Poinsettia Wreath Gift Card Trifold with Crafty Meraki

 

Hello Everyone!  Are you down to the last minute preparations for Christmas?  We’re pretty close to being ready.  And I’ve got a great last minute design to fancy up those Gift Cards that we often give at Christmas.  This one uses Crafty Meraki’s Festive Floral Stamp, and I’ve coloured it with Copics.  I stamped a few extra of the poinsettias to add to the design to make it really 3D.  

The background is foiled with the lovely Crafty Meraki Jolly Holly Hot Foil plate in a perfecty peachy foil.  It coordinates so beautifully with the paper and wreath.  As you can see I’ve added some gold accents in the metallic dots, and I’ve lined the circle section of the wreath flap with gold pen.  

The fun part of this design is it opens to be a tri-fold card, so I attached velcro to the flap and base.

And when you open it up, there’s a perfect spot for your gift card to slide into!

It makes for such a pretty gift card presentation.  This view shows how 3D the design is.  

This will be my last design until Christmas is over....I truly hope you experience the moments ahead with great joy, hope, peace and the love of Jesus.  

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Poinsettia Wreath Gift Card Trifold with Crafty Meraki

Bridal Shower Flower Set

As I mentioned last week, we attended the graduation and wedding of our nephew in Colorado Springs recently.  There was also had a bridal shower for our new niece and I was glad we could attend it as well - it was a really special way to get to know her through the people that love her.  For part of her gift I made a coordinating set of thank you cards.  Eight of them in 4 styles.  You can always use thank you cards from a wedding!  So I started with Concord & 9ths beautiful bundle, Primrose Garden, and then all the coordinating colours from the wedding.  Then it was a delightful time of arranging the blossoms!

For this first design, I made an arrangement and then laid it out on a Quilted Card Front Die background of white cardstock.  The large flower centre is cut from metallic silver cardstock and the sentiment is embossed in silver on the banner.  I added silver sequins on all the cards for a bit of bling.  

 

This second design makes use of the imprint die pattern from the larger die (pictured beneath) and the flower are arranged on top of it.  The layering comes together so quickly with that dotted imprint.  

The cardstock colours I used for all the designs are Powder, Harbor, Blueberry, Midnight, Eucalyptus, Rainforest and white.  

This third design is also layered on the Quilted card base, with a more minimal flower arrangement.   

You can see I added some Copic colouring to the tiny white flower centers so they wouldn’t get lost in all the colour.  

This last design is my favourite because I used the main die to cut out the card front shape, so it has the most unique style.  You can also see by the flatlay card on the right, how much dimension is between the layers.   

Lots of extra volume in the flowers and berries on this design.  

And here are the eight cards together! It looks like a beautiful flower garden!  And an easy way for her to send a thank you card to someone on her gift list.  

Thanks for popping by today!  

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Bridal Shower Flower Set

Gift Card Holder Tutorial with TCP

 

Greetings TCP Friends!  I'm here today with another new idea for the 12 Days of Crafting at The Cat’s Pajamas!  If you’re like me, even though I love to give personalized gifts, there are times when you have to resort to a gift card.  Have you noticed that most gift cards these days on the rack at a store come much larger, with a section that hangs on the display rack?  I think this larger size is a bit better so that those gift cards don’t get lost. So, I decided to design a gift card holder that would accomdate that larger size.  

I'll show you a few pictures of the process and then some more pictures of the finished tag holder.  

Here you can see I’ve cut the holder from a piece of Kraft cardstock and scored it at 3 1/2, and then scored a little 1/2 inch tab.  Then it’s all about the decorating, I stamped some retired TCP postage stamps in white craft ink first.  

Next, I stamped some red postmarks, then added a retired TCP die cut postage frame.  

I used a circle punch to cut out “ticket” half circles, and brought in the Copic coloured image from the very cute I Like Big Gifts digi set from November’s Release.  I adore this cute polar bear!  

Here you can see the outside holder put together and the gift card insert I created to slide inside, it’s a great place to write your greeting for the gift card, and a neat feature is that the gift card “ties” into the tag holder using the baker’s twine.
 

You can see that the hole you use to hang it on the gift card dispay at the store makes a great spot to tie it into your insert!  

This is a close up of the Gift Card Holder put together. 

 

And now you can see the Gift Card Holder pulled a part, and you can just see a peek of blue where the gift card is behind the tag.  

All in all, a pretty sweet and easy design for those last minute gifts!  Thanks for joining me for today’s episode of the 12 Days of Crafting! 

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Gift Card Holder Tutorial with TCP

Coral Poinsettias with Spellbinders

Hello!  I’m creating with some beautiful new items this week!  Today I created a card and matching tag with Spellbinders Christmas Bird Poinsettia Etched Dies.  This set has a great collection of greenery, poinsettia dies, and other cute Christmas items.  I started with some pretty corals and greens and my ink blending tools to give these petals and leaves lots of colour.  

Each layer is inked and splattered lightly with white acrylic paint, and I’ve added dimension between the layers with foam dots.  The dark grey cardstock really makes the colours pop.  

The sentiment die is cut several times and layered.  It comes from Concord & 9th’s Christmas Cloche Dies.  

I had some left over die pieces so I put them to good use by creating a coordinating tag for the card.  It’s a cutie little thing!  

Love how these pieces work together.  It’s a pretty set for gift giving!  

 

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Coral Poinsettias with Spellbinders

My Girl’s Bookstore

From the time our daughter was tiny she had a love for books.  As a baby I’d sit her down with little board books and she’s spend lots of time paging through them (upside down!).  Now she’s an adult and we swap books back and forth all the time and talk books, covers, plots and favourite authors regularly.  When she saw some of the cute things I was creating with Concord & 9th’s adorable Pop-Up Shoppes she asked if I’d create a bookstore for her she could frame on her display wall.  It was such a fun assignment!  

I created this precious spot with Concord & 9th’s new Window Shope Pop-Up Base Dies and the Book Shoppe Bundle, along with the bricks from Flower Shoppe Stamp Set to create this dreamy little book shop scene.  

I coordinated the colours to what she has in her room and had a blast making all the little details for this design!  The bookstore window is lined with clear acetate, and the door is lined with vellum so those windows have the feel of real glass.  

Little touches of gold cardstock accent the book spines (how cute!), the lamp stand, door hardware and plant pots inside and out front.  It adds just the right touch of shine.  

I added some fun details to the snake plants with copic markers so they look more realistic, and that adorable bike is ready to take home a stack of books in the basket.  It has the tiniest details that are perfection!  

I’m headed to the bookstore today to pick up a newly released book from one of my favourite authors!  Sigh bookstores!  They make my heart happy.  

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My Girl’s Bookstore

Tiny Cafes

 

I had a blast creating some little cafe’s this week to use with Gift Certificates I’m sending to staff members I work with.  I adore Concord & 9th’s Pop-Up Shoppe Dies and it was a great excuse to pull the dies out to create a trio of fun cards.  I have two pop up cafes and one traditional card design to show you.  

One of our staff members really loves tea, and tea a very specific way at a certain temperature, and Starbucks does it for him the way he likes, so this design is to give you the feel of being at a Starbucks Cafe.  I made use of the basic Pop-Up Shoppe dies as well as the Bake Shoppe Bundle for a cozy spot with a friend.  

Next I created a similar design for a female staff member.  

This was a fun colour palette to work with.  On the back wall of the shoppe I used Concord & 9th's Quilted Cardfront Die on patterned paper for a little texture.  

The little pop up sign is always so cute!  It’s stamped with the coordinating Book Shoppe Stamp Set.  These dies give me all the miniature dollhouse childhood feels!   

And finally, the last card is a traditional card front to showcase how great these dies are, not only for a pop up card, but also to make really cute cards with more simplicity.  This was created to feel a bit more masculine with a more neutral forward colour palette.  I sponged a background through MFT’s Small Brick Wall Stencil with the new Distress Oxide ink called Lost Shadow.  

Then all the little pieces make a great scene.  This card is for my boss, who really is pretty great!  

They are such fun cards to create and to give away!  

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Tiny Cafes

Our Coffee Spot with Concord & 9

 

I’ve got the most fun card today!  Last month Concord & 9th released the most fun themed dies to create your own pop-up Shoppes.  They are SO cute!  It’s not often I have an immediate reaction to something like that, so I purchased the Pop-Up Base Dies, (and the other dies and stamps in the theme which you’ll see more of in the future).  

So this card is an A2 base, and all the dies help you create a little pop up store front.  I was also inspired by a deck of playing cards my son recently bought (of all things!) but the moroccan tile pattern they’re based of is really beautiful, and I love the colours together.  

It’s a lovely deep navy, coral and sage green.  So that was what inspired my coffee shop colours.  

I will admit that there are a lot of tiny pieces and it takes some time to put together (especially the first time), but it’s very straightforward with the videos provided by Concord and 9th, and I totally had fun relaxing and putting it all together.  I’d encourage using a craft tweezers to add your glue to your pieces.  

All of the elements I used on this card come in the Pop-Up Shoppe base dies with the exception of the two cups on the table, and the stamped cup on the sign which are from the Bake Shoppe Bundle.  There are just endless ways you could use these dies and stamps that I’m looking forward to.  I’ve used a couple of tones of sage green darker and lighter and darker and lighter coral to add contrast.  

For the background inside the Shoppe, I’ve run some patterened paper through a coverplate die (PinkFresh Studios).  The “windows” are lined with acetate and that provides a great backdrop for you to add details to. The little shoppe sign folds flat to fit in your envelope.  They’ve even included sweet little elements like door hardware and lightbulbs that I cut from silver cardstock.  

And they’ve designed the entire card front to fold flat for mailing.  It’s really ingenious.  

I’m so glad I purchased it! Cardmaking should be fun, and this was a total joy bringer to me!  And I think it will make the recipient smile too.  It’s a real keep-sake kind of creation.  

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Our Coffee Spot with Concord & 9