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A PAWFECT CHRISTMAS CARD

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Today I have a Christmas card to share with you. It features the Sweet Stockings Suite.

SWEET STOCKINGS SUITE COLLECTION (ENGLISH)

The Suite consists of the Sweet Little Stockings Stamp Set, Stockings Dies, Jolly Felt, Matte Decorative Dots, Pool Party 3/8″ Striped Ribbon and Sweet Stockings 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper. The ribbon was the only product that I didn’t use in this project.

Sorry that this photo is a bit blurry.

I wanted to make each of the three sizes of stockings using the Jolly Felt. So, that was my first step. As you can see, I added the white felt trims and some holly to each of the stockings. For the stocking fillers I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the two gifts and puppy. As soon as the gifts were adhered to the stockings, I mounted them on the three Basic White and Old Olive panels.

Phew .. a much better photo!

A half inch strip of Bumblebee and Old Olive cardstock was cut and I used the Tailored Tag punch to create the banner end on each of them. These were adhered to the Designer Series Paper panel which was then positioned on the card front.

The three stocking panels were also posiitoned and secured onto the card.

I stamped the greeting in Cherry Cobbler before trimming it and popping it on the card, using Stampin’ Dimensionals. The small gift box was stamped on the card insert and envelope. Then I attached a few of the Matte Decorative Dots to the card.

This card is PAWfect for my brother this Christmas – now that he has a second puppy in the family. I hope that he’s going to like it.

Are you a #cat or #dog person?

Until next time, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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Jolly Felt
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Paper Snips
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PINWHEEL TOWER GIFT BOX

Hello and welcome to today’s project post. Thanks for popping by.

I decided to make another Pinwheel Tower Gift Box. For this one, I chose the Sweet Stockings Suite to decorate it.

This gift box will be filled with treats for my brother’s two Blue Heeler dogs, Rudy and Bosch (my fur ‘nephews’).

I have lots and lots of photos to show you all aspects of this gift box card. At the core of the card is a 1-1/2″x 4-1/4″ ‘tower’. Then, four 3″x 4-1/4″ panels are adhered to each of the four sides of the ‘tower’. I used four different coordinating colours for the pinwheel to match the Designer Series Paper.

When the card lies flat, you can see three different cardstock colours.

The first panel features the very cute “Santa Paws is coming to town”. This was stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink onto Basic White cardstock and cut with one of the Tailor Made Tags Dies. I tied some Basic Black and Basic White twine, from the Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack, through the tag opening.

The second panel features Christmas stockings DSP. The larger panel has a gift card holder.

On the narrower side panel I added the stamped, coloured and die/fussy cut stocking and dog. I used a photo of Bosch to try to colour the stamped image to look like him – and, it’s a pretty close resemblance.

The third panel features the Christmas lights design and a pocket for the gift tag. The tag was cut using one of the Tailor Made Tags Dies and was stamped using with to/from from the Banner Year Stamp Set. I threaded a length of Bumblebee 2020 – 2022 In Colour Ribbon. and secured it by tying a bow with Basic White Baker’s Tine.

The narrow panel has a stocking that was cut from the DSP using the Stocking Dies. It also has three stamped, coloured and die cut candy canes.

The final panel has more stockings and some stamped, coloured and die cut Santa hats.

I am so pleased with the way my gift box adaption of the Pinwheel Tower Card has turned out.

Here are the instructions so you can try it yourself.

If you make one of the gift boxes I hope that share it with me.

Until tomorrow, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00