Gift Bag and Ornament with Craftwell

Hi, I want to share with you today how to give special Christmas Ornaments that include a pretty package...both are so easy to make. 

First, cut out a bag from you favorite digital die cut machine or you could make one using a punch board or buy a premade one. Die cut a pretty center out of the bag and place a piece of acetate in the back. My bag had a cut out for the digital cut so it was super easy...I cut one in printed paper and then the center from card stock and ran it through my Cut N' Boss using a Holy Embossing Folder.

Now the fun part, making a bow from your Spellbinders Border Die Cut....I began cutting 3 from Authentique Paper. 

 Once cut...form two into loops....

 Place on the top of bag with your favorite adhesive

Make a circle loop from the third border...you won't need the whole length of this strip...

Add to top of bag, ink edges first and set aside until you get your ornament made.

 I will be placing this ornament inside my bag to give at Thanksgiving...that is a family tradition to give each of our family a special ornament after dinner. My ornament is a pre-bought paper mache retangele I purchased from our local craft store and  Authentique paper to the top along with a canvas doily, inking the edges.

 I made an ornament by running different pattern papers through the Cut N Boss using the  Mix N Match Ornament Die Cut .

Place the red piece to the top of the ornament and add the next two layer that are adhered together with pop dots to the top. I added small number stickers to the bottom of the ornament so it would be dated. 

I hope you have enjoyed my bow tutorial and try making a few this year for not only bags but other holiday packaging. Hugs Pammejo

Supplies:

Craftwell Cut N' Boss

Spellbinders Mix N' Match Ornament Die

Spellbinders Border Die

Couture Creations Holy Embossing Folder

Authentique Christmas Papers

Premade Ornament

Bag

Chestnut Roan Ink

Xyron Adhesive

Gemstones

Suitcase Gift Card Set with Eileen Hull Inspiration Team

 Well we are sharing about our family traditions this month on Eileen Hull Inspriation Team. So one of the things that I love to do is make my packaging as unique as the gift I am giving, not sure if it a tradition or not but it is something I love to do. 

So I decided this will probably be the year of giving a few gift cards to family, friends and co-workers, so I used Eileen Hull's Suitcase Die to make a gift card holder. I cut mat board and pattern paper to cover the mat board with,  ink the edges and added pretty ribbon and ribbon sliders around it to hold it together. It will also be easily to open by just sliding the ribbon off to get to the gift. Then the suitcase would become a fun accessory to have, genius right, lol.

 I added a few Petaloo Flowers, pearl accents and a small glitter ornament to the top along with a fun little bird to perch on it. 

Cut and fold a 3 1/4" piece of matching paper and decorated it with die cuts, ribbons and flowers. 

Inside I added a gift card to give to a co-worker.

I think my friend/co-worker will enjoy her little Suitcase Gift Card Set, don't you. I hope you try making some unique packaging to give to your family, friends and co-workers this year. Thanks for stopping by and til next time. Hugs Pammejo. 

Supplies:

Sizzix Suitcase Die

My Minds Eye Paper

Random flowers, pearls and ornaments

Make sure to check out the December Holiday Traditions Art Challenge Here!!!

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challnege Blog - Challenge #20 with Spellbinders

Today the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog is all about "Sharing the Season". I am sharing with you a December Daily Album Cover I made using the  Painted House Die from Spellbinders along with two of Simple Stories Collections I have had in my hoard for the last two years. You can click HERE to see all the details.

The Painted Lady Die is such an intricate vintage house die that it fabulous to use on many projects from dies to altered pieces. 

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 The winner will receive this beautiful prize package, a gift from Spellbinders. So get out the holiday ribbon and sparkly embellishments and share with us your holiday project. Hugs Pammejo

December Daily Day One

 Fingers Crossed as we go into the holiday season I will be able to keep up with my December Daily...lol, last year I made it to day six. For my December Daily Day One I selected Simple Stories Christmas Papers to work with along with Spellbinders dies.

 I began by first cutting out a couple of the dies using my Cut N' Boss, once they were cut I sat them to one side til I got my page prepared.

 The page is actually one from the Simple Stories Album I selected but I inked up the edges with Tea Dye Distress Ink and used a Prima Stencil and Faded Jeans to give it a crackle look prior to adding my die cuts.

 Using your Teresa Colllins Mega Runner adhere the Spellbinders Heirloom Oval die cuts to the page.

 Using your Xyron Create a Sticker is the easiest way to add intricate Spellbinders Medallion Five doilies to any project. These were made using my Spellbinders

Cut three Medallion Five Doily Dies out using your Cut N' Boss.

 The fun thing about the Create A Sticker is that you can do multiples by just continuing to feed them through.

Add the Medallions to the page. 

Love the Simple Stories Journal Tags that come with the collections so added one to my page along with letter stickers and gemstones. 

To finish this page I spattered with a bit of Gold Distress Spray. Now on to the accompanying page. 

I covered the back of the chipboard insert that comes in the album with  Simple Stories Christmas paper using my Xyron Glue Stick, inking the edges of all the papers and tags with the Tea Dye Distress Ink.

 Taking your curly ribbon bow and Xyron Adhesive Dots...

Add to the top of the tags you have made using the techniques shared above....set to one side until you make your pocket.

 Cut a piece of paper and using your Xyron Adhesive Runner go along three sides leaving the top plain and add to bottom of page. Add border trim, a couple of die cut doily to page and large enamel dots to page.

 Add more sticker letters and a fussy cut ornament along with the ribbon ties you put to one side to the top of you tags.

 Here is a closer look at the tags, I always make list and check them twice since we have such a large family and this helps especially when I am going to buy our special ornaments.

Well I hope you enjoyed my Day One of my December Daily and keep an eye out for further post and inspiration. Hugs Pammejo

 Supplies:

 Simple Stories Happy Holiday and Merry Christmas Collections

Xyron Teresa Collins Mega Runner

Xyron Create a Sticker

Xyron Adhesive Dots

Xyron Glue Sticks

Spellbinders Medallion Five

Spellbinders Heirloom Dies

We R Memory Keepers Doily Die

Cut N' Boss

We R Memory Keepers Enamel Dots

Tim Holtz Gold Distress Gold Spray

Tim Holtz Distress Tea Dye and Faded Jeans Distress Ink

Random Ribbon, Gemstones

Dear Santa Card with SinCity Stamps

Dear Santa...... Don't you love my stockings that I have stamped and colored using my SinCity Christmas Stamp Set. I began by layering green and brown card stock that I distress using my Tim Holtz distress tool and placing them on a white card base using my Xyron Tape Runner.

Stamp and color three sets of stockings using your favorite markers...I used Copic Markers.  Once colored...fussy cut and layer them together using pop dots and place on card front using your Xyron Tape Runner.

Add a couple of clothespins to the front of the card front to make it look like the Christmas Stockings are hanging from the string. Add a small red twine bow to each stocking along with a "Dear Santa" sentiment that I cut from the paper collection. I hope you check out my Christmas Stamp Set from SinCity Stamps as well as other products in the store. Hugs Pammejo

Supplies:

SinCity Stamps Christmas Set

Authentique Christmas collection

Red and Tan Twine

Copic Markers

Green and Brown Card Stock

Tim Holtz Distress Tool

Black Memento Ink

White Card Base

Two Clothespins

Believe in the Magic of Christmas!!!!

It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving isn't til Thursday but with the Christmas music playing in all of the store, holiday decorations everywhere you go and seeing so many post sharing Christmas Cards it just gets you in the mood to make a few Christmas Cards and decorations yourself. So I pulled out my SinCity Stamps - Christmas Collection and made a card using the Snowman Snow Globe Stamp.

 I began by stamping the image onto white card stock using Black Memento Ink and coloring it in with Copic Markers, fussy cut it out, inked the edges with brown ink and placed it to one side....

 because I first had to layer my white card base.  I began with embossing a piece of blue card stock with a Snowflake Embossing Folder, added it to the top of the card front, added a piece of pattern paper to the bottom. Using a journal block from the collection I stamped  "Believe in the Magic of Christmas" sentiment from the same set with black Memento ink.  Placing the sentiment  to the front of my card and adding a brown strip of paper along with some blue gemstones.  Once I had it in place I placed my Snowman Globe image on top using pop dots. 

I continued the same theme on the inside of my card to give it a finished look. I hope you enjoyed my first Christmas Card and I am sure there will be more to come. Please check out the SinCity Store to see all the products that are available and of course check out my Christmas Collection Stamp Set. Hugs Pammejo

Supplies:

SinCity Stamps - Christmas Collection Stamp Set

Authentique Paper Collection

Chestnut Roan Ink

Black Memento Ink

Copic Makers

Pop Dots

Xyron Adhesive

Red Twine

Challenge Entry:
  Inspiration Journal- Happy Holidays

Dimensional Table Top Turkey with Scorepal!!!

 

Wow!!! Hard to believe we are less than a week from Thanksgiving and I just remembered I had made a Tabletop Turkey last year using my Scorepal!!!! So I thought I would share it again with you, plus it fits in with the challenge on the Scorepal Blog for the "More than One Score Challenge #10". I made my turkey by taking an old tole painting book from which I re-purposed the body by enlarging it to create my project. I made large accordion folded paper wings using strips of paper, scoring every 1/4" and accordion folding them. Once folded attached it to a semi circle piece of cardboard this will help  keep it stable. Attached the turkey body to the top of the back wings once inked.  Fussy cut the face parts and hat out from the pattern. Inking all of the pieces with Chestnut Roan Ink from Colorbox.

My pumpkins are several layers of circles that have been punched from 3 1/2 and 3 inch circles, inked and folded in half using your Scorepal. The stem is a strip of paper that has been accordion folded and placed on top of each pumpkin along with some metal flowers. I fussy cut several of the sunflowers, added buttons that have twine tied to the center of them and placed them on my turkey. I hope you enjoy and look around for patterns you may have that you can re-purpose and use your Scorepal with. Hugs Pammejo

Supplies:

ScorePal

Bo Bunny Paper

Tole Painting Pattern

Chestnut Roan Ink

Chipboard