A warm welcome to the Inky Friends Presenting the Gifts Blog Hop!  We all picked a stamp set to work with and incorporate it into gift giving ideas and I decided to go with the cute set Santa’s Suit…

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If you are starting here, a big warm welcome – and if you are already hoping in order, you will have arrived from the wonderful Yapha who just showed you her beautiful projects using stamps from You’re Priceless.

I am using the cute set Santa’s Suit along with it’s coordinating set of dies Santa Builder Framelits which you can find on pg 23 of the Holiday Catalog – they are available separately or as the Santa’s Suit Bundle – here is what you get in that bundle:

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I came up with three gift packaging ideas, all of which are below – because there was not room to describe each in detail, I invite you to come back and visit me next week to find out full details, complete supply lists & more photos along with free Project Sheets for each item starting on Monday!

Here is my first idea – customizing those cute pizza boxes to create window gift boxes to house gift cards, candies or any small items…

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And as you can see, I was having so much fun with these that I made three different ones!  My gosh those stamps & dies are so much fun to work with!

The Mini Pizza Boxes come in packs of 8, are food safe and you can use them as-is or you can customize them if you want to get your craft on like I did!  I wanted to create windows for Santa to peek through – two have Santa indoors in his underwear looking outside and on the third one he is standing outside all dressed up and you get to see a room indoors through the window.

Here is my absolute favorite one…hehehe…I love how he is looking at his clothes on the line outside!

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And here is the one where is standing outside the house and through the window you see the Christmas tree…I love how 3-Dimensional that tree looks!  It is fun and easy to make with some dies and glitter for some sparkle!

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You get ALL of the stamps & dies to create both Santa styles you see above in the Santa’s Suit stamp set – it really is a great investment.  I will show a close up of the third one along with full details next week!

Now on to my second idea…I saw a pack of red & black gloves in Target this week and wanted to add tags to them to gift them but how to bling it up…I had a light bulb moment as I was putting away a mason jar this week and I realized that a pair of gloves would fit perfectly into a pint sized one!

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Mason jars are such an awesome and cost effective gift container – and reusable too!  Make a cute gift tag, add some ribbon and circle of DSP and bingo – you have a cute gift ready to go out of the door!

See that basic tag shape?  That is cut using a die that you can also find in Santa Builder Framelits – how neat is that?  And I love how big the hole in the top og the tag is, so that you can get thicker ribbons through it.

Here is a close up of one of the tags…isn’t his little gingham outfit cute?

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I love paper piecing patterned papers onto stamped images like I did above – it makes them look SO good!

Now for my third idea…I wanted a cute way to package a gift card and I found inspiration from a swap I received from my lovely friend Kelly Acheson a few years ago…

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Isn’t that cute?  Again, all stamps & dies used to create Santa’s face are from the Santa’s Suite Bundle – I am totally in love with that bundle!

Slide off the belly band and open that top flap to reveal this…

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And when that top flap is fully opened, this is what you will see…

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Want to see what’s inside there?  You’ll have to come back on Monday to get the measurements, more photos and free tutorial sheet as I don’t have space to post it all here today but here’s a hint – somewhere there is an altered envelope!

A big thank you for visiting – click on the ‘Next Blog’ button below to go and visit the talented Rhonda and see what super cute projects she came up with…

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Thanks so much for visiting & enjoy the hop – have a wonderful weekend!

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It’s the Inky Friends Presenting the Gifts Blog Hop with Santa’s Suit!
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6 thoughts on “It’s the Inky Friends Presenting the Gifts Blog Hop with Santa’s Suit!

  • November 10, 2017 at 9:12 am
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    OH my!! Such cute and creative projects Sarah! I love them all! Amazingly adorable pizza boxes!!

  • November 10, 2017 at 12:53 pm
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    WOW, your projects are AMAZING Sarah! Love the Mason Jars, need to start using Mason Jars more. Love It!

  • November 10, 2017 at 5:22 pm
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    Adorable! Love that little Santa guy looking out the window at his clothes. So creative!

  • November 10, 2017 at 10:06 pm
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    These are adorable, Sarah! I love what you did with the pizza boxes!!

  • November 14, 2017 at 6:50 pm
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    So cute, Sarah! Where do you find the time? Love the idea of gifting gloves in a jar. Hmm

  • November 24, 2017 at 12:35 pm
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    Oh my goodness! A-dor-a-ble! I just checked out how you did the 3-D window for the pizza box–brilliant!!!

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