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SECRET SANTA GIFTBOX

When I was teaching, I enjoyed being involved in the fun of Secret Santa. It usually involves picking a name out of ‘the hat’. Over the period of a couple of weeks, I would then leave a number of small, inexpensive surprises on the recipient’s desk.

For this Secret Santa gift, I made a box that would hold a number of Starbuck’s coffee capsules.

I used one of the house images from the COMING HOME STAMP SET. It was stamped twice, using Memento, before colouring them with Blends – Balmy Blue, Sahara Sand and So Saffron.

Balmy Blue was the perfect choice because it matched the colour of the pencil I used as the carrier. Along the sides of the box I added some of the CLASSIC CHRISTMAS 6″x 6″ DSP. Because the gift box is actually 6.5″ long, I cut the DSP in half to leave a gap. The gap was covered with a square piece of the card stock and a stamped and die cut coffee cup.

Three of the coffee capsules were secured in place by using some dimensionals.

The next gift box I make will hold only three capsules.

I would like to think that most people would be happy to receive this as a Secret Santa gift. Would you?

Do you take part in Secret Santa at your workplace?

Thanks for popping by … happy stamping.

These are the products I used to make this gift box. If you live in Australia, you can order any of these products through me.

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Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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FINAL TREAT

As I mentioned on my post on Thursday, I made three projects during my Facebook Live on Wednesday and I have already shared a card and little treat box.

For this last project, I made a custom-sized gift box to hold three chocolate covered mini tea cakes.

I continued with the same colour choices and lots of spiders.

For this project, I decided to heat emboss the greeting in silver.

This is a simple adaptation of a ‘matchbox’ box – a three-sided insert with a four-sided casing that the insert can slide from.

I am loving the METALLIC MESH RIBBON – it is so much fun to use on projects. For this gift box, it makes an amazing way to pull the insert box out from its casing and it helps to hold the mini cakes in place.

Positioning the die cut spiders, creeping along the top and up the sides of the box, was a great way to finish it off … not to mention, a few RED RHINESTONE BASIC JEWELS.

HAVE YOU NOTICED THE EMBOSSED FEATURE IN THE CENTRE OF THE SPIDER’S BODY? WHAT AN AMAZING DIE!

I am so pleased with how my three Halloween projects, from my Facebook Live on Wednesday, finished up. I hope they have inspired you to create some Trick or Treat projects of your own.

Thanks for popping by … happy stamping.

These are the products I used to make this project. If you live in Australia, you can order any of them through me.

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Heat Tool
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Paper Snips
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TIME FOR A TREAT

Yesterday I posted a Halloween-themed card that I made on my Wednesday Facebook Live.

Today, I’m sharing a LITTLE TREAT BOX I also made. The Little Treat Box Die makes such a cute little treat box – this product has the perfect name.

Continuing on with my colour choices, from yesterday, I used SILVER FOIL to cut out the box template. I then used the BRICKS & MORTAR 3D EMBOSSING FOLDER to emboss the foil – once horizontally and the second time diagonally.

To assemble the treat box I use mini glue dots to secure the pieces.

Once assembled, I stamped the greeting onto Whisper White cardstock before using a die from the LITTLE TREAT BOX DIES and used the small hole punch from the LABEL ME FANCY PUNCH in order to be able to thread some BLACK GLITTERED ORGANZA RIBBON.

I cut three lengths of Misty Moonlight/silver Baker’s Twine, from the FLOWERS FOR EVERY SEASON RIBBON COMBO PACK, and separated the strands. I used the silver strands to tie off the black organza.

The greeting was popped up using dimensionals and a few RED RHINESTONE BASIC JEWELS were added.

Finally, a few spiders were added for the scary factor. The treat box on the right, features some Australian red back spiders – deadly!

To allay the fear factor of spiders, I popped some mini KitKats into each box – chocolate can fix so many things.

Thank you for popping by … happy stamping.

These are the products I used to make this projects. If you live in Australia, you can order any of them through me.

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Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00