During the holiday season I love to give Ansley’s friends and guests a little something to take home before they leave. It is never anything big just a little holiday candy or homemade treat. Since I have a serious addiction to this coffee… I have LOADS of tins on hand. So I decided to start altering them for the holiday season in hopes of getting a jump start on the holidays. We will see if it happens. At least I do have good intentions. This counts for something… right? You can use rubons to place their names on the tin or leave them blank and hand write their name as shown.

Products Used: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Script, My Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Magic Collection - Ribbon Stripe, Making Memories Ledger Paper, Maya Road Sheer Blossom, Velvet Pleat Blossoms, Velvet Pleat Blossoms - Red & Orange, Felt Beaded Blossoms - Brown & Cream, Green Pom Pom Trim, Jonathan Rubons, ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink - Creamy Brown, Ranger Alcohol Inks - Ginger & Latte, Melissa Frances Vintage Transfers - Holidays, Heidi Swapp Bling Borders, Red & White Bakers Twine, Buttons and Green Tulle

Measurements: Ribbon Stripe is 2 3/8″ x 12″, MM Ledger 1 1/4″ x 12″ the paper is just a tad bit short so you will need to cover this with either a strip of paper, ribbon or buttons in order to hide the section where the papers don’t meet up all the way. For this reason start attaching your papers from the middle back section.

PDF template for top of lid.

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As you can see, right now I am slightly obsessed with my Cuttlebug. Yesterday I was wondering how a small brown paper bag would emboss using an embossing folder well… let me just say, perfectly! I used the textile embossing folder (seems to be my favorite) then covered the embossed bag using Ranger Distress Inks in Vintage Photo and Spiced Marmalade. My friend Wendy would be so proud. Then while at CHA I watched Wendy do a Perfect Pearl demo and so… I used this too in Copper from the Metallics collection!

I think any of these embossing folders could help you create wonderful treat or gift bags for the holiday seasons as well as party favor bags for a birthday.

And… just a little FYI… I have family on the way coming to stay due to Hurricane Ike and I have my first book deadline next week so I might be a bit late on tutorial posts but I will do my best to get some things up.

Everyone I know loves candles so I plan on accenting several like this one for the holiday season and giving them as housewarming gifts. I’m also thinking about using them as placecards for each dinner guest at Thanksgiving. All I need to do is tie the sheer oval around individual clear votive holders. Then when the candle is lit the sheer will have a stained glass effect.

These would also be cute on a child’s table setting by tying some around clear plastic cups and filling them with candy corn or tying them around linen napkins to use as napkin rings. I could go on and on as there are so many ideas for this little cutie.

This candle accent was created using a Maya Road Sheer Oval Keychain Set, Alcohol Inks by Ranger in Terra Cotta, Latte and Pearl, Maya Road Jonathan Chipboard Alphabet, Adirondak Metallics Acrylic Paint Dabber in Gold and Gold Glitter from the Regal Glitter Collection by Melissa Frances.

To get the embossed look I ran one of the Oval Sheers through my Cuttlebug using the Textile Embossing Folder. It is attached to the candle with tulle.

I’m not much of a Halloween kinda person. So I am already thinking about Thanksgiving. Don’t get me wrong I love having trick-or-treaters come to the house but decorating for me is pretty much a carved pumpkin.

So this weekend I started thinking about making table decorations for Thanksgiving and let me just say… I am so loving my Cuttlebug. Did you know you can run any of the Maya Road Sheers through the Cuttlebug? If you didn’t you do now and gosh is it ever fun! Here is a little project I created using some of the Sheer Blossoms and the Textile Embossing Folder.

I used Ranger Alcohol Inks in Terra Cotta, Bottle and Pearl on the Large Blossom and Gold and Latte on the Small Blossom.

To alter the Square Scallop Chipboard Coaster Book I took two pages and sprayed Brown and Gold Maya Mists over the entire front and back of each page.

Additional Products Used: Maya Road Buttons - Earth, Maya Road Trinkets Metal Elements - Blossoms, Maya Road Philadelphia Uppercase Alphabet, Adirondack Metallic Acrylic Paint Dabber - Gold, Melissa Frances Regal Glitter Collection (Gold), Melissa Frances Autumn Splendor Vintage Transfers, Floss, Tulle and a Berry Spray.