Welcome to the final Paper Players Challenge for 2025! It's hard to credit that another year has rolled by. Thanks to everyone who entered Claire's Tic-Tac-Toe challenge last week. The entries were beautiful and varied so touring the gallery was a lot of fun.
Jaydee has set us our final challenge and it's definitely one for the season (or you could say that it was a year-round theme): Gifting.
I thought there were a number of ways to look at this challenge: cards with the theme of a gift, things you could make and give as gifts or ways to package a gift for giving.
I've sort of gone for the latter. Each year, I like to make table gifts for the big day and I try to do something different each year: a kind of Christmas Cracker but not.
I haven't quite finished them all yet but I have made some - here they are. Custom made to fit a scratchy ticket plus other stuff.
I usually include a scratchy ticket in my faux cracker creation and every year I end up scrunching it, rolling it or folding it to fit whatever it is that I made. This year, I made it the star by measuring one and making the box to size. It's a box with a flip-top lid, as you'll see in the bottom photo.
I chose the so, so beautiful Traditional Christmas DSP. Who wouldn't be enchanted by the rich reds, white and gold with touches of Secret Sea, Old Olive and Pool Party? Some boxes have a Secret Sea base, some Cherry Cobbler (my favourite red) and some Pool Party. I can get 2 bases from one piece of A4 card. Then I added a 10cm x 5 cm piece of DSP to the top, filled each one with goodies and tied it up with some of the lovely Gold Mesh ribbon.
I decided that they needed something else to look finished so I got out my (sadly retired) Tailor Made Tags and cut some white and some base coloured tags and ring reinforcements. I needed a small greeting and found one in a retired set, then I added some pine needles using a stamp from Branching Out.
Here you can see how the box opens. The scratchy ticket is at the bottom, not folded or scrunched or rolled, with other things on top. I notched the opening end to make it easier open.
Of course, the nice thing about a box like this is that it could hold anything: some handmade soaps, some jewellery, vouchers, teabags.... whatever you want all with half a piece of A4, a scrap of DSP and some ribbon. And the customisation of sizing is really very easy - so easy, I've made a video to show you how to put the box together and the first few minutes is how to work out the sizing if you'd like to make this in a different size.
What sort of gifting creation will you make?
You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page.
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
Anne Marie Hile (on leave)
Jan Clothier - You are here
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