Seriously Christmas

I'm getting ready early for my Seriously Christmas class and want to share some of the projects with you that we'll be making.  I decided that it would look pretty to have all the projects coordinate, so I've used our Season of Style DSP for my color story for everything.  At my Christmas Retreats in November, we'll use mostly the Winter Frost DSP.  Let's take a look at Seriously Christmas:

As you can see, class participants will go home with a boatload of Christmas goodness!

I have a decorated stamp case that is filled with surprises --- all for Christmas.  This would make a great gift for a special someone... or special just for you:)  Here's the outside of the case, all decorated with Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White.

Open it up and look at what's inside!   

Believe it or not, it holds 8 gift tags and 8 little gift enclosure cards.  They are all decorated to coordinate with the decorated stamp case.

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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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Let's take a look at it all!

I've been sharing with you some of the fun projects that we'll be making at my Holiday Stampin' Party / Open House (Sept. 7, 8).  Today, let's take a look at all the projects for you to enjoy.  You'll notice that I've planned a variety of projects for you, to give you the greatest opportunity to try some of our new goodies.

I hope you'll come by and join in on the fun.  If you cannot make it, I hope the projects I've shared will inspire you to get to work on your own holiday stamping projects.  By the way, if you need Halloween treats, the goodie bag shown above comes in a Halloween version, as well.  They're called Pumpkin Pie Goodie Gear.  Love the name!

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Speaking of Using a Kit in a New Way...

In my last post, I showed one of two little albums that I made using a kit designed for an entirely different purpose.  Today, I have another kit... another idea.  Here's the little treat bag that we'll be making at my Holiday Stampin' Party / Open House (Sept. 7 + Sept. 8).

The kit is called Real Red Goodie Gear Simply Created Kit.  It comes with cute little cello bags, tags (all cut and ready to go), little white strips that are ready to stamp and use on the tags, and tape-like stickers to decorate the tags.  You peel off however much of the tape-like strips that you want to decorate the tags and then trim them off as needed.  The kit calls them stickers, but they remind me of tape which got me thinking about Washi Tape and using it to decorate a tag... or a card.  So, I used some of it to decorate a card.

I used it on the envelope, as well and actually put one of the tags on the card.  It's a super simple card.  I just wanted to play with decorating it to coordinate with the tag.

It turned out bright and cheerful and I still have plenty of the strips and tags left to make more goodie bags.   My card base is Bermuda Bay.  What do you think? 

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