Friday 18 December 2015

2015 Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop



Hello and welcome! Today I am taking part in the current Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. You can find all the details and loads of inspiring projects Here . This time the theme for the hop is Winter/Christmas holiday and we were invited to include projects featuring hot chocolate as well as tea and coffee.



This year I decided to make some of my Christmas gifts, so I started by cutting several tags using the stitched tag die set  from Waltzingmouse Stamps. Then I used My Favourite Things "Hot Cocoa Cups" dies to cut lots of mugs from red card, the cocoa insert from brown card and the whipped cream from ivory card. Then I took the MFT "hug in a mug" stamps and added the chocolate sprinkles to the cream. The white wooden snowflakes were a find from Sainsburys supermarket and gives the mugs just the right Christmassy feel!


The sentiments and snowflakes on the white tags were from the same "hug in a mug" stamp set and I added coloured reinforcement rings to match the top tags. I found some lovely red spotty ribbon in my stash that was just the job for tying the tags onto my gift bags.


I bought the gift bags from Amazon, cut a rectangle of sturdy card to fit into the bottom of the bag, then filled each bag with a "Beprovad" glass mug from Ikea (a bargain at 85p each), a sachet of Cadbury's hot chocolate drink, a candy cane, a bag of tiny marshmallows and a bag of mini gingerbread men - yum!


I had two different sorts of bags, so I used blue tags on the snowman ones and grey tags on the red tree ones. I think they look quite festive! I made a total of 30 of these gifts, so many of my friends and family will be getting a hot chocolate kit next week to keep them warm!


Thank you for reading this far and I hope that I have inspired you to try making your own gifts too.

13 comments:

  1. Darling little tags and cocoa gifts.

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  2. Love those tags... so cute... the whole package looks wonderful... anyone would be thrilled to receive it!

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  3. Love the two layer tags and they are so colorful, goes so well with your plastic gift bag.

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  4. These tags are just too adorable!

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  5. Fabulous gift tags and gifts, Lynn, how wonderful to share yourself, the true meaning of the season! Thanks for sharing with us and Happy Holidays!!

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  6. Oh My! These are BEYOND CUTE!!! I have got to get that die! The chocolate sprinkles are A-DOR-ABLE ;-)

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  7. Such cute tags for your gifts!
    Thanks for sharing your projects this weeks.
    Happy Holidays to you and yours!

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  8. What great tags! They are the perfect finishing touch to your awesome gifties!

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  9. Those tags are brilliant! Love the colors and that sweet little veneer snowflake. Great giftie bags filled with cocoa delights. These will make lots of your family and friends happy. Love this. Bev

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  10. Neat tags. I love how you doubled them up. I will be making tags tonight.... Thanks for the inspiration

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  11. PERFECT tags! I just love that MFT set and you have showcased it beautifully! I may have to CASE these. :) Bravo and Thanks for sharing! Merry Hugs to you! :)

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  12. Tags are really cute - love the double tag w/sentiment.

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