Thrifty Gifty - Organised for Christmas and all ocassions 2009- Santas Challenges

sarahf191979

Materials:

Felt in various colors
Embroidery thread
Heavy card or poster board
Button
Craft glue

Instructions:

This Christmas craft project is a decorative and personal way to make your own gift boxes that your loved ones will appreciate.
Cut 6 pieces of felt into 6 inch (15cm) squares using desired colors of felt.
Make your own Christmas shapes and embroidery them onto each felt square. Leave the bottom square blank as this will not be seen.
Cut 6 pieces of heavy card 5.7inch (14.5cm) square and glue to the back of your felt squares, this will give you enough seams to sew with.
Now sew together using embroidery thread and blanket stitch them together to make a square.
Place your blank piece on the bottom and only sew one side of your top piece to form a lid.
Sew a button on for the catch and using embroidery thread or ribbon form a large loop that will hook over the button to form a closure make sure the ribbon is long enough to go over the button.
You can fill your Christmas box with sweets or gifts, You can ever make smaller ones for tree ornaments.






Coutesy of: www.craftbits.com

sarahf191979

Loving this idea, Place the candle in a bag with a printed copy of the poem, I'm going to be using this one as I got 10 father Christmas Candles last year in the sale, was going to give them to the teachers and cub/beaver leaders.

Poem.... Here

sammy_kaye18

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Loving this idea, Place the candle in a bag with a printed copy of the poem, I'm going to be using this one as I got 10 father Christmas Candles last year in the sale, was going to give them to the teachers and cub/beaver leaders.

Poem.... Here

that's a cute poem and idea - think i might try those for bens teachers.

Also here is a picture of the reindeer card cross stitch i mentioned earlier.

Lucy_Lu_4

FMW - I don't have any photos on the hamper thread, the one I showed on here was the only hamper I remembered to take a photo of! From then on I take photos of everything so will post them as and when.

Sammy - I agree with Paddington, Poundland always has Radox in stock.

Irishgirlt2 - your makes are just stunning, I love them.

Sarah - loving your Christmas purchases!

If anyone is doing pamper or girly hampers, Poundland have a few Rimmel and Maybelline make-up bits. They also have eyelash curlers and loads of other bits and pieces.

The Body Shop has a sale on at the moment so it may be worth a visit in there. I don''t know if someone mentioned it here or if I saw it somewhere else but they have a vanity case with five items reduced from £35 to £7.50. I bought two today, the cases aren't as sturdy framed or as big as they look but still a bargain, you could add to it or take the contents it comes with and use them for something else or keep them for yourself! http://www.thebodyshop.co.uk/_en/_gb/catalog/product.aspx?ParentCatCode=C_Sale&CatCode=C_Sale_SaleGifts&prdcode=58806m

Santa was at Harrods today to open their Christmas shop!

What is B&M and Mr T?

kalojac

Not sure about B&M but Mr T is Tescos

irishgirl62

Love that poem Sarah

lucy lu thanks for the link I was going to order one but it said i was 7.50 away from free delivery so I ordered two! as it was going to be 2.99 for delivery

scattymam1

bandm is bandm bargains.

sammy_kaye18

B&M - its a bargain store - very similar to home bargains.

sarahf191979

What do sheep say to shepherds at Christmastime?


Season's Bleatings!

cdsmiler

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

that's a cute poem and idea - think i might try those for bens teachers.

Also here is a picture of the reindeer card cross stitch i mentioned earlier.

This is brilliant - thank you so much!! Does anyone have any more to share? Or does anyone know of a website that has these types of designs to download or something??

Clare x