Hi there stamping people. I hope that you're all getting all of your holiday shopping done and finishing up any special hand crafted things. I wasn't too productive in the "handmade" department this year and I still have a ton of baking to do and haven't even started that! BUT, I did manage to squeeze in some hostess gifts for the ladies that opened up their homes to us this past weekend for our neighborhood progressive holiday party. I have to ask myself...ONCE AGAIN...why I always wait until the last minute. That's a mystery, though, that I may never have the answer to.
Anyway, I saw a post on another blog where they had made some shrinky dink snowflakes for a necklace and decided those would work for some wine charms. They hand cut theirs but I used a Spellbinders die to make mine quick and easy. Also used the toaster oven. Boy does the shrinking part go quickly in that thing. What took forever was getting the beads and stuff on the little wire earrings. And, wouldn't you know, the first wires that I had must have been cheapies because they really didn't hold their springy shape. I made 24 charms and then cut those wires and remade them on better ones. Crazy, I know!
And then to showcase and make them presentable, I created little matchbooks to hold the wine charms. The wood background and the sea blue/bright pink/red color combo popped into my brain one night last week. Now I wonder if I saw that somewhere and only THINK that it was my original idea. Anyway, it's all fun. I used a variety of dies from PTI and then the SNOWFLAKE CUTUPS die and DIVINE TWINE from THE CAT'S PAJAMAS to wrap it all up inside a glassine bag.
These are DARLING, Leigh!!! What a great hostess gift!!
Posted by: Jackie Pedro | December 21, 2010 at 11:39 PM
What a sweet hostess gift. You were very creative in coming up with the shrinky dink charms. I'm sure your friends were tickled.
Posted by: Beth Norman | December 22, 2010 at 10:31 AM