Blackberry Bliss Card and a Little Surprise

Today's card features the last of my 5 In Colors cards... in Blackberry Bliss.  I've used embossing, punches and embellishments from our Artisan Embellishment Kit to pull together the elegant look.  Be sure to keep scrolling down to see a little surprise I made to go with this card.

The circle punches help make the card a pretty quick and easy one to assemble.

Adding the embossed layer always bumps a card up to a new level of elegance. 

Whew!  That's all 5 of our In Colors.  So, how about a little surprise to go with this one?

Wouldn't this make a super fun gift for a special someone?  They'd have a beautiful card and their own Artisan Embellishment Kit. 

I've simply wrapped the paper around the box from the kit.  They can actually slide everything out and save the wrapping.  Perhaps they could use the kit, save the box, put a new treat in the box, place it back into the wrapping and pass on the joy to another special someone.

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Snip and Spritz Flowers

You've seen lots of flowers that I've made over time.  They are all fun, quick and easy.  Today, I'd like to share another technique for beautiful flowers... created with our filter paper.  With 1 package of filter paper, you'll be able to make one framelit flower (more on that later) + 2 snip and spritz flowers.

Here are my fringed flowers, made with filter paper.  These are so much fun!  I used our new fringe scissors to make them.  After you see how cute they are, scroll down and click to watch the video so you can make your own.  I used mine to decorate some packages.

 Click here for a video on making the snip and spritz flower:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Fecl-k3k_Us

In my next posts, I'll be sharing some close-ups and more details on these gorgeous little flowers.  Come back soon and check it out.

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Stamp A Tag Kit

I hope you saw and enjoyed my little mini series:  Wrap It Up.  Today, I'd like to share a gift that is wrapped up in itself.  It's our Stamp A Tag Kit.  This is a really great gift to give to a friend, whether they stamp or not.  It includes absolutely everything you'll need to make some cute gift tags for Christmas.  Once they've made all the tags, they'll still have 2 cute little stamps and 2 little Stampin' Spots of ink, so they can make something else, too.  Fun, quick and easy.  That's my plan for this year's holiday preparation.  Of course, you might decide to get the kit and keep it for yourself.  The price is reasonable enough that you could get several to give and still keep one:)

The kit comes in this cute little box.  All I did was add some DSP to the lid and attach a cute little bow.  It will look amazing when they open it.  This would make a wonderful gift for a coworker or a Secret Santa gift!

I know you can't see it very well, but the inside has divided sections, made with a cute little polka dot paper.  The outside of the box is already decorated and I thought it was cute, so I left it 'as is' and just added a gift bow by using a tied piece of our pretty Cherry Cobbler ribbon.  You could add a tag to it or use the little white strips (already on the box lid) to write your 'to / from' info.

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Wrap It Up, Part 3

Today's post involves the largest gift boxes that we have and they are looking very pretty with our Winter Frost DSP to decorate them.  I've also used some of the accessories from the Christmas Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit in our Holiday Catalog.  I love the colors!  Take a look:

Tips:

• This was a super quick and easy project because I did not try to wrap the entire box.  I cut the DSP to have about a 1/4"  edging of the box showing.  By doing this, it's quicker and MUCH easier AND you can reopen the box many times without damaging the wrapping.  It can even be reused.
• The fancy topper was quick and easy because it was from a kit.  This saves a lot of time.

I hope you liked the gift boxes today.  These are some of my favorites.

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Wrap It Up, Part 2

Yesterday I shared a cute little window gift box.  Today's box is larger and shows another way to use the bow from the bow kit (Pretty Presents Designer Bows (#132186).  The gift box here is from our big catalog.  (Kraft Gift Boxes #124106)  By the way, all in all, I will be sharing 4 different sizes of gift boxes in this little mini series.  They are all food safe.  Good to know.  Here's today's box:

Yes, that's a big bow:)  Remember, part of my reason for sharing these ideas is to give you ideas that are cute AND quick and easy.  To help make this super quick and easy, I decorated around the sides of the box with a decorative strip from Real Red Goodie Gear Simply Created Kit (#132161).  Wow!  Say that fast for 5 times:)  The kit has tags, treat bags, a strip to stamp a little greeting, baker's twine, AND the adhesive backed strips.  Here's the treat bag I made with the kit.  It has 2 of the adhesive (red with white stripes) strips on the tag.  I made a tag for my gift box, too, but you cannot see it in the photo.  They make up really fast --- quick AND cute.

I also used this kit to make a card.

I even added a couple of the decorative strips to the envelope.

I hope I've given you some new inspiration today.  As you can see, my focus is mainly on small gifts that we often have trouble making look really nice for giving.  We give a lot of small gifts to coworkers, neighbors, family and friends at Christmas.  It's nice to be able to make them look special.  Get going now and see what you come up with for your gift wrapping. 

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Wrap It Up, Part I

I'm posting a lot later than usual today because I went to some garage sales this morning.  Brrrr... 

Today, I'll start a little mini series on ways to wrap up your very special gifts for those very special someones on your list this year.  We have so many wonderful ways to package gifts now that the only difficult part is deciding which project to make next to use to wrap them up.  And speaking of making them, most of the work is already done for you.  Using our kits and holiday products should make your holiday preparations easy peasy this year!

First up --- a fancy gift bow on a very pretty gift box:

This cute little box is our Decorative Window Gift Box (#132146) from our Holiday Catalog.  The bow is from a kit called Pretty Presents Designer Bows (#132186) and all you have to do is punch out the pieces, put them together and attach them to your gift box.  See what I mean?  Easy peasy!!!

My box just happens to be filled with journaling tags from our Season of Style Designer Journaling Tags (#132808).  I could have added more detail to the outside of the box, but I wanted to keep it simple --- to save time and to show off the cuteness of the bow and the window of the box.  It works!
Give it a try.  Thanks for stopping by.  Take a moment now and start a list of all the kinds of little gifts that you could fit into this box... a cookie, a cupcake, a brownie, jewelry, a handmade gift, an ornament... a toy ...

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