Stamp Act: OUR CREATIVE CORNER ~ A Gift Card Challenge!!!!!

December 13, 2008

OUR CREATIVE CORNER ~ A Gift Card Challenge!!!!!

Good Morning!
Today's challenge is one you will love! Julee has challenged us to make a gift card holder! Not only has she issued a great challenge but she has an AWESOME guest to play with us this week! Tori Wild is our guest and if you are not familiar with Tori, you REALLY need to visit her blog, she is VERY talented! I was surfing Tori's blog and ran across THIS darling gift card holder and totally wanted to make one for today!!!

I don't know about you but I am in need of a lot of gift card holders this Christmas! As the kids in our family get older, it is harder to buy gifts for them so I tend to give money, gift cards or savings bonds. My card today will go to our Niece in London. Here is my card ~

The card itself was cut using the largest scalloped Nestie. The cardstock I used is Poison Ivory which can be found HERE! The pink snowflake paper is from THIS October Afternoon collection. I stamped the Elzybell image directly on the decorative paper and then again on the Poison Ivory cardstock. I colored and cut out the image from the cardstock and layered a couple more snow layers. I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and added Pink Poinsettia Shimmerz and Silver & Crystal Stickles for lots of shine! I added Martha clear rhinestones to the snowflakes on the DP and Martha clear coarse glitter to the "snow". The ribbon on the top is pink and vanilla taffeta.

Here is a picture of the inside ~

I cut a circle from the awesome pink snowflake paper and because I didn't want to cover it up, I made a pocket using cardstock vellum and because I can hardly sew in a straight line, I opted to do faux stitching along the bottom of the pocket. I first pierced the pocket and then used my quickie glue pen to to adhere the pocket to the DP along the stitching line and then added the stitching using my white gel pen. I added some Martha bling on the inside as well. This was super easy! Thank you Tori for such a cute idea!

I've got a busy day today so I better get going! Be sure to check out what the OCC girls have done with this challenge ~ Dawn, Denise, Cindy, Jennifer, Julee and Laurie ! Hope you all have a great day!

~Lynda

Dec 13, 2008 8:59:55 AM | Gift Ideas, Jacksonbelle Embellishments, Our Creative Corner

6 Comments

How clever to use the circle cards...I never would have thought to use mine for a gift card...what a GREAT idea! Love the sparkle on the snow and the use of vellum.

Posted by: denise (peanutbee) | December 13, 2008 at 09:21 AM