Hip Hostess {Gifts}|pt 2

Welcome back to part 2 of my Hip Hostess Gifts! Today I want to show you 2 different gift ideas – a Thanksgiving treat and then something that’s a little more Christmasy – after all, I am giving these gifts on Thanksgiving and since this one will last for the next couple months I thought I’d go in the Christmas direction.

I don’t know about you but I LOVE giving little Hershey Kisses with stickers on the bottom. I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I think that they are SUPER sweet! Using both Thanksgiving collections from Lauren McKinsey I printed out the labels on 8.5×11 sticker paper that I picked up at Walmart (10 sheets for $4.44 in the office supply/shipping section). Then I used my trusty little circle puncher (I think it’s .75″) to punch out all the tiny circles and applied them to both Caramel Kisses and Reese’s PB Cup! To make this gift a little more special I packed the kisses in a 3x3x3 clear acetate box that I had picked up from Garnish (one of my MOST favorite places to buy packing and simple party supplies) and sealed the box with a sticker from LM’s formal collection that reads “Thanks for being you” which I just love. The Reese’s PB Cups got stickered and packaged in mini white gable boxes that I also got from Garnish. I used the same sticker to finish of those boxes as well. To make them stickers I once again just printed out LM’s file onto the same sticker paper I used for the candy stickers but this time I used my #1 most used “craft” tool, my Tonic Paper Guillotine. I seriously have had this little baby for 6 years and it is WONDERFUL, it’s my BFF of craft tools! The last treat that I jazzed up so I could call it a “hip hostess gift” was simply printing out and wrapping some IKEA chocolate bars in the large candy bar wrappers in the Thanksgiving Casual set. Just print out on regular printer paper, trim with guillotine and tape to chocolate bar.

While perusing through Target for the standard boxes of chocolates and truffles that are also great to bring when you are a guest at someone’s home (and which I picked up a few to bring with us as well) I found this cute little rack of holiday scented liquid hand soaps. Now, the bottles are anything as fancy as the Bath & Body Works liquid hand soaps, the scents were just as fun. I picked up Candy Cane and Christmas Cookie for $1.79 each which is definitely nicer on the wallet than B&BW. Next, I took out my Silhouette SD and cut some monogram letters and snowflakes but you can easily get this same look by drawing it on with painters markers (which I LOVE and used to embellish the back of the soap bottles) or with stickers. On the back of the Christmas Cookies soap I used some Martha Stewart ornament stickers that I found at the craft store and just painted (with the pens) on the “ribbon” hanging down.

packaged in a cute little box I found in the Dollar Spot at Target

I hope you are able to bring some Hip Hostess gifts to whomever you may be visiting this Holiday season, even if you are just going to you parent’s house which you do all the time, make the holidays a little more bright by showing them you really do appreciate all they do!