Party Hat Gift Card Holder

I recently got to spend some time in the craft room, I was playing with some ideas and had pondered whether I could use an envelope punch board to make a smaller gift card holder. I love the ones that I have made recently but they use half a sheet of A4 each. Todays gift card holder is sized so that, you can get 4 from 1 sheet of A4. I also love that the party hats are created using an ice cream cone builder punch. They are super cute, I first saw the idea on Patty Bennet’s blog. It uses the punch to create a hat and the trim.

Measurements: 

Metric

Card -  10.5cm by 14.8cm

Score at – 4.5cm and 10.5cm

DSP and Inside White Panel – 4cm by 10cm

Imperial

Card -  4 1/8 inches by 5 ¾ inches

Score at – 1 ¾ inches and 4 1/8 inches

DSP and Inside White Panel – 3 7/8 inches by 1 5/8 inches

Tips and Tricks

• choose a DSP which works in small areas

• punch all the ice cream cones required

• add an ice cream cone to a sticky note (this allows you to line up the ice cream punch and create the hat trim.

You could decorate the hats any way you wishes. I am hunting for some pom poms to add to the top of the hat, I think these would make the perfect embellishments. How would you decorate yours?

Secret Message Gift Card Holder

Todays video is for a gift card holder using the same basic measurements as my last gift card. This is a design which I have been using for the last five years. The gift card holder opens to show a secret message as you open the holder. The original idea for this gift card was by Stampin’ Suze and her videos are the reason that I am a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, I fell in love with the products and the adhesive remover (I am a very very messy crafter, who used to get glue everywhere.) I have used some host DSP and also the Hey Birthday Chick Stamps and dies to create a perfect Birthday Gift Card holder, but this can easily be made in to an any occasion holder by changing the stamps and DSP.

The card above uses one layer of DSP.

Metric

10.5 cm by full length

Score at 5cm

Punch at 1 inch on envelope punch board

Inside Panel – 9cm by 17cm

scored at 1cm reverse and score on 4cm

Single layer DSP –

Top Layer - 9.5cm by 9cm

Bottom Layer - 9.5cm by 3.5cm

Sentiment Panel –

Bottom Layer - 5.5cm x 3cm

Top Layer 5 x 2.5cm

Imperial

4 1/8 inches by full length (Score at 2 inches)

Punch at 1 inch on envelope punch board

Inside Panel – 3 ¼ inches by 6 ½ inches (score  at ½ inches reverse and score at 1 ½ inches)

Single layer DSP –

Top Layer – 3 3/8 inches by 3 ¾ inches

Bottom Layer - 1 3/8 inches by 3 ¾ inches

Sentiment Panel –

Bottom Layer - 2 1/8 inches by 1 ¼ inches

Top Layer 1 7/8 inches by 1 inches

As the card opens it reveals the message, only add strong adhesive to the sides of the flaps.

You can also use a base layer below the DSP if you like layers

Measurements

Metric

10.5 cm by full length

Score at 5cm

Punch at 1 inch on envelope punch board

Inside Panel – 9cm by 17cm

scored at 1cm reverse and score on 4cm

 Card Layer

Top layer 10cm x 9cm

Top layer - 10cm x 4.5cm

DSP –

Top Layer - 9.5cm by 9cm

Bottom Layer - 9.5cm by 3.5cm

 Sentiment Panel –

Bottom Layer - 5.5cm x 3cm

Top Layer 5 x 2.5cm

Imperial

4 1/8 inches by full length (Score at 2 inches)

Punch at 1 inch on envelope punch board

Inside Panel – 3 ¼ inches by 6 ½ inches (score  at ½ inches reverse and score at 1 ½ inches)

Card Layer

Top layer3 -½ inches by 3 ¾ inches

Top layer - 3 7/8 inches x 3 ½ inches

Single layer DSP –

Top Layer – 3 3/8 inches by 3 ¾ inches

Bottom Layer - 1 3/8 inches by 3 ¾ inche

Sentiment Panel –

Bottom Layer - 2 1/8 inches by 1 ¼ inches

Top Layer 1 7/8 inches by 1 inches

I love the secret message which appears as you open the gift card holder, I think that it is an unexpected surprise. I love the chicks, I am so glad that they are available all year in the catalogue. My favourite is the chick with the Balloon, what’s yours?

Punch Board Gift Card Holder

In my last video I showed you one of my favourite simple gift card holder. YouTube is full of other gorgeous examples of ways to make gift card holders. Today I am showing one of my favourite holders which is super simple, and is the same size as an A3 card and fits into the Stampin’ Up! envelopes. You could send them with a card or they also look well on a Christmas tree with the decorations. I can whip a few up really quickly (normally when the Thomas tells me he needs a present on short notice.) I personally like them to be simply decorated but you could add layers if you wanted to. My future videos will show the other options for this type of gift card holder.

I love that you can choose your own decoration, my original version used a piece of Night of Navy which I had made to be a snow background using the Stampin’ Chalk marker- the video can be found here. I a simply added a Snowman using Snowman Season Stamp Set and the Snowman builder punch. I used a Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write marker for the nose and then Magenta Madness for the buttons and added Shimmery Crystal Effects. I love the way the buttons look, but you do have remember to let the Crystal Effects dry, otherwise it adds interesting texture to the snowman but not the buttons.

Measurements

Metric

10.5 cm by full length

Score at 5cm

Punch at 1 inch on envelope punch board

Inside Panel - 10cm x 13.5

Imperial

4 1/8 inches by full length

Score at 2 inches

Punch at 1 inch on envelope punch board

Outside and Inside Panel – 3.75 inches x 5.25 inches

I love the snowflakes, I am very impressed with myself using dies. Do you prefer the snowman or the snowflakes?

Simple Perfectly Plaid Trees

Soft Suculent

Last Sunday I said I would share some more cards which I have created using the UNIKO in the forest stencil. I love this stencil and it is one of my collection. I am not sure where the others are, I may need to tidy my craft room, who am I kidding, I always need to tidy my craft room as shown in some of my Facebook pictures and that sometimes I say ‘timber’ in my craft videos as the pile of craft supplies has created an avalanche. Anyhow I digress, todays cards are simple ways to create Christmas cards using paper, ink, stencils, blending brushes, heat embossing and embellishments.

Soft Suculent ink on MInt Macaron card - with copper heat embossing.

Measurements

 Card 1

My Metric

10.5 cm x 14.5 cm (10.5 by 29cm scored at 14.5cm)

Inside Panel - 10cm x 14cm

Metric

10.5 cm x 14.8 cm (10.5 by full length scored at 14.8cm)

Inside Panel - 10cm x 14.3cm

Imperial

4." x 5.75" (4” by full length scored at 5.75”)

Inside Panel - 3.75” x 5.5”

Card 2 - Layered

My Metric

10.5 cm x 14.5 cm (10.5 by 29cm scored at 14.5cm)

Inside Panel - 10cm x 14cm

 Outside Layer 1 - 10cm x 14cm

 Outside Layer 12- 9.5cm x 13.5cm

Metric

10.5 cm x 14.8 cm (10.5 by full length scored at 14.8cm)

Inside Panel - 10cm x 14.3cm

 Outside Layer 1 - 10cm x 14.3cm

 Outside Layer 2- 9.5cm x 13.8cm

Imperial

4." x 5.75" (4” by full length scored at 5.75”)

Inside Panel - 3.75” x 5.5”

 Outside Layer 1 - 3.75” x 5.5”

 Outside Layer 2 - 3.5” x 5.25”

Card 2 - Alternative - sketch 8

My Metric

10.5 cm x 14.5 cm (10.5 by 29cm scored at 14.5cm)

Inside Panel - 10cm x 14cm

 Outside Layer 1 - 7cm x 14.5cm

 Outside Layer 12- 9 cm x 13cm

Metric

10.5 cm x 14.8 cm (10.5 by full length scored at 14.8cm)

Inside Panel - 10cm x 14.3cm

 Outside Layer 1 - 10cm x 14.3cm

 Outside Layer 2- 9.5cm x 13.8cm

Imperial

4." x 5.75" (4” by full length scored at 5.75”)

Inside Panel - 3.75” x 5.5”

 Outside Layer 1 - 3.75” x 5.5”

 Outside Layer 2 - 3.5” x 5.25”

The video below shows show I made my cards.

Tips and Advice

• ensure the stencil is stuck down properly

• Remove the excess ink before adding it to the stencil

• Don’t rub too hard with the blending brush

• Ensure leave time to dry before adding embossing ink and powder

• Using an embossing buddy/ anti static powder to ensure that the embossing powder only sticks where it should

• Heat the embossing tool off the card, to avoid paper warping

• If the paper warps, heat from the other side and place a heavy item on top to flatten- I use my biggest block - you could also run it through a die cutting machine.

Although I have mainly used traditional colours, I love the pink trees, the colour combination of Blushing Bride, Polished Pink and Misty Moonlight (with the retired but Gorgeous dazzling diamond embossing powder) is inspired by a new paper pack in the August to December catalogue. Are pink trees wrong?

Perfectly Plaid Present cards

I have been playing with the Perfectly Plaid stamp set again. I had been looking on Pinterest, however, most of the cards use the punch and I wanted to create a few more cards using the Stamp Set. Also I have not ordered any Christmas Designer Series Paper yet, so wanted to delay the punch example cards until I have. I have not ordered yet, as I am a discount shopper rather than a purely business demonstrator, so I split my craft budget throughout the year.

I pulled out one of my favourite stencils called in the forest by a cute English brand called UNIKO and was playing with colour combinations. All the combinations that I have used can be found in the Colour Combinations Gallery.

Gold, Granny Apple Green, Poppy Parade and Sahara Sand

Measurements

My Metric

10.5 cm x 14.5 cm (10.5 by 29cm scored at 14.5cm)

Outside and Inside Panel - 10cm x 14cm

Metric

10.5 cm x 14.8 cm (10.5 by full length scored at 14.8cm)

Outside and Inside Panel - 10cm x 14.3cm

Imperial

4." x 5.75" (4” by full length scored at 5.75”)

Outside and Inside Panel - 3.75” x 5.5”

Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Garden Green and Silver

The video below shows how I made these cards.

Tips and tricks

• Ensure that the stencil is stuck down properly

• hold the stencil to ensure minimal movement

• remove the excess ink before using the dauber to ensure no stripy images

• ensure the twine is secure - otherwise will be loose and lines will not be straight

Evening Evergreen, Silver and Soft Succulent.

My favourite colour combination is Evening Evergreen, Silver and Soft Succulent. I can’t wait for my next order to do some more cards using this combination. What is your favourite?