This week marks the end of the Fall 2009 Design Team term, and the designers have created some wonderful projects to celebrate the holiday season. In addition to their new designs for this week, I’ve also picked my favorite from each designer over the past four months.

Penguin Tag Treat Boxes by Dawn Lusk

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This week the Design Team focused on finishing the edges of their designs. The edge treatments range from punches, to scallops, to lace, to serging. All that attention to detail added such nice finishing touches to their cards.

Serged Winter Wishes by Cindy Royal

Cindy chose a Polar Bear and sentiment (from the same [...]

After the biggest shopping weekend of the year, the Design Team’s theme this Wednesday is anything to do with gifts. They have come up with a variety of holiday gift bags, boxes, and pockets.

Polar Sweet Treats by Michelle Redman

For Michelle’s Gift Giving project, she chose to make a window treat box. She used [...]

Today’s extra project was designed by Dawn Lusk. She has created an explosion box, so cute in this miniature size.

Pierced Pansies Explosion Box by Dawn Lusk

Keeping with the "Think Small" challenge for this week, Dawn made this explosion box that measures 2.5" square by 2.75" high. It’s all colored with Copic markers. [...]

For this week’s assignment, the Design Team was limited in size to three inches or less. The size requirement certainly didn’t cramp their style. They managed to create a whole range of adorable mini projects, from gift cards, to gift tag sets, to boxed cards — and even fold-out photo albums.

Mini Albums in [...]

Our two extra cards this week are designed by Michelle Redman and Cindy Royal. Click the thumbnails below to see larger photos and more details on their blogs.

Let It Snow by Michelle Redman

Michelle has chosen to use images from Penguin Chicks. She used Prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits to color [...]

This week’s challenge for the Design Team was to finish the insides of their cards. They all have chosen holiday themes, but each designer has come up with her own variation.

Let It Snow by Dawn Lusk

Dawn decided to put the image on the inside and make a peek hole on the card [...]