Home made Xmas gifts (merged threads)

calleyw

I make a lot of cards for people to sell for charity. Don't think mine are very good but they sell that is the most important thing.

And I look at everything with an eye to card making. Last year I bought a garland of blue stars. I use them in blue as well as sprayed painted to embelish my cards that I make.

If you want ideas try here


Hope that helps.

Yours

Calley

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more ideas

Yorkielass

last year I bought some cross stitch kits from magazines off ebay, most worked out about 30p each, they've kept me amused and I've got lots of Christmas cards for relatives this year.

Another idea is getting nice quality wrapping paper with motifs on it to cut out like the ribbon - you get get some stuff that's sparkly, shiny etc and doesn't work out very much per card as you can get lots of motifs out of a sheet.

I'm not buying any Christmas cards this year, when we moved I found lots of bags and boxes with a few cards in each so going to put them all together and with my handmade ones won't need anymore.

MIRRY_2

Love all your ideas please keep them coming x

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also look out in charity shops.
I picked up 12 shower cutain ring hooks that had lovely sea horses and stars on them for 50p (each one was about 3 inch).
Once i got them home i pulled off the sea horses and stars and stuck them onto cards and they looked great!

Another idea is old childrens books, you can find great pictures in them of fairys /football stars ect and as long as you not making them to sell, you cant get done for copy right!

Queenie

If you sign up for Dover Books email ... there are links to some "samples" ... you can save the pics on your computer and then use those for decorating cards.

Not just Christmas either.

Chipps

Free downloads of coloured card & little pictures for cardmaking:

http://www.cardmakingandpapercraft.com/downloads.asp

fuglyjowls

Does anyone know where I can get some tins from to put homemade biscuits in? Not too worried about price just want something that will look really nice so that my son's homemade biscuits make a more impressive present!

MIRRY_2

ANYONE MAKE JEWELLERY ?

This is another thing i do to give as gifts and occasionally sell it,
If you are lucky and have a bead supplier near you then you can make lovely one off designs (rather than shop stuff).
It can be from the basic stringing beads onto an elastic cord or
bead weaving with a needle and thread called nymo to get a design.

I also make earings for people and sell them really cheap!

MIRRY_2

I am making for my parents HOMEMADE FOOD for xmas presents this year,

I am making up a small food hamper of all my own homemade food....

sweet and sour sauce.
mincepies.
loaf of bread.
pot of jam.
freshly squeezed orange juice.
small xmas cake.
THE ONLY THING I WILL CHEAT ON IS A BOTTLE OF WINE (HAVENT GOT ROUND TO THIS LESSON YET)

16011996

they had some quite nice plain tins in poundland at the weekend with the household type stuff. they were round and plain sort of stainless steel. think they were a £1.