Merry Christmas! (Book)

I usually like to make small handmade gifts to give to all the family friends I see around the holidays. After a busy month at work there wasn't much extra time so I went to my parents house empty handed. On Monday morning we were looking through our Christmas cards we had received and I was noticing all the great festive stamps people were using on the envelopes. I thought it would be fun to make more little stamp size books that opened up into Christmas cards. I ran to the local art store and picked up some matte board, an olfa knife and some decorative paper and hammered out a few books. This was the tiny adorable end result:

Repurposed Christmas Gifts

Around Christmastime we all realize there are lots of people we would like to get gifts for but can't really afford to do so. This year I decided to make something quick and easy to give to the people I couldn't afford gifts for. So I made ornaments and nice little boxes for them to go in.

 

The boxes were made out of (very seasonably appropriate) Trader Joe's bags wrapped around card stock to make them more durable. 

Inside were ornaments made of old Christmas cards and 

homemade paste paper.

Yay! Instagifts!