2020 Decorated Elizabeth Shaw Mint Favours

Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without a few decorated Elizabeth Shaw mints and this year, as you can see I have started really early, with this flipping virus you just don’t know when/if you’ll be able to get to the shops to get the things you had planned for or even want to, if you have to queue outside as the cold, wet weather closes in.

The puffy stickers used came from The Range, costing £1 for a pack of 24 stickers. 

The stickers are a little smaller than those I have used in the past, which is why I in turn used a smaller circle punch to cut the gold mirror card, rather than my usual bigger, plain Stampin Up punch …….

The gold card gave the stickers a very fine gold border which helped give them just a touch more glitz. 

The matted stickers were then layered onto a scalloped edge circle ……..

…….. to which I added either white gel pen or red fine liner doodled dots to decorate the edge of the scallops.

The mints were then sandwiched between two identical scalloped circles.

It’s become a bit of a tradition to send Marc a box of decorated mints for his festive table, but as I wanted to use all the stickers up in one go I still had quite a few left over, which I was initially just going to bag up simply in small cello bags in sets of three ……..

……. but to be honest they looked as if I hadn’t given them that much thought, so I decided to cut two pieces of gold card for each bag, taping them together to make them double sided ………

…… before adding a red glitter sentiment sticker on the back (Hobbycraft 2019 I think) to complete the much more festive look.  These little favours will then be tucked into cards, as well as being given, with other small fairing gifts, to the staff in both Iris and Bertie’s classes. 

I used my vacuum sealer to seal all the bags before putting them away to ensure that the contents remain fresh and untouched in the coming weeks before Christmas.