QUICK CHRISTMAS CARD TOPPER

Need a handmade card in a hurry? Try this quick and easy tag or topper idea.

Take a manilla tag or bookmark (or cut a piece of card, fold in half and round the top with scissors).

Stamp a quick background (I used Stampington's C8418 cube and stamped the Fleur De Lis in Memories black ink and the script in Memories Crimson ink).

Tear a strip of vintage sheet music (try your local charity shop). I used the Fiskars tearing ruler for a nice deckle edge. Stick on with glue stick, sticky dots or dry liner tape THEN trim at top and bottom (it's much easier!)

Find a suitably seasonal image: mine is a copyright-free photograph which I printed out. Trim to size and edge the pic with Tim Holtz's Distress ink in Black Soot, blending with a cottonwool bud. Mount with eyelets.

You can do a whole production line this way: stamp all the tags first, then tear all the sheet music and layer on. Go back and trim the music, then distress and add the photos.

Now it's your choice: punch a hole at the top to turn into a bookmark, or add to the front of a card or little notebook.

Project & artwork copyright Susie Jefferson 2008

MY FATHER'S HOT TODDY RECIPE

Are you feeling as miserable? The flu season has hit with a vengeance, just in time for the Holiday season. If it's gastric flu, the only thing you can do is let Nature take its course, stay home, plenty of liquids, plenty of rest and take paracetamol.


The picture is an old cabinet card I have played about with and posterised. Fun!

If it's the "normal" flu - hot sweats, lousy cough, aching bones etc etc, you might want to try my father's Hot Toddy recipe (which he got from his father!) and I can promise you this works!

DAD'S HOT TODDY

• Juice of half a lemon
• 1 dessertspoonful of runny honey (or more, to taste)
• Generous slug of whisky or brandy or dark rum
• Hot water

Place lemon juice, honey and alcohol in a glass and top up with the hot water (boiled, and allowed to cool down a little as you don't want to destroy the Vitamin C).

DISCLAIMER
This is very alcoholic, so don't drive or operate machinery, etc etc.Hope you are feeling better now!

SNOWFLAKE TIME

Well, it's that time of year again: cold, crisp, definitely Winter! I get very excited in the run up to Christmas ,so I decided to put up a little mini gallery of some spreads I did for an altered book swap in Brenda Renoulf's book Winter Blues. I hope this will get you all in the right mood.

The pages have heavy applications of gesso (with a palette knife) then Diamond Glaze (dimensional adhesive - Ranger's Glossy Accents would work as well) drizzled over. Plus tons of glitter. The metal around the ATC is German Scrap, and the aperture was spiderwebbed with fibres.

This was a fun book to do, and I even got to do the cover!

You can see I love snowflakes (angels' kisses, as they say) so why don't you go and make one of you very own online at SnowDays. Just click where it says Create Your Own Snowflake and have fun! You might even see mine up there (#7270700).

Dont' forget the glitter....
Susie Jefferson
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