Giggles and gift boxes

So today was our first day together looking at all the creative ideas we could find and think of over the past few days and boy were the ideas flowing!  It took us an hour or two to settle on the idea of gift boxes and the note books that I put on our previous post. We had fantastic helpers...our two daughters and Cath's sister who had many great ideas. We also had so much fun chatting while we were creating and are happily tired now because it gives you an amazing feeling of accomplishment when you have completed your project that you have set out to do for the day.

The gift boxes we made came from a magazine either a woman's value or essentials which are both fantastic magazines if you enjoy making things! Real value for your money and definitely essential to all woman who like great ideas. So lets get to the nitty gritty.....
We used:
colored cardboard
basic box pattern
Scissors
glue gun (which is a great creation!)
ribbon
Various letters, snail shells, jigsaw pieces (from that puzzle that half the pieces are missing from!) curls of paper, pencil stub, old birthday candles etc.....
It was another of those things that is really easy to make and so much fun to decorate because as a group you come up with your own ideas and borrow a few from each other and in a few hours you have several small gift boxes you can use for any occasion. 
We are having so much fun with this and we hope you do too!

Cath and Jo