Christmas · Gifting

Tree Pocket Gift Holder

We’re gearing up for Christmas here at Song Sparrow. Every day that Amazon shows up, my husband says something about the number of boxes that end up on the porch. *snicker* Hey, I can’t help it if the warehouses decide to box orders in a multitude of boxes.

But speaking of getting ready for Christmas, I’m still working on gifts and gift tags. And today’s design is a super cute gift-giving envelope that I plan to hang on the Christmas tree for a little holiday hide-n-seek. I ran across this super cute envelope in one of my Pinterest searches, and it’s super easy to put together.

We get started with a 6×6 sheet of Take a Bow patterned paper and score from corner to corner on both sides. Then you fold to create the envelope. For this one, the flap on the envelope is supposed to stay open, which makes it a snap to put together. I used two smaller strips of the Take a Bow paper to cover my score line in the center and also to serve as a nice break in the pattern underneath the focal panel. Our focal panel starts with a base of the (retired) Garden Walk patterned paper that is cut using the Peaceful Season decorative square die. Then I just layered the stocking and sentiment from the Joyful ephemera packs right on top using the dimensionals. The gift panel is a sheet of the (retired) More Dazzle specialty paper with a to/from panel cut from white cardstock using the (retired) Stitched Nested Labels dies. I cut some greenery fronds from Granny Apple Green cardstock using the Golden Greenery dies and adhered them to the back of the gift panel with dimensionals. A cute red bow tied from Cherry Cobbler & Gold metallic ribbon finish off the gift panel nicely. The whole kit & caboodle will hang from the tree with some green thread.

The hardest part of this whole design was picking what ephemera I wanted to use! Otherwise, it comes together in a snap. And don’t you think it will just be the cutest way to give cash or a gift card?

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Show Day

It’s show day! Show days are always a little frazzled as you get the final touches on the booth setup and hope for the best.

If you’re local to the DFW area, come see me at First Methodist Rowlett! I’m in booth S in the Family Life Center.

Gifting

Home Decor

It’s been a tremendously busy week. I’ve been working away in the craft room as I’m down to the wire for my craft booth items. Today is setup day and tomorrow is booth day!

Today, I’m popping in to share another fun giftie that will be available in my shop — home decor items. On one of our recent virtual team events, we made a framed project and I just fell in love with the idea.

And as with most things I prefer to undertake in the craft room, projects don’t have to be overly complicated to have a WOW factor. Today’s sample is a Christmas project using the O Holy Night suite. This set of products retired last year and I’m still super sad about it! This particular project is a combination of patterned paper and diecut elements — most of them are repeated images. A simple bit of layering with dimensionals builds a gorgeous scene of the wisemen on their journey to find Jesus.

For those of you who have been following along over the last week and expressed some interest in the lip balm box, I was able to carve out a little time to make a video and PDF tutorial to walk you through putting a box together.

Next week, I’ll be popping in with a preview of my favorite soon-to-release Online Exclusive bundle. It’s otterly adorable! *wink wink*

Gifting

Joy of Chocolate

It’s craft fair season, and I’m hard at work preparing for an upcoming show. I like to offer a wide variety of products outside of just cards because, quite honestly, it always seems like the gift items sell best.

One surefire hit is always chocolate. And today’s cute giftie is a custom-wrapped chocolate bar. I’ve seen lots of clever ways to wrap a chocolate bar, but I really love this particular envelope design because it’s super quick and simple to make! super helpful when you want to turn out a bunch in a short amount of time.

Using double-sided patterned paper means that your treat envelope is decorative from start to finish. Several glue dots in the chocolate bar help it stay put inside the envelope. I like to hold the envelope closed with ribbon and then add a cute decorative element on top. Isn’t this an adorable way to give a sweet treat?!

We’ll be continuing our look into my craft booth next week. I have lots more cute stuff to show you and a video tutorial to share!