Art Break - Candy Chat Parcel

I wanted to send some treats to the ladies of the 'Candy Chat' podcast.

I sent them Dickmann's, Nimm2 bonbons, Ritter Sport (winter edition), Hanuta, Constanze Mozart balls, Küsschen, and Kinder hippos (they have already tried them but I know they like them).

I thought I would also include a piece of embroidery.

Sketching it out.

First word.

Show title!

My first ever 3D rose.

A close up.

All the roses!

And all done!

I put some felt on the back to polish it off.

For the box I decided to decorate it with some simple designs.

Drawing them out in my art book.

On the box.

"If I fits I sits!"

Inside the wrapping I added some colourful stars.

Love this little cutter.

I got this peach wrapping with white hearts to wrap it all in.

 All wrapped up!

Verdict: They loved it!!

Art break - Donkey Piñata for R's birthday

R loves hitting things and, subsequently, loves piñatas.
So when I saw this Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer piñata for sale, I couldn't resist.

R once worked at a donkey shelter and thus I made the reindeer into a donkey. I cut down the black antlers, added black tissue paper hair, covered his red nose with black tissue paper, added a blanket (made from a scrap of material and decorated with some acrylic paint), and added some saddle bags made of folded up pink tissue paper and a blue ribbon.

A little bit of effort for a more personalized gift!