OMG..this brings back memories of puffy painted picture frames and stuffed animals. LOL!
One of my favorite gifts is still with me, sitting on my bookshelf behind me. It's a needlepoint with Delta Zeta and two turtles underneath the lettering given to me from my Turtle Buddy

One of my other friends was taking wood shop (under the guise of "Wooden Sculpture 101) at the time and gave me wooden greek DZ letters. I still have them around here somewhere. The most creative thing I made was a wreath with dried flowers and wooden letters on it that spelled Delta Zeta and had turtles on it. Now that was cute
A good idea that I have also done before is gone to the craft store and gotten acrylic ball ornaments (the kind you can fill and pop back together) and filled them with dried pink rose petals (petals from roses from special DZ occasions are great) or really pretty silk rose blossoms, then tied tule or satin pink ribbons to the top and used them as tree ornaments
Tracy