Coffee & Chocolates Gift Card Holder

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):

1. Score 11 x 2.5” in cardstock on the long side at 0.75”, 3.25”, 4“ and 6.5” 
2. 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” 
3. crease and burnish scored lines
4. Apply adhesive to front 0.75” flap then fold up so circle hole is facing up and attach adhesive portion to the longest section
5. Mat with patterned paper and embellish as desired.
6.  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 VIP Facebook group so we can ooh and ahh over it!

Owlways Remember

Karen here with a fun owl card featuring a background made with the brand new Grunge Grid Stencil.

 

 

I created the background with the Grunge Grid Stencil along with Pixie Pink, Pink Passion and Melon Mambo inks on white cardstock. I die cut the background, matted with brown cardstock and attached to a white card base. I stamped the owl and sentiment with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink on white cardstock. I trimmed the sentiment and attached to the stenciled panel. I colored the owl, fussy cut out and popped up with foam tape as seen. I die cut a small heart and inked it up with melon mambo ink. I glued the heart on the owl and added three small gems to finish the card.

My background piece came from a recent playtime. Be on the lookout during the rest of the month for how I use the other backgrounds. 

Grunge Grid Stencil

Owl Be There

Hearts Die Set

 
 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

 

Parisian Postcard Anniversary Shaker Card...

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a tutorial on how I made my anniversary shaker card. I love adding shaker elements to my cards. It might look difficult and time consuming, but it actually can go pretty fast when you learn the basic steps.

I started out stamping my main image, the Eiffel Tower from Parisian Postcard clear stamp set on the white base card and the red panel. (Yes, it seems to be the favorite for the last week or so between the SNSS team members.) I made sure the images were stamped the same place on both card stock, so they would line up when layered on top of each other. I used my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig to do the perfect job. (If you are leaving a white border, don't forget to calculate that 1/8" extra on the white card.)

Next I die-cut the heart window opening on the red panel, using the biggest die from Heart Die set. 

Next I placed the red heart back in the negative space, and secured it to the white base card with masking tape (you can also use repositionable or washi tape). Then I placed dimensional tape around the heart.

Next I added extra dimensional tape to the white base card. 

Then I added the shaker elements: glitter hearts, gold sequins, and micro beads. The tiny glitter hearts were die-cut with Hearts and Stars Scallop Border Die set. Before I adhered the red cover panel, I taped a piece of window sheet behind the heart window opening.

Finally I embellished my card with stamped postal stamp images, thread (adhered with a glue dot), punched vellum flowers, and more of the glitter hearts.

The greeting was stamped with VersaMark ink, then heat embossed with gold embossing powder. The image is from You & Me clear stamp set. 

I hope I inspired you to make a shaker card today. 

Thank you for stopping by, 

Monika

Be Mine

Hi everyone!  Kim here to share a non-traditional, mixed media type Valentine card with you today!  This card...oh my...ever have one of those cards that just doesn't come together?  I reworked this baby so many times before I was happy.  And I was most happy with this sweet kitty cat being stuck up in a tree!  I loved the addition of the branch, which was a perfect pairing with the small image.  I also have a love of pink and grey and texture...can you tell? **wink**

This card actually started as an ATC that I covered with paper, embossing paste, and paint.  Much of that is now covered up, as I wasn't thrilled with end result.  However, I loved the texture of the paste and that is what you see at the edges of the ATC (where the cat is sitting).  Once my card pieces were cut, circles, cardstock, cat, hearts, etc., I moved everything around until I was happy with the layout. Guess what I'm most happy with?  The Speech Bubbles die!  Seriously, you're going to be seeing speech bubbles on all of my cards...I LOVE them!  And they're a brand new item, just added to the store a few weeks ago!

Want to grab all of the products that I used on today's card?  Check out the list below:

Speech Bubbles Die
Valentine's Critters (and coordinating die)
Hearts Die
Love Birds Die Set (and coordinating stamp set)

Happy Purrrrrday!

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!  A cat wearing a party hat and using a noise maker counts for a Happy New Year card, right?  WooHoo!  Here's to a 2014 filled with lots of crafty goodness!

Today's card features a sweet cat from the LOL Cats stamp set...a set filled with all kinds of darling cats and kitty friendly phrases.  I stamped the cat once on the circle and then a second time on a piece of scrap cardstock.  Once I colored in the second stamped image, I cut it out and used foam tape to pop up Mr. Party Cat.  I used a stamp block to bend the sentiment (just one of the reasons I love acrylic stamps!) around the circle.

Along with the stamp set, I also grabbed the Hearts Die set to create some fun cut outs on the left side of the card.  I simply layered a piece of designer paper behind the cuts outs and then used a white gel pen to add some faux stitching. 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and you're off to a fabulous start to 2014!

Kim