Well...

It's about time I got around to sharing some Christmas gift projects. Time keeps getting away from me these days. There's a lot going on with the house, and I'm just getting over a surgery (I had my gallbladder out 2 weeks ago after dealing with painful attacks for 2 1/2 years), but mostly I've just been a horrible, lazy procrastinator. :) Anyhow, I thought I'd motivate myself to post by sharing my most favorite gift I made for Christmas.

My friend back in Salt Lake has two boys who I absolutely adore, and I wanted to make them something fun using the new-ish DoodleFactory Creatures set. This set is so fun (my favorite is the nose-picking bear, I have to admit it.). I decided to make a game for them, so I came up with the idea to do a memory game.

Remember playing this game as a kid? ;)

To make the cards, I cut some chipboard into small-ish rectangles, covered them with decorative paper and then sanded the edges for a little bit of a distressed look. Then I paper pieced creatures on to the brightly-colored cards and added details to the monsters with copic markers and a white gel pen.

The cards needed a home, so I packaged them in an old candle jar that I embellished to match.



Here's the jar opened with the game ready to play:



And here's the game in action!



I had such a blast making the individual cards and giving each creature his own colors and personality. I made 2 each of 10 different creature cards, for a total of 20 cards (10 matching pairs). Here's a close up of each of the cards:












I hope the boys enjoy the game as much as I enjoyed making it. I was snickering to myself the entire time. This set kind of has that effect on me. It's kind of juvenile in a very fun, quirky way.

Did you guys put together any super fun gifts for anyone lately? Do share!

Hope you have a super fantastic weekend!