Kawaii Candy Corn Gift Bag
I’m a bit of a wimp when it comes to horror movies. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve watched a scary film, and I can’t say I enjoyed it… nor…
Packaging Templates
Heart Gift Box Template
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here is a free printable gift box for you to make up. Or for any reason actually. It’s sweet packaging for birthdays, anniversaries or any reason you need to give…
Gingerbread cookie kits
This past Christmas we decided to make up gifts for some of Munchkin’s teachers at garderie and for a few friends. I wanted to steer clear of mason jars as, honestly, I’m a…
Sugar sprinkle gift packaging
This is part one of a two blog tutorial series. I had it all in one, but it got over large and convoluted. So I’ve decided to pull this part out. I’ll post the second part…
Small paper bag advent calendar.
For Munchkin’s first Advent (we didn’t do one last year) I wanted something she could have a great time opening and, most likely, destroying in the process. So I came up with the concept of…
Bee Geometric Gift Box
For Munchkin’s first birthday party I made up a suite of items that all fit with the Bee theme we’d set. I wanted them to be modern and sweet, without covering everything with flowers or…
Kawaii Halloween Frankenstein Gift Box
As promised, here is the 2nd in my kawaii Halloween series. This time a cute little kawaii Frankenstein to go along with kawaii Ghosty! They make really cute little gift boxes. The boxes go together…
Kawaii Halloween Ghosty Giftboxes
As I’ve mentioned in posts before, we don’t really celebrate Halloween beyond making sure I have a packet of something to give to the one or two children who might turn up with their parents. But…
Woodland Creatures Cookies and Tree Trunk Packaging
A couple of months ago, my friend Nikki asked me to come up with a concept. She wanted to make gifts to give to her children’s teachers at the end of the year as a thank you gift….
Happy Easter Bunny Milk Cartons
It’s that time of the year! That time when Spring arrives and all the shelves in every store are full of chocolate bunnies and pretty chocolate eggs. That time when we eat too many…
A little robot advent
It’s coming round to that time of year wherein I look at the calendar and panic. I’ve not even started to think about Christmas presents for friends and family, let alone creating an advent calendar….
Coral and mint dotty notelets printable
A couple of weeks ago I post my ‘Dots and doilies’ envelope printable on the blog for you to download and print. Now, for your scribbling pleasure, here are the matching notelets! As with…
Dots and doilies
We’re currently holidaying in South-West France. Enjoying some sunshine, sea air and the relaxed surfing culture that Hossegor provides. I’ve just commenced the third trimester and Munchkin is growing quickly! For this reason…
Diamond shaped gift box packaging
I’ve been having some fun of late creating packaging and gift boxes. This diamond shaped one is one of my favourites (second only to my tea cups). They’d make really cute packaging for…
Hexagonal gift boxes
If you live in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Peru, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium or Brazil (along with a host of other countries) it’s coming up to Mothers Day. Stumped as to a…
Paper Tea Cup #1 Lid (insert option)
As promised, here is the very belated, revised lid I designed for my Paper Tea Cups #1! It won’t fit on yesterdays tea cup, I’m still working on a lid design for it, it’s…
Paper Tea Cup #2
As promised, here is the alternate tea cup design! It’s a bit taller and wider than the one I uploaded last week. But I’m really happy with the design! It goes together exactly the…
Paper Tea Cups #1
I’ve been messing around with paper. I’m not sure exactly why I decided to make paper tea cups, but inspiration hit over the holidays and I couldn’t find one online. Hence the gauntlet was thrown down! I…
Glitter Bow Wrapping
Christmas is almost upon us! Are you ready for it? I wrapped the last of my presents today. And thought I’d show you one of my favourites. It’s quick and easy and allows you…
Christmas Packaging- Milk Cartons
I’ve been busy creating items for Christmas this week. I’ve been struggling to pin down what I wanted to do for our Christmas cards. I love what I’ve made but there’s just a few things…
DIY Advent Calendar Template
I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front this week as I’ve been spending quite some time putting together this tutorial and printable template. It’s by far and away the most advantageous template I’ve created so…
Pretty Patterned Gift Bags
You might remember the small pretty patterned paper bag template I did a few months ago? Well I find myself in need of something a little larger recently and so decided to modify the template…
Pretty patterned paper bags!
After I’d made up chocolate wrappers for my Husband’s Uncle and Aunt last week. I made some gift bags for our nephews. Creating a template that can be printed out on A4 paper. They looked…
Sending sweet mail
Sometimes living so far away from your home country can be difficult. In particular when a family member is sick or unwell and you can’t just pop around to say hi and let them know…
Lego Party Goodie Boxes
My friend Clare has a 7 year old son who is Lego mad! He’s gone as far as memorising the catalog numbers of the kits he wants and can tell you just how many pieces…