Last minute Christmas gift ideas

Hello everyone!  OMG I must be out of my mind.... I have so much stuff to do and yet I manage to add more to my pile of things to do.... why you ask?!?  Well just because I figure it won't take me that long... and it will be fun...

BUT does it go that way?!?  well not really lol it always ends up being longer than expected and more effort than planned but I do end up with a nice result (most of the time) So this is what happened to me here.  I purchased some Christmas stockings for my colleagues to decorate the office.  Of course I purchased the real type of stockings so once they are hung... well you kinda have to put stuff in them.

So I was thinking and thinking and thinking some more about what to do about that.  I figured I would buy a little chocolate ferrero pack for each but that's already 7$+ as well as the stockings.... so couldn't do much more otherwise I'm purchasing too much.  So I figured HEY Christmas is about making stuff... so I can make something!  But what to make that they could use?!?  So I decided to make little Christmas gift tags as well as a little pillow box each.

The little tags were made using some Christmas playing cards and then I used some ribbon as well as some stamps on them and finished it off by tying them.  If you want to see them you have to check out my video here :

Then I used my silhouette machine and cut out some pillow box.  I looked at the images that I had and decided to play with a bunch of different Sassy Cheryl ones because 1) I could :) and 2) I had just purchased a new little one on sale and wanted to use it and 3) I totally love snowman and Santas and her's are fab.

All the little papers were little scraps from my stash :)  Very good to use those!!!

Here are those little pillow box.  The other ones that I did for some DT well you will have to wait to see those later :)

A blustery day - the new digi that I just purchased:

 Half moon Santa

 Hohoho Snowmen

 Better not pout

The sentiments come from Create with TLC.

I hope that you will be inspired if you have some little last minutes gifts or packages to make :)

I'm entering those little pillow boxes in the following challenges:

1. Christmas at sweet stampin challenge blog - Father Christmas
2. Crafting for all seasons - Christmas anything but a card
3. Double click connection - Snowman
4. Fab n funky challenges - Snowflakes
5. Tuesday throwdown - Snowflakes

That's it for me!  Hope you like this :)

Hugs

Half moon Santa

Well Christmas is creeping around around the corner!!!!  And well with the fact that I haven't been well I have decided that we are not going to my family... and we are not doing a Christmas tree.... so we didn't pull out any of our regular decorations  (couldn't find the energy to go through all those boxes for what I would put). I just purchased some new stockings and some hangers and got some lights to go on the mantle and a Christmas wreath... that's all the decorations we have.

I have to admit for someone that usually goes over the top (Christmas in every room of the house) this seems quite bare... so I've been making some decorations with digis.  And this is one of them :)  It's unique and since I dated it... will be able to use it in the following years in our tree and remember that we HAVE passed through this together as a family!!!  I'm soooooo grateful for my family and my friends right now.  Don't think I would have been able to go through it all without them.

Here's my little ornament using a great digi from Sassy Cheryl that I got on sale :)  Looooove her art and haven't been playing much recently.