Showing posts with label Packaging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Packaging. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2014

Christmas Packaging

This is going to be a long, pictorial post so you may want to grab a cuppa before you settle down to view.

Firstly the presents for my work friends













Just a little pressie for a colleagues son, I also made some winter bark (dark and white chocolate marbled together with craisins and pistachios rather than peanuts) for her husband which is a real favourite of his, but omitted to take a photo of that packaging. 

For those of you who don't know, I work as a manager at a Community House, we help with all sorts of community development projects as well as providing local adult education and leisure activities for the whole community. Every year we organise a Christmas concert in conjunction with the local school, the children perform and the grade six students graduate. We also have performances from  community members who can sing and play instruments and the children's ballet group. The evening starts with a sausage sizzle cooked by the guys from the Men's Shed and ends with the arrival of Santa on the Country Fire Authority truck,bringing goody bags for all the children. Then it is time for the community to get together and chat over tea and cakes.

The next items are for our wonderful volunteers who help out each year to make our Community Christmas event go off smoothly. I think this years concert was the best yet. One visitor who hadn't been before, remarked how talented the school children and locals were and suggested that rather than being a free event we should be selling tickets. High praise indeed!



 Isn't this just the most gorgeous poinsettia?
 A little snifter for Santa
Front of bag
Tag

Back of the bag






A gift card holder

Hand stamped wrapping paper
With matching tag





Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Happy birthday Judy


It's birthday time again, for my good friend Judy. I had lots of fun making the packaging, plenty of stamping and fussy cutting.

For the flower on top of the box, I stamped and punched it out it several times to layer up and make the flower appear larger.

Most of the items used are from Stampin' Up! The exceptions are: The long leaf die - Simon says Stamp exclusive. The fish tail tags and ordinary tag are from My Favourite Things.
 





Sunday, October 19, 2014

Some Chrissy packaging


Having a little play around with some designs for Christmas.

The decorated bag has been made using the We R Memory Keepers bag maker and  paper from Kaiser craft. I have added a tag (MFT die) with tree and sentiments from Papertrey Ink.

The star box has become very popular and my friend Judy has written some great instructions on how to make it, see here. I have decorated mine with a Holly branch from Memory box and Merry Christmas from Simon Says Stamp.

Lastly, this lovely little curvy keepsake box from Stampin' Up! I cut mine from another range of Kaiser crafts paper. They have a great selection of Kraft based designs. I have decorated it with one of the tags that come with the curvy keepsake die and added pine branches ( Martha Stewart punch), sequins and a gold bow (Memory box die).