Just making samples

I'd like to make my own christmas cards this year. My aunt and I are going to get together and make them. We each need to have 2 ideas and this is one I came up with last night. Do you like? I think it is pretty and it was simple and quick. I ran the light blue paper through my Cuttlebug with my snowflake Fiskars plate and the white snowflakes are cut from a die cute on my Cuttlebug also. I sprayed them with spray glitter. The ribbon is white with silver snowflakes. I bought some silver metal dots to put in the center of each white snowflake.

I played around last night trying to figure out how to make the little nugget purses into back packs. This is what I came up with. I ran some yellow paper through my printer and printed the ISU and IOWA STATE UNIVERSTY onto it with red ink. I tried two different ways to run the ribbon through the back to make it look like a back pack. One has a strap on each side. The other has the straps meeting in the center at the top. I think that is what a backpack looks like. That also allowed me to just have to tie two knots. I'm trying to come up with ideas for my son's graduation open house. I think this might be a cute party favor with BHS and Class of 2009 printed on them. We'll see.

UPDATE: I've been told these don't look like backpacks--so back to the drawing board or just give up on the backpack idea and go with something else. I still think they are cute. :-)