12 days of holiday giving! Day One!

Good morning SCT readers!  Thank you so much for joining us on Day One of our "12 days of holiday giving"  We are thrilled you are here to take part in our favourite 12 days of the year on the SCT blog.  During these 12 days our design team and our partners will be joining us each day with a fun mix of inspiration and prizes all celebrating YOU!  YOU are worth celebrating.  YOU, our incredible readers, are why we do what we do.  But this isn't any day one, this day one is special and we are kicking it off BIG!   Nicole Nowosad joins us today so let's get this party started! 

"Welcome to the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog! I am excited to be on the blog today to share a quick and easy way to make a unique small gift holder!  I created these gift holders out of the Fancy Pants Oh, Deer! Collection and thought I would show you how you can make your own in just a few simple steps.

 

Let’s get started:

1)      Die cut 4  3 ½” circles from double sided patterned paper

2)      Fold each of the circles in half, keeping the pattern you want on the outside of your gift holder to the outside.

3)      Add a small amount of tape runner or glue dots to the bottom ¼ of your folded circle, on the inside pattern. Adhere a 2^nd folded circle overtop the adhesive so that they are attached.

4)      Repeat with remaining 2 folded circles

5)      Add adhesive and place the circles together to form a box like shape. The inside circles will overlap.

6)      Using a 1/8” circle punch, punch small holes into the top of 2 sides of the box.

7)       Add your small gift inside (a gift card will fit, but you can also use this for small jewellery pieces etc), then tuck the two unpunched sides of the box shape in and tie the flaps with punched holes together with twine.

 

Supplies: Patterned paper (Fancy Pants), Twine (May Arts), Adhesive (Adhesives by 3L)

  

 

I decorated the top of each of my gift holders with some diecut and chipboard shapes and tied a tag onto each to finish them off!  Easy! 

DAY ONE GIVEAWAY!!!

To kick off our "12 days of Holiday Giving" today's INCREDIBLE giveaways are brought to us by our good friends at Janome Canada and Fancy Pants Designs!    I hold both of these companies near and dear to my heart as I use my Janome machine on almost every project I make – it really is the perfect machine to use on your paper crafting projects and I love the Oh, Deer collection which I used on today's project." ~  Nicole

 

   

The Janome G1218 is an easy to operate, powerful machine that delivers convenience from a top-loading bobbin to 18 fully adjustable stitch selections. Accessory feet are changed with a push of a button to release them, and they can be raised up and over any project with the extra-high presser foot lift. The 4-step buttonhole is also up for any challenge with density and balance adjustment. Once you sew on this machine, you won’t believe how easy it is!  

Of course, with your sewing machine you need some paper right?  Our friends at Fancy Pants have you covered and would love to share their Oh, Deer! Collection too!

 

How amazing are these prizes?  Can you just imagine these landing on your doorstep?  Well they will for one lucky SCT reader!!!   For an opportunity to win, please leave a comment below by 6:00 pm EST on Sunday, December 21st. All prizes will be announced right here and on Facebook at noon on December 23rd!  Good luck everyone!

For all our friends on Facebook, we would LOVE for you to take a moment to give each day's sponsor a huge "SCT thank you!" and "LIKE" them on Facebook if you don't already.   Our sponsors always love to hear from you and they tell us all the time our readers are the best.  We agree!  For today's sponsors, please visit them on Facebook here:

Janome Canada

Fancy Pants Designs

Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine

But wait there's more!  (don't you love hearing that?)  For even more chances to win today's giveaways, enter below! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

See you tomorrow for Day Two!  You're going to love it ;)

 

Comments

[Debby J]

Great prizes. I could really use the sewing machine-mine is over 30 years old and on it's last leg. And the contest ends on my birthday-now that would be a wonderful gift!! I'm off to make some of the gift holders-love them.

[Shereen]

That's an amazing prize! And super cute gift card package
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[Myra]

This indeed would be an awesome Christmas present. Thanks for the chance.

[Sherry Woodard]

What an awesome giveaway! Adding machine stitches to my projects would be interesting! I love it!

[Tanya]

I love the ideas. Keep them coming!!

[Janice McKerlie]

Great prize would love to win it.

[Amy Peacock]

Love the gift card holder - very cool idea and I may have to make a couple!
Another great giveaway!

[Anna P.]

OH WOWEE!!! I just love the gift card holders!! I will be making these for sure!! I have to send three in the mail and they would just love it!! And oh my goodness, the prize is AMAZING!!! Thanks so much for the chance to win!!

[Ange]

OMG!! My daughter just asked for a sewing machine! That would be so awesome!!! Totally love Fancy Pants too! Thanks!

Super cute gift card holders.

[DanaKirby]

Love the gift card holder! What a great idea!! What a wonderful prize too! Thanks for a chance to win.

[Anita Holmes]

I was loving the circles to make a gift card holder and my mind was already moving on to what else I could put in it cause it is so darn cute, when I scroll down and read the prizes and I tell you I could not comprehend a REAL machine as one of the prizes...WOW...what a prize, not to mention the paper collection, don't we all just love paper, I love the feel and smell of it and I never seem to have enough! Thank you so very much for the opportunity to win such a fabulous prize!
Anita

[Tami B]

I would so love to have a sewing machine. Thanks for the chance.

[Heather V]

Awesome giveaway! Thanks for the chance!

[linda s]

What an amazing giveaway! Thanks for the inspiration to make gift card holders! So cute!

[Tammy K]

love it! I am missing a piece on my sewing machine and can't use it on fabric or it will get mangled LOL!

[Melody B.]

What a great prize. Right now I have to use one machine to sew and my little one to wind the bobbins. Ugghh.

[Peggy S]

Wow! Just wow! What else is there to say about these wonderful prizes.

[Paulette Sarsfield]

prizes are a lot of fun, especially when they come in twos! love both of these companies!!

[Jenn]

Would love to win this fantastic prize!!!!! A sewing machine to use on all of my fabulous projects.

[Valerie W]

Would be happy with these great prizes!

[Sue McRae]

Wow, you're starting off the giveaways with a bang!

[Yvette Sanders]

Wonderful prizes! That card / gift holder is adorable, and so simple to make too!

[Elaine Hollander]

What a great start to the twelve days of giveaways. Awesome prize pack and the card holders are such a great idea. Thank you for a chance to win.

[D Brown]

Love the 12 Days of Christmas - what great prizes and the card holder idea is perfect - a simple way to personalize a gift card

[lynne Fortier]

Wow an amazing prize,love the paper