Pretty Packaging

The final countdown to Christmas day has begun!  I have so many Christmas projects that I haven't shared on my blog.  I think the posts could take me well into 2025.  

 

Today's share are these cute little gift boxes that I covered.  They reminded me of my beloved pencil box that I would get each year at the beginning of the school season.  

 

I thought these would be great for holding small gifts, but for photo purposes I filled them with chocolate.  That would make a fine gift too, I suppose!

 

 

This box is decked out with the Tim Holtz snowflake, which was a new favorite die that I got to work with this year.  It comes with these delightful ice skates.  I placed them over a vellum scalloped circle to soften the underneath.

I don't know why I have such fond memories of looking forward to school shopping and finding the perfect pencil box that would travel with me throughout the school year, as I walked to and from grade school every day.  (I lived directly across the street from the primary school, so it was very convenient.)

 

 A second box was covered using more papers from Stampin' Up.  This one with woodland animals.

This box has another vellum scalloped circle, Tim Holtz Snowflake and cute little fox from CottageCutz.

 

My pencil boxes were like little treasure chests that I would keep special things in throughout the school year along with crisply sharpened pencils, a small 6" ruler, erasers and crayons.  

 

If you've stuck with me through his post, thanks for indulging me while I reminisced of days gone by.

 

I'll be entering one of these projects into the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~ Anything Christmas

Cut It Up ~ Use More Than One Die

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Christmas

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes

Love Those Pretty Papers ~ Christmas

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A Cozy Cupful ~ Double D Challenges

Hello friends ~ Double D Challenges is starting a new challenge and the theme is "Christmas Trees".

Quite a long time ago, my dear friend Marcia sent me this Cozy Cupful image from Power Poppy Stamps.  I colored it using prisma colored pencils, adding a bit of glossy accents to the ornament. I masked out a deckle edge rectangle and did a bit of ink blending around the edge.  

The old fashioned sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I love the vintage font!

A quick and easy CAS card to end the year with.  

Here's the lovely inspiration panel Darlene put together for you:

And here's the prize you could win when you play along at Double D Challenges.  I can't wait to see what you create!

I'll also be adding this card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

 

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Lighted Box Ornaments

Hello crafting friends!  Today's crafty share are these darling box ornaments.

 

 

 

You may recall that I've made several of these in past posts.  They're so fun to make and you don't need any special supplies to make them. 

I used a Spellbinders Label die to make the front and back of the box, cutting the center using an oval die.  I simply covered the inside and front of the box with patterned papers

 

and filled them with printed die cuts from Pretty Little Studio.  I also added some die cuts from Prima Marketing Candy Cane Lane collection.

 

 

This year, to spice them up, I added some fairy lights to the inside of the ornaments by punching a hole in the back of the ornament and adhering the power button onto the back side of the ornaments.  

 

These went to my two little sweeties so they could hang them on their Christmas trees.

 

 

This little elf went to this little elf

 

Our sweet Mr. "C" turned two years old in September. 
 

and this jolly old fella with pink candy canes went to our Sweet "P".

 

She just turned two this month.  Hubby and I flew out to celebrate her special day.

 

Oh how I love being a Mimi to them!  

 I hope you enjoyed today's project. 

I'll be entering one of these into the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Gifts

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ Christmas 

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Christmas

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~ If It's Christmassy, Link It Up!

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

 

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Happy Howlidays ~ Poppystamps

Good morning friends ~ I've got a new card up over at the Poppystamps blog.

 

These darling dachshunds stole my heart.

 

I'd also like to add this to Time Out Challenge ~ Photo Inspiration

 

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A Prickly Tale ~ Double D Challenge

Hello there!  Welcome back to another episode of Double D Challenge!

Diane has chosen a festive challenge for you with the theme of "Christmas Ornaments".

 

I took this challenge quite literally when I discovered that I had made these Christmas ornaments last year from an old children's book that was falling apart and had never posted them.

 

The book, "A Prickly Tale" was cast away and due for the trash, but I swooped in and saved it, and gave new life for a precious little babes first Christmas.  

 

 

I used the book covers to create the box to hold the ornaments. 

 

 

It's super cute how you can see the images from the inside cover inside the box. 

 

 

I cut the images from the pages and glued them onto wooden ornaments that I picked up from the Dollar Tree, using Mod-Podge. I also cut the story line into word strips and attached them to the ornaments.  The words on each ornament tell their own story.  

 

 

 Once the ornaments were dry, I added fuzzy gold trim that also came from the Dollar Tree, using hot glue to attach it around the outside edge. 

 

  

I covered both sides of the ornaments the same, using the darling graphics so that no matter which side shows, there's something fun to look at for sweet baby Isaiah.

 

 

I made a greeting card for gifting...

 

 

And packaged it all up nicely in a pretty cello bag.

 

I hope you'll find time to visit Double D Challenge and join in on the fun!

 

Here's the inspiration board:

 

Here's the prize you could win when you play along: 

  

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Gingerbread ~ A Mini Album

Hello sweet friends!  I must have been obsessing on a sweet tooth when I made this Gingerbread Card because the ideas kept rolling around in my head, wanting to make more darling gingerbread themed things.

 

 

 I made a mini album featuring more scrumptious gingerbread.  This giant mixing bowl made it's first appearance on the previous post for the Gingerbread card linked above.  

 

 

 I filled the bowl with a gingerbread man from Elizabeth Craft Design, a sugared up Candy Cane from Dee's Distinctively, a whisk from Spellbinders, some greenery and a ginger snap cookie.

 

  I'm currently obsessed with the Gingerbread Baking Co. label from Blue Fern Studio.

 

A peek inside the mini album shows more fun gingerbread items, such as this fun little tea cup from Elizabeth Craft Design.  She's filled with hot cocoa and mini marshmallows.  The Hot Cocoa label on the right is a printable I found on Etsy.  The tab flaps open so you can add a photo and some journaling.  

Look at what's hiding at the bottom of the tag!  A simple gingerbread cookie made using circle and scalloped circle dies from Spellbinders.  The faces are from Peachy Keen Stamps.  So fun!

Both of these pages have little tuck spots for photo's, ephemera or journaling.  Another one of those sweet printables from Etsy is tucked in on the right.  You'll see more on that below.

 

I found this polka dotted paper sack in my stash and made a little tag for more creative space.  The Plum Pudding is from Elizabeth Craft Design.

This is the little journaling booklet I made to tuck inside the tuck spot on the right side of the album, featuring another sweet gingerbread man from Cottage Cutz.

I adore how this mini album turned out, tied closed with a ginger spice plaid ribbon.

 

I hope you enjoyed today's post.  I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~ If It's Christmassy, Link It Up 

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ All Occasion

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes

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