Hanukkah Gift Basket

Tonight at sundown is the beginning of the Festival of Lights - the 8 days of Hanukkah (or Chanukah if you prefer).  Every year I try to come up with a new creative idea for packaging home made goodies that I give at Hanukkah to the 3 trauma surgeons I work for.  The holiday came so early this year I really had to get going!   I found some wonderful woven newspaper baskets at my local  Christmas Tree Shop - so I had my container.

Now, my basket appears a little empty because two of the  packages I put in them (holding  fudge and  almond lace cookies) were made using some templates from Creations by AR that aren't coming out until next week - so I couldn't show them to you! (come by next Friday on 12/6and you'll see them!)  But I can show you this fun Star of David creation.

I found a wonderful tutorial for this on Brenda Quintana's blog.  Her instructions are very clear and it goes together perfectly.  After fitting the strips together, you slip a Hershey Kiss into each triangle, add a ribbon and tag.  Here's how it looks from the back - the kisses fit quite snugly into the spaces so they all hold together without a backing!

Here's the card I included in each basket.  Stamps are from Eight Happy Nights by Cas-ual Fridays Stamps.

And here are all the confections I made -  zuchini bread, yellow rum cakes with pecans, almond lace cookies and fudge! (plus the kisses that I bought of course!)

Here's wishing all of my Jewish friends a wonderful 8 days of Hanukkah!

Card

Stamps:  Eight Happy Nights - Cas-ual Fridays Stamps

Paper:  White - PTI

Ink:  Archival Jet Black

Accessories:  Copics -B21, B23, foam tape.

Star of David

Paper:  white, Blueberry sky - PTI, brushed silver - SU

Stamps:  Cas-ual Fridays Stamps - 8 Happy Nights

Ink:  Archival Jet Black

Accessories:  small and large oval punches - SU, glitter eyelash yarn - Martha Stewart, Hershey Kisses, ScorPal, tutorial - qbeesquest.blogspot.com