What? It's only 3 days 'til Christmas?? How did that happen?If you're like me, you're still finishing up the last-minute shopping, baking and gift making....yikes!
I've been so crazy making projects, I haven't had time to post them....plus, I don't want to spoil anyones surprise by posting their gift early since a few of my family members and friends do read my blog occassionally ;)
So you can look forward to seeing what I made everyone for christmas soon but for now here's a last-minute gift card holder! This is pretty easy to make and looks very professional.
You start with a piece of card stock that's 4-1/4" x 11" and score it at 3", 5 1/2" and 8" on the long side. Then stamp all over that piece if you want a pattern on it. Make sure you stamp both sides. I used the poinsettia from the
Season of Joy stamp set and stamped it with Real Red ink.
Next, you fold it on all the score lines and assemble it to look like this photo.
Note: Make sure you
don't put adhesive on the innermost fold. Just put your adhesive on the outside edges or your pocket will end up glued shut and you won't have any place to put your card.
Once your piece is assembled, use the
Word Window punch to make the opening in the middle for your card to go in. I punched it once in the middle, then carefully lined it up and extended the punch once on each side so that the opening is wide enough. To make the circle notch in the center I used the 1/2" circle punch.
Decorate or stamp a sentiment on the inside if you'd like. I used the "holly jolly" stamp from the
Christmas Punch hostess stamp set and punched it out with the
Curly Label punch.
Then Decorate the front as you like I used the big square word stamp from
Season of Joy again and framed it with a piece of Garden Green Card stock. Cut a wrap from decorative paper that is around 1"wide by 7.5" long. Then attach your front piece to the center of your wrap. Wrap it around your gift card holder and glue it together on the back. Make sure you don't glue it to the holder so that the recipient can easily slide it off and get to that gift card faster!!
Hope you enjoyed the directions for this. Here's a final photo of the front all assembled:
Happy Holidays!!
This is one of the items I made for my craft fair a few weeks ago. Aren't they cute? You can buy cello bags in all kinds of sizes if you search around online. These are 1" x 8" and are the perfect size for filling with M&Ms! Filling them was a bit tricky, I had to fashion a funnel out of paper... but they turned out super cute! I then finished them off with an image punched out of a circle and two scallop punches. I used the Season of Joy stamp set.
What? It's only 3 days 'til Christmas?? How did that happen?
I have so many things to post but I've been so busy making cookies, making Christmas cards and trying to get ready for Christmas, I'm sadly far behind on my blog! Here is a cool nugget slider that I made as a class project. The acetate slides off to make a really cute treat. I love how these turned out. I stamped on the actate using white staz-on ink. The candy is hershey nuggets, wrapped in designer paper. Then I stamped a tag using the scallop cirlce and circle punches and added it on with the felt ribbon (love this stuff). I think it looks as good as, if not better than, a store-bought treat!!
I'm back! Sorry it took me a couple of days to catch up on being back. I still have a mountain of laundry to do but that's another story. Since it's snowing here today I thought I'd start out my first post in December by sharing a Christmas card!
I can't believe how fast that holiday went! I never even had a chance to post my christmas cards so I'm going to do that now... a little late.
This is the second card I made this year. I couldn't choose one so I did some of each design. For this card I also used the Season of Joy stamp set. The base of the card is Wild Wasabi and the snowflakes are stamped in Wild Wasabi. Then I framed the middle image using purely pomegranate and chocolate chip card stock. The tree is stamped with Wild wasabi ink and the ornaments were stamped with purely pomegranate, then punched out and adhered with dimensional dots. The ribbon is the retired silver cord from the last Stampin' Up catalog that I had lying around and thought I'd use up. The "be merry" is stamped in white and is from the Warm Words stamp set.
