12 Days of Giving Secret Santa Tags

Looking for a Secret Santa idea?  Twelve Days of Giving is a great idea.  My sister and I got the idea from an article in the November, 2004 PaperCrafts magazine.  We did this for our aunt and uncle and they had no idea until we presented them with the final gift on Christmas Day.  Actually because of a snow storm, we presented them with days 10 - 12 on Christmas.  Their daughter and our oldest sister knew right away who the gifts were coming from when they were told about the homemade bread.  It was fun to do but a bit stressful sneaking up to their house, ringing the doorbell and running so they wouldn't see us.  On day six we had to get their neighbor involved.  They didn't see the pop when they picked up their morning newspaper so we went to the neighbor and asked that they call  to tell them there was a package on the front porch.  We told them if our aunt and uncle asked to tell them they saw a guy in red leave it for them.  We were afraid the pop would freeze and explode if left out in the freezing cold too long.

If you want to do this, you need to hurry and start this on December 14 so that the last gift is given on Christmas Day.

A loaf of homemade bread

Two rolls of tape

Three boxes of Jello - red, green and yello

Five treats of sweets (I don't remember what we gave)

Six cans of pop (yes we call it pop in Ohio)

Seven apples

Eight cookies

A pack of gum

Ten eggs

A turkey (We gave them a turkey breast)

Twelve fruits (I don't remember what we gave)

All twelve tags

These tags were made in 2004 so I don't have the specifics on the stamps, but I believe all stamps were CTMH.

Snowflake Serenade

A couple more Christmas cards using Papertrey Ink's Snowflake Serenade.

Supplies used:

PTI Snowflake Serenade 

PTI Nativity Silhouettes (Merry Christmas)

CMTH Ink: Kiwi, Juniper, Grey Flannel, Grey Wool 

SU Ink: Whisper White (card 1)

Cuttlebug Snowflake EF (card 2)

CTMH Juniper cardstock

PTI Kraft cardstock (card 2)

gems

white twine

Thanks for looking!

Carol 

Poinsettia Christmas Card

The first of my Christmas cards this year.  

Supplies used:

3-d Poinsettia from Silhouette Design Store

Martha Stewart branch punch

SU Petals A Plenty EF

Round corner punch

MFT Fishtail die

Hollo's Silver and white cardstocks

SU Real Red cardstock

CTMH Ponderosa Pine cardstock

PTI Merry Christmas stamp

Thanks for looking!

Carol

15 Christmas Cards

When I saw Kaisercraft's Yuletide Collection of papers, I knew that I wanted to use the Joyful sheet to make some quick Christmas cards. I had originally planned to only do 12 cards but then I saw the Miracle sheet and decided I could get three more cards with that sheet. For these 15 cards, I used 15 card bases, two sheets red cardstock, one sheet green cardstock, one sheet gold foil and five sheets from the Yuletide Collection.

This is the first time I have ever attempted something like this and I am really pleased with how the cards turned out. Also there were very little leftovers after I completed all the cards. Some of the Goodwill sheet was left so I took that sheet and cut the strips on that sheet down to individual strips that were 4 1/4" long and added them to the bottom of the inside of the cards to dress them up some.

Kits available at The Embellished Scrapbook Boutique.

Supplies used:
Kaisercraft Yuletide Collection
American Craft Red (?) and Green (pine) cardstock
CN Crafts Goldie Lox foil paper
Elizabeth Craft Red Glitter dots
Glossy Accents
Gold Nail heads

Cheryl

Christmas Cards

These are the cards I made for the 2014 Christmas Card Round Robin at The Embellished Scrapbook Boutique.  For those who aren't familiar with how a round robin works, we make up card kits and set up stations around the classroom.  Customers come in and go from station to station making as many cards of each kit as they would like.  They supply their own adhesive, glue pen, pop dots and scissors; we supply everything else needed to complete the cards.  This is a great way for customers to learn new techniques and use products they have never tried before.  It's also a great way for the to make a variety of cards.  Earlier in the year we hold an All Occasion Card Round Robin.

Supplies used:

Taylored Expressions Bethlehem Border die

Taylored Expressions Rolling Hills die

Taylored Expressions Sing to the King stamp set

Memory Box Star of Wonder die

Supplies used:

Taylored Expressions Little Bits Stocking die

Taylored Expressions Sheet Music EF

Taylored Expressions Little Bits of Christmas stamp set

Thanks for looking!

Carol

Advent Boxes

We made these Advent boxes a few years ago for Cheryl's daughters.  They are now 17 and 11 and still love them.

Box 1 Top

Box 1 Side 1

The drawers were all handmade from cardstock.  We found the directions on the internet.  If we had it to do all over again, we would have made the drawers big enough to hold a gift card.  These are just a bit too small.

Box 1 side 2

Box 1 side 3

Box 1 side 4

Because of the dimensions of the drawers, we had to make 2 different sizes in order for them to fit together with no gaps.  Sides 1 and 3 are the same size and a bit smaller than sides 2 and 4.  I don't know how we ever figured out how to get this to come together, but it took FOREVER to get it just right.  The reason the numbers on each side are not continuous (i.e. going from 6 down to 1) is because of the different sizes.  We didn't want them to have six days of bigger gifts then six days of smaller gifts.  This way, they have three bigger then three smaller.

Box 2 Top

The top and bottom of the boxes are chipboard covered in cardstock.

Box 2 side 1

 

Box 2 side 2

Box 2 side 3

Box 2 side 4

The boxes of drawers as well as the top and bottom are held to each other with red line tape.  We used various papers, dies and punches to decorate the boxes and added the little wood knobs to the drawers.

There are various ways to make Advent boxes.  Splitcoaststampers has a lot of ideas in their GALLERY.

Thanks for looking!

Carol and Cheryl

Christmas Cards

These are a few Christmas cards I did for The Embellished Scrapbook Boutique's Christmas Card Round Robin this past weekend.  They set up card kits and customers go around to each card and make as many as they want for $1.50 per card.  You can see the cards HERE.  We make up about 20 kits of each card and sometimes have to make more kits before the weekend is over.  I had to cut more for each of these cards.  The Joy card was the most popular.

 

This card used the O Little Town of Bethlehem stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs stamped in colbalt ink.  The poinsettia is the Layered Poinsettia die from Spellbinders and the greenery is the Martha Stewart medium pine branch punch.  The pearls were colored with a copic marker.

As I said this was the most popular card.  I started with 20 kits and had to cut an additional 35 kits.  The joy and snowflake are cut from WPlus9 Seasonal Sentiments dies and the snowflake border is Memory Box Frostyville.  

For this card, I got the idea HERE using the Taylored Expressions O Christmas Tree die. I just changed the color and left off the bow.

 

Thanks for looking!

Carol

 

Supplies used:

ODBD O Little Town of Bethlehem

MS pine branch punch

Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia die

Memory Box Frostyville die

WPlus9 Seasonal Sentiments

Taylored Expressions O Christmas Tree

White embossing powder

Holligraphic paper

American Craft cardstock

Dew drops

Santa Cards

This year I made a few Christmas cards using my Cricut and SCAL program.  The Santa hat and holly are free downloads from Birds Cards. I ran the trim and pom pom through the cuttlebug to emboss and used foam squares to pop up just the one edge of the hat.

These next three Santa's were done using a kit I bought from SVG Cuts.  I first saw this card HERE on Splitcoaststampers.  I love how she used the Peachy Keen stamps for the face.  I don't have those stamps so I hand drew the eyes myself.  Those eyes are what really makes the card. On the card above, I glittered the trim and pom pom and ran the beard and mustache through the cuttlebug to emboss. The holly is a button I had.

This card I used paper from My Minds Eye for the hat, the holly svg from Birds Cards and ran the hat trim, pom pom, beard and mustache through the cuttlebug to emboss.

This card is actually smaller than the previous two.  Those are about 5 1/2 inch square.  I reduced the files down to about 80% for this one so that it would fit into a standard envelope.  The hat is paper from My Mind's Eye.

I made this card a few years ago.  I saw similar cards on Spitcoaststampers.  Using them as examples I free-handed the hat, trim, beard and mustache.  The nose and brows are an SU! punch.  I ran everything through the cuttlebug to emboss. The eyes are brads.

 

Supplies used:

Paper: SU! Real Red and Black, My Minds Eye, CTMH Parchment and Blush, Hollo's White

Black and White Glaze Pens

White Gel Pen

Ink: SU! Real Red and Cameo Coral, CTMH Crystal Blue

Red Rhinestones

SVG files: SVG Cuts and Birds Cards

Cuttlebug folders

 

Thanks for looking!

Carol