Artist Date – Christmas Gift Ideas

Wed, Dec 16, 2009

Artist's Date

Happy Wednesday friends!! It’s just a little over a week before Christmas! Are you done shopping for presents? If you’re like me, you’re still trying to squeeze in some last-minute shopping here and there and just hoping and hoping you get everything done.

If you’re still trying to find that perfect gift for someone, well, read on and I hope something here inspires you today. Here are some Christmas ideas and gifts you can make using what is readily available to you -  your digiscrapping supplies.

First, here is Amber’s Advent calendar that she made using a cookie sheet and some magnets, then embellished it with chipboard letters, ribbon and glitter.

amber-advent

Here are some gifts I’ve made the past few years. Most of these are very simple to make. I designed a page (or in some cases, used a QP) and simply printed it on cardstock.

1. CD calendar using the Black Friday calendar giveaway right here on the blog. The original size of this giveaway calendar is only 2×3 but I enlarged it and it still printed out fine.

calendarCD

2. Instead of using regular Christmas wrapping paper, I used this treat bag topper from Aja & Angie’s Santa Little Helper grab bag and kraft paper to gift wrap  some booklets I gave out as presents to friends.

bag topper

3. Nightlight

4. Canvas panel using Prepared Pretties (quick pages) from HGD by Laurie Ann

5. I used address labels to wrap up these Hersheys nuggets chocolates for some treats for my kids’ classmates.

hersheys-nuggets

6. For this pen and notebook set, I mod-podged my printed page on a notebook I bought at Target and tied ribbons on the spiral. For the pen, I glued the printed page on the pen then used tacky tape to adhere microbeads to give the sparkling look.

I hope you got some ideas or were inspired to create by my post. Have a happy Wednesday!

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Joy - who has written 40 posts on Digital Scrapbooking Ideas and Supplies.


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4 Responses to “Artist Date – Christmas Gift Ideas”

  1. rachel Says:

    Joy I am so impressed! What awesome gifts you have created!

  2. Aja Says:

    Joy! This is so awesome! What a great post! It’s got me thinking about adding some little treats to my Christmas to-do list!

  3. Gabi Says:

    Joy!! I LOVE all those ideas! These are such a beautiful gifts!! Thank you so much for sharing! :)

  4. Nancie Says:

    Amazing! Amazing stuff!! Thank you for sharing this Joy! xoxo n


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