Welcome to day eleven of our 12 Days of Holiday Giving Event, friends! Today design team member Jess Forster is here to share a little how-to on a must-have gift element: a sweet and simple bow! Let’s take a look at how Jess used the new Doodlebug winter collection to craft the sweetest handmade gift accessories, and don’t forget to read all of the way down to the end of the post to find out how to enter to win today’s wonderful giveaways!
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Hi friends, it’s Jess here, and I am excited to show you how I am getting into the holiday mood this year! I am using some of my favourite Christmas patterned papers to decorate my gifts. Have a look:
Supplies: Doodlebug Design Let It Snow collection: patterned papers (Candy Cane Lane, Holiday Dots, Frosty Floral, Heartwarming), Shape Sprinkles; Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L; Other: Fiskars scissors
Using the fun and fresh, Let it Snow collection from Doodlebug Design, I created these super easy and super cute bows on top of my teacher gifts this year. I just love the red, pink and blue colour combination and I decided to add it to my craft paper wrapped notebooks that we are giving to our favourite educators.
To create your own bow ties, you will need a paper trimmer, scissors, adhesive and your favourite holiday themed patterned paper. I cut three shapes of paper. They include one triangular piece measuring 4.5” x 1.5” that serves as the base, one circular piece that measures 6.5” x 1.5” which serves as the wrapped bow, and one rectangular piece of paper, measuring 1.5” x .5” that serves as the tie.
The key to creating these decorative items is to work from the base up, taping pieces in the middle. My finished bow measures 4.5” x 1.5”; however, you could easily increase this depending on how much paper you have. Top it off with one of the cute Doodlebug Shape Sprinkles and your presents will pop with pizzazz!
Mix and match or keep all colours all the same: it’s up to you! I hope this simple idea inspires you to use some of your patterned paper to stylishly decorate your gifts. Thanks so much for reading and from my family to yours, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Find more of Jess’ work here: Instagram | YouTube | Blog
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So simple, yet such a great idea for using something we all have in our stash: patterned paper, to dress our gifts this year! Leave a comment on today’s post and you’ll have a chance to create these sweet bows using the Let it Snow collection papers, too, and have plenty left to create more projects!
When the weather outside is frightful and staying inside sounds delightful. Paper crafting is the way to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
With the holidays just around the corner and chilly weather in the forecast, it’s time to bundle up, sip a hot beverage and be creative! Our new “Let it Snow” line is a heartwarming collection featuring adorable arctic animals, lots of snowmen and of course, dear old Santa! It’s perfect for Christmas and snowy day paper crafting! So let’s get creating…it will be SNOW much fun!
The second prize up for grabs today allows you to stuff your own stocking with new stamps, or a fun new medium:
Paper Glaze Ombre sets are uniquely curated hues of Paper Glaze containing three individual jars of a smooth, creamy medium used to create texture and shimmer. Use it on your paper projects by pushing through a stencil, dabbing onto die-cuts and/or a stamped image or watering down to use as watercolor or wash. Each set has one-of-a-kind colors that shimmer with generous amounts of top-quality artist grade raw materials.
The Picket Studios family would like to wish everyone a happy and crafty holiday season filled with love, peace, and joy, and offer one lucky winner a $25 gift certificate to the Picket Fence Studios store!
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To enter to win both of today’s prizes, leave a comment on this post below by December 21st at noon ET. A winner will be selected at random and announced here on the blog on December 22nd!
Follow today’s partner sponsors and at the links below for more ideas, inspiration, and new products coming in the new year!
Doodlebug Design: Website | Instagram | Facebook
Picket Fence Studios: Website | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook
Missed out on any of our 12 Days of Holiday Giving posts? We’ll add the previous day’s links to the end of each new post! See you tomorrow for more fun and inspiration!
Day 01 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Kicking Off the Merriment with Susan R. Opel
Day 02 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: A FREE Cut File + Inspiration from Paige Evans
Day 03 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Sweet Treats with Mindy Eggen
Day 04 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Festive Moments in Pockets with Meghann Andrew
Day 05 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Merry & Mini with Erica Thompson
Day 06 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Crafting Christmas Cards with Wendy Sue Anderson
Day 07 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Winter Inspiration + Time Saving Tips with Anya Lunchenko
Day 08 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: DIY Holiday Decor with Lisa Dickinson
Day 09 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Coordinating Creations with Latisha Yoast
Day 10 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Documenting December with Nathalie DeSousa
Day 11 : 12 Days of Holiday Giving: Gift-Giving DIY with Jess Forster <<< you are here!
What a great idea, to put bows on plain paper packages! Love it!
Jess, well done with the bow and kraft wrapped gifts. I have this bow as well and love it.
OK… Today’s PRIZES are my ALL TIME FAVORITE! I LOVE that Doodlebug Collection and OMG those pastes are a DREAM! Gorgeous bows!!! What a cute idea on Kraft Paper!!! Thanks sooo much for the chance!
The bows are just the right touch, I am trying this out for this years gifts for sure! You can never go wrong with the Doodlebug Design, they are just so whimsical and cute. And oh my, I am excited about the new Picket Fence Paper Glaze….something new to try never goes out of style. Thanks for the chance to win.
So cute and those glazes look really interesting!
These bows are too cute! Love the idea!
This collection is adorable
Omg, the cutest ever! Who wouldn’t love a gift or card with such an adorable bow on top, and the doodlebug collection coordinates beautifully!
Great job Jess! Merry Christmas to you and your family!!
Jess, your bows are beautiful and sure to be a hit with the lucky teachers receiving your pretty packages! I’ve been crushing over the Let It Snow collection from Day 1; so delighted to see it in action! Thank you for your wonderful inspiration; thank you to today’s sponsors for their fabulous giveaways.
~carol
Doodlebug is one of my all-time favorite companies and this collection is so adorable!! And what beautiful colors of the paper glazes. I would love to use these on my layouts!! Thanks for the chance to win these two prizes!!
The cutest idea for bows! Have to love Doodlebug and this is another cute collection. Would love to try some of Picket Fence Studios new products. I have some of their stamps and they are great. Thanks for the chance to win.
The Doodlebug collection is so cute and I would love to try the Picket Studio Paper Glaze. In other words I would be thrilled to win either. Thanks for the opportunity.
Love those pastes! Can’t believe we’re at Day 11 already. How exciting.
Those bows are such a great ides Jess Foster and I have wanted to try Picket Fence Paper glaze for the longest time I just have not gotten brave enough to push the button. What a great way to end 12 Days of Christmas!
Wow, awesome prizes today! I loved the gift wrapping inspiration.
Love the glazes and thanks Jess for the inspiring bows!
Thanks for that great idea, Jess.
I could cover myself in those glazes and who does not love Jess?
Such a fun idea!
Those paper gels are so beautiful. Love the prizes for this amazing 12 days!
Those bows are perfect, beautiful! Thank you SCT and sponsors. Merry Christmas!
Those bows are extra cute on the kraft paper wrapping! The prizes today are awesome! Thanks for the chance to win.
Wrapping presents is torture. Love these
little bows. They’re colorful and really
make the kraft paper fancy. I could do
this and be very satisfied with the final
result. thanks for the idea.
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Sometimes a pretty bow makes all the difference! These are gorgeous. Thanks for the chance to win.
Merry Christmas. Those are very festive and beautiful bows! Thanks for the chance to win.
Doodlebug products are always so dang cute!!
Thank you so much Jess for your instructions on creating these sweet bows, great for gits or on a layout, a TN journal or pocket page crafting. Love Doodlebug & anything Pinkfresh, so thank you sponsors for contributing to this fantabulous event!
I love Doodlebug’s new collection, “Let It Snow”! Happy there was a bit of it in out Sampler this month- enough to make some pretty bows! The Paper Glaze looks amazing – would love to give it a try!
Darling bows!
love how you made the bows! The prizes offered today are amazing as usual ~ thanks for the chance to win!!
Simple yet gives the pwrfect coloful pop.
These bows are super cute! I love Doodlebug, in fact, I’m decorating a scrapbook layout with their die cuts right now! I would love to try the Picket Fence glazes- what gorgeous colors!
What a cute, quick way to decorate packages. NICE
Just adorable, I love Dooddlebug.
The Doodlebug snow collection is so adorable! I love their product lines. I haven’t tried the Paper Glaze Ombre colours but it looks like so much fun.
Oh, what a cute collection and the bows are so fun! Also, another new product to try from Picket Fence. So much goodness.
I love the bows, the paper collection and all of the prizes !
Super cute bow idea! Beautiful giveaways!
Love love love the let it snow set – so excited it was part of the SCT sampler for December!!!
I love the bows.so pretty and versatile
Awww!!! I love bows as decorations for wrapping gifts! These are so adorable!
Great prize, wow! Thanks to these amazing sponsors
Super cute bows! Wonderful prizes. Thanks for the chance to win.
These look like great prizes! I would love to win!
I love this DIY project. Then again, I love everything Jess Forster!!!! Doodlebug always has such fun products. So bright and cheerful. The Picket Fence products look amazing.
Love these cute bows! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love Doodle bug. I can see you using bow maker for my grand daughters hair ribbons!
Such a fun way to dress up a package! Thanks SCT and sponsors for the wonderful prizes today! So generous!
I love this wrapping idea–thanks for the inspiration. Thanks to Doddlebug for the chance to win their awesome Let it Snow collection. Also thanks to PIcket Fence for their awesome pastes collection, I have not tried those and they would look be so fun to use. Merry Christmas to all.
what a fun idea! I love using pink and blues in my holiday scrapping projects.