Hi there oh stamping ones,  are you fingers inky today? 

Here I’m going to show you how easy it can be to make & decorate things to give as gifts.  I love to make a collection of gifts & send them off to someone special.  This is a parcel I sent to the lovely, kind & generous Linda Craven  Linda was one of the members of the ESAD group who joined in on a secret santa gift giving swap & I was lucky enough to have her as my recipient.

So ths is the gift in total that I sent to Linda & below you will see a close up of a couple of items

Linda has on her wishlist a stampset that she really really wanted & had refrained from buying it, (good girl Linda)

I made a box to put the stamp set in (that is on the left at the back) & here is a close-up of the front of the box

I love how this turned out…..oh & guess what lInda’s favourite colours is…….PINK (yup I was in my element

Linda also wanted some embellishments, so I made a collection up & bagged them & topped the bags.  I then decorated a tin & popped them in there.  Here’s what was inside the tin

Some felt flowers, rhinestone brads & some of those YUMMY calorie free cupcakes

Linda also loves dark chocolate, although I was a bit worried about sending chocolate in the summertime I did up one of my favourite slider pouches & popped some chocolate in there.  I decorated the front of it with a  couple of butterflies, this is a close up of them……….

So that’s what I made & sent.  I know LInda enjoyed receiving it as much as I enjoyed making  & sending it.  I hope this was inspirational & maybe sparked some ideas on gift giving/making.

Till the next time we cross paths…..keep smiling

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