Summer Gifting Click image to enlarge Designer: May Flaum It’s summer, and that means that both time and money are tight around here. Today I want to share a few ideas to dress up gifts that are quick, use just a few supplies, and can really make a fun impact. Oh yeah, and I have a give away for one of you!! Just be sure to read to the very end of this page so you don’t miss out. Difficulty rating
Instructions (Print version) Dressing up this little cake was fun, simple, and the firefighters we gave it to loved it! The girls and I like to bake goodies for our local firefighters as well as my husband's crew to show our appreciation. I'm not sure if we have more fun making the goodies, or if they enjoy eating them more.  1. First, bake up a cake or cupcakes. I used box mix and used small springform pans to make cakes bigger than cupcakes, but smaller than usual 8” or 9” rounds. 2. punch one edge with the apron lace border punch, then crimp 3”x 12” strips of blue cardstock. I needed two for this size cake, you could need more depending on size. 3. Punch three large twinkle twinkle stars in blue, and three in red. Then sandwich (I used a glue dot) on a toothpick and insert into cake. Be sure the points are not lined up so you can see both colors! 4. Finish by placing cake on plate (I covered a small cardboard circle with foil) and gluing tiny pom-poms around edge. I wanted to gift this cute little baby boy outfit to a friend, but I don’t want to fully wrap it, but I did want to dress it up a little. My solution? A quick ribbon and tag!
1. Cut a tag (3 x 5) from both kraft and blue cardstock. Punch kraft cardstock with apron lace border punch along right side and layer on top of blue tag. 2. Punch three (L) twinkle twinkle stars and attach to left side. 3. finish with buttons glued to the stars. Finally, I want to share a little something with one of you! When I saw this cute paper by Cosmo Cricket with the scissors on it, I thought how fun it would be to create a funky little tag with my leftovers, and then to combine it with a give-away on my blog for one of you.
1. Place the paper (scissors) on yellow cardstock, then trim so that about ½ shows on bottom, about 1 ½” on top. Then use apron lace border punch along bottom. 2. Attach to pink cardstock (approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½) 3. Stitch lace on, then add smiling lady paper decoration (stitched around edges), and star punches. 4. Finish with a strip of crimped paper at the top, use admission corner punch on top corners, and use apron lace border punch along bottom of pink cardstock.
Supplies: http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_paper-crimper.aspx http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_premium-crafters-trimmer.aspx http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_softouch-micro-tip-scissors.aspx http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_squeezecorner-admissionforone.aspx http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_squeezecorner-chipoffblock.aspx http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_twinkle-twinkle-l.aspx http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_borderpunch-apron-lace.aspx http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_tape-runner.aspx other: cardstock, buttons, ribbon, cosmo cricket patterned paper, toothpicks, thread
|
