Wrapping Up the 12 Days of Christmas

I thought I would share my Cricut cuts and stamping done for packaging the 12 Days of Christmas gifts.  Each bag was stamped using a retired Heartfelt Creations stamp in cranberry Close to My Heart stamp ink.  I colored the leaves with a Close to My Heart ink pen and created the centers with my Viva Decor red pearl pen.  The die cuts were mostly cut at 4 1/2 inches in layers using the Joys of the Season cart.

On the first day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

 That darn Partridge thought you might enjoy this funny Christmas story!

They each received a copy of The Best Christmas Pagent Ever!

On the second day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

 Rather that two turtle doves we thought you might enjoy making something instead!


They each received the ingredients for making turtle brownies.

On the third day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

 Those French hens are happy homemakers!  They thought you might enjoy making this potpourri.


They each received the potpourri ingredients shown in my previous post.

On the fourth day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

The calling birds thought you might like these note cards to send out your gratitude.


This gift was the thank you cards shown in my previous post.

On the fifth day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

 Something to light up the night.  Not quite as good as glinting gold, but hopefully fun nonetheless!



I stamped napkins and colored with ink and used a heat gun to melt wax paper around votive candles.  I failed to get a photo of the candles, but trust me they were cute.

On the sixth day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

We considered a new car, but decided on something you could really use!  We hope you like your new washer and dryer!


This gift was a new washcloth and towel.  Funny, yes?  

On the seventh day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

Swans, a time honored symbol of love.  Instead of those noisy birds, we thought you might enjoy kiss filled trees instead.

This gift was the Christmas trees from my previous post.

On the eighth day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

The milk provided by those maids was likely to be curdled by now.  We thought you might enjoy this to toast the New Year!


This gift was the reindeer sparkling cider from my previous post.

On the ninth day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

 The ladies thought you might enjoy some pretty color for your tippy toes.


A small pink nailpolish- so cute.

On the tenth day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

Those lords something about tired feet!  Here’s a little gift to sooth them after a long day’s work.


This was the sugar scrub from my previous post.  The Lord is wearing a gold crown triple embossed with gold embossing powder.  Fun!

On the eleventh day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

Piping hot goodness to warm your January days.



This bag was filled with hot cocoa and hot apple cider mixes.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my good friends gave to me….

A game to play for the entire family.  Don’t eat Pete (it’s no way to start the new year)!


A bag of M & Ms and a Don't Eat Pete board.  Hopefully the kids enjoyed playing this game...

I typically wrap a cardboard box to carry the gifts in.  Here's the final version.  And one more under our ginormous Christmas tree:

Three sets to fill the space under the Christmas tree.  These beauties were completed about 3 pm on Christmas eve.  Nothing like waiting until the last minutes....

12 Days of Christmas Gifts

I have made the 12 Days of Christmas gifts for my niece and nephews and for my good friends for the past couple of years.  This annual fun fest is simply one of my favorite things for the Christmas season.  No matter how busy I am, this is a joy filled fun activity and consumes most of my craftiness for the month of December.  Here's some of the projects I made for the gifts.  One gift was a card set intended to be used as Thank Yous for those Christmas gifts.  A simple design so that making 12 of them (3 sets of four cards for each of the three families) wouldn't be burdensome, but also they would be beautiful.  The poinsettia was die cut using my Spellbinders Poinsettia die and then spritzed with white acrylic paint using a toothbrush.

The center of the poinsettia is some Good Earth Elements from Art Glitter.  The greenery cut from Cricut's Joys of the Season from green cardstock.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Friendship Messages stamped in black Archival ink.

Next, I used a potpourri recipe found on Pinterest.  I had some precut cotton fabric circles and placed that over a Bell jar of cranberries screwing the lid on tight.  A little twine to hold the tag onto the jar and the recipe cut out with a Spellbinders die.

These Christmas trees are so simple to make.  I totally followed this post which as simple instructions for mass producing this fun treat.

I couldn't pass up the opportunity to dress up some sparkling cider.  The reindeer were fun to create and used up some of the googly eyes I've been holding onto.

Finally, I made some peppermint sugar scrub to sooth tired feet.  Not sure this was the best idea, but I gave it a try and thought the packaging looked nice.

I couldn't resist one last peak at our Christmas festivities.  My sister-in-law hosts Christmas breakfast for everyone on my husband's side of the family.  She is a wonder at setting a beautiful table.  This year's theme was white and gold.  Those are fresh flowers in the centerpieces and chocolate kisses in the center of the napkin.  Such care and love she has poured into our lives.  This year marks more years I've been participating in the celebration than years I spent not participating.  Looking back, I'm so blessed to have entered such a wonderful family and couldn't imagine my life without this special time each year.  I've one more post to show you the finished packages for the 12 Days and then I promise to move onto new projects.

See you soon (if I can get those photos edited).

Christmas Gift Tags

I thought I would share a quick gift tag idea.  I used the Cricut Joys of the Season cart to cut these cute ornament tags out.  The base was cut from solid cardstocks and the <bulb2> ornament creative feature image was cut from various scraps of Christmas patterned paper I had on hand.  After gluing the two












layered pieces together, I applied a very thick coat of Crystal Accents over the patterned paper.  The large quantity of glue takes a little to dry, but the final effect is an epoxy type finish that creates dazzle with little effort (besides patience while they dry).  I used an old Martha Stewart acrylic stamp set to stamp To and From on the back side and these are on hand to dress up all our packages.  I usually tie a piece of twine, hemp, or crochet thread to the ornament to hang from the package.

Hoping your Christmas is merry and bright.

Andie