Today I’m sharing an easy fold that’s perfect for including a gift card.
Cut your card base 4 1/4” x 11” and score at 2 3/4” and at 5 1/2”. Fold your card in half as usual, then fold the front back on itself. The extra panel is a perfect spot to tuck in a gift card.
I am loving the Painted Petals stamp set. I’m not sure how they do it, but the flowers manage to look shaded even though I’ve only stamped once. So pretty!
Sorry it’s been so quiet around here. *kicks a tumbleweed blowing past* I’ve been hit with a bad bout of February blahs which has sucked all my stamping mojo dry. Luckily, I have some very talented friends I swap cards with. Check out this super cutie from Leanne Cyr using the Wood You Be Mine stamp set. How seriously awesome are those bushy eyebrows? Love how she uses the wood grain embossing folder on the red layer.
I plan to be back in a few days to talk about how Paper Pumpkin helps with my depleted stamping mojo. See you then!
Here’s a quick peek at one of the cool kits in the Occasions catalogue. It’s a perpetual calendar for keeping track of all those recurring dates, like birthdays and anniversaries. I’m planning to use mine as inspiration for actually sending the stack of birthday cards I have stashed.
The kit comes with the clipboard and pages for the 12 months as well as a whole bunch of fun doo-dads to pretty it up. Check it out here. I’m holding a class on January 28th where we’ll put the kit together and you can use my copy of the matching stamp set. Register by January 14th so I can have time to order the kits.
Here’s a closer look. I’ll have more months to show off on Friday, as well as my other brilliant plan for actually getting my cards into the mail…
Here’s what I ended up doing with that cute image I showed you Monday:
Notice it’s a belated card…I seem to need a lot of those! Here’s the inside:
Finally, here’s a graphic to explain all the awesomeness that is Sale-a-Bration, in case you’re not familiar with Stampin’ Up!’s best sale of the year. Click here to see the flyer full of free product you can earn.
Happy Friday everyone! Here’s another super-quick idea to dress up presents of gift cards or money, using the envelope liner thinlits.
I was going to do a video, and then realized this was so simple I could just show you in a few photos.
Using one sheet of the Trim the Tree DSP paper pack and the smallest size of envelope thinlits, cut out two pieces in your Big Shot. It’s tight, but you can get both from a single sheet.
Fold back the flap on one to show the pattern on the opposite side of the paper.
Run some Tombow glue around the back side of the folded piece. Go around the very edges on 3 sides, leaving the folded edge free of glue.
Stick down and add some ribbon.
Grab an image & greeting from whatever stamp set you have piled up on your disaster of a desk (seriously! don’t spend hours searching for the “perfect” stamp) and cut it out with a punch/die/scissors. Add your gift card/money and call it DONE!
I got the idea for these on Patty Bennett’s blog. Click here to see her awesome examples, she uses a larger envelope size.
…and it’s Friday!
Our Christmas tree is not faring well under the machinations of Merlin the Kitten. To date, he has not managed to pull the whole thing down, but I suspect it is only a matter of time!
I love gift cards. Easy shopping for me, a gift you really want for you. Win-win, yes? Except for this little niggling of guilt whenever I’d hand over a mass-produced store card in an envelope. It just never feels like a true gift, if you know what I mean.
Stampin’ Up! to the rescue! Why not spend a little time dressing up that boring plastic rectangle? There are so many easy ways to do this. Here’s one:
Just create a little pocket and slip your card inside.
A closer look at the greeting. Gotta love the Letterpress Winter set.
I kept the front simple to increase the wow factor when the card was opened.
I’ll have a video coming up if you’re curious about how to construct this little card. Supplies are listed below.
