Santa Clause is comin' to town!

As promised Santa all in red! Apparently my mood changed and I went with a bottle neck tag instead of a one sheet box, I will add the simple one sheet box directions to my Ode' to my Brown Santa. So this is one of the teacher gifts I made this year I am pretty smitten with my new santa design and will put it on the docket for next years holiday workshops. To put this in perspective you can see this is just a 8.4 oz bottle of cider, personal size. Santa's head is made of a sizzix die (scallop circles) and 3 hand punches (wide oval, 5 petal and 1/2" circle punch). You can't really tell in the picture but I used whisper white textured card stock for his beard and stash. Hope you got a giggle out of him like I do! Merry Christmas!

Ode to My Brown Santa

Most of you already now I might be a little crazy but this might remove all doubt. I made this for my favorite Santa...the one who wears brown and delivers to my door year round. Thank you thank you my dear Brown Santa with out you I would have no Stampin' Up product and how sad would that be? Since my Brown Santa is delivering tonight I made this up but I am sure it will be just as cute made up with Red with a black ribbon around his belly! I will post the instructions with the basic red Santa. This is once again based around a one sheet box! I got his cute face idea from a fellow demo... http://flowerbug.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/12/big-shot-club.html . adjusted the size of the beard scallop and the project but I LOVE that little face...thanks for the inspiration Jackie!

Football Box

Okay so I was worried as soon as I found out my son had a male teacher! And for none of the normal reason's I am sure. How does a crafty mom who makes crafty things for teachers gifts going to make something for a male teacher and not make him feel like he got a frufu girly gift? Well I thought and I thought real hard and this is what I came up with, a twist on the one sheet box. Matthew's teacher happens to be the football coach and big into sports in general. This is totally a non SU paper (when your in a pinch you improvise!) but the ribbon is. I filled it with a yummy treat and I will be making a tag to go on it but I was so thrilled how it turned out I had to share right away.

FYI - I made this flyer with my awesome software...my Design Studio by Stampin' Up!

Birthday on the go...

I made this tag because I didn't have time to make a card. And it turns out I really reallly love this tag. The color palete matched the wrapping I was using but I like it so much I ran home after dropping my daughter off at the party and made another. Turns out I really like the tag tied to a plain jane gift bag. Who needs to buy different bags for every event? Just bulk buy the plain white and enhance it with a tag that matches the event at hand. Simple, Cheap and oh soo cute. ( I actually just used this tag and tied it to a build a bear box...wrapping and tagging all done!)

Tags, tags everywhere.

Start with a tag...largish I know, just big enough for a greeting and names, but now that you have made your adorable tag with your 5 petal punch and Boho Blossom punch you are ready to gift here are some ways you can use this great tag...
Bottle Tag...punch a hole and attach a hair band or ribbon to tie around your bottle neck. (notice I did the exact same tag in pink...use the same tag style for any time of the year)
Belly Band...add a band around a box and make the tag the bow.
Bag Tag...make a plain bag sing with an adorable tag. (You can see this idea at work in the birthday bag post)

Flake Bag

So simple but oh so adorable. Based on a brown gift bag that pretty much is a shunrkin' grocery bag. Using the Wide Oval Punch to create a handle and a couple well placed items...bag oh cuteness!