It's Time To Start Thinking about Holiday Gifts! {Comment to Win}

Everyone loves getting those special gifts that someone made just for you. You know that the giver spent time thinking about you during the creative process, and these gifts, while often less expensive than their store bought brethren, are cherished forever by the recipients. Given pride of place on fireplace mantels and bedroom dressers, used frequently with love, each time this gift is enjoyed the recipient stops to think of the giver. These connections can't be bought at a mall, can't be selected with a gift card, can't be duplicated at all.

The Stampendous! Design Team is making gifts by hand this year, and we're forging those special ties with our loved ones this season.  Each day this week we'll bring you some clever and creative ideas for making some of your own gifts this year. We hope we inspire and delight you with these ideas. Saturday, the whole gang will be back with more inspiration and creativity in a super fun blog hop with prizes to be won!

Here is my project for today's kick of of Holiday Gift week using the super cute Cling Icing Fluffles and the Cling You're the Icing Sentiment stamp.  I have created a fun set of birthday cards to give.  Giving handmade cards in sets for others to give to friends and family is a fun way to use your creativity and let the gift keep on giving!




I began with a simple, but fun design using premade card bases by Recollections for Michael's.  I also used some premade tags to keep the process even quicker!  I stamped and colored my image, added a bit of floss and sparkle, and stamped and adhered the sentiment with foam tape on each card for a fun set of birthday cards!







Today we also have four of our team sharing with you:

Cyndi Bundy
Kristine Reynolds
Wendy Jordan
Jennifer Ingle (that's me!)

And of course there will be prizes!! Be sure to visit the blogs we list each day and comment on each one! We'll be drawing for some of our favorite stamps for gift giving!