Ready for Holiday Gift Giving

It's the big Saturday Handmade Gifts Hop with Stampendous and the designers! I'm second in the hop so you've probably come from Cyndi's blog and please start at the beginning if you just happened on to this post. Throughout the week you've had a chance at some prizes, because it's just not a party otherwise, and it's the same for today! There will be THREE prize winners today for those that comment along the hop. You can find out the winner's on Monday over on the Stampendous Blog

It's pretty hard to come up with a different way to give a gift these days, so I'm combining a couple ideas. I have a few people in my life that live on the lean side of life. They don't want or need a whole lot of material things in their life so it can make for a hard decision on what gift I give for them.

So I went with small scale table decorations. Something that could brighten up their small space and be practical. A small poinsettia print flower tea light. Here's a string of photos to show how this tealight went together.

Draw a spiral scallop flower on vellum.	Stamp background stamp on the other side.
Spread embossing enamel across stamped image, tap off and heat from the back side of vellum.	Add some Scarlet glass glitter over the melted top of a tealight with a heat gun. Trace leaf shapes on green cardstock.
Cut out two leaf shapes and crimp cardstock. Adhere two cardstock layers with tacky tape.	Cut out spiral scallop flower leaving a center the same size as the tealight.
Add center of vellum to the bottom of the tealight and again to the stacked leaf shapes.	Wrap embossed scallop around the tealight, crumpling and bending petals.
Glue down end of scallop strip with Zip-Dry Paper Adhesive.

Your next inspiration stop is with Krissy, and if you should get lost somewhere on the hop here is the master list.

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Melinda Gleissner

Pam Hornschu

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Jordan

Wendy Price

Jennifer Ingle (Jingle)

Lea Kimmel

More gift giving ideas from past posts.

Make jewelry with stamps and resin!	Make wall décor with stamps and embossing enamel on tissue paper!
Gift a sample of luxurious soaps wrapped with stamped and embossed detail!	Create a package deal for a night on the town!

Details:
Stamps: Poinsettia Background (Stampendous)
Paper: Vellum, green cardstock
Ink: any slow drying ink so the embossing powder will stick to the stamped pattern
Accessories: Aged Scarlet Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), Red Glass Glitter (Stampendous), Zip Dry Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives, paper crimper, tacky tape