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This Month’s Theme is Christmas
It is that time of year when you start thinking about Christmas and making cards and sorting out how you are going to make giving a gift card different each year.
I attended a Zoom session with other demonstrators where we did a mystery stamper project designed by the lovely Louise Sims. We were given the measurements of card stock and Designer Series Paper and then taught how to make the card. I then made the card again for my recent Christmas workshop where we used the Trimming The Tree stamp set and Tree Trimmings Dies to make a variety of Christmas cards.
How I made the Christmas card with Gift Card holder
I started with an A4 piece of Garden Green card stock and made a basic portrait card base. Then I cut a piece out of the right hand side as shown in the template below.
I then cut a 10cm x 14.4cm piece of Designer Series Paper another mat and stuck this to the inside of the card base. Next I cut a 10cm x 7.5cm piece of matching Designer Series Paper and stuck this to the front of the card. I then cut a 9cm x 7.5cm piece using the same Designer Series Paper. I used the 1/2″ circle punch to cut out a slot so that you can add and remove a gift card. Then I stuck this piece of Designer Series Paper to the inside of the card using Multi Purpose Glue.
How I made the front panel of my Christmas Card with Gift Card holder
Next I die cut two Basic White mat layer using the largest scalloped die and one Basic White mat layer using the middle scalloped die from the Contours dies. I stuck one of the larger scalloped mat layers to the front of the card before I stuck the other to the inside of the card. Next I cut a 8cm x 11cm piece of Garden Green card stock to make a mat layer and embossed it using the Christmas Tree Branches from teh Wintry 3D Embossing Folder. I then stuck this to the smaller scalloped mat layer.
Next I stamped the large Tree image from the Trimming The Tree stamp set. Then I die cut it out using the Tree Trimmings Dies that were available for the month of September 2022 but you could cut the image out using Paper Snips. I then die cut the pot using Soft Suede card stock and stuck it to the bottom of the smaller Basic White scalloped mat layer. Next I stuck the die cut tree onto the Basic White mat layer using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
How I finished off the Christmas Card with Gift Card holder.
I then die cut a scrap of Basic White card stock using the small oval die from Tree Trimmings Dies. I then stamped the Peace & Joy image using Garden Green ink and added tot he card front. To finish off I added some Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels to the tree.
I hope you have enjoyed seeing my Christmas Card with Gift Card holder. I will definitely be making some more of these cards both as leaving gifts and for Birthday’s. Please do go away and have a go at making this type of card and please do share it onto my Facebook page.
Until next time, keep stampin n crafting,
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What a fabulous way to give a gift card! Love it and your design x
Love this fold. And your card is beautiful.
Great little project Cheryl – the hidden gift card holder is so clever !
What a lovely Christmas card Cheryl, and interesting to see the fold too. I hadn’t noticed on first glance!