Pretty Packaging! Who cares what is inside?

As my kids and nieces and nephews have gotten older I have found that I need some creative ideas for gift card packaging! Sometimes our easiest inspiration can come from the holiday cards we create! I used this card (which is a design we are making at my Christmas Card Class Friday night) to decorate this gold foil pizza box. Inside I can tuck a gift card and a couple of treats. It is always more fun to give things in pretty packaging!

This card features my favourite set of the moment the Word Wishes (149629) dies to create the sparkly Merry Christmas along with the ‘sprig’ element from the Christmas Layers Dies (150654). Carrying both of these elements and color pallet over allowed the card and pizza box to look like a team. I am so happy with the end result!

Holiday Gift Packaging

It is easy to use a card as the inspiration for Gift Packaging!

Artisan Inspired Wreath

I absolutely love following what the Stampin’ Up! Artisan design team are up to! This wreath was inspired by one of the amazing designers on the team, Mikaela Titheridge. Her original wreath can be viewed on Stampin’ Up!’s Instagram account. My Avid stamp group requested this project and I am so happy with how it turned out. The largest flowers are created using the balloon builder punch! I love when a punch can be used in a unique way. I also used both sizes of the daisy punch and the scrunchy flowers are made by 6 scallop circles stapled together and scrunched! Easy peasy! I can’t wait to hang it on my front door to keep the idea of summer around a little bit longer!