Why would you desire this week’s giveaway Gift Box Studio Lolli? In-house designer Kristy Zacharias sums it up perfectly in a blog entry just a few days ago. Read here about her pickle and how GBS saved the day!
Gift box Studio Lolli can be used for gifting or be a gift itself. This book is full of a fabulous collection of reversible gift boxes, cards and envelopes with a wide assortment of coordinating embellishments all using patterns designed by trend-setting fabric designer Demetria Hayward. All items easily pop out and are ready to mix-and-match for a unique and savvy gifting expression. The embellishments alone in various shapes and designs will get you all excited. Throw in some ribbon and viola, fabulous little gift parcels. The palette speaks the season, the paper quality feels great and the designs … so fresh.
For a chance to win a copy of Gift Box Studio Lolli, post a comment here or on facebook by Monday June 29, 2009, describing the most creative or uniquely presented gift you’ve given or received. We’ll randomly pick one winner to be announced on Monday. Good Luck!
*Comments will be closed at 9am PST on Monday, June 29, 2009
21 Comments
I’m not all that wonderful when it comes to doing up a gift, but my DIL rocks at it! THis would be great for her…..and if I check it out, I may improve my abilities as well!
I thinks this is a great book and a wonderful give-away. Certainly would be fun to make some of these lovely boxes for presents and to help hold things around my home.
Very creative.
SewCalGal
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I don’t recall ever receiving any gifts that unique in their presentation. The wildest I’ve ever gotten was to wrap a gift in some paper towels that were used to wipe up paints and dyes and had become quite colorful.
I like to give gifts in my “Going Green” Totes
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Then the wrapping is also PART of the gift! But sometimes the totes aren’t the right size, so the little boxes in this book are awesome!
What a great book idea!
My favorite gifts are ones that I received from a Japanese friend. Even the most simple purchases are wrapped at the store with exquisite paper. It’s one thing she missed when living here in the US.
What a cool book!
One year my mom decided to sew bags instead of using gift wrap for each of our Christmas gifts. Not very fun to open as a kid (there’s nothing like tearing into wrapping paper)…but it was creative!
Looks like a great way to give 2 gifts at once! I will have to look for the book. Thanks
I think gift packaging is really key to the best presents! The gift wrap that comes to mind was for my father-in-law. My husband and I were visiting the Titan missle silo in Arizona just south of Tucson. We bought his father a T-shirt their along with a couple of small VERY slightly radioactive balls. (My FIL had worked with radioactive weapons when he was in the service.) I put both in a coffee can that we had opened at the bottom and reglued so the gift was opened with the pop-top. I decorated the can with various radioactive symbols and caution symbols.
Maureen
I’ve given birthday gifts wrapped in fabric pillowcases using birthday fabric. thanks for the chance.
The most creative gift I have received was this past December for my 40th birthday. My Aunt sent me a box, inside the box was a pouch, like a money bag. When I lifted up the bag, the contents ($40 in one dollar coins and $10 in quarters), spilled all over. Attached to the bottom of the bag was a note that said “Gotcha!”. The bottom of the bag was not sewn! What was really unique about the gift was that each of the 40 quarters was wrapped in tissue paper and a small photo of me throughout my life was affixed to it, starting with a mini copy of my birth announcement!
My sister is really creative when it comes to gift wrapping. Looking back, I can remember few of the gifts, but I can remember a lot of the creative wrappings. I use the standard commercial wrapping paper with curling ribbon…self-stick bows if I’m really lazy!
The most creative gift wrapping I have ever done was to disguise a radial arm saw for a friend. Our two families spend Christmas together every year. The saw came in a HUGE box, too big for just one roll of wrapping paper. So, I pieced wrapping paper together to cover it, then set the 4′ Christmas tree on top of it. The box became a table. You should have seen the look on his face after all the gifts were opened and I set the tree on the floor and told him to open the box!
I helped a friend wrap a floor lamp that was fully assembled and when we got through it looked liked we wrapped up a body because we let the paper pull down from the shade. Definitely did not look like a lamp.
I love great boxes. I was so excited when the Smithonian put a box in as an exhibit. How many children have spent hours playing with boxes? And then again how many adults have spent hours making great boxes?
This looks great! The most unique gift box I received was from my husband and family when they wrapped a box with a ton of envelopes inside with personal letters and money from friends and family. I think I was really depressed that year and they were trying to cheer me up.
I love receiving gifts in unique packages and this book looks very interesting. Perhaps it will inspire other avenues of creativity for me. It would be a great way to gift fabrics to be given to a fellow quilter.
This looks so intriguing… would love this book!
Carole
What a delightful book!!! Hmmmm…I think the most uniquely packaged gift (probably one of the most unique gifts too) was a bundle of comic strips I saved for my dad. He loved a comic strip called William about a little boy (this was a lot of years ago). He and my mother went away for two weeks and I decided I would cut the strip out each day and save it for him, but I thought it was boring to just stick them on the counter or in an envelope so I carefully taped each day to toilet tissue then rolled it back up. The day they were to arrive home, I rolled up the neatly ordered comic strips with a tiny piece of paper with the date printed on it taped above it and pinned it to the archway of the hall leading to the bedrooms. I managed to pin it in such a way that it hung down just enough to allow the roll to hang down so you had to move to out of your way, then I put another pin with a note that said “pull me first and BE CAREFUL” on it(I wasn’t smart enough to think to use the cardboard roll for support, lol). When he pulled the pin, the TT unrolled and laid out neatly on the floor to reveal the comic strips ready for him to read and catch up on. This one sticks in my mind because when he passed away in 1998, I found among his possesions an old yellowed note printed in my hand, with pin still attached that said “pull me first and BE CAREFUL”. Only then did I realize how much it had meant to him. As for the giveaway…GOOD LUCK EVERYONE
this a longer story but i will make it a quick it
When it was time for my grandma to the Resthome she had a backwards Christmas mind you she had 32 grandchildren
She remembered to give back to us a gift that meant alot to her and she know we all took time out to pick out the just-right-gift to give to her so that Christmas she gave back a gift we gave to her
I love this quilting grandma with all my heart it took five years for me to open my gift 1. i needed want one back from her 2. i really didn’t want Christmas to change
it did Her last name was lamb she gave back a cookie jar with a little apron on the front that reads FOR LITTLE LAMBS ONLY
her married name was lamb
now i have 4 grandkids i bake cookies for that lamb cookie jar now
I know this sounds silly but i just wanted you to know cookies and quilts go hand in hand
thanks for listenings
P.S. she had saved the orginal box for the cookie jar
24 years. she was great!