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Homemade Holiday Gift Boxes and Ornaments

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Homemade Holiday Gift Boxes and Ornaments

Half the fun of giving others Christmas presents is wrapping them! Put your very own festive twist on your wrapping skills this season with these Homemade Holiday Gift Boxes and Ornaments. Everyone will be "ooh" and "aahing" over your impressive wrap job. Add a fresh rustic feel to your presents with faux pine branches, pine cones and other nature embellishments to top off your gift wrapping. Not only will your DIY gift boxes be jaw dropping, but the ornaments on top will add an extra gift that your special someone can use every Christmas.

Be sure to enter for a chance to win an Extravagant 3L Scrapbooking Supply Kit during the 12 Days of Christmas in July! This giveaway runs until July 30th and you can receive an extra entry just by commenting below on this page.

Estimated Cost$11-$20

Time to CompleteIn an evening

MaterialsNature Material, Paper

Primary TechniqueDIY Craft

SeasonWinter

HolidayChristmas

Project TypeMake a Project

Materials List

  • E-Z Runner® Ultra Refillable Dispenser
  • Dodz Adhesive Dots Small
  • Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium
  • Dodz Adhesive Dots 3D
  • Dodz Adhesive Dots 3D
  • Adhesive Sheets 4 x 6ʺ
  • E-Z Dots® Permanent Refillable Dispenser
  • 3D Foam Squares White Regular
  • Donna Salazar with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®: Girlie Grunge Art Medium, Texture Ribbons and Pigment Powder Gold
  • Clearsnap Colorbox Pigment Ink
  • Gold Embossing Powder
  • Buttons Galore & More buttons
  • Teardrop Crystal
  • Gold Flower Stamens
  • Gold Opaque Glitter
  • Gold Cord
  • Red Ribbon
  • Holiday Greens and Oval Dies
  • Cardstock: Dark Green, Light Green, Brown and Kraft

Instructions:

Ornament Tutorial:

  1. Apply Adhesive Sheets 4 x 6ʺ to dark green, light green and brown cardstock.

  2. With Adhesive Sheet liner side up, die cut different greenery from each color of cardstock.

  3. Remove liner of Adhesive Sheet, sprinkle exposed adhesive with glitter and press into adhesive. Remove excess. Repeat for all greenery pieces.

  4. Fasten gold cord to tear drop crystal.

  5. Wrap Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium around end of greenery branch.  Press onto cord above crystal. Cut greenery length as needed. Continue adding branches of greenery with Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium.

  6. Wrap 1 or 2 Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium around all greenery ends and cord.

  7. Dip flower stamens in Girlie Grunge Art Medium. Sprinkle with gold glitter.  Allow to dry.  Fasten over greenery with Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium.

  8. Form bow and tie with cord. Fasten to greenery with Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium.

  9. Thread gold cord through one buttonhole.  Wrap cord around greenery and ornament cord just below bow.  Thread cord through other buttonhole.  Place Dodz Adhesive Dots Small on back of button.  Press button in place over bow.  Pull cord snug.  Tie in bow or knot cord.  Trim cord ends.

  10. On back side of ornament, brush Pigment Powder Gold over exposed sticky areas of adhesive.

Box Embellishment Tutorial:

  1. Cut Texture Ribbons sheer organza ribbon to fit box top with extra to lap inside.  Apply E-Z Dots® Permanent Refillable Dispenser along edge of ribbon.  Sprinkle with gold glitter.  Remove excess.  Repeat along other edge.

  2. Apply adhesive with E-Z Runner® Ultra Refillable Dispenser inside edge of box lid.  Press ribbon end over adhesive.  Wrap ribbon over box top and fasten at other end with E-Z Runner® Ultra Refillable Dispenser

  3. Repeat Step 2 to fasten two lengths of dark red ribbon over sheer ribbon using E-Z Runner® Ultra Refillable Dispenser.

  4. Place 2 lengths of gold cord over dark red ribbon.  Fasten ends with E-Z Runner® Ultra Refillable Dispenser . Dust any exposed adhesive with Pigment Powder Gold

  5. Follow Ornament Steps 1-3 for greenery.

  6. Fasten greenery stems to one Dodz Adhesive Dots 3D.  Continue to fasten greenery with Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium. Fasten to box top.

  7. Follow Ornament Step 6 for flower stamens. Fasten over greenery with Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium.

  8. Thread gold cord through button, tie in a knot and trim ends. Fasten over greenery with Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium

  9. Dust Pigment Powder Gold over any visible adhesive

  10. Die cut oval from Kraft cardstock.  Stamp greeting with pigment ink.  Heat emboss with gold embossing powder.  Apply ink to edge of oval and heat emboss with gold.

  11. Fasten oval tag to box with 3D Foam Squares White Regular

Contest Rules:
  • There is a maximum of one extra entry per person. The extra entry will be based upon a comment left on this project. Duplicate comments will be deleted and are not tallied.
  • The winner will be selected at random from the comments on this page and the entries on the contest page.
  • The winner will be contacted on the morning of July 31, 2017.
  • Email Address provided in their account (please do NOT leave your email address in the comments--you already provided it when you created your account)
  • You have until Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 11:59pm EST to leave your comment on this post. Comments posted after that will not be counted.
  • Contest open to anyone 18+ in US and/or Canada. Excludes Quebec and Puerto Rico.

 What wrapping paper/embellishments do you plan on using to jazz up your gifts?

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