More from Santa's Workshop

Here are some ideas for quick and easy gift packaging.

The four little bags on the bottom are gifts for my Primary class. They're celophane bags with a few pieces of candy and some Oriental Trading Company toys. The topper is made from Top Note die cuts of Dashing Designer Paper (retired) and Real Red and Old Olive cardstock. They're decorated with the snowman from Deer Friends inked with markers and punched with the 1 1/4" round punch mounted on 1 3/8" round punchies of Old Olive and scalloped punchies of Real Red.

The tins on the top are sold at Michael's in several different sizes. These are filled with yummy chocolate candy, but you can put all sorts of things in them. I covered the sides of the bottom with strips of designer paper and the top with cardstock. I use Stampin' Up's glue sticks when I alter tins like this, it works very well. I cut the cardstock for the top a little bigger than the top and clipped the corners so it would bend over the edges easily. Then I put sticky strip all around the edge to make sure the cardstock would stay down, and put ribbon over that. The tops are decorated with stamped images cut out with the Coluzzle Cutting System and colored with markers, with a line of Gold Stickles on the outside of the image. The one on the left is Elzybell's Sleeping Angel, on the right is Fluffles Stocking.

Hopefully I'll be able to get to church on Sunday to give the kids their gifts. They had to cancel church last week because of bad weather and unsafe road conditions, and its only gotten worse since then. Here's a picture from a coworker's house. You have to remember, we live in northwest Washington state. We generally have one or two snowy days a year, and often don't get enough to build a snowman. There's enough here to build a snow army, but it's too cold and dry to build anything!