More Matching Sets!

Some more matching sets I have made for some friends at work. We only buy each other small gifts but I think even the smallest gift can be made to look lovely by it's packaging. Here I have used a selection of the Mocha Morning Speciality DSP along with Basic Black, Basic Gray, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake cardstock and ribbon. The hexagonal box is made with the Mini Milk Carton die and I used the square punches for the decorative side panels - it holds a pot of 'Body Souffle' (sounds good enough to eat doesn't it?). The small box is yet more of the single chocolate boxes and the side DSP panels are punched with the smaller of the square punches and the top with the Scallop Square punch. I made a very simple matching card to complete the set, with the sentiment from Petite Pairs either silver or gold embossed. All finished off with either Basic Pearls or Basic Rhinestones.

I've had a very busy day crafting trying to finish all the things I needed to do for the last day of term tomorrow. Every year I say I will start these things in plenty of time - why don't I ever do it???

I'm really hoping we don't wake up to the snow that's forecast for tomorrow - so fingers crossed :0)

 Today's card is one which I have CASEd from the very talented Julie Kettlewell (her blog can be found here). If I get an idea from another demo I rarely copy it exactly but I make no apologies for doing just that with this card as I loved everything about it. It is using the new Everything Eleanor stamp set (which is one of the sets I won at our quarterly training the other week) and the gorgeous Mocha Morning DSP. The colours used were Soft Suede and Crumb Cake, the sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes ( a set reserved for Hostesses) and the '50' was cut using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies. I am in the process of making another of these cards using Rich Razzleberry so I will show you that one when it's finished!