One of my fave scents during the festive season is the citrusy spiced aroma. Whether it’s in warm wines, puddings or candles, it just navigates your senses to a comforting homely feeling for me. So today I’m channeling those vibes to make this sweet gift pouch.
TUTORIAL:
Using a pillow box die, I made two die cuts out of some orange textured paper and shaded the edges in with some Harmony ink to create a vignette effect. With one of the pillow box panel, I die cut the corner using one of the Sizzix mixed media dies to create a window.
I had die cut a bunch of oranges, holly leaves and Berry branches from Claina Palmer’s Bloomin ‘Ansom Christmas collection. For the holly leaves I shaded them in with some iced spruce oxide ink. The Orange slices has two attachments, the circle and the rind. I had die cut the circles out of the same orange card stock then shaded the centre with WD Orange ink. With the rinds I had die cut out then of cream card stock. Once the orange dies are assembled, I applied some glossy accent on the orange segments only, for that nice glossy effect.
Now we have to assemble the pillow box panels, do so by gluing the side flaps to the opposite straight sides and push the tops in, one flap on top of the other to create a curved shape base. I decided to only close and glue one end of the box, and keep the top part open, to add a hole for a ribbon to sew through. I arranged the leaves, hollies and orange slices on one side of the box until I was happy, I also add some twine, splitted cinnamon sticks and a star anise to give it a nice touch and somewhat spiced scent. Then, to complete the pouch, I added red half pearls onto the berry branches and applied some glitter snow paste.
This gift pouch are great to gift Christmas teas, spices, sweet treats or to be used to hang some Christmassy potpourri on the tree. How about using it as a gift tag containing a couple of chocolates? However you chose to use it, I’m sure it’ll lift anyone’s Christmas spirits. Please note, the Bloomin ‘Ansome Christmas release are available on Hochanda or Claina Palmer Website from August 20th.
x Ali x
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Disclaimer: This card is created as part of my DT work and the Die set featured are sponsored by Claina Palmer Designs. Products used to produce this card will be linked/highlighted (if available) and are not affiliated.
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