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Gift box punch board

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.

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

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

Softly Falling bottle tag

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So you’re down to the wire now and grabbing bottles of wine as gifts and wondering how to package them? How about a bottle tag? I CASEd this one from my ornament tag from last month.

These are easy to whip up – I know, I just made this one at 7am. A change in vacation plans means that today is the last day that I’ll see my boss this week. But it’s okay, I don’t think that Peter reads my blog so I’m not ruining the surprise. I cut a strip of whisper white card almost as wide as the bottle (almost 3 inches) and eight inches long. I scored it at 3 inches and cut a hole in the short piece with the circles framelits – how handy that the framelit can be used to measure how it fits over the bottle. I then embossed the longer end using the softly falling TIEF. Then out came my favourite sleigh ride edgelits again – I truly hope that you bought these because they are now retired – and some real red paper. For some reason (not awake yet perhaps?) I decided to put on the santa and his sleigh going from right to left, attached with dimensionals.

For the back, I stamped one of my favourite greetings from Flurry of Wishes in real red on a scrap piece of paper. Well, Merry seems most appropriate here, no?

I hope that this helps with your packaging. And I hope that Peter likes it.

Happy Birthday to Eimear, my sister’s upline and my surrogate one – they live in the UK and I’m in the US so we’re in different trees. But I’ve been adopted which is lovely. Oddly I thought I was adopted as a child since my siblings had intense ginger hair and mine was blonde. Logically, they should have been the adopted children since my hair was the exact same colour as my mother’s!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hearth and Home

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Firstly, thank you to the team at Can You Case It? and especially Amy for selecting my card as a Design Team Member pick this week. It was a great start to my weekend to see that I’d been selected.

I had a number of challenges that I was intending to enter but I was distracted with the fun that we had at a class last night and haven’t made the appropriate cards. So here’s one that I made recently, incorporating vellum again.

I knew that I wanted to use this pattern from the Winter Wonderland Designer vellum stack and decided that I’d use it behind the window frame but that’s about all I’d decided when I started this card. I’m hoping that I’m not alone in deciding on a single element and building the card around that! I cut the window frame out of early espresso using the Hearth and Home dies and trimmed the vellum to fit behind it. Then I cut out the trees using the sleigh ride edgelits in gold foil to match the dots on the vellum. I guess I’ll pretend that the sun is shining on them or something. I glued the trees to the back of the window frame with the multipurpose glue and then attached the vellum in the same way. This completed, I contemplated the rest of the card and decided that the softly falling embossing folder would work well. I attached the window frame to the card with dimensionals to keep a gap between the vellum and the raised dots. I also ran the flap of the envelope through the big shot with the same folder so that it coordinates.

I decided to use a die cut word on the inside of the card – why not, right? This is using the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and the sentiment that I chose happens to come from the Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set which is sold in a bundle with the thinlits dies, thus saving 15%. I was going to say that it was coincidental that I chose this set, but I guess there’s a reason why Stampin’ Up! bundle it together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Edgelits

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I really love the Sleigh Ride Edgelits and how the new precision base plate makes cutting out the intricate shapes much easier. That isn’t to say that I don’t spend some quality time with my paper piercing tool cleaning up a few wisps of card though! Clearly the inspiration for this card came from my tags that I shared on Sunday.

I have a feeling that I will be making quite a few of these cards this year. Trust me when I say that it’s even better in person, the gold against the green is lush. I started with a piece of ordinary whisper white which I ran through the big shot in the Softly Falling embossing folder and then cut out the trees in mossy meadow using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits. After cleaning up the edges a little and using the embossing buddy, I stamped the sentiment from Jingle All the Way in versamark. A quick sprinkle of the gold embossing powder and use of the heat tool produced what I think is the perfect sentiment. Next I glued the whisper white panel to a card base in mossy meadow and then popped the mossy meadow tree piece up on stampin’ dimensionals. I cut little fragments of dimensionals from the edge pieces to pop up the trees. The envelope is lined in last year’s Backgrounds DSP cut out using the Envelope liner framelits.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Tags

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The crop has a gift tag swap and it happened yesterday so I can reveal my tag.

I fully intended to use the awesome delicate ornament thinlits to make my tag but somehow got sidetracked!

I cropped out two circles using the framelits in real red. Then I cut the santa and sleigh with the Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies from the bottom of the circle and, because I was making eight, another from the top. I cut out two smaller circles from whisper white and ran one of them through the big shot using the Softly Falling TIEF. The white embossed circle is glued to the real red larger circle – I thought it looked best anchored at the bottom of the larger circle – and the santa and sleigh are popped up using stampin’ dimensionals.

On the other circle, I stamped sentiments from the Flurry of Wishes and Wondrous Wreath (retired) in real red.

I finished the tag off using the gold cording trim.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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