I am soooooo jealous, I want it so badly!!! Perhaps, even badly enough to want to start sewing!!!!! 
Incidentally, the “naked” wreath came from Poundland …… I feel another shopping trip is imminent ….. they are well worth stocking up on for 2015 projects …..and not just for Christmas!
I need to use more vibrant colours to make up the background, use a finer permanent pen on the faces and perhaps use a touch of clear varnish or less Anita’s 3D clear glossy finish, as the gingerbread men seem to be made from an mdf which might be coloured and I think some of that colour has bleed just a little ….. 
However, from a distance they look pretty OK …… I think having to go so close to get a decent picture just goes to show up all the tiny imperfections on something that is already very, very small!
I have had the silver, plastic buckles forever, and wasn’t originally sure if the proportions would work, but I think they are OK. 
To make the belt I just cut a black matchbox lid using the die and then trimmed it so it could be threaded through the buckle and then wrapped it round the middle of the matchbox, securing it with double sided tape. A small, black button and a scrap of white, self adhesive, border finish the box, making it ready to hang on the tree.
As I said then, I was a little apprehensive at first, explaining that my usual “stamping ground” for finding bits and pieces for upcyling projects were mainly charity or Poundshops, but in the end I was eventually cajoled into producing a little something………. 
Anyway ........ it was a very new venture and a steep learning curve, but it was also such a great thrill to be spotted and asked ...... and there's another tutorial to come on 16th December!
I am now constantly on the look out for small, dimensional embellishments that will fit into a bottle cap, and these skating Jolees penguins are a perfect fit …….
Oh my goodness, what was I thinking (above)? I was trying to do something a little different from my normal less is more style, in an effort to use up some of the bits and pieces, like the snowman and corner peel offs that I’ve had for ages but never used, but somewhere along the line something went very hideously wrong ……
I just couldn’t live with it, so I carefully removed the central panel and cut a 6ins x 6ins grey gingham card blank to stick it on to……
Phew, much better, a still a little fussy for me perhaps, but much, much better!!!!
Those pesky Paperchase robin stickers (£1) are at it again, this time doing the conga!
I just couldn’t resist it!
I decided that I would use some very old brown envelopes for the packaging, I have had them forever, but they had lost all their stick, but they were strong and would cost me nothing.
Then, I went back to the making some tags, which I decided to use “create” using Paint to “draw” a reindeer face, minus eyes and nose. I copied and pasted the design onto a tag, along with a poem that I also found on the net, but altered everso slightly to suit my needs.
From there, I made a PDF sheet of 10 tags on Dropbox that you are welcome to download and use https://www.dropbox.com/s/ften8bqz5cwaqxx/Magic%20Reindeer%20Food.pdf?dl=0
And now, you can see why I chose to miss out the nose and eyes, I knew googly eyes would give the reindeer character, as has his nose, which is a punched circle with a little white gel pen highlighting (like on the antlers). A scattering of small hologram stars and a few doodled dots here and there complete the tags. By leaving the tags relatively plain you can create lots of different reindeer characters and add other embellishments without too much hassle. 
With my original packing I used a green ribbon, but although I have miles of it (leftover from Tom and The Lovely Laura’s Rainbow Wedding), it did seem a tad extravagant, so decided to exchange it for a doubled up length of green gardening string ….. which somehow made it more rustic, natural reindeery feel , if you know what I mean. 
The tag also lacked a little something, so I mat and layered it onto scraps of red card, which not only made it stronger, but made the tag “pop”
My intention was to put very simple and unadorned Fimo Christmas trees into the bottle caps, 
I think there is room for both designs, but the Christmas trees need to be just a fraction wider to fill the cap more, as it looks little lonely and isolated, and perhaps a few flat stars in the background …… 
Marc has simply taken thin hoop earrings and threaded an assortment of beads onto them. You can be as fancy or as plain as you like, the world’s your lobster!
As soon as I make mine you will all be the first to know!
I used my Memory Box - MB98187 WOODLAND BRANCH DIE Code: MB98187 for this very simple card.
I then drew threads to hang the silver, metal, star charms from (this is my demo card …. so next time the lines will be straighter!), and as I wanted to hid the eyes on the top of the stars I added very small red flat backed gems which just added enough subtle festive colour to lift the card. Voila!
I have had the tiny 3cm tall flower pots in my cupboards for years (and I mean years), they were originally bought for putting Easter eggs in, but I have never, after all these years, found an Easter egg that fit!!!
Then the other day I noticed lots of fir cones round the bus stop where I stand to come home from work ….. and wondered……. so I popped a few in my bag to try…….
OMG …….. they fit perfectly …… and you know I am a little anal about crafty things being in proportion ……
So, I glued the cones and pots together with a glue gun and then proceeded to paint the tips of the cones with white acrylic paint and then, while the paint was still wet gave them each a very liberal dousing of translucent micro glitter from a very huge pot Dianne, my friend in Florida sent me a year or so ago, by the time I finished, I looked like a Christmas tree!
All I did was dig out an old chipboard Christmas tree and put a foam sticky pad on the back so it would stand proud and I could put robins peeping from behind it. I then placed the robins around it in a way that it looked like they were dancing ….. and finally, just added some of my own doodle style handwriting and a few dots here and there to finish it all off. So cute!
…… and then scrabbled around for small scraps of gingham or other red and cream patterned paper to do some mat and layering.
I also found that I just had enough of the lacy borders Marc spent a morning cutting out for me during his stay in the summer to decorate the sides.
A few red flat back gems, CraftWork card circle sentiments, small peel off corners and a little faux stitching bring everything together.
All that’s needed now are two chocolate bears……
