Hear ye! Hear ye! I announce to you, my fair visitors to this royal castle, that I’m so excited to show you all the projects I’ve been constructing for this Royal Blog Tour! The stamp set that I’ve chosen to spotlight is called Sweet Season. It contains 4 stamps, and I love all the images. I found that they’re perfect for gift-giving, which is what I’ll show you!

I made 4 projects for your viewing pleasure, but I wish I had more space to share all of my ideas that I’ve pondered! I’d love to share all the pictures of every angle of every project, but in the interest of limited time for this tour (I don’t want to keep my “subjects” from visiting every other castle in this fair land!), you’ll have to come back for the finer details!

My first project is a Small Gable Box that I purchased elsewhere — I decorated the sides with Jolly Holiday DSP and card stock. My little gingerbread tag at the top of the box uses the gift tag that is part of this set. I also used the “gingerbread” sentiment on the front of the box. (Do you recognize the gingerbread “men”? Come back after the tour for a complete and thorough explanation and for more closeup photos of the box as well!

My next project is an invitation to a Cookie Swap that I will be hosting in December. I used a template that I found online (again, I’ll provide the link after the tour so make sure to tag this blog to come back to!) that I enlarged and decorated. I again used the Jolly Holiday DSP, the Chantilly Lace Crochet trim, and the little gingerbread man from the Got Treats stamp set. The apron top again used the “gingerbread” sentiment from this lovely set!

My third project is a food gift that I made “presentable” using images and tags from this stamp set. (I have to laugh as I type this, because I don’t think anyone would turn it down just because I forgot to make a gorgeous tag for it! LOL!!) I embossed the bread wrap using the snowflake image, and I repeated the snowflake image on my tag that I cut out with my Big Shot and the Two Tags Bigz die. I’ll show closeups in a followup post after the tour!

Feast your eyes on my last project: a small Milk Carton Birdhouse Tea Light Holder Ornament!(Phew!! Say that 3x fast!! LOL!) The milk carton uses a different template than the Milk Carton die from Stampin’ Up! — it is slightly larger and has a delightful twist that I’ll show you later! So … you guessed it … I’ll fully explain this in a followup post after the tour as well — just trust me, it’s adorable and probably my favorite project!

I’m offering Blog Candy as part of this tour! You must include your email address when you leave me a comment (how else will I know if you liked what I made for y’all?!). *You can also leave me your email address as yourname at emailaccount dot com within the comment if you’re uncomfortable leaving your email address. The prize is a brand new, unmounted, retired Christmas stamp set called A Merry Little Christmas. I will choose a random number from my comments, and then notify the winner if I’ve received your name and address by email! (The third option is that you can email me directly at jvn89@aol.com with your contact information if you’d like to be included in the blog candy give-away — if I can’t contact you, I will choose another winner.) *So sorry… but I also need you to live in the US in order to be a winner.*

Please, please come back after the tour so I can bestow the blessings of details and close-up photos without limit! In the meantime, thank you for visiting my fair land! Merry Christmas!

Jeannie