Stamp Act: OUR CREATIVE CORNER ~ A Holiday Gift Challenge!!!!!

October 25, 2008

OUR CREATIVE CORNER ~ A Holiday Gift Challenge!!!!!

Good Morning!
With the Holiday's fast approaching, today's OCC Challenge will help you get a step ahead on your Holiday preparation!!! The challenge is to make a gift, wrapping, tag, gift card holder, decoration, ANYTHING that you would give or use around the Holiday's. I LOVE making 3-D things and the Holiday's are a perfect time for me to do it! I already have 2 of my kids' teachers gifts done and you are going to see them below! Before I show you mine, I want to show you what my HONORED guest and FRIEND, Lindsey Botkin, made for this weeks challenge!!! You are going to LOVE this ~

Isn't this darling?!?!? Thank you so much Linz for playing with us this week, your creations are AWESOME! Speaking of Lindsey, we have a prize again for this weeks challenge which is product you can find in Lindsey's store HERE and HERE! I used the Imaginisce snowman glitter paper (included in the prize) on one of my ornament boxes below and the Angel Wings Shimmerz, well, I didn't use it THIS time but use it ALL the time!!! I LOVE it!!! You can see all the details for the challenge HERE! Here is a picture of the prize!

For my project, I made some more of THESE cute snow babies! I know, this is a repeat but I thought there might be some people who hadn't seen them and would be interested in making them! I also made matching boxes so here is my first photo showing the snow babies ~

You can find the tutorial I did on these last year HERE! The baby socks I used are from Target's $1 spot ~ last year....They may have them again this year so check it out!

Here is a picture of my first box for the red baby ~

See how cozy it looks??? Here is a picture of the box with the lid on ~

The actual box is Whisper White cardstock and the decorative Imaginisce paper is THIS snowman glitter paper and the strips around the lid is THIS paper. The red card stock is Riding Hood Red. The clear crystals are by Martha Stewart which I picked up at Walmart. HERE is the tutorial for the box!

Here is a picture of the box all wrapped up ~

I added an SU! white felt snowflake that OF COURSE I added white Martha Stewart glitter on with a paint brush and Elmer's glue. I also added the decorative paper around the lid to the back of the center of the snowflake. You can click on the picture to see it larger.

Now I will show you the box I made for the blue baby. The actual box was made using Chocolate Chip card stock and the decorative paper is last years SU! wrapping paper ~

Here is the box all tied up! I will add a snowflake or something to the bow before I give it away but ran out of time for this post ~ sorry!!!

The Chocolate ribbon is last year's SU! satin & grosgrain ribbon. I added Stardust Stickles to some of the snowflakes on the wrapping paper and to the scallops around the lid. The scallops were punched using my SU! scallop border punch.

If you have ANY questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I cover all the measurements and details in my previous posts for the ornament and box listed above.

I hope you enjoyed the post today and be sure to check out what the OCC girls have done with this challenge HERE!

Have a great weekend!

~Lynda

Oct 25, 2008 8:00:00 AM | Our Creative Corner, Tutorials

16 Comments

Oh my gosh Lynda! These are soooooooooo cute!!! I love snowmen and have a couple girlfriends who adore them too! Will need to try this. Love the boxes you have created too!! Fantastic!

Posted by: Dawn Easton | October 25, 2008 at 09:08 AM

LOVE everything you've made. The papers on the decorated box are gorgeous, and the snowmen are absolutely ADORABLE!!!

Posted by: denise (peanutbee) | October 25, 2008 at 09:43 AM

Thanks for posting this again! I love this project and was not around to see it last year! I am definitely going to try making one of these!

Posted by: Caiti | October 25, 2008 at 09:50 AM

OMGOSH Lynda! Those ornaments and boxes are just to die for!!!!!! You are so darned creative!!! SOOOO cute! Thanks so much for letting me play this week! :D

Posted by: Lindsey | October 25, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Everything is just so cute and well-done, Lynda! Love the snowman idea!!! And the boxes are amazing. You're amazing, girl! Thanks for including links to the tutorials, and even more, THANKS for hosting such awesome challenges all month!!!

Posted by: Amy Sheffer | October 25, 2008 at 10:27 AM

Wow Lynda, you know i can't wait to put mine out that you made me last year for Christmas, so fun.

Posted by: Cindy Haffner | October 25, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Hi Lynda :) I bet you are at Joey's Football game, I hope he is kicking butt!! LOL :)

Your homemade ornaments are just precious!! Not only are they adorable but the boxes are so beautiful too! LOVE the cut hats and the detail that went into these are just fantastic!!

Thanks for sharing them with us, you really know how to spoil us!

Have a wonderful weekend,
Jennifer :)

Posted by: Jennifer Meyer | October 25, 2008 at 11:40 AM

OMG I forgot to thank you for the awesome challenges for October OCC challenges!! Thanks for hosting, I can't wait to see what you come up with next time!!

Jennifer :)

Posted by: Jennifer Meyer | October 25, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Wow Lynda! These are adorable, and those boxes are GORGEOUS! What fabulous projects! Thanks so much for all the fun challenges this month!

Posted by: Julee T. | October 25, 2008 at 12:30 PM

These ornaments are so fabulous! Absolutely adorable - and the boxes are gorgeous. I need some teacher gifts too - I think I'll give these a whirl.

Posted by: Stephanie Lanzalotto | October 26, 2008 at 07:06 AM