Elegant Christmas Wrapping

On one of my pre-ankle Christmas shopping expeditions, I found these silver heart Christmas decorations. 

As soon as I saw them, I knew they needed a Christmas wrapping moment.  That moment came when I teamed them with some white and brown patterned gift wrap, white curling ribbon and some pearl bead bling I cut off a Christmas sprig.

A simple brown gift tag completes the look.

Simple Christmas Cards

I rolled my ankle on Friday.  Not great when one is in the throes of Christmas preparations.  However, the upside of immobility was that I was able to finalise my Christmas day menu, choose my Christmas wrapping theme (tune in later this week for the reveal), and make my Christmas cards.  I don't know if it was the pain talking, but I decided to go with a very simple card this year.

As you know, I went a little crazy with butterflies this year and my enthusiasm heightened to new levels after I bought a butterfly punch.  What I didn't mention at the time is that I bought a few other punches as well. Since then, my punch collection has been growing about as fast as my washi tape collection.  Um, anyhoo, in the original purchase, which I like to call the "foundation" purchase, I bought a couple of circle punches (1.5 inches and 2.25 inches), which are ideal for making Christmas baubles.  

I chose some Scandinavian-esque Christmas paper from yet another collection.

I cut two circles with the larger punch and one circle with the smaller punch, and glued them to the cards.

I cut some "clasps" for each of the baubles out of the same paper and glued them on.

Using a metallic silver pen, I then drew a "string" for each of the baubles. Very simple, so Christmas.

To my friends who are reading this, you are about to receive this card in the post.  Act surprised.