Sunday, November 27, 2011

Gift Wrapping

It was my mum's b'day last week and I wasn't in the mood to wrap up her gifts in boring old gift wrapping paper, so I came up with this idea to wrap a tin of hot chocolate:
I used some scrap strips of black lace that I had and just wrapped it around the tin until it was all covered - I didn't even need to glue it or anything, the lace just stuck together well enough.  I tied around a pretty gold ribbon and made a paper flower to decorate.
To make the flower, I cut out several circles of patterned paper, all of them slightly smaller than the previous one.  I cut them out with scalloped fancy scissors.  Then I sprayed each circle with some water, crumpled it up to give it some texture, and unfolded it again, then I just layered the circles and pinned them together with a brad.

To cover the top of the tin, I cut out a circle of black paper the size of the tin, inked it with some black ink because it wasn't black enough, distressed the edges, stuck it on the tin and added a little name tag thingie on top.
I made her some earrings too, and made a little gift box to put them in:
 
I used a gift box template, so if you would like this template, just email me! :)

To round it off I just tied a ribbon around the box and added a bead to each loose end.  Just to show how small it is:
Cute, huh? :D


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Saturday, November 26, 2011

And the Winner is........

And the winner of the MyMemories digital scrapbooking software is.........................................................................................................
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Maryanne from Scrappy Gifts with her lucky no. 19 comment!! :D  I know you're going to love this software!!! :D  Congrats Maryanne! :)  Please contact me within 7 days.  And thanx to My Memories for sponsoring this prize!   

Thanx to everyone else who entered...I wish I could give all of you this awesome prize!  BUT you never know.....maybe....just maybe there'll be another giveaway in future....I guess you'll have to stay tuned to find out!!  :P

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

MyMemories Digital Scrapbooking Giveaway Part 2 - More Ideas

Here are some more layouts I made using the MyMemories Suite v2 digital scrapbooking software - the same software that you can win in my giveaway HERE, sponsored by My Memories! (it closes on 19 November, so you still have a few days left to enter if you want to win this incredibly fun prize!)  :)

There are hundreds of ready-to-use designer layouts to choose from, like this next one below - all the work is already done for you, all you have to do is add your photo (the only goodies I added here is the flourish at top left, and the butterfly):
And then there are probably thousands of unembellished background papers to choose from, where you can add your own embellishments...like the old-fashioned scrapbooking way. :)  I used a batty background paper and added all my own embellishments and frames here:
This digital scrapbooking software is quite addicting, I must have you know.  :)

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