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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Merry Christmas Gift Card Holder - Crazy 4 Challenges #14

It's a new month and we have a new hostess. Joanne has awesome challenges lined up for us this month--you're gonna love 'em! I especially love this one - gift card holders. I need to make a bunch of them for a friend and while I was looking for some cute ideas I ran across the template for this one. I love it! It's so cute and easy--I may never make any other kind of gift card holder again!

I got the template from Tori Wild's blog and went to work dressing it up. The base card is Sage Shadow with a layer of Riding Hood Red (What am I going to do when I run out of this? Will someone please tell me? I love this red!!) and a layer of a gorgeous pattern from K & Co.'s Evergreen mat pad. I love it when the paper does all the work :) Then I made the belly band and the focal image, which was stamped with a sentiment and border from Just Rite's A Merry Little Christmas set, using Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink. I cut it out with a Classic Circle Nestabilities die, matted it with Riding Hood Red, and popped it up on Pop Dots. I punched a snowflake from Riding Hood Red and tied a button on it with Pearl cotton.

For the inside, I put a layer of patterned paper inside the flap before I stuck it down with red line tape and embellished with another snowflake.


NOW, be sure to check out the samples by the rest of the Crazy 4 Challenges team!

Cindy Haffner
Frances Byrne
Jessica Diedrich
Jessie Rone
Joanne Grzelak
Joycelyn Turner
Lori Boyd
Lynda Benden
Mercy Kerin
Robin Willis
Vicki Garrett

THEN, you know what to do--we'd love to have you come along and play with us. Just do your thing with the sketch and link it to Mr. Linky on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Please link directly to your project, and not your blog. And, if you upload to a public gallery, please use the key word C4C14.

~Recipe~
Stamps: A Merry Little Christmas Set (Just Rite Stampers)
Paper: Whisper White, Sage Shadow, Riding Hood Red (SU!); Evergreen Mat Pad (K & Co.)
Ink: Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provo Craft); Classic Circle Nestabilities; Pop Dots, Pearl cotton (craft store); snowflake punch (Martha Stewart); button (stash); red line tape


12 comments:

  1. Gorgeous giftcard - Barbara!!! I love this template..and you made it look awesome!!! Hugs ~S~

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  2. Beautiful, Barb...that paper is STUNNING!!!

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  3. WOW! Barb, this is gorgeous! Love the DP and the slide over on the outside of the card!

    Great work!

    Vicki

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  4. WOW, this is just gorgeous! LOVE this gift card holder idea ... will be casing it for sure!! Beautifully done!

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  5. Barb this is STUNNING. It looks so elegant. Hugs Cindy

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  6. what a beauty of a gift card holder AND it looks fairly easy to duplicate...thanks for the idea

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  7. Gorgeous! That paper is yummilicious.

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  8. BEAUTIFUL, Barb! LOVe the blue and red together!

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  9. barbara...this is beautiful! these papers are stunning...what a great gift card holder, sweetie!

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  10. OMGosh, I am the SAME WAY about that Riding Hood Red! Wishing I had bought some full packages of it before it retired so I can hoard it like the Cool Caribbean I still have!

    This is beautiful, Bar! LOVE those pretty poinsettias!

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