At Impress, we love sharing creative ideas. Enjoy looking through the archives at some of our
favorite projects from seasons past. Let them inspire you to create your own!
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Holiday Magic
Having a holiday party?
Create some magic with the ideas below.
Invitation - Add the glittery silver snowflakes to Impress' jumbo tag cards for a simple, distinctive invitation.
Decorations - Create a glowing, wintry scene with snowflake-printed luminaries! Simply roll a sheet of snowflake vellum
into a cylinder and hold with vellum tape. Vary the heights by cutting the 8-1/2" X 11" sheets of vellum to 7-1/2" X 11" and 6-1/2" X 11".
Set a tea light inside for a frosty glow. Add punched out snowflakes to carry out the snowy theme.
Place Cards - Cut white card stock to 2-1/2" X 4-1/4" and use a 1-1/4" circle punch to cut a hole for the napkin in the lower half of the paper.
Write the name (or print on the computer before cutting) above the hole and stick the silver snowflake on the top half to create a sparkly décor
for the table.
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Snowball Packaging
Try this fun packaging idea
for your next holiday party - paper mache snowballs. To open the recipient
has to cut it in half with a scissors or knife. What a fun
presentation!
To make, use 2 parts white
glue to 1 part warm water. Mix well. Tear (don't cut) paper being
used into strips, then smaller pieces 3-4 inches long. Newspaper can be
used for most paper mache projects but for the snowballs use white tissue, white
crepe paper or even white paper towels. Tissue and crepe paper give a smoother
finish but need more layers. Blow up 7 inch balloons to the desired
size. Setting them in a cup or mug makes it easier to work with the round
surface. Dip the paper into the paste and place on balloon covering the
entire surface, overlapping the strips. Leave the area around the knot of
the balloon uncovered. Let the first layer dry 24 hours. Add the 2nd
layer and let dry for 24 hours again. Repeat until you have the desired
affect with at least 3 layers. After the last
layer is dry, pop the balloon and pull it out. Add tissue, shredded paper
or cellophane inside the snowball and insert the gift. Cover
the hole with layers of paper mache as before to fill in the hole. When
completely dry the snowball can be decorated with prisma glitter and spray
adhesive, or spray glitter.
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Gift Enclosure Set
A set of gift tags make a fun hostess gift. They're easy to make and it's something
everyone can
use. To make these all we did was attach one of the Christmas stickers on the new gift tags cards. We
used silver cording to tie each tag
and matching envelope and packaged the set in a silver metallic square tin. You
could decorate the tin if you want or leave it just plain. It's
beautiful by itself.
Items used:
Metallic Cording - silver
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Slider Box of Mini Notes
This set of mini cards fits
in the larger slider box. We cut our own cards to fit in the box. The micro buttons were used to embellish the
the dot tree.
Items used:
4718A - a gift for you
Brilliance Ink
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Beaded Wreath Ornament Card
This metal tile can be taken off the card and
hung onto a Christmas tree. The beaded wreath was made by stringing the
holiday bead collection onto a short piece of wire. The ribbon was tied
around the twisted ends of the wire and then glued to the metal tag.
The tag was attached to the card using double stick mounting tape. Notice
the bright red metallic paper used behind the tile. It really makes the
ornament stand out.
Items used:
Mounting Tape
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Mitten Money Card
Want to creatively give a gift
of money? Click on the picture to see how this card works. The front of
the mitten was decorated with one of the metal eyelet charms from the variety
pack.
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A "Season's Greetings"
Gift
Need a hostess gift. If you search on the web, you'll find lots of recipes for
different rubs that are easy to make. We
found one for an Asian Rub that we liked. At Impress we think the fun part of giving a gift
is coming up with the packaging design. A square tin worked great for
this. We added gold origami paper, gold cording and one of our Chinese
coins. We printed the cooking directions on the computer and made a small
tag to go with the seasonings. It's fun to give a hand made gift.
Items used:
Chinese Coins
Metallic Cording - Gold
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Snowman Slider Box
This slider box contains a
set of rectangular vellum gift tags. The darling snowman sticker is made
of felt. To stamp on the vellum tags, we used Brilliance ink as it
dries on vellum. Tying the tags together is a nice touch to
remember.
Items used:
Slider Box
Gingham Ribbon
4899A - small asterisk
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Sleigh Slider Box
To decorate this box, the image was stamped on a piece of vellum
which was then wrapped around the box. We put some of the new vellum tags inside
but you could also use the box to give some pretty Christmas candy in.
Items used:
Slider Box - large
B4833 - to/from
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