Christmas Tags

It's that time of the year again, Christmas! And yes, my mom asked me to make some stuff for her church pastors and their kids.. :D

I haven't been crafting for a while now so I was really rusty. Therefore, I pinterested, and pinterested, and pinterested for ideas and inspirations.

Guess it worked. I made these 3 tags for my mom. I'm quite happy how they turned up.

Materials used:

1. Cardstock - Kraft Paper from 
2. Ink - Fresh Snow, Papertrey Ink
3. Stamps: Stampendous - Christmas Wishes, Papertrey Ink - Tin Types Stamp Set, Christmas Blessings Stamp Set & Mehndi Medallion Mini Stamp Set.
4. Dies: Papertrey Ink Tag Sale #3
5. Others: Rangers Stickles - Christmas Red, Spring Moss 5/8" Satin Dots Ribbon.

And for the kids, I used my silhouette to cut out some socks, stamped them and stitched them together. I was going to make 3 different ones but I've been extremely busy lately at home and at work so I decided to give myself a break and went with 1 design only. Here they are:

Merry Christmas people!

Baby Full Moon

This year is a baby booming year for my family. My boys have 4 younger cousins already and they're only 4 months old today!

So I've been sorta offering my "services" to my cousins and sister in law for their full moon celebration. Here's what I designed for my SIL:

The idea for the pictures hanging behind the desert table came from my SIL. They look so good don't they?

Here's what I designed for my sister.

Muffin Topper

Tag for her popcorn door gift.

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Christmas Giftwrapping

Just wanted to share something different. I wrapped two sets of gifts for Christmas last year. One for my husband's family, the other for mine.

Theme I decided on then was craft paper. So for my husband's family, I used the typical christmas gift wrapping colour, red. For accents, I used newspapers. So I made some newspaper flowers to top the presents. Here are their presents.

I was gonna use the same theme for my family but I was inspired by Tiffany's paper bag and decided to go with aqua blue ribbons. Here they are:

I die cut some tags using scraps from my many failed Christmas Cards attempt and Papertrey Ink's tiny tags die. The tags are tied using silver strings to give the presents some bling.

I wrapped these presents so that they looked alike for each couple / family. My favourite are my elder bro's and his wife's present (first two from right). I was running out of wrapping paper and I was not allowed to leave the house (post baby confinement) so I resorted to stitching some scraps into paper bags. They ended up looking classiest of all.

As for my sister's daughter's present, I thought craft paper and ribbons wouldn't be attractive enough for a 2 year old so I stamped lotsa animals onto the craft paper (stamp set: Papertrey Ink Tiny Treats: Birthday). Didn't seem to make any difference though... I guess kids love presents and do not care about their wrappings.

Christmas Gifts

Last week, I decided to treat my colleagues to some candies and small presents for Christmas. I wanted to give candy canes because it’s special, it tastes really good and there’s a very nice Christmas story behind it. I also decided to give some Post-It holders, something non-edible they could use throughout the year.

So, I had about 4 days to buy, assemble and wrap 25 gifts with 1 big problem. I can't find candy canes in Miri. 

Well, I really give thanks to God for providing me with the means to complete everything. How?

1. It just so happened that my husband’s family was going to KL for a holiday and one of his sisters was returning on the 21st (my deadline was 22nd). She managed to help me buy the candy canes.
2. I managed to find a nice poem about Candy Canes that explains the who and why of Jesus Christ, our saviour. 
3. I was able to get hold of everything I needed to make enough gift tags, post-it holders and goody bags all in one day.
4. I managed to come up with a general idea how to put everything together quite quickly. Normally, I spend DAYS AND DAYS stuck without any ideas. 

Here are the 5(4) types of Post-It holders I made.

Here is a picture of the completed gift.

I hope that they like their gifts and realize the true meaning of Christmas.

Merry CHRISTmas!