Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Gift Card Holders



Over here at: http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-me-monday-47.html they are having a challenge on our favorite weather...spring, summer, fall or winter. Well, I'm tired of winter around here so I decided to do a spring card for this challenge and there was another spring challenge here: http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2011/02/all-about-spring-challenge.html. I decided after I was done that I liked this type of card so much that I made a second one, hence, the birthday card too. LOL. I also found this challenge here and it was to use pink so I had these cute little pink flowers left over from another project so I used the so I could enter this challenge also. If you'd like to take a peak at it, jump over here:
http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/2011/02/sei-challenge-with-abby-3-use-pink.html And one last challenge...this was to make a card that moves...they showed a card that was an accordian style and so I figured this is sorta like that....it's not your average card, it has a little extra something to it so I thought I'd enter it there also. You can peak at this challenge here: http://www.craftingwithcristina.com/2011/02/challenge-17-interactive-card-elsas.html

Anyway, I found this fun tutorial here on how to make these really cute gift card holders. I think these will make a fun gift so I set out to use some of my leftover scraps. These are the two that I came up with really quick. The flower one follows the instructions exactly to the linked tutorial, but I changed my second one to make it a little bigger. I started with a piece of cardstock 5 x 10.5 and I scored it at 3, 4 1/4, 5 1/2, and 8 1/2. I then cut my top pieces to be 2 1/4 xs 4 7/8 and 2 3/4 by 4 7/8. I used a corner rounder on the corners and cut my slit just using my fiskars cutter at 3 3/8 inches long. Then I just used left over cricut cuts from previous projects, glued the bottom so the gift card doesn't fall out and done. Really a very simple project and how fun that the gift card pops up when they open it. Give it a try. It makes a really cute gift card holder. I like it!

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18 comments:

  1. Really cute and thanks for the link to the tutorial, I'll have to go check it out!

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  2. Cute. Thanks for playing along with us at FCCB.

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  3. Love both your cards! Thanks for joining us at FCCB this week.

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  4. Love the cards, Heidi! Thanks so much for playing the challenge at Cardz TV!
    Hugs,
    Mary

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  5. Very cute, and such a good idea. Thanks for joining us at FCCB!

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  6. Super cute, I love the card holders.. Love love the pink..OK I love both the same.. hee hee What a great job.. TFS!!
    Nicole :)
    http://ohsoeverything.blogspot.com/

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  7. What a pretty card. So springy. Love how the cupcake and flower is cut in the card. I'm a new follower. Hope you have a chance to hop on over to my blog and if you like it, become a follower of mine too.

    stacy
    http://www.mycraftingtime.com

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  8. Simply adorable! these are one of my favorite gift card holders to make. :)

    Thanks for joining us at Crafting With Cristina!

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  9. I love gift card holders. Yours are really cute and don't look like they would be hard to make. I am a new follower. :)Victoria

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  10. Those two gift card are adorable...very nice

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  11. Super idea! Thanks for joining us at FCCB!

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  12. I really like your card.. I want to try to make one of these.. is perfect.

    Thanks for playing with us at CWC..

    Ivette

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  13. Cute cute! Thanks for playing along with us at FCCB!

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  14. The gift cards are a great idea! Very cute!!
    Thanks for joining us at Crafting with Cristina. Good luck in the challenge!

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  15. amazing collection ilike the card which contain pink rose at its top.
    Plastic Card Holders

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  16. The flower one follows the instructions exactly to the linked tutorial.
    Plastic card
    Plastic card
    Hank Hendricks

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