It's A Wrap Blog Hop

Welcome to the It’s a Wrap Blog Hop hosted by Cool Beans By L.B.

Do you like to receive gifts? How about give them? Well this hop is all about the outside…the wrapping; Gift bags, boxes, baskets and more. There are several wonderful stops on this hop and

we hope you will take some time to stop in and see everything we have created to inspire you.  

You should have arrived here from, CoolbeansbyLB , which is the start of the blog hop.  

Here are a few different gift wraps I have made lately for special events: 

There is one thing I am always needing when a birthday rolls around and that is a gift bag for the present.  I like to stock up on plain colored bags in bulk from local craft store and keep on hand to create a unique gift back to fit the occassion and person.  Most of the time I use my Cricut to make adorable die cuts in birthday themes.

All the designs for this project were created using the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge. The big birthday cake on the bag was cut at 7 inches, the yellow cake base cardstock was embossed with the Cuttlebug, and I added some yummy frosting using Martha Stewart chunky white glitter. I even used foam dots to pop-up the birthday word.

Here is a close up so you can see the details better.

I made a matching mini birthday card as a tag using the cake card shape on the Birthday Bash cartridge cut at 5 inches. I added some "paper sprinkles" to the icing and highlighted them with stickles.

I also like to personalize the gift bag with a monogram, like I did here for graduation presents for a couple of special friends daughter's high school graduation. I used the colors of the college they would be going to in the fall as inspiration...they loved them !

But I don't stop at just making gift bags...I LOVE to make pillow boxes for gifts too.

I recently went to a wedding and made this as a bridal luncheon gift holder.  The bride thought it was so pretty she didn't even want to open it  to see the handmade cards that were the gift inside.

I made the box out of a shiny cardstock that I don't remember the name of but have had laying around for a long time by using a template. Then added ribbon trim to the edges. For the tag, I glimmer misted a manila tag, punched the edges with my Fiskars Apron lace punch. Stamped a frame and hand lettered the brides name. And then added a Prima flower that I glimmer misted in pearl. I tied it onto the package with some sheer ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by on this fun hop. Leave me a comment to let me know you stopped by please.

Your next stop on the hop is Cindy.

Hippo 5th Birthday Cricut

I love creating projects with my Cricut machine....it is fun to add such wonderful images to my projects with such ease.

Well, the Cricut turns 5 years old this year and Provo Craft is celebrating ! There is a new machine called the E2 that will debut on HSN on Tuesday, April 26th.  They are even giving away a few machines if you enter their contest with 12X12 layouts. I sent mine in already.  Check back on Friday, April 22nd to see what I created for the contest.

While I was packaging up my layouts to send to Provo Craft, I decided I should take the opportunity to send a " Happy Birthday" card to to all the Provo Craft employees involved with the Cricut all these years.

Here is my little Hippo 5th Birthday Card :

I used this adorable hippo card that is on the Birthday Bash cartridge.

It was too cute not to use!

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the inside of the card but I embossed the inside back page with the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday Embossing folder and added a note wishing the Cricut and Provo Craft employees a wonderful 5th Birthday. 

I hope they like the card...it was fun making it. Here is a little sneak peek of one of the 2 layouts

I sent in all wrapped up and ready to be boxed up to ship to Provo Craft.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE WHO ENTERED.

Hope we get to see many of the layouts on HSN E2 Launch Day, April 26th