The Twelve Days of Gift Tutorials: Day 5
Hello G45ers,
Are you looking for the most beautiful ideas for handmade gifts and cards this holiday season? Then you've come to the right place! Today we're going to share yet another breathtaking card by Gloria Stengel featuring our 12 Days of Christmas collection. Then we've got a magnificent gift tutorial by Clare Charvill in which she's going to show you how to make a gorgeous candle gift box! Welcome to day 5 of the Graphic 45 Twelve Days of Gift Tutorials! You'll find the most enchanting gift tutorials that are inexpensive and fun to create! Let the holiday bliss begin!
We wanted to remind all of you G45ers about the incredible contest that we're having in honor of this splendid holiday blog event! Just leave us a blog or Facebook comment for your chance to win this fabulous grand prize that includes our 12 Days of Christmas collection as well as fabulous products from Core'dinations, Xyron, Petallo and Scor-Pal! This amazing prize is worth over $135 and its got everything you need to create a dazzling handmade holiday! Be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win! A random winner will be announced on our blog on Friday, December 13th! Stay tuned to see if you've won!
The 5th day of Christmas celebrates the 5 golden rings. Here is Gloria's gorgeous card that captures all the festive beauty of this special day. Of course the Golden Rings paper from 12 Days of Christmas is just perfect for this amazing card. A few pretty paper layers, lovely ribbon and Graphic 45 Metal Key Holes help make this card a true vintage-inspired treasure! Follow along with Gloria's helpful tips and create your own handmade holiday card for someone you love with 12 Days of Christmas!
Christmas projects are the perfect time to mix you metals! The sparkle and shine of the holiday season is perfect for glitter gold and silver, but also the more vintage metals as I have shown here.
I created visual interest by fussing cutting the large ring and ribbon image from the Golden Rings paper. Then I created a loopy bow out of real ribbon and glued it onto the paper bow.
I paired one of the Graphic 45 Ornate Metal Keyhole Staples with a fancy brad and a Christmas charm to add vintage sparkle to the card.
I decorated the inside of the card with a postage image sticker and a strip from the Joyeux Noel paper. I added a bit of pop by fussing cutting another ring from the Golden Rings paper and attaching it to the inside of the card with a foam square.
Supplies:
Graphic 45 The Twelve Days of Christmas papers:
Graphic 45 The Twelve Days of Christmas Cardstock Stickers
Graphic 45 Ornate Metal Keyhole Staples
Cardstock: WorldWin Papers Original ColorMates Light Totally Tan, Elan Metallics Antique Gold, ColorMates Caramel
Ribbon: May Arts
Lace: Really Reasonable Ribbon
Brad: K and Company
Trinket and brad: Tim Holtz Idea-ology
Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares; Scotch 3M ATG tape runner; Beacon Fabri-trac; Aleene's Tacky Glue
And now it's time for another magical tutorial to help you create the perfect handmade holiday gift! Here we have Clare's marvelous candle gift box! Candles make amazing holiday gifts. They're especially wonderful for the long nights of winter. But you can add so much personality and charm to any candle by creating a beautiful handmade gift box to accompany it! Get inspired by Clare's wonderful video tutorial! Have fun creating this gorgeous gift for friends and family this holiday season with our 12 Days of Christmas collection. Take it away, Clare!
"My gift today is an exploding candle gift box . I used two sheets of the 12 x 12 Golden Rings paper for this 5th Day of Christmas gift idea and co ordinated it with the plaid side of Swans a Swimming to get the finished effect. The theme is carried onto the candle with five golden rings too. The box is made from chipboard, sections, joined together, painted and then decorated in yellows and greens. I used the festive flower sprays from the corners of the Golden rings paper and some gorgeous green ribbon to give the gift a truly festive feel. Follow along with the video tutorial if you’d like to make one yourself. Have a wonderful Christmas everyone." -Clare
Video Tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeowFH3RtAY&feature=youtu.be
Supplies:
2mm chipboard
Paper Artsy Holly Chalk Acrylic paint
Masking tape
12 x 12 Golden Rings x 2
12 x 12 Swans a Swimming x 1
May Arts Ribbon
Walnut Stain Distress Ink
Tacky Glue, Score Tape & Red Line tape
Candle from the Pound Shop
Indigoblu Mega Flakes – Copper Kettle
Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die - Snowflake Rosette
We've got one more special holiday treat for you all today! Our friends at PaperHaus Magazine are also hosting a magnificent holiday event called the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop! They are celebrating the release of the Winter Issue of PaperHaus Magazine but also inspiring you each day with wonderful holiday projects, giveaways and inspiration! The PaperHaus Winter Frolic 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop will run from December 1st to December 12th! Be sure to stop each day and leave a comment each day to win some fabulous prizes by their lovely sponsors! Don't forget to check out the Winter Issue for additional inspiration, holiday cheer and some amazing projects from the PaperHaus contributing team! Here is a list of today's wonderful companies who are participating in this festive event!
- PaperHaus Magazine www.thepaperhaus.com
- Anna Sigga http://anna-sigga.blogspot.com/
- Peg Hewitt http://pegsplaytime.blogspot.com.au/
- Audrey Yeager http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com
- Graphic 45 http://g45papers.typepad.com
We had so much fun bringing you today's amazing crafts! There's more festive fun and inspiration in store for you on tomorrow's blog! We hope you'll visit us and join in the holiday cheer! Big thanks to Gloria and Clare for their amazing work today. Don't forget to leave us a blog or Facebook comment for your chance to win that amazing prize pack! We'll see you again tomorrow for another day of inspiration with the Graphic 45 Twelve Days of Gift Tutorials! Enjoy your day, G45ers!
With Love and Pretty Paper,
Your Friends at Graphic 45
LOVE all the projects with the Twelve Days paper line!!! Having a chance to win the prize is an added bonus!!
Posted by: Carol Pinkey | December 06, 2013 at 09:48 AM
Oh, how I wish I had this paper.
Posted by: Dana Desmond | December 06, 2013 at 09:57 AM
Will absolutely have to try this, its stunning!!
Posted by: DeniseQ | December 06, 2013 at 10:00 AM
Great card and project. The keyhole is beautiful on the card. Love it!
Posted by: Cheryl T. | December 06, 2013 at 10:13 AM
What amazing projects! Papers are always gorgeous :)
Posted by: Ilda | December 06, 2013 at 10:14 AM
Absolutely spectacular! Love the Candle box. Happy Christmas to you all!
Posted by: Jessica | December 06, 2013 at 11:01 AM
Gorgeous projects. Really loving the 12 Days of Gift Tutorials posts this year.
The box project is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Trina
Posted by: Trina Millin | December 06, 2013 at 11:31 AM
Hi, from "across the pond". So many wonderful projects full of inspiration and wonder. I particularly LOVE the candle gift box. Thank you Graphic 45 for yet another chance to win some amazing products. I should love to be the lucky winner and will be keeping everything crossed at this end.
Margaret A.
Posted by: Margaret A (South Yorkshire, UK) | December 06, 2013 at 01:32 PM
Thanks for sharing such nice Christmas ideas. They're all very festive and inspiring.
Posted by: Karen H | December 06, 2013 at 05:32 PM
Great projects. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Charlene M. | December 06, 2013 at 07:19 PM
Loving the traditional designs in this collection and all the gorgeous projects!
Posted by: karenladd | December 06, 2013 at 09:50 PM
What a clever gift box idea! Love all the inspiration you are giving us! Val from IL.
Posted by: Val P | December 07, 2013 at 06:20 AM
I love your products!!!
Posted by: iluszka | December 07, 2013 at 08:11 AM
Very Nice.
Posted by: Dorothy Peterson | December 07, 2013 at 10:00 AM
Great card...love the box.
Posted by: carolyn marentette | December 07, 2013 at 01:24 PM
Such gorgeous projects!
Posted by: Lucy E. | December 07, 2013 at 04:15 PM
I love the gift box. Totally amazing!
Posted by: Bev Witt | December 07, 2013 at 06:26 PM
I love all the projects! Absolutely Stunning! Love the gift box idea!
Posted by: Khrista | December 07, 2013 at 09:26 PM
This card is stunning! I love these exploding boxes!
Posted by: carisa zglobicki | December 07, 2013 at 10:29 PM
great projects!
Posted by: nitzan | December 07, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Thanks for being part of the Paperhaus Winter issue launch! :)
Posted by: Nicole Doiron | December 08, 2013 at 04:38 AM
Thanks for all the wonderful holiday ideas! Hopefully Santa will bring me a win for the giveaway!
Posted by: Dawn | December 08, 2013 at 07:27 AM
wow, what a beautiful exploding candle gift box....!!!!
Posted by: Heaney | December 08, 2013 at 10:08 AM
How absolutely beautiful these projects are and the papers are just wonderful. Wow!
Posted by: Linda R | December 09, 2013 at 05:59 AM
I love the candle gift box!!!
Posted by: Shannah Miner | December 09, 2013 at 07:29 AM
Yowzah! The metal accents on this are so fun. Will have to try out the candle but will have to brave the store and get some supplies.
Posted by: Lyn Kaufmann | December 09, 2013 at 05:30 PM
Beautiful product line. I can not choose a favorite project in this line, they are all wonderful. Thank you for the inspiration!
Posted by: Eileen R | December 09, 2013 at 08:18 PM
Absolutely gorgeous projects!!! Love that exploding box!
Hugs,
Jo
Posted by: Jo | December 10, 2013 at 05:56 AM
beautiful projects
Posted by: Geraldine | December 10, 2013 at 10:19 AM
Absolutely amazing
Posted by: Liz | December 10, 2013 at 03:14 PM
What a fabulous box!! Love it!!
Posted by: Emily H | December 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM
Wow love the box. What a super idea!
Posted by: Susie | December 11, 2013 at 11:22 PM
LOVE!! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Posted by: Mary Brockway | December 12, 2013 at 07:41 AM
The candle holder is awesome. Thanks for all the inspiring ideas
Posted by: Faye Warriner | December 12, 2013 at 11:39 AM
great 12 days of Christmas paper!
Posted by: sherri P | December 12, 2013 at 03:02 PM