CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA THREAD

I made a chipboard album for my bf's mom. I love it, think I might have to make another!
I also am making a 12x12 album for my dad for christmas.

Family Chipboard Album

• buggainok Said:

I love the ornament.It's really good.Bridgette the clipboard you made is really good. I made my mom a clipboard and a cd.

Here's the clipboard:
http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=gallerie...

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=gallerie...

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=gallerie...


Here's the cd:

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=gallerie...


http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=gallerie...

A friend of mine found this project posted online and we each made one and swapped them:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ckawaakoa/StationerySets/photo#5208232223738718690

http://picasaweb.google.com/ckawaakoa/StationerySets/photo#5208232266688391666


More info http://ck0123.blogspot.com/2008/06/stationery-set-swap.html .

I was thinking of making these for my son's teacher and also some of my non-crafting friends.

I would love to have the directions to the french fry box! Can you please tell me what I need to do to receive it? Thanks

Anyone have any new ideas for this Christmas?

this thread is AWESOME I'm only on pg 4 saving to my favs for sure I will try to add to the list lol

this is perfect! I love this thread

• Susan.R Said:

I have the handmade crocheted and starched snowflakes! We cherish them

• luuuuv2scrap Said:

BRILLIANT IDEA

last year i made bunch of magnet boards i got from home depot 12x12 sheet metal, modge podge my paper on got some round magnet from joanns used chipboard spelled out Memos....i will try to find a picture and post...

How about a card keeper, only in x-mas theme!
Like maybe using new line by Cosmo-Crickets Fa La La, or Bo-Bunny's Believe line! I did one for a friends Birthday gift from scratch! turned out nice, I can pass along instructions if anyone is interested!
Pics are in my gallery!

This is a bill and card organizer
I created for myself mine is simple and blah but you could really dress it up for a great gift!

I just finished making a Christmas gift. My sis is a teacher. It's an animal ABC book for her class. Other than that I'm thinking of getting the HeidiSwapp Clock and altering it as a gift.

Great thread ladies!! Cant wait to see more ideas =)

I just finished this layout today. I put it in a 12X12 scrapbook frame {love them}. I will be making the grandparents one for Christmas.

Forget Me Not By Jenni_Z

Great ideas!

I also am going to be doing recipe boxes filled with family recipes for the girls and memory books for a couple of the guys. The books will have the 12 months and pockets for whatever treasures or reminders they may want to put in them. Any ideas of some cute embellies for the recipe cards?

I was thinking about doing those glass christmas bulbs filled with paper...but this is nice too. Just covered a chipboard box with paper and podge with some ribbon. You can do it as fancy or as plain as you like. Really easy!!


Cookie Tin 2
By Rusha


Cookie Tin
By Rusha

I have started on one of 2 christmas memory books that will have each year, a calendar holiday planner and places to put in gifts and parties and pictures, recipes and traditions, I will post them when I get the first one done. Than my sister-in-law had a baby this year so I will do her's as the first 4 holidays for the baby. I am also going to do a canvas project for my aunt about her dog. Should be fun.

this will be my daughters first christmas, she will be 8 months old, and the gift i'm giving her grandparents (my parents, hubs parents) is a scrapbook with one page in it with her picture, her footprints, and obviously other stuff to make it AWESOME! every christmas after they will just get a new page that is just as awesome. i am so excited to do it, i haven't started yet, still brainstorming and gathering. i know that as she gets older it will have to be her hand or foot, but right now her hand will be too hard. lol

Thta's a really cool idea!

SimplyMisty, I love your name frames. Wow. I think I'll make them for my scrappin friends.

I did this http://www.heritagemakers.com/?event=projectBrowse&projectId=670bc7e9-3048-6168-dae5-0502a2fe46cb&productId=1&projectSponsor=237473 for my twins.

This http://www.heritagemakers.com/?event=projectBrowse&projectId=23d2cfda-f01a-47c9-b4b9-24700cceee06&productId=1&projectSponsor=237473 for my mom.

and this one for my dh. His mom had boxes of photos, so I scanned them and created http://www.heritagemakers.com/?event=projectBrowse&projectId=8beb8cc8-3048-6168-a471-8112c09da98e&productId=59&projectSponsor=237473 .

For my mother and mil, I'm giving them a beautiful 12x12 frame I got from Michael's. Of course, there will be a lo in it of the grandchildren. I will also be giving them each a nice 12x12 scrapbook and in a card I will explain that once a month for 2009, they will receive a scrapbook page in the mail, so they can alternate what's in the frame, and put the old pages into the album. That way they are building a full-size album, while still having pages to display! I was going to do this for my Grandmother, but using a big clipboard instead of the frame, but my Grandmother passed away this May.

For my father, I'm making a calendar that can be turned into an album at the end of the year. He uses his calendar more than anyone else I know, so it should be a good gift for him!

For my step mother, I'm making the kit of the month "Photo Folders" from Creating Keepsakes , http://community.creatingkeepsakes.com/store/products/photo_folders They're neat, but harder to make than I thought.

Oustside of that, I'm not really done with my planning! I'd better hurry!

We have had some water problems in our basement - which was my scrap room. When I relocated some of the stuff upstairs, I decided to go through my stash and get rid of stuff I'm really NOT gonna use EVER. While doing that, I got inspired to make stationery sets for my friends. I have jumbo paper clips I'm gonna make into bookmarks, I'm gonna do pocket calendars, pens, and a couple other things. I was planning to put a larger item in each set, and based on what I have, they might each get a different thing. While the sets will be pretty much the same, they will be done in different patterns for each person.

BTT for more new ideas

I have decided to make a coaster album for my mil, a mini album for my mom, a altered notebook from the dollar bin at m's for a friend of mine as well as a addy book from the dollar store for her. thats about all I got so far for handmade gifts. still a ton more to think of and to make lol
keep the ideas coming ladies

The french fry box is sooo nice..I'm thinking of putting in shirts for the kids roll it up and there wrapped neatly..I could use recycled paper..nice..just a thought..

another gift idea...I'm altering a pal I got at my lss and adding shredded paper to the inside with some goodies from bbw!!
another one i just finished is an altered box for cards with some handmade cards to go with it.
coasters i stamped on and then sealed got a box of tunble marble coasters and hd for less then 5 bucks add cork or sticky felt to the bottom so they dont move around on the table and wont scratch it.
altered jumbo clothes pins.
I have been coming up with ideas for xmas all of a sudden

LOVE the stamped glass ball ornament. I have some glass balls left over from last year. I think my daughter and I might use this idea for her teacher's gifts this year. Thanks for sharing!!!

Cheryl
(Nana-to-be Jan. 2009)

I have made a couple of gifts so far which include; a nursery rhymes book for my son (pictures uploaded in my gallery)

12x12 album for my parents and mother-in-law with pages of my sons birth and Christmas(im going to send a page every year so they can add it to the album, i got this idea on here!)

Coaster orniments that I will add my son's Christmas picture to. (I will upload pic's when I can)

Other then that I'm thinking of making a altered frame of a zoo trip for my parents and another album for my dad of his mom who passed away.

Keep the ideas coming they are very helpful!

i'm going to be making for all my family framed LO's where all they have to do it put in the pic, vinyl wall decor, and for my son's KDO teachers cookies in a jar and a tortilla sop in a jar, things are kinda tight this year, and i have all but the frames for all of this!!!!

Making Memories - 15x7 Calendar - Seasonal

I will try to post a picture this week. We bought empty paint cans. I put snowflake stickers on the can and then sprayed Glass Frosting Spray. I removed the stickers and used wooden disk to make a snowman face. I used pompoms for the earmuffs on the sides of the handle. And then I've filled the cans with different stuff. Movie night (popcorn, moive rentals passes, hot cocco mix) Crochet can had a how to booklet(homemade), yarn and hooks. My kiddos did a travel can that has color books, crayons, small travel games, etc.

• jamesmommy Said:

Tell me about Tortilla sop? Please?

For christmas I am making my mom a recipie box(out of a shoebox). For my dad I am going to buy a glass jar, decorate it and fill it with chocolate-raisins and saltnuts.. he loves that!
For my parents, my sister, brother and mother-in-law I am going to make a candle.
I have a newborn cousin and I wanted to give him an ornament sayin: My first christmas.
For my grandma in the USA I am making a calendar with pictures of us here in Iceland.
I havent decided what to make for my boyfriend, Im looking througt this thread for some inspirations:)

• okiegrandma Said:

Oops! I just realized I should have said tortilla soup - I'm assuming this is a mix in a jar?

Some neat ideas!

I've had so much fun looking through the ideas on this thread and have been inspired with ideas for next year's Christmas Bazaar at our church. If I get started now, I'll have plenty for them to sell!

I was finally able to upload my little christmas gifts. I made coaster ornaments with a picture of my son on the top and a little stamped image or some die cuts (the die cuts are actually tags from dollar tree). All I did was use my cricut and cut out cardstock pattern a 1/4 bigger then the coaster's and glues some ribbon to the coater and then glued the cardstock the the coaster. On some of the ornaments i put magnets on the back so they can go on the refrigerator instead if wanted. The pictures are in my gallery.

That is just the cutest darn photo of a Christmas baby I ever saw. I thought it was one of those premade avatars that you select until I saw your gallery. Adorable!!!

(i heart scrapping) thank you, he's such a camera ham!

I'm making a scrapbook, photo frame, some pictures and a photo album for my mum this year as she told me not to buy her anything

I made this for my DH grandmother. It was for a swap I did and I loved the way it turned out so much that I made extra.


Alterd CD Swap
By Lisaslittlecreations

That's very pretty - is there a snowman on the other side, too?

I'm saving this thread to my favorites so that it can be resurrected next Christmas See you all then.

thinking about starting thinking right now, so i'll have it ready by then...


( it's a joke, treat it like one)

I actually really want to start my Christmas cards now so that I can get enough made by the time I actually need them.

Last year I bought an inexpensive (manly) looking jar and decorated it for my dad. Inside I placed 52 pieces of scrap paper (who doesn't have that?). Each piece of paper had a favorite memory I have of my dad. I also included instructions to pull one out every week of the year. He loved it!

Cost me $3, a stroll down memory lane and a warm fuzzy for making dad happy! Wish I had taken a picture. But hopefully you get the idea.

I love that idea! I'll have to start making note of some of my favorite memories!