I have been dying to show these off, but wanted to keep my downline gifts a secret until our party, which was today. The party was awesome–I'll post the ten shoebox swap projects and other photos here soon–and now that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, I can show you what I made!
This is the Holiday Origami Box by talented demonstrator Martha Stewart of Florida. I got it off the Stampin' Up demonstrator website from a page full of fantastic ideas sent in from demos all over the country for a special challenge. I am really glad Martha took the time to enter this project, because it is atrociously adorable and makes you just grin from ear to ear when you open it.
I made one for every single one of my ladies plus the "non-related" demos who came to the party, and each time I finished one up, it just made me smile! I love the way the box splits open in the center and the two halves open up to reveal a standing box in the center. On the inside of each side I put the Song of My Heart Stampers Mission Statement and a personal note from me, since this project replaced a Christmas card from me this year.
I should have photographed one of the candles by itself. I found that you can bend Hodgepodge Hardware to curve around the glass jar–pretty cool looking. So each of the candles (Partylite's Champagne Pear Mini Barrel Jars) has a Real Red wide grosgrain ribbon belly band with a Hodgepodge Hardware frame on it and they can change the label out with the seasons if they want to.
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You did a beautiful job on these. I sure your girls were thrilled with them. I am going to attempt so we’ll see how it goes.