Hi sweet friends! It's Julee here, popping in with a fun gift card holder idea for a valentine, birthday, or just because. First things first, this is not my original idea. I made one years ago from a tutorial on someone's blog, but I can't remember who posted it. So I measured the prototype I had and drew up my own instructions. You can click on the image for a larger version, then save and print for reference.
It's a fun template, which has a belly band to hold a gift card, and depending on the size of circle you cut, can hold a mini coffee cup, a k-cup, or with no circle you can fill it with chocolates. I of course, went with a coffee theme, and used my new set, Latte Love.
For this holder I added a little embellishment to the k-cup with removable glue dots. The treat yourself sentiment is from the Birthday Wordfetti set, and I added my cup image and steam from Latte Love to the belly band.
You can also make this easily into a treat/gift card holder by not cutting a circle in the base. I tucked three ghirardelli squares wrapped in ribbon inside, but you could also use single reese's peanut butter cups, or any little goody bag tucked in the 2.5" square portion.
If you have mini coffee cups, then you can use an approximate 2" circle for the hole. I bought my cups off Amazon and filled this one up with chocolates for my boys' awesome teacher. I deconstructed one of the cups and cut it down to make a template for the mini cup belly band, then cut that from patterned paper and embellished with a heart from the Hearts Die Set. The happy valentine's day portion is from the Love Wordfetti set, and the rings of coffee behind the Latte Love sentiment piece is from Texture Tiles 9.
Here are the written instructions (included in the graphic above):
- Score 11 x 2.5” in cardstock on the long side at 0.75”, 3.25”, 4“ and 6.5”
- If making a coffee cup or k-cup holder, adhere the 2.25” square mat (if using) in the square you will cut the circle from (right of the 0.75” scored edge), then die cut or punch circle. For a chocolate holder, you do not need to cut a circle. 1. Score 11” in cardstock on the long side at 0.75”, 3.25”, 4“ and 6.5”
- crease and burnish scored lines
- Apply adhesive to front 0.75” flap then fold up so circle hole is facing up and attach adhesive portion to the longest section
- Mat with patterned paper and embellish as desired.
- Score 6.5" x 0.75" belly band piece 1.75” from each side, crease and burnish, then apply adhesive to one end and wrap around holder.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you're inspired to make one of these gift card holders. If you do, be sure to share it over in the
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