmas Eve, can you believe it?! I cannot wait! 

My Christmas shopping is getting done slowly but surely, the plan was to hand-make my gifts this year, but true to form I've left things too late, there's always next year, maybe I'll get started on them in January (or maybe not!)

Have a good Wednesday,

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Sixteen...

... Gingerbread House 

Things are getting busier round these parts, as Christmas gets closer, my to do list gets longer! (Shamless plug: if you would like a free download to-do list that I created look here). 

I'm trying to stay on top of the advent challenge as I'd be gutted if I didn't finish.

How are your Christmas preparations going?

See you tomorrow,

xxx 

Advent Challenge Day Fifteen..

.. Stars

A simple one today, I'm not entirely loving it (in fact I don't love it at all), I spent ages on it and just decided 'this will do' not the attitude I know, but it'll do! 

In other festive news, our Christmas tree is up YEAYYYYY! It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Have a happy Monday,

See you tomorrow

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Fourteen...

... Favourite Christmas Colour(s)

This one was a tricky one to think of an idea for. So, I decided to do a design of one of my fave Christmassy items and I love rich reds, gingerbread browns and white together.  

I've been pinning some of my favourite festive things over on pinterest and this is the colour combo I keep noticing. 

Have a happy Sunday, 

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Thirteen...

...Pear Tree

Day 13 - unlucky for some, today brings another fight with my sewing machine, I've worked out it's the new thread I've bought that is snarling up my machine! That will teach me for thinking I got a bargain, I need to do a search into quality threads! 

Anywhoo, have a lovely Saturday, I think I'll be putting our Christmas tree up today (YEAY!) 

See you tomorrow,

xxx

Advent Challenge Day Twelve...

...Angel 

We are about half way, can you believe it?! 

 I had a little falling out with my sewing machine with this one. The threads kept pulling and looping. I am new at embroidery and applique. I only really started while doing this advent challenge, so I'm learning a lot and enjoying it but it's still quite new and scary! 

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Eleven...

... Robin Red Breast

We are flying now (get it?!). I think doing this challenge is speeding December up! Day 11 brings these romantic Christmas robins <3 got to love a bit of mistletoe. 

Happy Friday Eve, have a fab day,

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Ten...

...Christmas Jumper 

Woo double figures! Christmas is definitely in the air! I went to see my first ever panto last night (oh no you didn't) No I did honestly! It was fab!

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Nine..

.. Nut Cracker 

Day 9.. nearly into double figures! 

Now this one was a tricky one, I've not seen the Nut Cracker and short of just making a pair of silver nut crackers out of felt this is what I've come up with! I think the Nut Cracker character is meant to be mean and this lil chap looks more friendly with a need to see an orthodontist than a baddie! But hey I tried my best! (I may re-do him at the end as a friendly toy solider!) 

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Eight..

...Ding Dong

 

Happy Monday! Day 8 (Wooo 8 is my lucky number!) Today I'm back to mixing some freehand machine embroidery with Photoshop digital touches. 

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Seven...

... Winter Wonderland

Hope you're having a lovely weekend. Today is the turn of day 7- to be honest I was a bit stuck as to what to do for this one so thought I would use typography!

See you tomorrow 

xx

Advent Challenge Day Six..

.. Christmas Market

Yeay we have made it to the weekend! Today's design was hand drawn first then scanned in and finished off in Photoshop. I tried to make it cosy looking! 

Have a lovely Saturday and I'll see you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Five..

...A Snow Creature

Today's design is this dapper fellow. I think he is my fave so far. Crikey, we are on day five already, time flies while you're creating festive pictures (as the old saying goes!)

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Four...

... A Penguin

Penguins are my absolute favourite animal. I recently went on a zoo experience and got to go in the enclosure with the penguins (life made!) honestly the most fun ever! 

I've jazzed up this little fella with a pair of fancy dress antlers!

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Three..

.. A Tree Decoration.

Today's design is more digital than crafty. I cut out dark green felt and attached it to textured,recycled card and scanned it in. I then edited it in Adobe Photoshop. I used to do quite a bit of digital design and I am now doing a lot of handmade crafty work. I'm really enjoying combining the two.

 I wonder what tomorrow will bring :)

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day Two...

...Christmas Tree 

Ooo I'm really enjoying this creative challenge. Here is day two, it's mixture of fabric, card, twigs, embroidery and digital design. I'm liking trying to think of new techniques and media I can bring into my pictures, I'm having a hoot! 

Are you feeling christmassy yet? I certainly am. Now where's the mulled wine??

See you tomorrow

xx

Advent Challenge Day One..

... Santa's hat

Yeay it's finally here December 1st. I chose to practice my freehand machine embroidery  for today's advent challenge. If you want to get involved see my previous post for details.

No.1 done just 24 to go :)

Have a happy Monday,

See you tomorrow

xx