Gift Wrapping Stampin' Up! Style

Gift wrapping can turn a simple gift into a treat!  If you have school age children and are like me you've had to buy either   teacher gifts or pressies for your children's friends  that can soon get very expensive.  So if you shop savvy and wrap them really nicely you can turn a gift into something rather more exciting.  Here's a couple I've done. 

Top pic shows boxes that I made in the good old fashioned way of measuring my Body Shop soaps and then scoring and cutting card stock to make the perfect box.  

The second box I made using the Stampin' Up! gift box punch board using the given measurements and instructions on the punch board.  This one is from a piece of card stock 8" x 8".

So are you ready? Have you wrapped?

Zx

Teamie swaps!

Under the Tree Specialty Paper from Stampin' Up!

Convention is such an exciting event. As demonstrators we use it as an opportunity to find lots of inspiration for future crafting when those 'lost mojo' days kick in and let's face it we all have them!

I'm sharing my team and FB group swap today.  I used the Gift Box Punch Board to create mini boxes to hold chocolates. As a child I remember one year we had tree chocolates that were made from little bars of chocolate strung together into a parcel. I've recreated that effect with 3 little boxes made out of the Under the Tree Designer Specialty Paper in the Stampin' Up! winter catalogue.  You can get a closer look of it in my Stampin' Up! online shop.  It's stronger than normal designer series paper and is just about on a parr with our normal coloured card stock in terms of weight and strength and is perfect for boxes made on the Gift Box Punch Board.

Of course a parcel is not complete without a tag and I've made mine very simply by embossing in early espress embossing powder onto kraft card stock using the That's the Ticket stamp set.  Bundle your parcels together with gold ribbon.

To make the box

1. Cut a piece of card stock 4" x 4"
2. Score on the small start line, but leave out the diagonal line scoring and follow around the card as you would following the instructions on the punch board.
3. Don't forget to flip your card stock once you've scored and punched all 4 sides in order to punch on each side again!
4. Use the reverse of the punch to punch your closure slits again as directed on the punch board.
5.  Add chocolate and secure.

Layer 3 together and tie together like a parcel to form this cute tree hanging. You can add the personal note on the back of your tag or just say simply "For your tree!"

Have fun making yours and if you don't have the Gift Box Punch Board you can order directly from me or from my Stampin' Up! UK online shop.

More convention picks soon!
Thanks for checking in!
Zx

Christmas Card Club - A Perfect Blend

Stampin Up Happy Hour Perfect Blend and That's the Ticket



It's time for another Christmas Card Club Challenge and we've been set the task of using black and white with one other colour.  I chose silver and have also gone off the traditional route using my Perfect Blend stamp set for a different theme.  My hint of Christmas is a bit of holly from the Happy Hour Stamp Set.  You can turn the coffee cup or I'd like to think mulled wine cup! into any shade using paper piecing to alter the insulating band.  Just stamp your image twice on the desired paper or card stock and carefully cut out the right pieces to piece your picture together.  Sometimes you may find it better to cut inside the stamped outline and sometimes as with this one it's nice to include all the detail of the stamp.  You'll probably need to click on my pic to enlarge it to see that detail mind. 

A simple sentiment stamped in black Staz-on ink onto silver foil card stock along with some bunting made using the banner punch you may have seen during our Sale-a-bration promotion.  Worry not if you missed it as it's coming back in our new annual catalogue in July.  If you cut your paper to the same width as the punch you can slip it into just part of the punch so that you can punch the banner but then choose how long you want each banner to be and hence you'll see my two lengths. 

Remember there are lots of ladies in our club and you can visit them for more Christmas inspiration.  Why not start with visiting Karen our challenger!

 

As an afterthought I added some doodles with a Stampin' Up! UK chalk marker for a slightly different look!

Until next time be happy!

Zx
Challenges
Crafty Hazelnuts Extra Christmas Challenge - Anything goes
CHNC - Food or Drink for Christmas
Christmas Card Challenges - Anything goes

Today I'm an aunty!!

This morning at 4am my sister-in-law gave birth to a beautiful little girl.  As yet she is unamed as her parents want to call her Gemma, but her two big brothers aged 3 and 6 had decided by the time their new sister arrived home this morning at 10am that she should be called Charlotte.  The jury is still out......!

Naturally I've made them a card to celebrate the arrival of 'Gemmalotte'  and couldn't do it without my trusty stamps. 

Pink pirouette and the soon to return pear pizzazz are my colours of choice with whisper white.  I've used the flower fusion sizzlits and one of the itty bitty shapes punch pack to make the flowers and of course the leaves are from the bird punch.  I used my simply scored scoring tool to break up the 'pink' base card by scoring a grid on it on the metric plate.  A dotty embossed apothecary accent framelit made a perfect matting layer and my congratulations sentiment is from the soon to retire Curly Cute stamp set.  Finally another little accent for a sweet new baby is from That's the Ticket and punched out with the  matching punch.  I've used a flower brad which sadly retired last year, but you know what we crafters are like we can't let go of our stash!!

 

As we celebrate the safe arrival of my neice I hope you all have a safe and happy weekend.  Zx