These little treat pouches are soooo cute and make a wonderful small gift for somebody special. They are very quick and easy to make but very effective. Natasha (my little girl) gave these and some of the other small gifts (prev posts) to her teachers at the end of the school term to say thanks, they loved them.
We also recently had an extravaganza in Hamilton and this is one of the projects that we got everybody to make. Thanks for sharing this fantastic idea with me Rayleen, it really is a fab little project.
 

I made these cute little decorations for hanging on the tree, I love the colours because they are nice and bright. I usually am an earth colours girl so this is a bit of a change for me lol. The reindeer one has chocolate raisens in it and the snowman has yoghurt raisens. I got the idea from Pauline and Michelle from Napier and I loved the little saying they had made up to put in the inside of the little treat pouch, they are both lovely and very talented ladies. Here is the saying that is inside.
I hear you've been naughty. So listen... here's the scoop! Instead of getting sweets this year. You get reindeer (or snowman) poop.
 

I thought these little Christmas Tree decorations were very effective but ever so simple to make. Shona D brought them along to the training day and gave us all a quick run down on how to make them. Thanks for sharing the idea with us Shona, I look forward to having a go at making them.
I wanted to share so many other photos with you but my camera batteries died so I did not get photos of everything I wanted so will tell you about our day instead.
Stephanie started the day off with a quiz, neat way of finding out who knows about what is in the catalogue. Natasha (my little girl) then played Santa and handed everybody a present, everybody opened them only to find out when their name got pulled out of the container they got to swap with anybody else in the room. It was funny watching everybody trying to swap the hard boiled egg and the milk bottle top that was a decoration (at the end they got their real present). Everybody also played a memory game and the winners received prizes.
Shona Edmonds, Shona Davy and Vicky-Lee then all shared things they had made like the little decorations.
Delys was the first to do a make n takes and taught us how to make a cute little box. Bev, Rhonda and Shona E taught us all to make a slice of cake with a neat paper flower on the top (my batteries had died by then so missed out on taking a photo of the cake put together but it did look very impressive). Juliette then made a cute little hanging Santa decoration and Rayleen show us how to make a fantastic Christmas tree decoration.
Then right at the very end we played a couple more quick but fun games like drawing a particular punch blind folded and doing a word search I had made up Stampin' Up products hehe, yes there were some more prizes given out.
It was alot of fun and I really appreciate all my team joining in and helping me out to make the day even more enjoyable.
 

I decided since it was a Christmas Party we should be playing games and having alot of fun so one of the many things we did on the day was a team challange. The challange was everybody could choose between 4 cardstock colour, 2 stamp sets, 4 inkpad colours and a variety of products like punches, daubers, circle scissor plus, mat pack etc. The results were fantastic as you can see in the photo, so many totally different cards using exactly the same products. The first card is the one my little girl Natasha (5 years old) made, she wanted to join in as well and totally designed hers up on her own. She even cut out a butterfuy and put it on top of a flower, how cute is that lol, yes I am a very proud mother.
 

Trust Delys to come up with something totally different lol, I was not expecting to get a little bag of goodies that included a party blower that really works, lollies etc. I love it and have no intentions of giving it to my little girl, yep she keeps eyeing this one up and wants to use that party blower lol. Well done Delys for a job well done.
We also got some other really fantastic swaps as well so want to thank everybody on my team for putting in so much effort.
 

Shona Davy made this fantastic little Watering Can which is adorable, I have not seen anything like it before so was thrilled when I received it as a swap. At this stage the chocolate is still inside it because my little girl has not spotted it lol but not sure how much longer it will last for. Anyway back to telling you a little more about this cute as swap, Shona has used the Hello Again stamp set which is a bargain at only $25.95. Well done Shona your swap is a real little cutie.