What a blessing to be asked to be to be a guest designer for Paper Adventures blog hop today! I had a pretty full week with classes and remodeling going on in our home, but I didn’t want to pass up this opportunity! Thank you for inviting me to participate in this fun blog hop, Paper Adventures team!
The theme of the blog hop was “packaging”. They didn’t restrict the projects to any certain theme, but how could I pass up the opportunity for creating a Christmas theme? I have fallen in love with the Poinsettia Place Suite, even though I don’t create a lot of floral and elegant type projects. This project seemed to come together nicely. I was so glad our theme was packaging because I need a lot of these type projects to get me through the holiday season that will soon be here!
The Mini Paper Pumpkin Boxes are so fun to decorate for packaging. You know us paper crafters – it’s all about the PACKAGE! You can fit many of our Note Cards & Envelopes (in the Annual Catalog) inside this box. This would make a beautiful gift filled with Christmas cards, or even thank you cards for after Christmas! You could coordinate the cards by using more of the Poinsettia Place Bundle products!
I like to mix gold and silver in jewelry, but for some reason, when it comes paper crafting, I don’t like to mix those two colors. I wanted to use the Beaded Pearls on this project, but I wasn’t crazy about the silver on them when I had more of a gold-themed proejct. I discovered that you can color on the outer edge of the pearls with our Bronze Blends and it turns to a golden color!
I used our Gold Foil Sheets for one layer of the poinsettia, and for the two small gold bands. I ran them through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine with the Subtle 3-D Embossing Folder. I love the look of that embossing folder on the Gold Foil Sheets!
All of the stamping on this project was done using the Versamark Pad, then embossed in Gold Embossing Powder using our Heat Tool. I fussy cut the gold embossed Merry Christmas Sentiment. I used many Dimensionals on this project to give a lot of POP to my layers!
Here is a PDF to help you with dimensions for the paper covering the box: Poinsettia Gift Box
I hope you are enjoyed this project, and look forward to the rest of the blog hoppers! I am confident you will get some great ideas for packaging your treats and gifts! Next on the HOP is Siobhan’s project. Her link is below.
Your decorated box is beautiful. The embossed gold strips look like luxurious ribbon. I’m like you Lorri and don’t like to mix gold and silver – even with my jewellery! Thank you for joining our blog hop as the guest designer.
Thank you so much for inviting me, Narelle! I appreciate that! I LOVED seeing your creativity as well!
I love these mini paper pumpkin boxes and I love they way you have decorated this one. Aren’t those beaded pearls just divine? Thanks for joining in on our team blog hop. Mandy x
Love your Poinsettia gift box. It’s beautiful! Do you mind if I steal your idea for a gift?
Thank you CJ! Of course you can use that idea, that is the ultimate compliment!!!!
I love this and would love to be on the receiving end of this beautifully embellished gift.
Love the gold with the poinsettia… very classy. THank you for sharing this
Thank you so much Anne! I’m so glad you visited on the blog hop!!!!!
This is stunning, Lorri. You could put all sorts of pretty things inside a box like this and it would make a really thoughtful gift. I love all the layers and details in this. Great tip for colouring the beads. Thank you so much for joining in with our team hop this month and for making such a beautiful project to share with us.
Thank you so much! It was so fun to participate in this!
awesome love it
Thank you Amy!!
Beautiful Christmas packaging idea Lorri-The Paper Pumpkin boxes look great reimagined in this way. Thanks for joining us for this blog hop 🙂
Thank you Lisa! It was fun participating!!!
I’m CASEing this! I was going to ask where you got the gold ribbon, lol. So clever! Love everything about this.
Thank you Gail! I’m so glad you followed along on the hop!
I love everything about this Lorri! The embossing on the gold leaves is just magic! Thanks for joining us as the guest designer for the Paper Adventures hop! Kelly x
Thank you Kelly! Means the world to me that you replied! I am a BIG fan of your work!