I hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas holiday (some of you might still be on holiday).
On December 23rd I was invited to celebrate a 12½ year wedding anniversary with a collegue of mine at the school and her husband. The celebration was held in the café area of the school where a lot of people can be gathered.
I had bought a gift card for a Romantic dinner for 2 persons for the happy couple and instead of presenting them with the original box for the card, I'd made one of my personalized boxes.
When I got the boxes I also bough a christmas red one, already knowing I was going the this celebration. I had bought the dies for the decorations and as a symbol of the family (dad, mum and two kids) I made four decorations. The holders are made with copper coloured paper as is the 12½. I had some fir dies which I used in the corners. Seen in retrospect I should have put some red berries on them. Well, that's too late to remedy now.
On the lid I added a great border that I have - also in copper coloured paper. The border goes all the way round - yes, also on the back, and that's the finishing touch that make the box so special for the occassion in my eyes.
In the box I put some pale green paper, which matched the background paper and on the top of that rested the gift card.
Next I had to make a gift tag of course. And I used this awesome garder die in combination with his house (I don't remember, if that's the same die set) and a flag set, where I could make a Danish flag. The sentiment is written on the back.
I had to leave the celebration early as I had to go to the north of Jutland to celebrate Christmas with my family and I wanted to arrive there before it got too dark.
Right - now to the birthday card.
I have a great friend whose birthday is in the middle of December and I wanted to send her a nice card of course.
I'd bought the bauble die in early october (I think it was) and of course this should be used for a December birthday. I used some nice stickers as ribbon to hang them on and added some fir branches as well.
Then I added a kind of pocket die at the bottom - I honestly don't know why, other than I thought it looked nice.
There's probably a lot of ways to use that "pocket" die, but right now, my head is quite empty for ideas, so if you have any, please let me know.
That's is for now, but feel free to leave me a comment if you like my projects and if you'd like to see my cards/projects etc. on a regular basis, please join my blog or my instagram.
And of course HAPPY NEW YEAR, I hope you have a prosperous and productive one.
Be happy crafting!
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