A Card a Day in December--Day #9

Hello friends! Here is another fun gift card holder idea. It is actually known as a ‘barn door’ gift card holder and I thought it would be a fun project to share as my 9th Holiday card! If you have been following along then you know I do 12 days of Gift Cards for my husband. I actually had him in mind when I created these as they do have more of a masculine feel to them with all of the blue tones.

What makes this gift card holder unique is it starts with a typical card base size— 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 so you can get 4 bases from one sheet of card stock. Love that!

I wanted to use the Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper as the color palette has so many options that you can choose from for card bases! This particular one features Pacific Point.

The Gift Wrapped Bundle was an easy choice to use to create this gift card holder!

To create the ‘barn door’ or flip up section you will cut a piece of card stock to 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 and attach it to the left side of the base. The base designer series is cut so that it covers this ‘seem’ and then beside I added a panel of Whisper White where I did a little stamping and you have a place to write a special message.

I used the Classic Label punch to make a slit on the top flap that your gift card tucks into.

It is then hidden by a front panel that doubles as the card front.

I found this DSP so easy to work with to mix and match the patterns to create a few different gift card variations.

This one is on a Pool Party base. I wanted the front of the gift cards to look like wrapped presents and it was pretty easy with the Gift Wrapped stamp set. There are 5 different bow designs in this set and the font as a nostalgic feel to it.

I hope you have been enjoying all of my projects so far!

Create with Connie and Mary--Thinking of Christmas!

I will admit it, I have been thinking of Christmas! It is actually not that far away and I find this is the busiest time of year with other holidays along the way and one of my kids celebrating a birthday. Plus we have On Stage to look forward to as well.

The theme this week is “Thinking of Christmas” and I created this pretty traditional card to reflect the holiday.

I really love mixing and matching products as shown in this card here. I featured the Gift Wrapped Bundle with accents from the Snowflake Splendor Suite and the Everything Essential Bundle.

I started with a base of Cherry Cobbler and ran a layered piece of card stock through the Winter Snow Embossing Folder for a subtle winter feel. I used the Essential Tag punch with some retired DSP (there I said, it, I have it and I still use it when it works) to create a base for the gift bow. I stamped the bow and embossed it with gold embossing powder. I love Gift Bow Builder punch! I added in bit of Shaded Spruce Ribbon (also retired) with some of the gold thread included in the Tag Buffet kit (waste not, want not!).

A Very Merry Christmas is stamped in Shaded Spruce card stock in the same ink. I added in another gold detail by cutting some of our Gold Foil paper with the scallop die from the Peony Dies.

This card design has such great potential. I will definitely be using it again and will just mix up some of the elements.

Can’t wait to see what the other girls have created! You can go BACK to see what Melissa designed or NEXT to see what Connie has made this week.