Santa's Magic Key Tags

The above tags I designed  to use for the upcoming Christmas craft fairs. I printed them on canvas paper. The canvas paper made the colours  more vibrant and the texture  a little different. I added  a  vintage looking key from a  set by  K & Company Life's Journey Metal Art - Keys which were on offer at Joann's online store.   However the tags will go with any old keys you have lying around the house. The Santa photo and poem  I  found on two different boards on  Pinterest. If you would like to make some tags here is a Santa's Magic Key tag download  for you to print some of your own. You will get two per A 4 Sheet.

They cost very little to make and I hope to get approx 4 euro each at craft fairs. Happy craft fair preparations !

Magic Reindeer Food

This year I am planning on making the Magic Reindeer Food in these little test tubes. I first came across them hereKerryspapercrafts but I couldn't purchase them at a good price until this year.  I ordered 250 of them online for this years craft fairs  but  accidentally I  hit the order twice. They were sent to my brothers home in the US for me to collect and take back to Ireland. Thankfully some sensible person completing the order rechecked with me and I was able to confirm I only wanted 250 !  You can imagine my brother and sister-in-laws bewilderment when they arrived. To finish the story I was stopped by customs on my return journey. The guy asked where I had been, how long I had been away for and why did I have so much luggage.  The poor man, I am sure he thought he had seen  and heard it all until he heard my explanation for the test tubes. It was so crazy it had to be true. He waved me on my way and wished me well !

I tried to source the reindeer stamp  used by Kerry on Ebay. The set was too expensive as I only wanted the reindeer stamp. I decided to make my own digital image using a card making software set.  If you would like to use it to make some of your own here is a link for my download.

AOK's Magic Reindeer Food Round Label 2 inch 

and the poem to punch and stick on the back of the above label

AOK's Magic Reindeer Food Poem Round Label 2 inch

I am planning on using red sugar strands to liven up the porridge oats in the containers. So wish me happy times filling and completing the remaining 240 or so tubes.  

I used a Papertrey Ink die for the tag and some bells and ribbons from stash.

Websites and Blogs Book

I had lots of acrylic sheets left over from a previous project Earring Display Holder and wanting  to use them up in some way for the forthcoming fairs I took out a  favourite stamp set,  Take Note, from Papertrey Ink and made the cover and inside first page.  I  designed a page template for 4 page inserts to an A4 sheet of cardstock.  I think the above works pretty good. I made a couple of mistakes using my bind it all but as this sample is for myself it's ok.
The cardstock and felt are Rasberry Fizz by Papertrey Ink. The fabric I used on the cover is called Dogwood Trail from SewLux. Each piece is beautiful. They will look lovely on the covers of more books  for the Christmas Fairs.

The link for the template if you would like to make some for yourself is
AOK's Websites and Blogs Book Template

Hope you enjoy.
Happy Monday.

Acrylic Post-it Holders with calendar

While on my little trip to the US I just had to buy some acrylic frames to make some post-it holders. I have to thank my extremely patient brother and sister in law for driving my around in circles so that I could find these frames at the special offer prices. We tried two Walmarts and two Joann's. What we crazy crafty women do for a bargain. LOL.

So far I have a dozen of these beauties made for the Christmas craft fairs.

I made a little pdf file for the calendar which I am happy to share. Just hit the link and print. IMPORTANT print with landscape format and A4 paper. To cut it is really easy. Just trim on the right and left along the box lines. On the bottom again along the box line and for the top leave a margin of approx .6 cm or 1/4 inch. Then cut up the months remembering to leave the margin on top of boxes. Sort in month order and use the X marked over  January as guide for brads.


AOK 2012 Calendar

The size of the calendar excluding the backing card is 2 inch square.