Good morning! We've entered the last days before Christmas, are you ready? We had a great weekend relaxing and enjoying some holiday traditions but I must admit I still have more things to get finished than I would care for. It always seems like you have some last minute gift needs that come up so I thought I would share a super quick and easy gift that is sure to please. There are some friends that Aidan wants to give a little something to so I found this glass milk bottles in the dollar section of a local store (they were sold in packages of two) as wells as these cute paper straws, I thought of adding the straws to go with the "milk". I just filled each of them with candy and then decorated them for a fun threat. I added circles of DSP from the
Trim the Tree Designer Series Paper Stack that were punched out with the
1 3/4" Circle Punch on the top of the bottle top for some extra festive fun.
I wrapped a piece of
Under the Tree Specialty Designer Series Paper around the bottle and made sure to include the straw inside the DSP wrap. Next I tied a piece of
Silver Baker's Twine around the bottle. I used two different stamp sets for the greeting,
Mingle all the Way and
Merry Everything and after stamping the greeting used the
1 3/4" circle punch to cut them out and use
dimensionals to attach them to the bottle. I added cute little flag to the top of the straw using extra tags I had from the
Many Merry Stars Simply Created Kit (the Cherry Cobbler stars are also from the kit). I also used some
Silver Glimmer Paper and the star punch from the
Itty Bitty Accents Punches Pack to make some glimmery stars. The greeting on the flag tag uses the
Project Life Holiday Cheer Stamp set.
Here' a close up of one of the bottles, aren't they cute? These are so easy and Aidan's really excited to deliver these to his friends in the next couple of days.
Below are easy ordering links for the products used on today's projects:
Good luck wrapping everything up on your To Do list, enjoy!
Diana
Good morning, I'm back. Sometimes you can always use a little extra creative inspiration so today over on the Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration blog we're sharing some ideas for Christmas thank you's. I'm a big believer in the importance of hand written thank you's and have been teaching Aidan about them so this time of year I need lots of cards. Just like my post earlier this morning I'm working on using up some of the extra kit pieces I have on my desk before the holidays are over so this card was super fast to pull together. I started with Cherry Cobbler for the cardbase and then added a layer of Garden Green Cardstock. The Whisper White piece that is woodgrain embossed is from the Watercolor Winter Simply Created kit (there are lots of fabulous pieces in this kit for lots of fun).
