Christmas Crackers - For Stamping For The Weekend DT

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all doing well, getting all the last things done for Christmas. Well, there is still a Stampin for the Weekend challenge this week.

The theme is:

Anything Goes!

That’s right you can enter what ever you like.

We have 2 sponsors and the first one is:

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop, who is offering the winner 50 meters of Divine Bakers twine and a pack of Doilies! How great is that?! 

And the second sponsor is

Bugaboo Stamps, who is offering the winner 7 free digi stamps!

Now it’s time to show you my creation for this challenge:

Christmas Crackers with a beautiful Christmas image.

We make our own crackers every year, since it’s so expensive to buy crackers with such cheap, easy-breaking gifts inside. And it’s lost more fun and prettier to make it yourself!

Here is a tutorial I wrote a few years ago on how to make your own.

For this cracker I used a beautiful Whiff Of Joy image called Betty Mouse with Candy Cane and I coloured her with the following Copics:

R20, R21, E33 and E53 - For her skin 

R29 and R27 - For her hat, skirt and on the candy cane

Y15, Y11 and Y00 - For her yellow blouse 

Y15, Y11 and Y00 - For the bow on the candy cane.

W3 - For a shadow around the stamp.

And for this cracker, I also used a Whiff Of Joy Stamp called Christmas Train and I coloured them with the following Copics:

E35, E33 and E53 - For their skin

R20, R21 and E00 - For their ears 

 R29 and R27 - For the red on the train 

G17, G14 and G12 - For the Green on the train 

B05, B02 and B000 - For the blue on the train and the mouse’s hat

 Y15, Y11 and Y00 - For the yellow on the gift box

V04 and V01 - For the purple on the train 

W3 - For a shadow around the stamp.

Inside these crackers are Chocolate Lindor Balls, and you can give it to anyone and they will be happy.

Please hop over the Stampin For The Weekend and see if you can take part in our challenge! There are great prizes and stunning DT creations. 

I would also like to take part in the following challenges with these crackers:

Cooking It Up With Katie -  anything goes

Crafting for all Seasons -  Christmas

Crafts and Me - Christmas

Divas by Design - Christmas

My Mum's Craft shop -  anything goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty - Holiday Gifts

Sisterhood of Crafters  -  Christmas

4 Crafty Chicks - Anything BUT Rectangle or Square

Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Anything Goes

Paper Play - Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have a lovely Christmas with friends and family!

Crafty Greetings 

Making Christmas Crackers

We always make crackers for Christmas.

So here is our way of making Christmas crackers:

You need:
Gift wrapping paper, two colors of your choice;
Scissors;
Pinking shears;
Pencil;
Double-sided adhesive tape;
Two inner tubes from rolls of toilet tissue per cracker;
Cracker snaps;
Narrow ribbon to match paper;
A gift to put inside, we used Lindt chocolate balls;
Punchers of your choice.

1. Cut a rectangle 15 cm x 35 cm out of one of your gift wrapping papers.

2. Use pinking shears to trim both ends of the rectangle.

3. Mark both ends 10 cm into the rectangle, where the cracker will be tied between the tubes.

4. Fold on the 10 cm mark.

5. In order to weaken the paper between the tubes (to make pulling easier), we punched flowers on the fold.

6. This is what you aim for.

7. Cut another rectangle 7.5 cm x 15 cm in a different color.

8. Trim both sides of the rectangle with the pinking shears.

9. Fold the rectangle in half and punch stars, hearts or any other shape for decoration.

10. like this.

11. Stick the smaller rectangle in the centre of the big rectangle, for decoration (I used double sided adhesive tape for this).

12. Cut the one toilet roll in half.

13. Stick the three toilet roles with double-sided adhesive tape on the inside of the big rectangle. Place the big toilet roll in the middle.

14. Stick double-sided adhesive tape at the bottom of the big rectangle and wrap the rectangle around the tubes. Use the double-sided adhesive tape to stick the paper firmly in place.

15. Slip the cracker snap inside the tubes.

16. Tie a ribbon on the one side of the cracker, between the centre and side tube.

17. Place a gift or wrapped candy in the cracker at the open side. We used a Lindt chocolate ball.

18. Tie the other end.

19. Curl the ribbons with a scissor.

20. It will look like this

21. And there you go!!

If you have any more questions please feel free to comment and ask me!