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Gift box punch board

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Happy Christmas and Feliz Navidad and Happy Holidays to everyone. I’m rather more organised than this time yesterday morning and have only one more gift to wrap. Fortunately in my family we don’t open gifts until after brunch which comes after Martin’s motorbike ride (if it’s warm enough – and it is this year) and my run. So there’s time. I was too busy making dinner last night to finish off.

I had a few pieces of paper to wrap (tickets to shows etc) and I wanted to make them less obvious and more substantial and so I got out my gift box punch board. Every time that I use this, I’m grateful to Jill who bought it for me as a Secret Pal gift last year.

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

I wanted to use a tag from the Oh What Fun tag kit that I made last week and went hunting for a DSP with mint macaron. I found the perfect paper in the It’s My Party DSP. I agree it’s a large box for a voucher. There may or may not be some paper towel and walnuts in there just to confuse the recipient. My sister was delighted to see that I was using the tag that she designed (in the middle) and that went perfectly with paper from Merry Moments DSP and some retired mossy meadow ribbon. The sentiment is embossed in white and is from Flurry of Wishes.

The final box is also using Merry Moments DSP but this one is upside down so that the box closure is on the bottom. This made the top cleaner and I decorated that with a bow made with the bow builder punch out of real red that was already dry embossed with stars using the Lucky Stars TIEF. Here’s a closer look at that

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

For details on the tags, please see my post from last week.

I really like the gift box punch board – I have three examples of different sizes, the board has instructions on it for 15 different sizes (in both cm and inches) so it’s really versatile. Really easy too.

I’d love to stick around and write more and put off my run, but I’d better get moving. I hope that your day is filled with love and fun and joy.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Oh what Fun

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A couple of my friends came over to dinner this week and to make some tags. I had the Oh What Fun tag project kit all ready but because Nicole hasn’t stamped ever before, I decided to add a couple of extra tags to show her some of the fun things that we can do with ink and paper.

Stampin' Up! Oh What Fun tag project kit

We did them pretty much to the instructions although we used mint macaron ink for all the green rather than garden green for some. Apparently I was having too much fun to read the instructions! And then after we were finished we decided to upgrade the thin bakers twine to metallic cording trim or real red cotton ribbon or even metallic gold thread since it matched the bow so well. On the back we stamped the to and from which is also in the set that accompanies this tag set (and the kit is on sale at the moment). Sometimes I confess, it was difficult because we’d already finished the tag with bows or dimensionals before stamping. Definitely challenging.

Stampin' Up! Oh What Fun

Once we’d each completed the 10 tags in the kit, it was time to move on to the extras. First we started with the bow builder punch and the merry moments paper and numerous glue dots. My sister designed this tag when she was here last and I know that Julia likes this punch. Then we took the precut 2 inch strip of cherry cobbler and made the top pretty (and made a hole for the twine) with the scalloped tag topper punch. Then it was time to impress Nicole with the heat embossing – it’s a shame that it’s in white since the metallics really pop but she was wowed anyway.

The last tag was using my favourite sleigh ride edgelits dies which I cut out of a real red circle the same size as the base of the tag. This way the curves match up. The textured whisper white piece is the next size down in the circles collection and we then dry embossed it with the softly falling textured embossing folder. This wowed Nicole also. It’s really fun showing people what you can do with paper and ink and tools.

See you tomorrow,
Liz