Christmas 2013 - Elizabeth Shaw Mints

Now,  you didn’t actually think that I wasn’t going to feature any Elizabeth Shaw mints this Christmas did you??
This year I decided to put them in boxes with the intention of people scattering them on their festive table as after dinner mints.

I’ve made up my Sizzix Bigz XL Box No. 3 in plain white linen card.  It’s a very simple box to put together and as you can see it’s also quite a substantial size.  http://www.sizzix.com/product/656278/sizzix-bigz-xl-die-box-3.  I wish, perhaps, I’d used a coloured or fancier card ….. but I will confess that I’ve had a whole stack of these boxes cut out for over two years now and thought I’d best use a few of them before cutting up new stuff!  The tag is a leftover from last year -  http://itsallfiddlefart.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/snowman-tags.html

As per usual I have used my Stampin’ Up scallop and plain (1 3/8)  circle punches ……

…… and put silver foil Christmas stickers from this years Hobbycraft Christmas range on one side …

….. and silver sentiment circles from CraftWork Cards, backed on red on the other side   (Product Code: 03 006 000 23)
http://craftworkcards.co.uk/products/1585/in-circles-christmas-gold-silver.html
So that’s Elizabeth Shaw mints done for another year ….. all I can say is look out Valentines Day, here I come!!

I have found that the best price to get these mints is BM Bargains as I prefer the milk ones.  A box there usually costs £1.99. Finding them in the supermarket is generally a bit hit and miss but they usually cost about £3.69 a box, unless they are on BOGOF.  When I see them in BM Bargains I always check the best before date first (these were August 2014) and then stock up!

Punched Art Christmas Rockin Robin/Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crip Novelty

I am being very lazy again, using more pictures than words for this post,  but hope you can still get the gist of how I have put this paper punched Christmas robin together …..

These are the two punches I used ….

….. and these are the punched parts I have used to put “Robin” together …… not a lot to him really!

In the top picture I’ve just popped him on a makeshift background to show how he would look on a Christmas card…. but  he would make an excellent embellishment for an Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crisp…. ……… by just adding a matching plain brown circle on the back!

Punched Art Penguin/Elizabeth Shaw Mint Novelty …..

Now …. I am being very lazy here, trying to save time by being economical with words and typing, but hope you can still get the gist of how I have put this paper punched penguin together …..

These are the three punches I used ….

….. and these are the punched parts I have used to put “Percy” together …… not a lot to him really!

I’ve just popped him on a makeshift background to show how he would look on a Christmas card…. but you know what I am going to say next …… he would make an excellent embellishment for an Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crisp….

……… by just adding a matching plain black circle on the back!

A Shoal of Angry Fish and an Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crisp!

Following on the Angry Fish  birthday card from a few days ago,  I couldn’t resist playing some more and making a few more exotic Fish ……

Then I got to thinking ….. I could make a chocolate to go with the card ……

…… and here he is

I call him Bert The Angry Fish!

Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crisp - Birthday Medal

I should really start another blog called “100 Things To Do With An Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crisp”!

I thought it would be fun to make a birthday medal using one of these infamous chocolates!

There’s not a lot to it, I’ve just used a scrap of stripy card, some peel offs, a scallop circle punch, some glittery corners, a few flat backed gems and a Craftwork Cards die cut birthday sentiment.

I’ve just mounted mine on a piece of 10.5 cm x 7cm card and then put it into a 12.5cm x 7.5cm cello bag to give as a favour,  but it could easily be put on the front of a card instead.

As Featured In The National Badminton Museum……

As you know my sister and I try to come up with an idea for little token/fairing gifts for her to give to the various people she meets at some the sporting events she works at as a volunteer.

Well ……. a couple of weeks ago she was at the 102nd Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships for which she made these packets of recovered Cadbury miniatures with the event logo on (I merely put them in the cello bags and tied the ribbons).

….. Anyway to cut a long story short, a gentleman there was so impressed that one of these chocolates has now found a place in the National Badminton Museum, along with an Elizabeth Shaw mint version she made for the year before!!!!

We are already planning for next year ……. a shuttlecock with blue and green toffees in ….. watch this space!!!

http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/text.asp?section=41

Embellished Mini Box of Elizabeth Shaw Mints

I was in Home Bargains yesterday and saw that they had mini boxes of Elizabeth Shaw mints, I think they cost about 49p and contain seven mints. I bought a couple as they are ideal for what my Mother In Law used to called a “fairing gift”,  something I could give as a small thank you gift especially with Easter coming up.

To make a template I drew round the base of the box and then added a little extra.

Using the template I cut a top and bottom from what I think is DCWV card. I then embellished the top with a flower made using my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die.  The flower centre is part of a necklace from Primark that I had taken apart for the bits.