West Coast Creators Blog Hop - Whimsical Trees Gift Card Holder

Welcome to the December West Coast Creators Blog Hop!! This month we are featuring gift card holders and gift packaging. Since Christmas is right around the corner, I hope you will find this useful! My card is a variation of a gift card holder I made on November 29 (which you can find here). It's pretty quick to make, especially if you have some Designer Series Paper (DSP) that you like! Unfortunately, the Whimsy & Wonder DSP is no longer available, but you can make the same gift card holder with any DSP--Christmas or non-Christmas. The Whimsical Trees stamp set is retiring on January 3rd, and is only available while supplies last!!

1. Cut the following layers:
• Polished Pink: 9-3/4" x 5", scored at 3-1/4" and 6-1/2"; 4-1/4" x 5" (card base)
• Whimsy & Wonder Designer Series Paper (DSP): 3-3/16" x 4-5/8", 3-1/4" x 2" (ornaments); 3-1/4" x 4" (stripe)
• Silver Foil Specialty Paper: 3-1/2" x 5"
• Basic White cardstock: 3-1/4" x 4"; 2-1/2" x 1" (for sentiment)
2. Wrap 12" length of ribbon around larger piece of ornament DSP and tie in a knot. Cut silver frame using second and third largest rectangles; glue to DSP. 
3. Make Z-fold with scored piece of Polished Pink cardstock, having "mountain" fold at left, and "valley" fold at right. Adhere card front to panel on left.
4. Stamp sentiment in Polished Pink; cut with Seasonal Labels die; adhere to card front with Mini Dimensionals.
5. Cut striped DSP and Basic White with largest die; use same die to cut the bottom part of the ornament DSP, and then trim the top with the long side of the second largest die. Adhere to striped DSP at bottom and sides only, making a pocket for the gift card. Glue to centre panel.
6. Stamp the sentiment (full strength) and holly (stamped-off) with Polished Pink; adhere to right hand panel.
7. Stamp holly along the edges of 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" Polished Pink cardstock with stamped-off Polished Pink. Glue back of right-hand panel to card base, making bottom edges of Z-fold even with bottom of card base, and equal borders at right and left.
8. Add three Rhinestone Basic Jewels to finish card.

Thanks for visiting my blog! If you have a moment, please leave a comment below. Then be sure to check out the rest of our very talented West Coast Creators' blogs to see their gorgeous creations!

❤️ Kim

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Product List

Whimsical Trees Cling Stamp Set (English) [156330] $30.00	Seasonal Labels Dies [156299] $52.00	Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820] $48.00	Whimsy & Wonder 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [156329] $20.00	Polished Pink 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155710] $12.00
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25	Silver Foil 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Pack [156457] $13.50	Polished Pink 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155714] $9.50	Polished Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [155712] $10.25	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220] $6.75

If you live in Canada and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be your demonstrator! Contact me, or click on the product links above. 

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Dandy Garden Laser-Cut Thank You Card

Thank you for visiting my blog! I am so excited to be participating again in Kylie Bertucci's Top Ten Winners Hop! I am honoured to once again be grouped in with some very talented designers from all over the world. Thanks to your votes, my card came in #4!!  In case you haven't seen it, I have posted it at the end of this blog entry.

For the Winners Hop this month, I wanted to showcase Stampin' Up!'s amazing Dandy Laser-Cut Paper, which is available (with the rest of the Dandy Garden Suite) starting January 5th. This product comes with an assortment of card fronts and accents, and coordinates with our Dandy Garden Suite. I chose to use the dandelion silhouette laser-cut card front for this really cool gift card holder. 

I think these silhouettes are most effective when there is a bright Designer Series Paper (DSP) behind the laser-cut. I chose to use one of the beautiful, bright DSPs from Whale of a Time. I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece, and then used my trimmer to cut out a window that was slightly smaller than the 3-1/4" x 4-3/4" laser-cut paper. I glued the resulting frame to the centre of a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of Whisper White Thick cardstock.

The card base is a 9-3/4" x  4-3/4" piece of Pacific Point, scored along the long side at 3-1/4" and 6-1/2", and then folded into a Z-fold. The dandelion laser-cut was adhered to the smaller piece (the cut-out window) of DSP, and that was glued to the front of the card. The back part of the Z-fold is centred over the frame of DSP and glued. I used the largest Stitched So Sweetly die (if you don't have this set, it's a MUST--I use it all the time with my cards!) to cut Whisper White cardstock for a message. This is glued onto the third panel of the Z-fold. A piece of the DSP was cut with the fourth largest rectangle to make a pocket for a gift card. The bottom and sides (not the top!) of the rectangle were glued at the very edge, and attached to the second panel. 

I punched a dragonfly out from one of the sheets of Dandy Garden DSP. The colour didn't coordinate very well with the Pacific Point, so I coloured over the Misty Moonlight parts of the dragonfly with a Pacific Point watercolour pencil, and then used a Blender Pen to blend the colours (this worked beautifully!). I glued only the body of the dragonfly to the card, painted the wings with Wink of Stella, and lifted the wings up a bit from the card. The sentiment (from Itty Bitty Greetings) was cut with another Stitched So Sweetly die. I finished the card with three Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

Here is another example using a different laser-cut paper card fronts.

If you don't want this as a gift card, then you can glue all four sides of the scalloped rectangle of DSP. You may want to rotate it so that it is in "portrait" orientation.

Here is the card that placed fourth in Kylie Bertucci's International Highlights blog contest. It is also from the Dandy Garden Suite--and used the Dandy Garden stamp set. 

Thank you again for visiting my blog! I'd love it, if you have a moment, if you would leave a comment. Then be sure to visit the other Top Ten Winners! 

~ Kim ❤️

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Product List

Stitched So Sweetly Dies [151690]

Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146667]

Watercolor Pencils [141709]