Gift Wrapping with Printables

My new blogging friend, Stacy, from She's Kinda Crafty shared a sweet idea
yesterday on her blog using Amanda's Parties To Go's CANDY CHRISTMAS printables set.
I love how creative mamas like Stacy find new uses for printables. 

Stacy took the 2" logos from the set normally used for cupcake toppers
and made some adorable gift tags for Christmas presents. 

Looks like a cupcake topper.....

 But no.... look! Cupcake topper turned gift topper.... how cute!

Maybe you can find some new and different uses for your printables, too. Place the printable circles on top of bows.... make garlands from them to string on your mantels or party tables.... or use them as tags for classroom favors.

Be sure to visit Stacy over at She's Kinda Crafty. This girl is an
amazing source for fabulous Christmas crafts.... and they are easy, too! 

Just take a look at a few of her fun creations.

Stacy's become a bit "internet famous" for her absolutely adorable ribbon wreaths like this Christmas version. She even sells the kits in her Etsy shop for those of us who don't want to find all that ribbon ourselves.

If you have a ribbon wreath, you must have a sweet ribbon Christmas tree, too.

 A MINI RIBBON WREATH ORNAMENT... 

what a fantastic gift this would make for a friend.

And how about this super cute 15 MINUTE STOCKING idea with a full tutorial.

Thanks, Stacy, for your wonderful holiday inspirations!

FREE Reindeer Food Tags

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Reindeer food is certainly not a new idea but my kids have loved it each and every Christmas. It's become a Christmas tradition to go outside before bed on Christmas Eve and pour the reindeer food out on the lawn.... waiting, waiting, waiting for those reindeer to come!

This year I decided to create a sweet little tag and poem for my kindergartner to make gifts for his classroom friends. And I've decided to give it away FREE to anyone signing up for our mailing list! I hope it will help you with those last minute treats for your kids' class parties this holiday season.

To make the gifts, you'll need to gather your supplies to make the reindeer food....

no worries... it's easy, peasy!

 REINDEER FOOD SUPPLIES:

- Oatmeal (I used the whole can for 21 kids)

- Bottles of Christmas colored sugars

- Christmas sprinkles

- Glitter

Pour everything together in a big bowl and stir to mix.

Employ your best helpers to spoon the mixture into small plastic bags. I found these in a pack of 100 on the wedding supplies aisle at Walmart. To keep the bag open for my little one, I used a toilet paper roll inside the bag and had him spoon the reindeer food over a plastic bowl. This caught much of the spills so that I won't find glitter and oatmeal under every crevice for the next 3 months.

Once you get your bags filled, punch holes in your printed reindeer food tags and string some ribbon or tulle through to seal off the bags and make them pretty.

The tags will explain to your child's friends just how this reindeer food works....

Here's our basket full and all ready to go.

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Grab your Reindeer Food FREEBIE

by joining our mailing list - It's Easy!

Just enter your name and email below and then verify your email address.

We'll send you these adorable Reindeer Food Tags!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

PLEASE NOTE: After signing up with your name and email, a confirmation email will be sent to you with an activation link. You must click this link to then receive your newsletter email with the FREEBIE DOWNLOAD. With the hundreds of daily emails I receive through the shop, I will not be able to answer personal emails about the freebie downloads.

{FREEBIE} Letter To Santa Printable

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We're less than two weeks 'til Christmas.... can you believe it? Every year it seems like there is less and less time to fit in all of the fun holiday activities. There are just so many fun things to do this season! One holiday tradition in our own house is writing a letter to Santa and a sweet note to him, too, on Christmas Eve.

So today I thought I'd share a little FREEBIE with all of my Facebook Fans and blog Followers for a Santa Letter Pack.  It includes a letter to Santa, an address label to the North Pole and a little note for Santa to leave by the fireplace on Christmas Eve. Set it right beside his cookies and milk, and Santa will love hearing from his biggest fans.

Before you download, be sure to do the following:

- Become a FACEBOOK FAN HERE: Just click "Like"

- Become a BLOG FOLLOWER: Click "Follow" on my left sidebar of this blog

- Become a PINTEREST FOLLOWER HERE: Click Follow

Now you'll be able to find out about all Amanda's Parties To Go's latest FREEBIES and specials, too!

Here's the link to the DOWNLOAD 

After you save the file to your computer, you can just print it, then cut it out and let the kids fill in their wishes. You can cut out the address label and glue it to the front of an envelope or you can print it onto sticker paper (mailing label paper) and apply the sticker to your envelope.

Enjoy!

{Guest Post} Easy Holiday Banner

Hi there!
Kristyn from Lil' Luna here!


Did you know there are SO many inexpensive but CUTE crafts you can make around the holidays?

This next craft I’m going to show you cost $1.50 if you buy the supplies, or if you are like me and have lots of scrapbook paper laying around it’s FREE! You heard me right – FREE!

Here is how you can make a super easy and cute 
JOY sign for cheap…

SUPPLIES:

-Cardstock Scrapbook Paper

-Patterned Scrabook Paper

-Glue Stick

-Scissors

-Hot Glue Gun

-Tulle

DIRECTIONS:

1.       Decide on what kind of shape you want to use for the banner. I did a Pennant Shape, but you can do circles or even triangles. Make your pattern and make two sizes of it {one a tad smaller than the other}. Trace the larger pattern on to your cardstock and then trace the smaller pattern onto your patterned paper. Cut out.

2. You will then glue the smaller pattern on to your larger pattern.

3. From there, I made paper accordions. To do that, cut out strips half the width of what you would like your paper accordion to be. For example, if you want a 4 inch accordion, then cut your strips 2 inches wide. Your will need 2 strips per accordion. Then, siz sag the entire length of the paper. You will hot glue the beginning and the ends of the paper to your other zig-zagged strip. Then you will in the edges of the paper and place a dab of hot glue. Hold until it dries.

4. Hot glue your accordion onto your paper letter shapes.

5. Then trace your letters onto your glitter paper. To do this I cut out letters {Coney Island Font} and traces it backwards onto the back of my glitter paper. I then cut it out and hot glued it to the center of my accordion flowers.

6. Hole punch the tops and string with ribbon or tulle.

Voila!
A super easy, cute but inexpensive Banner!

I hope you like it.

Be sure to come on over to Lil' Luna and say Hi!

Would love to have you AND Merry Christmas!!

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Thank you, Kristyn, for your fabulous guest post today! I love how this project can be used for all sorts of occasions. Change the colors, the wording and you can have a personalized banner for all kinds of events.