Merry Christmas!

Christmas is about remembering the birth of Jesus.

Thank you for following my blog where I share my passion for paper crafting. We

wish you and yours a joyful Christmas and a happy, healthy 2015.

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Gift Card Envelope

I made this gift card envelope out of crumb cake cardstock.

It is decorated with the Specialty Christmas Designer Series Paper

along with Gold Glitter Paper.  I made the little flower from filter paper

and sponged it with crumb cake ink.  The awesome Star Framelits

are used on just about everything this Christmas season!

Mini Muslin Bags

This was our final project.  I was very excited to show them this

technique of embossing on the mini muslin bags.  

The mini muslin bags are great to use for gift giving this Holiday Season.

This is how we did it:

1. Stamp the star from the Bright and Beautiful Stamp Set with Gold Encore Ink onto parchment paper.  Sprinkle it with Gold Embossing Powder and heat set.  
2. Iron both sides of the muslin bag, then put the parchment paper with the embossed side face down onto the bag.  Cover with a single layer of cloth and press with hot iron.  It took ours about 15-25 seconds to get the embossed image onto the bag.

Add a strip of gold sequins with a mini metallic clothespin.  Stamp a greeting onto Naturals Ivory cs with the Gold Encore Ink and sprinkle with the Gold Embossing Powder.  I stamped a To: From: on the back of my tag.  I used the Chalk Talk Framelits to cut it out.  Tie a piece of gold Bakers Twine onto top of tag, and attach tag to the drawstring on the bag.

I learned this technique from the very talented Jen Timko.  Some of the girls put homemade soaps into their bags for gift giving.  Below are the supplies used for this project.

Mini Muslin Bag #132180  8 bags for $9.95

Mini Metallic Clothespins  #133320  24 in a bag for $3.95

Gold Sequin Trim  #132983  $4.95

Gold Embossing Powder  #133756  $3.95

Bright and Beautiful Stamp Set from the Holiday Catalog

Gold Bakers Twine from the Holiday Catalog

Wilton Brand Parchment Paper

More from the Gift Packaging Class

We decorated the Petite Cafe Bags with the Under the Tree  Specialty Designer Series Paper.

The bags come in a set of 10 for only $5.95. #135826

The Specialty Paper is on Page 5 #135825

I totally cased this bag (with the exception of the greeting) from Jennifer Cotton.

We stamped two trees from Festival of Trees) page 24,  #135059 on crumb cs in

Garden Green, stamped the balls w/Soft Suede and sprinkled gold glitter on them.

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Directions for Snowman and K-Cup Box

As promised here are the directions for the K-Cup and Snowman Box

that I posted yesterday.  Read instructions all the way through before beginning.

Cardstock  10 x 8

DSP  3 3/4 x 1 3/4  (4 pieces)

1. Score cardstock on Landscape side at 2,4,6 and 8.
2. Score on Portrait side at 2 inches on each side.
3. Cut off and discard the four corners.  (Remaining will be handles)
4. Cut up to the score lines on the long side to make center tabs.  Cut a sliver off both sides of the middle tabs.  This makes the box go together easier.
5. Fold and burnish all score lines.
6. Add sticky strip on the OUTSIDE of the two middle tabs (one on each side)
7. Add sticky strip on the INSIDE on one tab across from each other.
8. Corner round punch the top handles.  Corner round one edge of two pieces of designer series paper.  Adhere DSP to the outside of the handles and box.  Now punch out the hole for the ribbon on each handle.  (Punch one, use pencil to trace on other handle)
9. Remove sticky strip - fold CENTER tab in first, then sides to make the box.  

JINGLE! JINGLE! and K-Cup or Snowman Box

I made these cute little jingle sour cream favors using

the Designer Series Paper Stack from the Holiday Catalog

 for those who came to the Gift Packaging Class. 

See one of projects we made below:

Check back tomorrow and I'll have the measurements for

these boxes I created that hold two K-Cups or

three Ferrero Rocher Chocolates.