As you read this, I’m at Onstage Live and we are all having a wonderful time spending time together, playing with new products and drooling over the upcoming catalogue. BUT the catalogue is not yet live and there are loads of great things in the current catalogues to play with. This is a little pillow gift that I whipped up for my sister on Tuesday evening using the Sending Love DSP stack.

It’s a pretty way to package up a couple of Ferraro Rocher chocolates and I’d been contemplating a way to do this for a week or so. I’m holding a Bingo! And Retiring Party event on April 28th and I thought it would be nice for everyone to get a little sweet surprise on their arrival. They are easy to make – I cut a piece of paper from the Sending Love DSP stack in half and then scored on the long side at 2 1/4″ and 3 3/4″, then I flipped the paper over to the other side and scored at half an inch from both ends. Then I burnished the score lines gently, put 2 chocolates in and the lovely shape just happened magically – due to the scoring on the other side. Then I punched a couple of holes with my 1/8″ punch and threaded the beautiful real red satin ribbon and tied a bow

Since this is just a little holder and doesn’t have sides, the chocolates can slide out. I fixed that with a glue dot under each wrapper – it would be sensible to put those there before tying the bow. But if you forget, you can turn it all upside down and poke a glue dot into position with a piercing tool. Yes, it works. I, er, tested that for you!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz