Merry Gift Card Ornament

Today I'm sharing this fun ornament along with a FREE TUTORIAL, if you'd like to make them for yourself. I got the idea for these cute ornaments from another blogger, who got her idea from Martha Stewart. From there I thought that if they were redesigned, they would make great gift card holders that you could hang on your tree. I went ahead and remade them to hold a gift card, but they could be used as a money holder, or what we're actually going to be using them for...our "wishlists". We're using the gift card holder inserts to write our wishlists on and tucking them back into the Ornament. Each Ornament has the name of one member of the family which has their wishlist. It puts a fun little spin on Christmas this year.

I made simple embellishments for the ornaments using stamping and My Digital Studio, but they could be made up as extravagant and as fun as you like. All supplies, cutting and assembly information can be found in the tutorial.

I saw another really cute idea today for a 25 Days of Christmas garland. If I find time to make one up before December 1, I'll post it on my blog for you.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Holiday Treasure Countdown

Each year we offer a Holiday Treasure Class, which is one of my favorite classes. We create a bunch of fun Christmas-Themed gifts, tags, and what-not's for gift-giving. This year we made 5 creations and I thought it would be fun to share them here on our blog. Countdown Number 1 are Ornament Gift Card Holders which were inspired by Vickie Burdick. I copied her great layout for my Merry Winter Ornament... the merry snowman from the Merry Winter stampset looks so cute in this layout.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler

DSP: Frostwood Lodge

Ink: Early Espresso; Markers: Cherry Cobbler, Pear PIzzaz, Pumpkin Pie

Punches: 2-3/8" Scallop Circle, 2-1/2" Circle, 1-3/4" circle, Scallop Edge, Round Tab, Word Window, Itty Bitty 4-leaf, Hand punch

Big Shot: Scallop Circle, Snowburst Textured Impressions Folder

Stamp Set: Merry Winter

I went with a gingerbread look to create the Gingerbread Ornament, using one of MDS "Sweet Season - Gingerbread" digital stamps for the focal point.

These will make fun gift-givers to hang on the tree this year.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Early Espresso, Riding Hood Red

Ink: Riding Hood Red

Punches: Decorative Label, Round Tab, Itty Bitty scallop

Big Shot: Scallop Circle, Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Folder, Little Leaves Sizzlit

Stamp Set: Bright Hopes
Digital Stamp Set: Sweet Season (Gingerbread)

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Letters to Santa Gift Holder Kits and Tutorial

We're getting close to that time of year...gift-giving time! Last month I shared these fun Letters to Santa Gift Card-Money-Coupon Holders (whew...that's a mouthful!) in my classes and I'm excited to offer them here to you in a PDF tutorial. I also have a few pre-cut kits available for purchase below. 

This class tutorial features two Gift-Giving Holders using Big Shot die-cuts, punching, stamping and a digital coupon. Both holders use the Letters From Santa DSP. The Double-pocket Christmas themed gift card holder uses the stamp set Word Play and includes a ribbon belt and buckle closure. The Holiday or Birthday themed Coupon-Gift Card booklet uses the stamp set Bring on the Cake and includes a digital fill-in-the-blank PDF coupon. I've also included a couple of generic PDF sentiments for both of the holders. I give you detailed step-by-step 18-page illustrated instructions with pictures and cutting guide. The cost for the Letters to Santa Gift-Giving tutorial is $5 and can be purchased below by clicking on the "Buy Now" button. The PDF tutorial will be emailed to you within 24 hours.

Letters to Santa PDF Tutorial - $5.00

As I mentioned above, I have a few Letters to Santa Gift-Giving Class Kits available for $15 (+ $5 Shipping/Handling). Each Kit includes the following: 

• Prepared Kit includes all pre-cut punched, textured and die-cut cardstock pieces, pre-cut Letters to Santa DSP. The  Kit comes ready for you to stamp and assemble. (Stamp sets not included - use your own stamps or purchase the featured stamp sets at a $5 discount through me. A couple of punched generic sentiment print-outs are included).
• Ribbon, Brads, Eyelets, as shown on projects.
• 18-page PDF Illustrated Tutorial with photographs and step-by-step instructions
• PDF Digital Coupon and extra digital images

 Please Note: You will need to provide adhesive, ink and stamp sets to complete the project as shown in picture.

Ink: 119668 - Marina Mist; 119670 - Early Espresso; 119784 - Pear Pizzazz; 121030 - Crumb Cake; 119786 - Blushing Bride; 103133 - Real Red (all ink pads 5.95)

Stamp Set: 120651 - Word Play  (28.95); 121958 - Bring on the Cake (27.95) (please contact me for $5 discount)
Accessories: Blender Pen - 102845 (9.95)

Letters to Santa Kit - $15.00 + $5.00 shipping (Mailed Tuesday and Friday)

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Christmas Gift Class

From Heidi...

We have such a fun class coming up on November 11 at Tumbleweed Recreation Center. We offered this class last year and are excited to be offering it again this year. This year's gifts are a Candy Bar Holder Christmas card. It also includes a bookmark...great for you chocolate loving book reader friends or family.

 Our next gift project is a cocoa holder...and you guessed it, this is great for all your cocoa loving friends and family.

 And what would your presents be without gift tags?

 This is just the cutest stocking shaped gift card holder...you open up the stocking flap and voila!...there's a little place for your gift card.

We've still got room for you if you'd like to join us. November 11, 12:30-3 PM (331TW.150) and 7-9:30 PM (332TW.150). Class fee is $16, plus $3 registration fee with Tumbleweed, you can register online, mail in a registration form, or stop by Tumbleweed and register.

Punched Christmas Penguin and Reindeer

After we planned our classes for last year's Christmas cards and projects, I saw this little punched penguin and reindeer on someone's blog (I apologize for not knowing who came up with these little guys...if you know, please let me know). I tucked this idea away and couldn't wait until this year's classes, so that I could use them on gift card holder-ornaments that we'll be making, along with another gift card holder in our Tuesday, November 2 classes (323TW.130/ 10-Noon and 324TW.130/ 7-9 PM)  at Tumbleweed Recreation Center. There's still room, if you'd like to join us. Thanks for stopping by!

Stocking Gift Card Holder

From Heidi...

I appreciate all the fun ideas that other bloggers share. I saw this cute Stocking Shaped gift card holder on Mary Davidson's blog last year and couldn't wait to add it to this year's Holiday Treasure class (331TW.150 and 332TW.150) at Tumbleweed Recreation Center. These are so easy to make and this year's Jolly Holiday DSP make the cutest looking stockings. Join us for some creative fun! Thanks for looking :-)

July Newsletter and New Catalog

The New 2010-2011 Stampin' Up! Catalog is here! Lots of new colors, new color collections, and new stamps and products.


Just letting everyone know that our July newsletter has been posted. You can click on the link below or click here. Hope you all have a Happy Fourth of July! Below is a picture of one of the gift card holders we'll be making in one of our classes posted in the newsletter.

Baby Shower Gift Cards

From Heidi...I have babies on my mind...so, I thought I'd share a cute gift card holder I made for a baby shower or as a baby gift. I made a little "onesie" for the front of the gift card and used velcro as a closure for the gift card. Cute and fun to make!Today I'm working on some new gift card holder ideas for our project class in July. I wish that I knew what the new DSP were going to be in the new 2010-11 Idea book, so I could be creating with the new papers, but I won't know until next month...aaaah! Waiting is hard!

Stampset: Itty Bitty Bits; Punches: Itty Bitty Shapes, 1" circle, Bojo Blossom; CS: Certainly Celery, Cottage Wall DSP, Pale Plum, Welcome Neighbor DSP; Big Shot: Scallop Circle, Perfect Polka Dot Impressions Folder

Two Happy Stampers' Weekend Find

Happy weekend to all of you!

I've spent part of my Saturday looking at fun ideas on the internet. I wanted to share this cute video I watched for a gift card holder using the scallop envelope die for the Big Shot. We've got one of these!! Yay! Can't wait to try this idea... feeling like creating today, and of course it would be the day that I'm not at my mom's (where all of the stamping stuff is). Oh well... sometimes that's how it goes. Anyway, enjoy the video and have a great rest of the weekend! =)

Patterned Pines Gift Card Holder-video

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Cute Idea

From Heidi...I saw this idea for Gift Card Holder Ornament on Jenni Diercks blog. This is such a fun way to give a gift card at Christmas...Hang it on the tree! Just wanted to share this idea with all of you. We'll be making a couple of these in our upcoming Christmas Treasures class in November, along with other fun gift-giving ideas.

A Pocket Photo Brag Book

From Heidi...One of the ladies that came to our SAS last month generously shared this Pocket Card pattern with me, and I really enjoyed creating this little book based on the pattern. Thank you, Susan! I changed the dimensions a little, so that I could include a gift card holder in one of the pockets. The basic pattern dimensions are: 5-1/4" x 10-1/4", scored at 4, 8, 8-1/4". My finished dimensions are 4-1/8"x5-1/4" and fits inside an A2 envelope.

Instead of using an envelope for the inside pockets, I made my own using DS paper. I created this as a Mother's Day Photo Brag-Gift Card Holder Book (whew! that's a mouthful). I printed the inside greeting and then snailed it into the inside flap of the card. This would make a great gift for someone...with little pictures included in the photo card envelope and then a gift card in the other envelope. What a fun project! This will be a fun thing to do at one of our Stamp Club/Project Classes. Thanks for looking.

Cardstock and Ink: Pacific Point, Barely Banana, Rose Red, Old Olive, Whisper White, Basic Black

DS paper

Stamp Set: Little Pieces; Seeing Spots; Yummy; All Scallops (I also used a non-SU acrylic stamp set for the belly band)

Accessories: Punches - Scallop Edge, Tab, various circle punches; Old Olive ribbon, rivets, brad

You're invited: Stamp-A-Stack and Gift Cards

From Heidi...

Wow... two posts from us in one day! I'm posting pictures of our upcoming Gift Card Holder class (4/16) and this month's Stamp-A-Stack (4/21). This month we'll be using the new Designer Paper, Scallop Oval punch and Oval All stamp set from the "Occasions" mini catalog to create the gift cards.

We'll be using punches to create these fun Stamp-A-Stack cards. Each class is $10. You can email or call me to RSVP, so that we're sure to have enough supplies prepared. I do want to mention that the brown circle-flower card was cased from KWerner's blog, I thought it was so cute. You can click Here to view it.

Thursday, April 16 - Gift Card Holder Class (3 gift cards/$10)
Session 1 - 12:30-2:30 PM/Session 2 - 7:00-9:00 PM

Tuesday, April 21 - SAS ( 5 cards/$10)

7:00-9:00 PM

Gift Card Slider Box

From Heidi...


These gift card boxes are AKA nugget boxes. I used the 8-piece (2x4) nugget box for these gift card boxes. I glued DS paper to the top and sides of the box, stamped the tissue paper with tiny dots and random hearts, made cute tags for each of them and threaded gold elastic cord through the tags. These make a common gift card special!

Valentine Gift Card Holder

From Adriel:

Hi! I hope you had a nice weekend. I got to go out on a date with my husband, so that was definitely nice! (Thanks Mom & Dad)

The project I'm sharing with you today is a Valentine Gift Card Holder. I've shared the link to the tutorial before, but just in case you missed it, HERE YOU GO! I've made several of these gift card holders and they are very easy to make and great for any occassion. Okay, so here's the gift card holder...

This card was made using the following:

Love You Much Bundle (Love You Much set, Heart to Heart punch, Candy Lane DS paper)

Close to Cocoa CS

Pink Pirouette CS

Very Vanilla CS

Riding Hood Red ink

Sticky Strip

1-3/8" circle punch

1-1/4" circle punch

dimensionals

We will be making this gift card holder, along with other projects, at our upcoming class, Valentine Treasures. Click HERE to see something else we'll be making at this class! If you're interested in the class, please check out THIS MONTH'S NEWSLETTER or the CALENDAR.

Christmas Treasures Class

From Adriel:

I know I've shown you these projects before, but I wanted to put them all into one post since they all go together. All these items are part of our Christmas Treasures Project class at Tumbleweed Rec. Center. Christmas Treasures is a 2-week class, on Tuesdays from 12/2-12/9 from 1-4 PM. Registration for this class and others is open and can be done online by visiting HERE.

Altered Chipboard Photo Magnet

Nugget Box w/ chocolates

Stamped Candle

Gift Card Holder

Altered Corkboard

If time permits, we may be able to make a couple of surprises as well! Hope you can make it to this fun class!

(Actual paper and design may vary from examples shown.)

Crisscross Gift Card Holder

From Adriel:

Here's a cute gift card holder I made for our upcoming Christmas Treasures class at Tumbleweed Rec. Center.



It is one of several projects we will be doing for this class. I also made a bunch of these to sell at the upcoming craft shows we will be doing. I made these using this wonderful tutorial found HERE!


Materials used (all SU! unless noted):

Fundamental Phrases set
Really Rust CS
More Mustard CS
Chocolate Chip CS
Autumn Vine DS paper
Chocolate Chip ink
1-3/8" circle punch
1-1/4" circle punch
Sticky Strip (what would I do without this stuff?!?!?!)
SNAIL adhesive
brass brad

I don't own the round tab punch, so I had to improvise with the circle punch.

Let me know what you think!