ESAD-SU Christmas Blog Hop!

Hi to all my blog buddies … it is so lovely to see you all … and it is also exciting to meet some new visitors! Welcome! 😀

I hope you’re ready for another ESAD Christmas Blog Hop!

What is ESAD?

ESAD stands for Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators for Stampin’ Up!

We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends, and wonderful blog visitors but we share our love for what we do with each other as Demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know how and cyberstamps and we are always there to help and support each other when its needed.

So if you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group.

If you are not starting here on my blog for this blog hop … then I guess you have arrived from Kim Conway’s blog.  I hope you enjoyed her beautiful projects. And … I’m so glad you made it here! Look what I have to show you ….

I recently participated in an online Christmas Class … and one of the projects we did was a “12 Days of Christmas” Surprise Tree. So … I thought I would share this one with you …

Each of the boxes for this tree is able to be opened … and you can hide some sort of yummy surprise inside. The original project was made using a SU! Big Shot die to create each of these little boxes … BUT … here in AUS we don’t have that die … so I created my own template for the boxes. You can cut two each from one sheet of A4 cardstock. This pattern can be printed directly onto your A4 card and I have included the template for you to use! (Scroll down) It did take a little time to make up the boxes … but I did them all in one evening. It was kinda therapeutic! 😉 The top 3 boxes are Certainly Celery … the next 3 are Pear Pizzazz … the next 4 are Garden Green … and the bottom 2 are Cherry Cobbler! Each box lid (facing ) is sponged and spritzed with their corresponding inks! You can see that I have used a few different images to decorate … half are gold embossed … and the others are coloured with markers to create multi-coloured images! All are punched out except the Christmas Tree image at the top! EASY! 😀 All supplies are SU! except for the gold ribbon! 😀 Some of the images are from retired SU! Christmas sets … but many are still current. You can substitute any  of these images with your own! To finish the project … just lay all the boxes in the tree form onto a 12 x 12 piece of cardstock and trace around the edge of the tree shape. Cut around this shape and then use sticky strip to attach all your boxes to the backing card. You can then pop some goodies inside … and stand it up on your mantle … ready for the 12 day Christmas countdown! 😀

So … if you would like to create this fun and cute project … here is the PDF template for you to print out! (Click on pic below!)

I hope you enjoyed seeing this little project. I know my kids are going to enjoy the countdown to Christmas this year with this Surprise Tree. They never seem to get too old to enjoy little Chrissy traditions!

BONUS PROJECT: Here is another cute project from the online class … (it was a fun one) … and will look great on my table filled with candy canes! I will pop back soon to show you the project that I designed for this class! UPDATE – 25TH OCT: Link for Christmas Table Decorations Tutorial.

I am off to Leonie N’s today for a demo sleepover!!! We are having a pretend “Incentive Trip” … for those of our group of Convention roomies (6 of us) who didn’t make it officially to the SU! Incentive Trip! Leonie & Jenny have lots of exciting things planned! We are each organising a M&T … we are having an awards dinner … and just sharing lotsa giggles, yummies and fun! 😀 It is gonna be a hoot! All part of the fun of being a SU! demo. Sharing special times with demo buddies! 😀

I hope you will enjoy continuing on your way around this ESAD-SU! Blog Hop (15 blogs altogether).  I’m sure you will find heaps of inspirational ideas for your Christmas preparations. Don’t forget to leave a comment before you move onto the lovely Jo Weedon’s blog … because I just LOVE to get feedback on my creations … and I do love to make new blog friends! 😀 😀 You will know you have finished the hop when you arrive back here at my blog … after travelling around 15 gorgeous blogs! (I do hope all the links on each blog work for you!) 😀 Thanks again for visiting! Stampin’ hugs xxaxx

PS: The blog hop is due to begin at 10 am Sydney time. I will be away from home today … so I do hope this all works ok. If the links are not working … perhaps you could wait until 10am and try again! Thanks xxaxx

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