Merry Christmas Teacher gifts.....

Merry Christmas to all my wonderful followers and fellow bloggers!

This will be a fairly long post! I saw the most delightful Magic Box made on Cabio's blog last week, and decided that it would be the perfect solution for teacher gifts! Here also is a link to a tutorial on how to make these delightful (if not time consuming) boxes. Thanks so much Cabio for the inspiration, but I should have heeded your reference to just how involved these projects are!!! Yikes, I thought at times that I had bitten off more than I could chew! And I only put two images on my boxes instead of the 5 Cabio did! It's all I could muster....

All of my images are from Magnolia-licious where Diana is having a wonderful sale on Mini Bundles as well as discounts on many images as well as in-store credit which applies each time you purchase. Awesome savings, Diana!

I have lots of photos to show you, which just might take you as long to get through as it took me to make these - NOT!! Just kidding!

Are you ready? Here we go....

The first box I made uses #3092 Tucked Tilda on the outside from the newest "Sweet Christmas Dreams" collection. She is available in the large version used here and the Mini as well. I didn't keep track of the Copics I used, and I pulled the papers together from different companies because they somehow went well together.

Here is Tucked Tilda...I added some pretty lace from my stash, crowned it with a string of pearls and then put some pretty red half back pearls around the scallops of the lace to accent the red in the stripes...I die cut the image using Spellbinders Labels 10.

Here is the inside of the box using #3048 Tilda with Teddy Bear from the same collection...

I finished off the top by make rosettes in two different sizes then stamping the Merry Christmas #726 Vintage Post from Magnolia. I actually used two different dp's but they were so similar that they look alike. I used a MS punch to make the lacy edges.

For my second box I used #331 Ice Tilda on the outside. The papers are from Echo Park, but I don't remember their exact names. Here I used Spellbinders Labels 6 as the shape around Tilda, I also used a little "out of the box" technique to help her fit into the shape. The silk ribbon is from my stash.

Inside the box I perched #3058 Jolly Tilda from the 2010 Christmas collection. She is not available at the moment as she is from last year's collection.

Here is the top of the box...I added just a couple of pearls to each side of my sentiment which I purchased from Magnolia Sweden several years ago.

Finally, the third box! On the front of this box is #3055 Something for you Tilda. The dp's I used for this box are from The Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas collection. I love the turquoise and chocolate brown on these papers. Once again, I used the same lace from my stash and adorned the lacy and area around the image with half back pearls from my stash. (Thank you so much Paola!) For my die I used Spellbinder's Classic Ovals and Oval Scalloped.

On the inside of this box I used and older Tilda also. She is #310 Waiting Tilda. So sorry to say she is no longer available either.

Here is the top of the box...

All of the boxes are finished in the same way on the inside, with a Tilda perched on the edge of the bottom box. I filled the boxes with some Ghiradelli chocolates, Hershey Kisses and some tea light candles the edges of which I cover with matching papers.

So, whew! You've made it through to the end. So for a quick preview, here are the three boxes together....

Now I couldn't possibly give these wonderful boxes away without my signature. So I made one more rosette for each box and stamped my personal identification for the center.

Well, I'm glad that you stuck with me to the end of this post. It's an absolute pleasure to have to visit my blog and I hope you'll be inspired here to create a Magic Box for yourself. Interpretation is completely up to you to vary according to your creative genius! Merry Christmas to everyone....

Blessing and hugs,
Barb