Simple festive Gift Bag using Punch Board

I’m crabby. I have a cold and I’m not taking it well. So the big long impressive tutorial I have for you will have to wait, and I’ll show you this simple gift bag instead. 

How simple? Pretty simple, if you use the Gift Bag Punch Board which, take it from me, is not that easy to say. Those who attended my team meeting on Saturday morning will know what I’m talking about. We had a lovely morning, keeping things very low-key with a few shared projects and a Christmas fuddle. It was a nice, relaxed atmosphere before the chaos of Christmas.

So, with the Gift Bag Punch Board, you can make three widths of box using the instructions in the pack. The height is, of course, variable. But even that seemed a little limiting to me, so I had a play around and have come up with some more fun projects you can make with this board. The result is that this is my favourite of the three punch boards currently available. 

Gift Bag Punch Board [135862] £18.00	Jingle All The Way Clear-Mount Bundle [140862] £26.25	Confetti Stars Punch [135861] £20.00
Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] £6.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Silver Glimmer Paper [135314] £4.50
Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper [135315] £4.50	Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments [119246] £4.50	Silver Cording Trim [139620] £4.50

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Clean and simple Sleigh Ride card

I must get back to blogging more frequently! It’s not like I’m short of projects - I still have most of the cards from my Christmas workshop to show you, and I was part of a shoebox swap in the morning with some of my team. 

For those who have never experienced a shoebox swap, it’s great fun; you take along a project for everyone to make. It means you get to use stamps and tools you may not have, and stamp in a different style from your own. The only rule for this one was that it had to be from the new Autumn/Winter catalogue. 

I was cunning… I mean organised… and took along the leftover Make & Takes from an early SU party, but I’ll show you the other projects over the next few days. This one was Tricia’s and I loved it - clean and simple with crisp lines but with a fun technique in there, too; to create the moon you simply punch with a circle punch, then taking the “negative” rather than the circle, punch again to create a crescent moon. You can’t tell from my picture, but it’s punched out of glimmer paper for extra sparkle. 

Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies [139670]	1" Circle Punch [119868]	Confetti Stars Punch [135861]	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577]
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549]	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688]	Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper [135315]

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