Stamped 4 x 4 envelopes, using a Hero Arts background stamp.
Tied up with wide vintage lace, a glittery holly leaf, Christmas tag, button, leaf ribbon and twine.......perfect little envies for gift cards or cash this holiday season.
Just uploaded to my Etsy shop, see link at the left. Hope you're having a great Sunday afternoon! Off to visit with my company more. :)
I created some beautiful gift card envelopes using the pretty lace and some Papertrey goodies.
I used Stocking Prints to create a sentiment tag and a paper pieced stocking. This is such a fun little set, I can't wait to ink it up again.
I created my tags by stamping my sentiment in Dark Chocolate ink onto creamy cardstock. I then cut my tags using Spellbinders Nestabilities ovals. The stocking was paper pieced with some pretty holiday paper. I tied my wide lace ribbon around some medium square envelopes that were covered with snowman patterned paper from my stash. The tags were tied to the lace with Martha Stewart red and white striped twin, with the addition of a little silver jingle bell.
Perfect for gift cards or money cards this holiday season. I always like to fancy up the gift cards since they come in such a small package. It's fun for the recipient to open a pretty little package. 
Actually this mug image is so easy to cut out that I stamped it with Scarlet Jewel ink onto scraps of the Basic Grey background paper and paper pieced the images by cutting them out with fine tip scissors.
Before I adhered my mugs to my punched squares stamped with Borders and Corners Squares, I stamped the oval image from Warm Happiness with Aqua Mist ink. I love how this creates a little shadow for the mug. Aqua Mist Vintage Buttons with linen string finish off the mugs. A little Aqua Mist ribbon and a sentiment from an old SU! set finish off the cards.
There's Post It Notes for everyone along with fun colored clips, metal tags, a clothespin to embellish and more....
Snippets of pretty ribbon, buttons, felt snowflakes, and glittered stars.....
......and lots of hand made embellishments, my favorite part. Let's get this party started! Somebody pass me a margarita!!
A few goody sacks, lined papers and envelope......
......and the ever popular Really Useful Box in green or red. It's going to be a fun time! I can hear the chatter at the water cooler now.:)
Here's a photo of the kit contents below.
Close up of 4 x 4 assorted Christmas papers to use on cards, bags or tags...glittered star, punched label, glittered chipboard piece, Elle's Studio tag, Crafty Secrets vintage Christmas image sheet...
Two sizes of Post It Notes, metal tag, small and jumbo paper clip, flowers, buttons, clips, giant brads, clothespin....
And my personal favorites.......the DooDads....little handmade tags, lovingly pieced together with buttons, punches, flowers and string........circle tags to add to cards or gift bags...stamped and punched sentiments.......a snowflake with button........just add a pop dot to the back and adhere to desired surface.
For my Itty Bitty Wreath, I used traditional colors of Copic reds and greens to color my image. I stamped a Papertrey Christmas sentiment right beside the wreath and then cut both images out with a Spellbinder's Mega Deckled Rectangle Nesties die template. The embossed detail and the deckle edges really add a lot to the focal image. I made a few little snips on a strip of patterned paper to make an accent banner behind the main image.
For the base of my card, I used some holly printed patterned paper, dotted with clear EK Success sticker dots. A pretty ribbon in Aqua Mist finishes off the card. 
I drew my color inspiration from the red, blue and green colors in the old photo. For the base card, I used Kraft cardstock and three strips of patterned paper. The green and blue papers are from the Friends Til The End collection and the red paper is from the Green Tea Leaves collection. I stamped the tree from Pine's Holiday Tree in Ripe Avocado ink then stamped on polka dots in Pure Poppy and Enchanted Evening. I added clear sequins to add some sparkle.
Because I stitched around my top layer of the card, I wanted to cover up the stitch lines on the inside. I cut a piece of Pure Poppy cardstock to fit and then punched a scallop edge along one short side, using a Fiskars border punch.
It gives a nice finished edge to my card...and on the inside, it leaves a place for me to attach this year's family photo. I can stamp or write my holiday message on the right side.
I hope you give this fun idea a try! For more inspiration, check out the other Papertrey girls' blogs:
Very simple treat sacks, wrapped with a strip of patterned paper and tied up with a black and white checkered ribbon and circle tag. Letter stamps are from Hero Arts.
Super simple glassine sacks filled with a few candies and tied up with more checkered ribbon and a tag from Papertrey's 2009 Halloween Tag Collection.
The girls' treat sacks with the Papertrey tags I made a while back. Tags are attached to gift sacks with covered clothespins...one of my favorite things!
And a special little treat sack that I mailed to my nephew Nick. I used the one eyed monster from the Eek a Monster set from My Cute Stamps on the tag. That little monster is so cute for Halloween. I stamped the monster onto kraft cardstock, then stamped it another time onto patterned paper....cut it out with fine tipped scissors and adhered it to the tag. I made easy work of all the circle tags by using my Spellbinder's Circle Nestabilities die templates.
And this stole the show.......a 4 pack of Jones Soda in Blood Orange flavor. Of course, nothing ever happens at our house without drama. Josey stuck her first bottle in the freezer. I told her not to leave it in there very long or the bottle would break. She did just fine. Then Jordy comes along and wants to put a bottle in the freezer so hers will get nice and cold. Again, I warn her to not leave it in there very long. Well, the next morning I hear Jordan open the freezer and she says *uh ohhhhhhhhhh*. Sure enough, she forgot and left her bottle of pop in the freezer all night. Both ends blew out and now there is broken glass everywhere in my ice maker. Nice.
Well, I hope you have a spooktacular Halloween day! We're heading to town to get a few last minute supplies and groceries. Tonight my dad is taking the girls and a few of their friends on a hay rack ride through the country.....it will be chilly so we'll have blankets and hot cider ready. Then we'll have nachos and caramel apples before we head out to trick or treat. Oh and now I have to make donuts. Our lady that always makes the donuts isn't doing it this year...I have to carry on the tradition!
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