3-D Christmas gift exchange

Tonight was demo camp with the demo group, Creative to the Core, I am signed up under. This time of year we always do a gift exchange for those that wish to participate. The rules are that it has to be 3-D and at least under $5.00. It's always fun to make something, take it all covered up and then end up with something else. To exchange the 'gifts', we start out with our own gifts, we are then read a story where if a certain word is said, we pass to the right and if another word is said, we pass to the left. When the story ends, hopefully we didn't end up with our own gift and take turn opening up our presents!

I saw this cute little backpack on Tonya Klar's blog and proceeded to make it for the gift exchange. I used Baja Breeze paper and Garden Tea dsp along with the Baja Breeze striped ribbon. The backpack was just the right size for 6 gingersnap cookies from my first batch of Dipped Gingersnap cookies that I had made on Monday! I also made a matching booklet that you can see here when I made it for customers as I didn't get a picture of it. I used Pocket Silhouettes as the image on the front of the booklet.




So that was my gift that I whipped up today. If you have problems viewing the video on Tonya's blog, you can find it on youtube.com. Measurement directions are on Tonya's blog though.

So do you want to see what I got? Drum roll.........

This is how it was 'wrapped'. I saw the box as soon as I got there tonight and wanted it! So did 20 or so other ladies!! lol And this is what was inside it:

Isn't this GORGEOUS!! Karen stamped on vellum and attached it to the 'clothe' sides! Everyone was drooling over it, we even had to plug it in. But it's mine! All mine!! (insert evil laugh!)

Just another view. All I can say is WOW and Thank you, Karen! I love it.