Hopefully we’ve all made it onto the “Nice” list this year, because we’ve put together a list of products for you to share with whomever will be filling your stockings and laying presents under your tree this Christmas! That’s right. We are making it easier for the people who love you to get you a gift that you may actually want!
Take a look at the list below, then share the link to this post with your “Santa” and let them know which numbers on the list you are interested in. By clicking on the item, they will be navigated to our website where they will be able to add the product to their “bag” (cart). (Make sure to give your “Santa” a little extra guidance where necessary by specifying colors and quantities. š )
For those Santa’s who would like additional product details, click on the linked items to take a peek at our product descriptions and photosāpurchase is not required (but you may end up with some unhappy elves š ).
Christmas time is officially here, and in the midst of all the hustle and bustle, most of us still have some last-minute holiday prep to take care of. Everyone wants to have the perfect Christmas; whether youāre still trying to find a gift for your neighbors, come up with favors for a Christmas party, or searching for the perfect stocking stuffer, we want to help out with a few last-minute Christmas treat ideas!
To create these fun projects, we used shapes from our CricutĀ® Art Philosophy and Artiste collections. These collections include a wide variety of shapes for any project and are available for purchase through your local Consultant.
Before you start on these projects, make sure you have all the tools you need to complete them. A few of the CricutĀ® shapes will require a scoring tool. If you donāt have a scoring tool, you can add your own scoring lines with a bone folder after the shape has been cut.
The first treat idea weāll be showing you today is an adorable Christmas mouse. This treat idea is great for all ages! After all, who wouldnāt love a cute little mouse with a candy tail?
To make your very own Christmas mice, cut out an egg shape (#M4462D) for the body and two droplet shapes (#M462B8) for the ear pieces, both from our Art Philosophy CricutĀ® collection. When cutting the body, be sure to include two small slits in the middle of each body piece. This allows you to easily attach and remove the candy cane tail. To form these slits, insert two small lines (#M369889) from the Basic Shapes tab to your design before cutting. (If youāre going to cut these pieces by hand, use a crafting knife to make these two cuts.)
Once youāve got all your pieces cut, gently thread a candy cane through the slits on each mouse and attach the ears. For the finishing touch, add some black and white dots to create a nose and eyes. We colored our noses red with an alcohol marker.
Ā With a few of these mice, youāll have a gift or party favor that is sure to delight!
The next treat idea we have for you today is a mini gingerbread house treat box, made to hold all kinds of yummy surprises.
With white embossed āicingā on the roof and tiny stamped candies flanking the door, this gingerbread house looks good enough to eat, right along with the tasty treats inside!
Before you start making your gingerbread house, note that this particular cut includes score lines. You will need to adjust the cutting tools on your machine accordingly.
To create this too-cute gingerbread house, cut a pyramid box (#M440E0) from our Artiste collection using Kraft paper. Fold along the score lines included in the CricutĀ® shape and then, attach the sides of the box together with adhesive. Tie the top with some of your favorite ribbon and embellish it with layers of embossed icing and some stamped images from the My AcrylixĀ® From Candyland stamp set.
The last treat we have for you today is a Santa-hat inspired box. This little box packs a whole lot of cheer and makes a fun and festive party favor or stocking stuffer. Just like the gingerbread house, this treat box includes a few score lines and will require you to adjust your cutting tools to create them.
To make your own Santa hat treat box, cut out a pinwheel (#M38DAA) from our Artiste CricutĀ® collection and fold along the score lines provided in the shape. Once youāve made your folds, tuck the pinwheel arms behind each other to form the box.
Once youāve got your treats inside and the box is fully formed, stick a pom-pom on top for a festive finishing touch. This treat box is the perfect size to slip into a stocking and cute enough to give out all on its own. No matter how you gift it, or to whom, itās sure to be a hit! š
We hope youāve enjoyed these quick Christmas treat ideas and wish you the sweetest holidays!
There are only 15 days between now and Christmas dayā¦EEK! Is anyone else bursting with anticipation? By now (crossing our fingers), all if not most of the gift shopping is done and taken care of, and itās time to start thinking of gift wrapping and accessorizing these sought after treasures into the decorative masterpieces that weāll place under our trees or personally hand deliver.
With our love for paper, ribbon, and celebrating anything that allows us to apply both in a meaningful way, we could not help but create some beautiful gift tags using shapes from our newest CricutĀ® collection, Complete Creativity.
If youāre not familiar with the Complete Creativity CricutĀ® collection, this collection is divided up by whole card and scrapbook projects, providing all the shapes you need to create complete cards and scrapbook pages for a variety of themes and occasions. Each project is made up of components that can also be used independent of the layout or card they were designed for.
To illustrate the flexibility of this collection, we pulled individual icons, shapes, and sentiments from several of the projects, manipulated their orientation and size, and then grouped them to create the 15 delightful tags you see here!
All of the shapes, including the tag bases, come from separate projects in the Complete Creativity collection. As a special Christmas treat from us to you, weāre giving you our design space file so you, too, can create these little beauties and can use them in your holiday gift decorating!
To give you an idea of their size, the āMerry Christmasā tags are approximately 5Ā¼” x 3ā ” and the ātis the seasonā tags are 4Ā½” x 1Ā¾”. If you look closely at each of the pictures above, you will see that there is a total of five tag designs created with three different sets of patterned papers and cardstock. The Design Space file provided will recreate all 15 tags, so you will see 19 different paper requests from your machine as you go through the āMake Itā process. (Take a look at our “recipe” below for a complete list of the papers we used in our tags.)
In the provided file, you may also notice a green stand-alone T-shape only in the middle set of tags. This shape is the background ribbon for the small present in the tag next to it. Both, the āMerry Christmasā tag and the T-shape are cut from the same patterned paper in all three sets of tags. Since the patterned paper used for these two shapes in the middle set of tags is a plaid pattern, we wanted to cut it straight in the tag base but not in the ribbon, because we liked the effect of cutting the pattern at an angle better. Therefore, we straightened the tag shape out on the Design Space Canvas Grid and removed the T-shape from the present at the angle shown. This way, the ribbon will be cut with the pattern at the preferred angle as well.
We hope you enjoy putting this fun Christmas project together and sharing it with friends. As always, make sure you let us know if you have any questions in the comment section below! Happy Holidays!
If youāre reading this blog, then chances are you have at least a few friends who share your love of crafting. They may even be some of your best friends! Wouldnāt it be nice to let them know what they mean to you this Valentineās Day?
A good gift idea would be something they can enjoy using while they scrapbook. Thatās easy! Give them one of these:
Who says a gift canāt be practical and pretty? A ruler is the perfect tool for any crafter. Though this is a simple gift thatās easy to put together, you can never āmeasureā just how much a thoughtful gift can mean to someone. š
Want to keep it even simpler than that?
A chocolate bar may be the only gesture you need to make to share your feelingsāand who wouldnāt love a chocolate bar thatās decked out like this? The subtly sweet Charlotte paper packet is perfect for dressing up a gift for Valentineās Day, and with the help of your CricutĀ® machine and the My AcrylixĀ® Packages, Boxes, & Tags stamp set, you can create these adorable tags to go with all that cute patterned paper.
When Valentineās Day arrives, spread a little lovinā around with some cute, easy gifts, or maybe just a fun valentine card. Either way, you are bound to make someoneās day amazing!
CricutĀ® Shapes: Art Philosophy
2 Ā½” <Tag4> (cut 3, p. 60)
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A wise Grinch once observed that the greatest gifts come outside of packages, boxes, and bagsāand thatās the truth! The best gifts you give are your time and your love, neither of which can be caught and wrapped. But a tangible gift is an attempt at expressing your feelings, and once youāve put your heart into planning, saving for, and preparing special presents, you want to make sure they draw the attention of the intended recipients. You need something unique and heartfelt for the special people in your life. How do you achieve that? Pull out your stamps and inks, of course! What better presentation can there be than one of handmade love?
To take your packaging from bland to becoming:
Stamp it. Add elegance to your brown paper-wrapped gifts with a few stamps! Dancing images on a neutral surface will give wrapping color and class. This advent bag was decorated with the My AcrylixĀ® Magical Days stamp set in Topiary, Cranberry, and White Daisy inks. You can even add stampingĀ toĀ plain tissue paper for a colorfulĀ addition.
Put a bow on it. Bows from the store are a dime a dozenāand they look it, too! So get creative with yours. Back your washi tape with paper and then shape it into a bow. With the help of a little Liquid Glass, the entire piece stays put. Or, for a bolder look, loop some Cranberry striped twill ribbon into a plump bow to top off your gift.
Tag it. Tags are not an afterthoughtātheyāre your chance at saying it just how you mean it. Donāt depend on a store-bought sentiment to do the trick. Cut a fitting tag from the CricutĀ® Art Philosophy or Artiste collection, then stamp it with a fitting heartfelt sentiment. Add hand drawn borders for a cozy touch.
Transform it. A box shape is what they expect, so step away from traditional and draw some attention. Small gifts are especially conducive to unique packaging. A My Creationsā¢ muslin drawstring bag makes an excellent home for smaller items, and it is 100% ready for decoration. You can stamp on the bag without the ink running, and your sentiments will stand out nicely on the neutral background. Itās unpretentious and very attractive. (Such a good combination should go down in history.)Ā Another great option: the triangle box! Cut one from the CricutĀ® Artiste cartridge, then add golden embossed stamping for a truly unique presentation.
The wrapping you use shouldnāt come from a store; let the wrapping you use mean a little bit more! We wish you a very merry time playing with your favorite Close To My Heart products to create new and charming ways to present your treasures.
Recipes:
4 Ā½” Merry & Bright Box
1386 Black Cardstock,Ā Z2163 White Daisy Exclusive Inksā¢ Pad,Ā Z1920 Gold Polka-Dot Washi Tape,Ā Z1686 CricutĀ® Art Philosophy Collection,Ā Z3017 CricutĀ® Artfully Sent Collection (stamp set),Ā Box,Ā Paper
CricutĀ® Shapes: Art Philosophy
1Ā¾” <Rctngle 8> (p. 65)
4″ Wise Men Still Seek Him Triangle Box
D1614 My AcrylixĀ® Reason for the Season,Ā 1386 Black Cardstock,Ā 1388 Colonial White Cardstock,Ā Z2118 Desert Sand Exclusive Inksā¢ Pad,Ā Z891 VersaMarkā¢ Ink Pad,Ā Z1921 Bakerās Twine Neutral Metallic Assortment,Ā Z2066 Rangerā¢ Princess Gold Embossing Powder,Ā Z1790 CricutĀ® Artiste Collection
CricutĀ® Shapes: Artiste
5Ā¼” 3D Object <p> (p. 50)
Merry Christmas Muslin Bag
B1456 My AcrylixĀ® Born to Roam,Ā C1591 My AcrylixĀ® Merry, Merry,Ā Z2501 Adventure Exclusive Inksā¢ Mini Pigment Pads Set,Ā Z2503 Basics Exclusive Inksā¢ Mini Pigment Pads Set,Ā Z1822 My Creationsā¢ Muslin Drawstring Bag,Ā Z1861 Mini-Medley Accents Ruby Collection,Ā Z1807 Pink Glitter Gems,Ā Shredded Paper
Advent Bag
D1552 My AcrylixĀ® Magical Days,Ā C1591 My AcrylixĀ® Merry, Merry,Ā 1388 Colonial White Cardstock,Ā Z2155 Topiary Exclusive Inksā¢ Pad,Ā Z2116 Cranberry Exclusive Inksā¢ Pad,Ā Z2163 White Daisy Exclusive Inksā¢ Pad,Ā Z1987 Cranberry Striped Twill Ribbon,Ā Z1979 MarvyĀ® UchidaĀ® LePenā¢ Journaling Pen,Ā Z1686 CricutĀ® Art Philosophy Collection,Ā Z3017 CricutĀ® Artfully Sent Collection (stamp set),Ā Paper Bag
CricutĀ® Shapes: Art Philosophy
2Ā¾” <Tag2> (p. 40)
