I like to theme things like this and my theme this time was Coca Cola colours - red, white and brown (she loves Coke). I also know that she loves red gingham. So this is what I came up with.
First up, I sewed a reversible apron as I knew she needed one:





I folded it up and popped it into a jam jar ...

... and added vintage-style labels:


I bought a Coca Cola flavoured lip balm on eBay and made a little box for it:


I made a vintage sign from pallet wood (I blanked their surname for privacy). The font is the same as the Coca Cola logo (the font is called Loki Cola):


Little rusty tin figures to represent the members of their family:

I also made some brown sugar body scrub and packaged it in a plastic honey jar:


I also made some mini chocolate cookies ...


... and some lemonade.

To make her card I simply printed a vintage Coke ad on cardstock and folded it. She loved it and plans to frame it:

Here it is - cracks me up!

Here are all of the goodies.

To package it all up I made a box out of cardboard ...

... squished some paper into it ...

I bought an absolutely enormous red and white tea-towel and laid it sideways across the box ...

... nestled the goodies inside ...

... and folded the tea-towel like this:



And voila, one birthday hamper. I later slid the sign under the ribbon to include it:


Verdict: she loved it! And I had a ball putting it together. Win!