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Just one more little sleep

That's right guys, just one more sleep to go and then you will be able to get your hands on the new Humphrey's Corner Christmas collection. In just a few teeny tiny hours there will be 12 new stamp sets and a twin CD-ROM available as Pick of the Day and they really are the cutest things ever. Yesterday I showed you a montage of half of the stamp sets so today I thought I would show you another montage - this time with the rest of the stamp images.



I also wanted to give you one last reminder to enter the competitions before it's too late. If you don't already know, there are two different competitions you can enter. One is on here (see Monday's post for all the details) and the second one is on the Crafter's Companion website (where you'll need to be logged in to see the competition - if you're not already registered then you can do so by clicking here). Both competitions will allow you to win the complete set, and you know what they say don't you...you've got to be in it to win it!!

DT member Ali Watson has worked her magic with the new Humprey Christmas collection and the result is this brilliant frame card. Ali has made more cards using the new images so hop across to her blog to take a look!






One day closer...

It's not long now until the big launch on Ideal World & I can hardly contain my excitement. If you don't know what I mean then let me explain...

a certain little friend of ours (who also happens to be an elephant!) is turning all Christmassy and will be the Pick of the Day this Tuesday in the form of 12 new stamps and a twin CD-ROM. As usual with Humphrey's Corner images, the designs in this new collection are too cute for words. Below is a little montage of half of the available stamp sets...how many will be you be collecting?



We're giving you two different chances to win the entire set of stamps plus the twin CD-ROM. One of the competitions is here on the blog where you post the blog badge that was given on Monday's post on your blog then fill in your details on the Mr Linky form at the bottom of Monday's blog post. There will be a winner picked at random at 9am on Tuesday and we'll announce it here. So, if you haven't already done it, make sure you add the badge to your blog!

The second way in which you can win the full set is on the main Crafter's Companion website. In the competitions section (that you'll only see when you're logged in...if you're not already registered do so by clicking here) you will see the Humphrey's Corner competition where all you have to do is answer a simple question to enter.

I've also got DT member Paula Holifield's sneak peek for you today as well. Paula has used images from the CD-ROM to create this sweet card depicting Humphrey and his Dad sledging. Paula has made some more cards using the new Christmas Humphrey range so if you want to see more like this card then hope across to her blog.



weekend project

DT member Pam Leng has been busy again creating step-by-step projects for us. This time she has created the most gorgeous little set of drawers using Humphrey images for you to store things in. There are quite a few steps in this project so is definitely one for you to try out over a weekend but, believe me, the results will be worth the time spent on it!







Set of Drawers

You will need:

PLEASE NOTE THAT PAM DID NOT USE ANY GLUE TO MAKE EITHER THE DRAWERS OR DRAWER BASE BUT THIS IS JUST PERSONAL PREFERENCE.

1. Score your piece of 12x12" cardstock using your boxer board, starting from the left-hand side at 2”, 4”, 8” and 10”.

2. Turn the piece of cardstock a ¼ turn and score again from the left-hand side at 2”, 4”, 8” and 10”.

3. Leaving your card on the boxer board, at the 6" score line score a line 2” long from the top down. This is shown by the dark blue line.

4. Next cut away the three corners on each corner as shown.

5. Cut along the yellow lines as shown. Cut out along the dark blue lines as shown, this should be ⅛" wide.

6. Cut a strip again ⅛" wide as shown by the green lines.

7. Next take your piece of 8x8" cardstock and, from the left-hand side, score at 2", 4" and 6".

8. Turn your cardstock ¼ turn and score from the left-hand side at 2" & 6". Leaving your cardstock in place score at the 4" score line, score a line 2” long from the top down. This is shown by the dark blue line. Cut along this line - it should be ⅛" wide.

9. Place your piece of card in front of you as shown.

10. Using your bone folder burnish all your score lines, folding the middle score line into a mountain-fold as shown.

11. Next take your piece of 12x12" cardstock and burnish all your score lines. Take the square marked A and the one marked B and fold towards the centre and fold panel marked C over the top.

12. It should now look like this.

13. Now take your piece of 8x8" cardstock you prepared earlier and place inside your drawer base.

14. It should now look like this

15. Fold the four side flaps over.

16.Fold over the last remaining flaps to complete the drawer base ( as in section 14 ). Your drawer base should now look like this...

17. To make the small drawers you will need two of these:

Take a piece of cardstock that measures 9⅜"-square, and from the left-hand side score at 1⅞" and at 3¾" on all sides.

18. Now cut away the three corners from each of the corners and cut along the lines indicated by the green lines.



19. Burnish all of your score lines.



20. Take the squares marked A & B and fold into the centre and fold panel C over the top.







21. Now do the same at the other end.





22. Fold the two side panels in over.





23. To make the larger drawer you need to take your piece of cardstock that measures 11⅜ x 9⅜" and score from the left-hand side 1⅞" and 3¾"on all sides.



24. Cut three squares away from each corner and cut along the lines as indicated by the green line.



25. Burnish all your score lines with your bone folder.

26. Fold square A & B into the centre and fold over panel C, then fold over the other end in the same way.

27. Fold over the side flaps.





28. You now need to decorate the drawers. You will need twenty
1¾" squares of paper and another four pieces of paper measuring 1¾x3¾". First put the decorative squares on the outside of the small drawers, on one square find the middle and make a small hole, double up a small piece of ribbon and push through the hole, fastening to the back with two small strips of strong tape. Then decorative the inside of the drawers. Do same with the larger drawer but this time make two holes on one of the larger panels and put the ribbon through these. Cut four pieces of 1⅞x4" paper to decorative the outside of the drawer base. For the backstand of the drawer base I used a Spellbinders die and traced around the outside of the die onto cardstock, cut out and then cut out the die using my backing paper. I layered the paper onto the cardstock and then attached to the back of the base with glue.