Gnome Christmas Tags and Bon Bons | Couture Creations

Hi Everyone, Kerrie here with my last post as Guest Designer for Couture Creations.

I want to thank the Couture Creations team for having me back as their guest designer for the last 3 months I have enjoyed creating all my projects with their Deck The Halls Christmas Collection

If you haven't yet got your hands on this collection get out and grab some now it is a fun collection to create with and so perfect for personalising your Christmas gifting and and Christmas table decor.

For these gift card I used Couture Creations Snow White Cardstock which I cut down to 5cm x 7.5cm and then cut the corners off to create tag shape. I then created a border around the edge using a fine black pen. I also used the pen on the backs on my tags to write To: and From:

I then grabbed Festive Gnome, Winter Gnome and Gnome Girls Self Adhesive Embellishments and popped them on the tags. These embellishments are perfect for creating quick tags and they come with foam adhesive attached and they layered already so you don't have to do anything but stick them on your tags 

To finish off you just add ribbon for tying onto your gifts

You can also use these embellishments to add some fun to your Christmas Bon Bons

It's as easy as popping on a Gnome Embellishment straight onto your bon bon 

With Christmas fast approaching I hope I have inspired you to create some gifts tags and add some uniqueness to your Christmas gift giving and Christmas table 

Couture Creations Products Used

CO728556 Deck the Halls, Self Adhesive Embellishments, Winter Gnome

CO728559 Deck the Halls, Self Adhesive Embellishments, Gnome Gifts

CO728560 Deck the Halls, Self Adhesive Embellishments, Festive Gnomes

ULT200001 12x12 Cardstock, Snow White

Until Next Time 

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Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Happy 2020 + Christmas 2019 Decor

#kerriegurney #christmas2019

Hi everyone
I'm just popping into wish everyone a very Happy 2020. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and got to spend it with those you love.
I have been quiet as I took some time to spend with family over the break.
We had a lovely day with our children and their partners along with my Mum and my Mother in Law.
Now that the kids are all adults we do secret Santa so just one gift each which is perfect. We live in a material world these days are are always gifting ourselves something so I love that we have simplified our Christmas gifting and make it all about spending time together and of course for me decorating and making our house festive and fun.

Here is a  look at my Christmas decorating for 2019. To say I went a little overboard is an understatement but hey I love every minute of decorating and I seriously hardly bought anything new this year but I had bought some pieces in the sales after Christmas in 2018.
This year I had 21 big trees and countless small trees.
 I had loads of bottle brush trees some that I bleached, some that I spray painted gold and lots of ceramic trees

my decor and trees are from Bed, Bath & Table, TK Maxx, Target Australia, Kmart Australia
 wooden names and deer napkin rings had cut especially for us 
I cut the letters on the bon bons using the We R Memory Keepers Alpha Punch board

I actually hardly bought any new items this year which I am quite proud of myself for creating with what I had ,  I bought the two garlands, the small flocked trees , another tree skirt, the potted arrangements and a few bits for my 3 Tiered Stand 

 Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Christmas Centrepiece and Bon Bons

Hi It is my turn again on Couture Creations Blog and with less than 7 weeks until Christmas I thought it was time to start creating some décor pieces. This Christmas I am repeating my theme of Red, Cream/White and Kraft that we had last year as I loved it so much, with lots of old book paper thrown in.

I have used Couture Creations Magical Christmas Eve Decorative Die for both of these very easy projects.

Bon Bons

When I saw these Bon Bons in the store I knew they would be perfect for our Christmas theme but they were a bit boring and needed a bit of something added to them to give them a bit more Christmas feel. I wanted something that didn't take a lot of effort as these would be tossed in the bin after they had been pulled open on Christmas Day.

My solution was to add  some die cut poinsettia flowers to these store bought bons bons taking them

from drab

 to fab

with not much effort, you could add more embellishments if you like but as they will just be thrown out I thought this was enough.

To create the poinsettia flowers using red cardstock run the dies through a die cutting machine and then while leaving the cardstock still in the die, run it through the machine again using the Couture Creations Latex Embossing Mat to give the flower petals embossed detail.

then pinch the petals to give them more character

As these bon bons will be thrown out once pulled apart, I only used one each of the large and small petal die cuts, diecutting the middle piece from gold cardstock and adding some Red Glitzin' Glamour Glitter Glue to add some sparkle.

Table Centrepiece

Starting with a store bought pine table centrepiece

 hot glue some glitter baubles and some poinsettias created from old book paper. Create the poinsettia flowers the same way as the red poinsettias but to save time you can die cut 4 pieces of book paper at a time book paper it is quite thin so you can cut 4 sheets at a time. To create a fuller poinsettia flower use two large and one small die cut petal for each flower, die cut the centre from gold glitter cardstock.

Here is a close up look at the candle. To embellish the candle just add some pleated hessian, tie some jute string around the middle of hessian and add a poinsettia flower created using old book paper and gold glitter cardstock for the centre and the leaves.

*Tip use a battery operated candle that way there is no chance of your embellishing catching fire and you won't ruin your trim

Couture Creations Products used

CO723562 Magical Christmas Eve Decorative Die

CO721979 Red Glitzin' Glamour Glitter Glue

CO723514 Latex Embossing Mat

Thanks for visiting and I hope I have inspired you to create some table décor for your Christmas table.

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