Hi all, hope you're having fun on the Christmas Gift Blog Tour - if you've come from Deb Speijer's blog - www.stampandscrapwithdeb.com - then you're in the right place :) Here are a couple gift ideas I made this year - hope you enjoy.The first is a simple little gift I made for my three student workers at the college. I found these great smelling vanilla candles at the Dollar Store, and had to get them. The tops look all crystally - like snow.
So I removed the paper from the store packaging, added snowflakes adorned with our SU gems, and tied it all up in the original package with ribbon. 
Here's a close up of the snowflake on top. 
Then I had the negative of the snowflakes I punched out and just couldn't throw it away, so I punched out pictures of my six grandbabies and mounted them in the spots the snowflakes came out of - how cute is that. I then mounted it on a darker piece of cardstock, and it's now hanging on my fridge. 
Here's a close-up of one of the images - this one features my little grand-daughter Makai!
Next I found these sets of lovely little tealights at the Dollar Store also - you've probably seen tealights with the tissue paper designs melted onto them. But I really loved the little glass containers these came in.
Here you can see the piece of tissue paper that I colored with SU markers and punched out. I also punched a circle in the middle of it for the wick to go through.
Here is the package of five tealights with the tissue still loose on top of each of the candles. The next step is to heat each candle with our heat gun until the wax melts and the tissue paper becomes one with the candle. 
They turn out so nice - here's a bunch of them done and ready to be wrapped for gift giving. Each of my downline that came to my Holiday Party received a set of these from me. I hope they liked them. You can completely burn them and the image just sinks with the wax. After the candles are burned I'd think you could clean out the containers and use them as little place settings filled with candy mints or nuts - what do you think??
Here's the base with the battery operated tealight inside. I love it! Special thank you to Karen for letting me borrow her bitty box and envelope die - can't believe I don't have that one. 
Next was my Secret Sis reveal - I had an amazing Secret Sis this year - and it was Theresa - she gave me these items - a lovely card, my initial decorated in snowflakes (so cute), and on the left is a gratefulness door hanger - it contains a lovely poem about collecting all our blessings and being grateful, and it's made to hang on the doorknob so you see it everytime you come and go. 
And then she made me this BEAUTIFUL "JINGLE" framed art - isn't that amazing! It is currently hanging in my front entry way for all to enjoy. Thank you sooooo much Theresa!
Heidi's Secret Sis Julie gave two cool gifts - first this amazing clockthat she purchased at home goods - was able to open, remove the hands and decorate with our fabrics and antique brads - is that beautiful.
And she also made her this coin purse - you can see the detail, but the leather was run through the big shot with our embossing folder, cut out in flowers and added to the front of the purse- it's just so cute. And yes, that is my Heidi with a broken hand - she lost her balance when Makai was tugging on her shirt, and she didn't want to fall on her, so she twisted and fell on her hand - and the rest is history ....
The next gift was from Julie's Secret Sister - ME! Remember how I said I've been sick - well that's my excuse for making this gift of a collage frame with great potential - just passable. But Julie was wonderful, and gracious and made me feel not so rotten about not make it up the standard I had planned. I didn't even get a chance to make a card :(
But I don't think Pat was disappointed with her starbucks coffee, set of mugs, and great treats. Heidi did stamp the cello with snowflakes and added snowflakes to the tin - soooo cute!
Here's the gift that Jeri got from her secret sis, Pat. It is another Scentsy warmer and the fragranced wax blocks. This one is neat as it plugs directly into the wall socket. 
And here's the cute card Pat made her - love that set!
