Well today is the final day for my Christmas Countdown. I have enjoyed showcasing the projects I created to send goodies in to "my girls". Their final item was a gift card and I was running short on time, so I just adhered them into their Christmas card. I didn't take a picture of the cards I sent, so I thought it might be fun to show you all the gifts together in one photo.
Can you believe there are only 2 more days until Christmas?? Oh my ... I sure hope you all are ready. Today's project is like the altered Kit Kat project that I originally found on Diana Gibb's blog. Here's a link to her tutorial. These are easy to make and they are wonderful to use for little hard to wrap gifts. Today is the only day that all 3 of my ladies received different gifts inside, but as you can guess ... the project contained 2 items (Holly got 2 Studio G clear stamp sets, Amy got 2 packs of Ghirardelli hot chocolate and Joy got 2 Copics in my favorite brown E31).
Here is today's Christmas Countdown project, a cute little altered band aid tin. I love Fluffles and this image where he is tangled in Christmas lights cracks me up. Very simple project, it honestly took me 10 minutes to make from start to finish because I already had the images colored. I didn't use sticky strip to adhere the patterned paper because I wanted the ladies to be able to alter it for a future project, so it's more like a belly band and it will slide right off. I put 3 Ghirardelli milk chocolate squares inside.
Today's project is a Triangle Treat bag that Tracy Durcan posted on the Scor Pal website here. These bags are so cute and pretty easy to make. Mine has 4 pieces of Hodgepodge Hardware inside. It has been so much fun finding projects that worked for the various gifts I wanted to send in my Christmas Countdown packages. Maybe, just maybe, one day I'll actually design a new box or bag. But until then, I just keep my eyes open and find those developed by the various stamping geniuses (is that even a word??) out there.
Today's project is a little favor box (which I got at Target) with 6 Primas in it. I tied it with some of the gorgeous ribbon that Stampin Up is offering in their current mini. I LOVE this stuff!! I belong to a Book Club and we met Tuesday night for dinner and did a Yankee Exchange with used books. Anyway, I wrapped my book in the kraft wrapping paper Stampin Up used to carry and tied some of this ribbon on it ... the lady who chose my book LOVED the way it was wrapped, especially the ribbon. In fact, I saw her fondling the ribbon a few times and she took the wrapping materials with her. Oh and she liked the book she got too ... it was stolen a couple of times but she got it back in the end.
Okay, I promised blog candy and so here it is. What you'll get: some InStyle Stamps stamped images, some adorable penguin stickers, tags and coordinating epoxy stickers, some ribbon, 1 party favor box, 1 pillow box, 1 glassine bag and 1 small frosted bag (these are what I used in some of my Christmas Countdown projects). All you have to do is go check out the current stamps from InStyle Stamps here and leave me a comment with which one is your favorite. How easy is that? I'll draw a winner on Monday morning. Good luck everyone. If you enter anonymously just be sure to put your first and last name in your comment. Oh and be sure to check back on Monday morning to see who won.
Okay, so after some non-edible goodies, let's get back to some sweet treats ... lol. For this project, I made this cute little one sheet bag I found in Sharon's gallery on SCS here. The link to a video tutorial on the 3-D Design Challenge blog is here. They have 7 Reese's miniatures in them. Chocolate and peanut butter, my absoulute favorite combination. I'm so glad someone put their chocolate in someone's peanut butter ... or was it the other way around? Okay, I'm being silly and probably dating myself from that old commerical reference.
Here are 2 more Christmas projects I created. Note that all the Countdown to Christmas projects were sent to 3 special ladies: Holly (who is the upline of my Orphaned Demo group on SCS and who had a birthday this past Saturday ... Hi Holly), Amy (whose name I got for a sister swap with my Orphan Demo Group... Hi Amy) and my ACTUAL sister Joy (who I rarely send cards or projects to ... isn't that sad ... poor Joy ... hopefully the box of goodies you got makes up for it, sis).
I hope you all had a great weekend, I sure did. Saturday was full of crafting and baking and then I went to the Christmas parade in my teeny tiny town. I dressed in layers, but it was pretty cold. However, we had a nice time. I absolutely love marching bands and there were more this year than last year.
I'm glad you stopped by today because I wanted to share some Christmas projects I recently created. The adorable little goodie baglet (top left in the picture) is based on a project I saw on Lauren Meader's blog here. That girl amazes me with her altering abilities. She now has her own line of templates that you can buy at Papertrey, so go check them out. Anyway, Lauren's baglet was the perfect way to show off these yummy little pretzel treats. The paper is from the DCWV Christmas Glitter Stack. The recipe I used for the treats is here. Let me tell you, these are the perfect blend of salty and sweet. And since M&Ms are usually available for all possible seasons, these are a great "go to" gift for the special people in your life.
