Good morning, y’all! Well – as is ALWAYS the case with our Critters/Inkin Krews retreats – the weekend has FLOWN by! I can’t believe we’re headed to breakfast and a little more stamping and chatting and then…we’ll be hitting the road until NEXT YEAR!! 🙂 Maybe YOU’ll be joining us next year? This is a great time to join the team – what with the amazing Starter Kit Plus Promotion going on right now! And – you could be poised to snag a spot at the retreat next year (after enjoying your demo discount all year long!!). Just throwing that out there! 😉
We had a bunch of amazing projects this weekend – and I’ll be sharing them with you tomorrow. Mine is the subject of today’s card share! I did a Faux side step card – using the gorgeous Framed Florets bundle and the coordinating Framed & Festive stamp set! Some Fitting Florets DSP formed the base – and gave me a wunnermus flower! Take a look-see:
Good morning and happy Sunday and MayDay! Hope you’ve had a great weekend so far! We spent yesterday looking for water lines in the garden. We DID make a very big hole – okay…TWO!…but never found the lines. So – time for plan B for getting the waterers in the garden! 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
My card today would be perfect for someone like my husband. Masculine – check. Can do anything…check. Enjoys Gift Cards…CHECK! I made this one – it’s a fun fold that is ALSO a gift card holder – handy! – using the cool He’s All That stamp set and the coordinating He’s the Man DSP. ALL of which you’re going to be able to get for yourself the day after tomorrow on the 3rd! Take a look-see:
Good morning, y’all – hope your week is going well! I delivered the last of the cookie plates yesterday – and was able to have a nice chat with my friend, who I hadn’t seen for a while! We ended up agreeing that the four of us WILL have dinner sometime in January.
We even held our feet to the fire and specified….January 2022!! Way to commit, right??! 🙂
My card today is actually TWO cards – my last gift card holders of the 2021 gift-giving season. I like, and also hate!, giving gift cards. They’re always the right color – they always fit – they’re always “just what they wanted”. But…I feel sort of guilty giving them, too. I always feel like I should have dithered and stressed over the gift more. But…in lieu of that – I DO like to make a pretty gift card holder.
So…I used the carrying-over Christmas Season stamp set and Christmas to Remember Bundle, with some gorgeous (and ALSO carrying over – eventually!) Painted Christmas DSP. And – for one of the holders – I grabbed a sentiment from the RETIRING Holly Jolly Wishes set. Take a look-see:
Well – good morning, it’s Friday again! House cleaning day (whoo-hoo!) and Day 1 of OnStage! Last night was fun and we saw a lot of Top Performers recognized for their achievements this year! 🙂
And speaking of…I want to send a HUGE THANK YOU out to ALL of you!! I was tickled sideways to find myself at #34 in the Overall Demonstrator ranking in the US for the 2021-2022 Stampin’ Up! year!! I owe ALL of that to my amazing customers and Critters-N-Creatin’ Krew Team! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! 🙏🏻🥰🙏🏻🥰🙏🏻🥰🙏🏻
If you were able to join me yesterday afternoon for my YouTube video, I appreciate you spending part of your day with me! If not – but you’d like to watch the replay and see how to make this fun fold (with a hidden bonus!) – here’s ’tis!
I know. I know. HOW many times will I use the Whimsical Trees bundle and pretty Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP this week?!? I’m sorry (not sorry!). I just love it – and when I saw the sketch that I used…it was too perfect! Just to mix it up a little, I DID use the Christmas Season stamp set for the sentiments – and it’s a fun fold. AND a gift card holder. So…totally different! Take a look-see:
And here’s that sketch I was talking about – from the SugarPea Mix It Up challenge for November!
So – I saw the idea of using a Joy Fold card to make a Gift Card Holder somewhere on Facebook. I carefully saved the post so I could give credit where credit is due but…it’s been disappeared! 🙁 Just know I wasn’t nearly clever enough to come up with this by my ownself!
I started with a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock that I scored at 3″ on the long side to make the large card base. A 3 5/8″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Blushing Bride cardstock, scored at 4 1/4″ on the long side, created the small card base.
I matted some of the snowflake paper from Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP on Mint Macaron and adhered them to the front small panel and the large back panel of the large Misty Moonlight card base.
I cut a piece of Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP – in silver-foil stripes – and adhered it to the inside of the small card base using Liquid Glue. I cut a smaller piece and used the scalloped oval in the Double Oval Punch to cut a half-circle out of one long edge.
I used a thin line of Liquid Glue – right at the very edge! – to adhere that piece to the small card base to create the gift card holder. Note: I only put glue on the two short sides and the non-punched long side.
I matted a piece of Misty Moonlight Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP on Mint Macaron to create the card front for the small card base.
On some Mint Macaron paper from the DSP pack, I stamped the tree image from Whimsical Trees in Mint Macaron. Using a second stamp in the set, I added Misty Moonlight lights to each of the trees and cut them with the matching die in the bundled Christmas Trees Die set. I also cut the cool “open” tree die from the same Mint Macaron DSP.
I used Liquid Glue to adhere the three trees to the small card front. Then I fussy cut a bunch of Christmas gifts from the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP. These are “piled” under the trees with Liquid Glue.
I tied a small silver bow from a piece of Simply Elegant Trim and adhered it with a Glue Dot.
On a piece of Basic White cardstock, I stamped the Christmas Season sentiment in Misty Moonlight ink and fussy cut it – roughly following the shape of the words.
I used my Mint Macaron Stampin’ Write Marker to edge the sentiment, then used double-stacked Stampin’ Dimensionals to adhere the sentiment to the small card front.
I added a few Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels and then adhered the card front to the front of the small card base. Note: the small card base opens OPPOSITE a “normal” card, so make sure you’ve got it oriented correctly! 😉
For the inside of the small card base, I stamped the second Christmas Seasonsentiment in Misty Moonlight on a Basic White panel. In the corner, I added the Whimsical Trees images in Mint Macaron and Misty Moonlight – then I added a medium Champagne RhinestoneBasic Jewelby the sentiment.
I matted the panel on Mint Macaron and then adhered it inside the small card base.
Using Liquid Glue, I adhered the small card to the back panel of the larger card base – and the card was done!
My Basic White Medium Envelope got the Whimsical Trees images on the front…
…and more of the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP on the envelope flap.
Et Voila! I can’t overstate how much I love love love the entire Whimsy & Wonder Suite! The colors in the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP are so much fun for the holidays and the images and die cuts in the Whimsical Treesand bundled Christmas Trees die set are perfect. I borrowed a couple of the sweet Christmas Season sentiments to just slightly change up my message. And…yes. How cool is it to use a Joy Fold card as a Gift Card Holder?!? 🙂
I hope you like!
If you’d like to recreate this card, all the products and card cuts you’ll need are down below!
Good morning and happy Friday! Hope you’ve had a great – short! – week and are looking forward to something fun this weekend. We’ve got company coming for dinner tonight – fresh green beans and new potatoes from our garden! And summer squash, too. Yumm!!!
So – if you were able to join me yesterday for my YouTube Live, I sure appreciate you spending part of your Thursday with me! If not, but you’d like to watch the replay to see how to make this card, here ’tis!
Hey y’all – it’s Sunday, which means I’ve got another fun challenge for you from the Paper Players – Leanne came up with a really fun sketch for us this week. I know it’ll give your creative mojo a bump! So I hope you’ll come and play along with us!
If you were able to join me yesterday for my Facebook Live video, I appreciate you spending some of your weekend with me! If you weren’t able to watch the live version, but you’d like to see the replay on YouTube…here ’tis!
‘Sup, y’all! How did the Fall-Back go for you? It’s 7am here. But really 8. So – you should be wide-awake and perky! Your dogs and cats and ponies are looking at you like – what the HECK!! – but…YOU got an extra hour of sleep.
Or…did you??!
Regardless – we’re in it now until Spring. Bleh.
If you were able to join me last night for my Facebook Live video, I appreciate you spending part of your last evening in Daylight Savings Time with me! If not, but you’d like to watch the replay – here ’tis on YouTube!
The project we did last night is quite timely, since we’re plunging headlong into Gift Card Giving Season (GCGS). I like giving gift cards – I do! – but…they always seem a little like I phoned it in. So…I feel BETTER about it if I can present them in a beautiful and/or clever gift card holder. And this one is both! With the gorgeous Christmas Rose stamp set and bundled Rose Dies, atop wunnermus Christmastime Is Here Specialty DSP. Take a look-see:
Happy Tuesday! The week is clicking by! Soon it’ll be Hawwmp Day and we’ll be on the downhill slide to the weekend! Whoo-hooo!
My card today is…another fun fold. In fact, it’s the same fold as yesterday – sorry! – cuz I needed another gift card for a co-worker leaving the program. And – I wanted to do something flower-dy and pretty for her. So…I used the same fold on the inside, but…pulled in the Floral Essence stamp set, plus some gorgeous painterly Perennial Essence DSP and a Bird Ballad Laser Cut Note card – all available on 4 June! Take a look-see:
Happy Monday, y’all! I hope you had a good weekend. I really did – a fun Saturday and a productive Sunday! I even slept in yesterday. Until 8!! Which, for me, is the equivalent of sleeping until noon. And I STILL managed to get the laundry done, go to the grocery store, make a few cards, do a video AND work out on the treadmill. Whaaaa?!?!?
If you were able to join me last night for said video, I appreciate you spending part of your weekend with me – and for being flexible on the day! If you didn’t get to watch, but would like to see how to make this cool pop-up gift card holder, here’s the replay on YouTube!
Good morning, my peeps – on this Monday two exact weeks before Christmas! UPDATE: My friends in the blogisphere have pointed out that my panic is unjustifiably SMALL – Christmas is only ONE WEEK AWAY! YIKES!!! Please wish me luck getting things wrapped and boxed and out the door today! Time. Is. Running. OUT!!
Also – I need to make cookies and whatnot….if only I didn’t like to sleep… 😉
If you were able to join me last night for my Facebook Live video, I appreciate you spending part of your weekend with me! I know how busy everyone is! If not and you’d like to see how to make this gift card holder, you can check it out right here on YouTube.
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