Christmas Favors

I've been busy making a basket of favors to take to the Christmas dinner we're invited to with a very large family. I've always taken treats, but this year I decided to throw in a few calendars for those who don't eat candy. When I figure out how to edit photos, I'll share pics of the calendars. This photo has lots of shadows, but you get the idea. There are not only calendars, but matchbooks that hold Ghiradelli candies as well as treat boxes that also hold either 2 Hershey snack bars or 2 mini Kit Kat bars.

These are the snack bar containers where I used lots of snippets of dsp and many assorted dies. For the one on the left I used a Li'l Inker stitched rectangle in white, and placed a die-cut Poppy Shasta twig, dotted with red liquid pearls. The center piece has a Frantic Stamper die-cut stag with a little red Geo Sparkler sticker for a red nose. The one on the right has a white die-cut panel done with a Gina Marie Designs stitched scalloped oval along with 2 Lawn Fawn stitched die-cut snowflakes. I added 2 tiny silver stickers to the centers of the snowflakes. Each box was tied with either ribbon or twine. Another one shown in the basket has a candy cane die from a SU! Square Pillowbox Framelit set of dies. I could sit for hours and make treat containers like this, and it's a great way to use all those snippets of ribbon and paper we all have in our stash!

I used a tutorial found HERE to make these containers. They're designed for one snack bar, but I managed to get 2 into each box :)

I'm sharing this with the DiesRUs Challenge #135 which is "anything Christmas"

This might be my last post before Christmas, so if I don't make it back before then, I wish you all a wonderful season of joy and happiness with many blessings in your lives! Thanks for being such great friends and visiting me when you can. I hope to be a better blogger once I have time to settle down and do some problem solving with this new operating system! Thanks for your patience in the meantime :)

Carol