Christmas Village with a Silhouette Cameo

My friend Kelly over on Silhouette plus made a lovely little village as seen here , shes an inspiration to us all with her Silhouette and often shares files with us free for personal use , available to download on her blog.

So on seeing her village on returning from holidays I wanted one too. There was only 7 days to Christmas so I had to get my skates on.

As I started making it I was thinking of other things that could be added , so I had a good old rumage in the silhouette america store and find some bits to add. And some I made myself. It turned out pretty well in spite of the short time.

And thanks to Kelly I made a beautiful Christmas decoration at vitually no cost just time.

Heres my attempt to  show you my village

Where have I been?

Sorry to disappear like that, but I`ve just come back from nearly 3 weeks cruising the med, just what I needed to recover from my heart opeation before getting into the swing of things....I find myself way behind from being well in front...

Heres where I went..

Portugal was the first port of call

 The bridge in the background we had to sail under and was waiting for the tide to change to do so, over on the hill you can see Jesus atop a statue watching Lisbon ..

This is the Rock of Gibraltar and me shopping in Gibraltar

Then we moved on to Palma De Majorca

Then off to Barcelona , where I found a boot sale/flea market

Then I had a couple of days at sea to recover..

Then off to Italy

Here I`m holding up the leaning tower of Pisa....well someone has to do it....

Then off to Rome, these are the famous Spanish Steps, the pope had just left....

Cistine Chapel...Missed him Again

Went to St Peters Square as well...

Drat missed him....

We then set sail off to Naples, where we visited Pompeii

It ws under volcanic lava for 2000 years, its amazing, they`re still digging it out.

This lady in centre of photo is a real person, the skeleton is inside the lava....

We sailed on...

Fruit carving by chefs...

Towel Art by the cabin boy ...wow...just one of the many things he did

We sailed onto Sardinia

and Spain but OH forgot battery charger.....aaarrrgghhhh

But I forgive him as he booked this holiday as a surprise for me to recover and I`m not sure if I have as Im totally worn out..

So apologises for disappearing but Im back ...

Pebble Family

I seen these in a Jewellery Shop and thought I `d give it a go, so I found some pebbles and made my own little family

Tatty Teddy candles

Today I found another use for my stamp. Tatty Teddy. I wanted to decorate some candles.

I purchased these candles at Ikea £1.79 for 4 and they`re a bright white, i then stamped some teddies on to some tissue paper, coloured in with promarkers and attached to the candle using a embossing heat gun. They`re for my daughter t decorate her home for Christmas.

I was pleased how they came out a sshe loves Tatty Teddy

I made a plate of Cookies......BUT

I love the verse that goes with this cookie cutter, it just sums up the fact I always run out of time at Christmas for all I want to do

Cookies for Santa

I purchased this red charger plate for a £1 in Poundland and cut the vinyl out with my Silhouette SD. The studio file is available to purchase in the Silhouette America store for $0.49

It really looks great and cant wait for Otis my elf to see it, he knows Santas coming to pick him up if the cookies are out.

Mr and Mrs Reindeer

I made some of these last year  so heres this years and Mrs Reindeer packaged.


They`re just a flannel and a bar of soap but they look delightful