Merry & Bright

Hey, all! I'm back with yet another gift card holder...'tis the season...not to mention that I have several tween/teen nieces who only want gift cards for Christmas!

I played along with A Passion for Papertrey's Scrapalicious challenge. My sentiment & button are both PTI, and the scraps include all three patterned papers and the glittered button thread.

I used Laura's Sketch 66 over at 2 Sketches 4 You for my layout.


And since it's a gc holder, I'm also entering it in the Caardvarks gift card holder challenge.

To all my American buddies, I wish you a VERY happy Thanksgiving!

And to kick off the holiday season, you might want to stop by A Muse. They're offering a 30% on all orders from now 'til Nov. 29. Enter promo code HAPPY30. I already placed my order!

Stamps: Signature Christmas (PTI)
Paper: Pretty in Pink, SU & unknown pp
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: ShortCuts gc holder, SU ribbon & snowflake, PTI button, Kaisercraft rhinestones, glittered button thread (unknown)

Winter Mittens

Hi, everyone! Finally got a chance to take pics of some projects I made over the weekend. It's been dark & rainy, but today the sun is out! Yay!

For my project today, I played along with 3 challenges:
Etsy Inspired 115--Queen of Tarts Cakes--I chose these cookies as inspiration
CardPatterns Sketch 91
Caardvarks gift card holders
I was immediately drawn to the cute mittens, the color combo, and the overall wintry theme.

I used a new stamp from American Crafts (aren't those mittens cute?) and new twine from The Twinery (LOVE that stuff!).

My card is standard sized (4 1/4" x 5 1/2")...

with a surprise inside!

I simply added a piece of patterned paper to the inside with sticky tape, then slid a gift card inside.

Side note: This Target gc smells like peppermint! Mmm!

Hope you like what you see!

Stamps: Wishes (American Crafts Dear Lizzy), Essential Sentiments (My Favorite Things)
Paper: Real Red, PTI white, SU pp
Ink: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: Cuttlebug Snowflake, Nestabilities circles & scalloped circles, Michaels ribbon, The Twinery twine, bell, dimensionals

WMC32: It's Blog Hop Time!

Welcome to the Wee Memories blog hop! You should have arrived here from Jinny's blog. If not, don't worry...you can start the hop at the Wee Memories blog so you don't miss a thing!

This week our challenge is to put a little pink in your creation!


Our sponsor this week is Stamps of Life, and our winner will receive a stamp set of her choice!






I needed to get busy on my holiday to-do list, so I chose to create a gift card holder for my niece. She is a lover of pink...hot pink especially...so incorporating it into my project was NO problem!

I pulled out some wintry items from my stash...patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket & a chipboard snowflake from Collage Press...don't you just love it when two lines of product go together so perfectly?

I added a rhinestone and some ribbon to tie the whole thing together.

Here's what it looks like on the inside...more Cosmo Cricket paper...
And some stamps to finish it off!

I hope you loved what you saw here. Head over to Anita's blog next to see what she's created for this week's challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Let It Snow (Hero Arts), Let's Get Together (There She Goes)
Paper: Cosmo Cricket pp
Ink: Raspberry Fizz
Accessories: ShortCuts GC holder folder, PTI ribbon, Collage Press chipboard, Kaisercraft rhinestone

Red Tree Gift Card Holder

I needed a quick gift card holder for my Secret Santa, and when I saw the Card-A-Licious challenge was to make a card with a traditional Christmas icon, I knew I could kill two birds with one stone.

I just added some pearls to this felt tree, adhered it to the card, and stamped the sentiment.




On the inside, I adhered a triangle of dp and slid the gift card inside. Easy peasy!

Stamps: Best Yet (SU)
Paper: PTI white, Ski Slope dp (SU)
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: felt tree (Hobby Lobby), pearls (unknown), gift card