Joy of Christmas Boxes

I was playing around with a little box idea one day and came up with these Christmas themed boxes using the Candy Cane Lane specialty paper and Christmas Magic stamp set.

Each box measures 4" x 5" on the inside and has 1" sides.  I used Tip Top Taupe  and Real Red for the boxes and coordinating decorations.

On the first one, I strung some mini jingle bells on baker's twine in on corner of the stamped piece.

On the second one I added some thick baker's twine behind the stamped piece and some Metallic enamel shapes as an accent.

These would work for fun little gift items or gift cards.

Supplies:

Christmas Magic

Basic Black, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie ink and markers

Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black, Tip Top Taupe card stock

Tear and Tape adhesive

paper trimmer

mini jingle bells

metallic enamel shapes

Candy Cane Lane specialty paper

bakers' twine

Cookie Cutter Ornaments

I saw some cute cookie cutter Christmas ornaments online one day and wanted to try a few out for myself. 

The first thing I did was pick out my paper.  Then, I cut a piece that was slightly bigger than the ornament and pulled out my fine tip glue pen. 

  I set the paper down with the ornament on top and added a generous coating of glue to the inside edges. 

After that dried, I used a sharp knife to trim around the ornament. Then on to the fun stuff!

I added some more glue and chunky glitter around the edges.  Each one has a little Christmas trinket hanging inside on the Candy Cane Lane baker's twine that will also hold the ornament on the tree.

To embellish them, I used the Starlight thinlits, basic pearls, and the Christmas magic stamp set.

Supplies:

Christmas Magic

Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Delightful Dijon ink

Whisper White, Emerald Envy, Bermuda Bay card stock

fine tip glue pen

Christmas trinkets embellishments

chunky glitter

basic pearls

Presents and Pinecones dsp

cookie cutters

Candy Cane Lane baker's twine

Jingle Bell Box

Although it may not look like it, today's projects uses quite a few of the same products as yesterday's card.  The stamp set and one of the designer series paper packs as well as the ink color and a couple of the card stock colors...

To start off, I had a piece of 5" x 9" Crumb Cake card stock and I scored it at 1", 4", 5" and 8" on the long side and 1" and 4" on the short side.  I made my cuts to fold it into a box and then added some layers of decoration...

The bellyband around the box is made from Presents and Pinecones designer series paper and since the full length of the 12" designer series paper was just a little bit too short to wrap around, I added a jingle bell where the two ends meet to make it look like it is long enough as you can maybe see in the picture below.

My jingle bells were stamped, colored and cut out.  After I colored them I added some shimmer with the Wink of Stella glitter brush.

Supplies:

Christmas Magic

Basic Black, Delightful Dijon, Cherry Cobbler ink

Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Dapper Denim, Whisper White card stock

Warmth and Cheer dsp

Presents and Pinecones dsp

In color Doilies

Burlap ribbon

scallop circle punch

Merriest Wishes

On this card I thought I would try using some designer series paper as my back layer on the front of the card.  If you do this, remember that you can always die cut the middle out before you use it to utilize all that great paper!

I embossed a piece of Dapper Denim card stock with the Pretty Paisleys folder and then cut out the middle using one of the Ovals framelits.  Then I added my stamped train image behind that and mounted it all on the designer series paper.

Supplies:

Christmas Magic

Basic Black ink

Dapper Denim, Crumb Cake, Pool Party card stock

Warmth and Cheer dsp

basic pearls

Pretty Paisleys folder

Ovals framelits