Kelly's Craft Room

More Wedding Gift Card Holders

An old friend from high school saw my last post about the gift card holder that I made for Kathy and Kell's wedding, and asked me to make 2 for her! This time... I actually wrote down measurements and took pictures of each step! So here you go!

You will need:

5 sheets of 8.5 x 11 white cardstock.

2-3 sheets of accent cardstock/ paper. I used 8.5 x 11 and needed 3 sheets, but with 12 x 12 you will only need 2.

Adhesive and embellishments of your choice. I used:

Cuttlebug embossing folders: Swiss Dots & D'vine Swirl and the Embossing Borders were from the With Love set.

Cricut Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge for monograms

PTI Ribbon, CS, Stamps and Ink, Misc bling and pearls from Hobby Lobby, Prima flowers, SU butterfly die and slot punch, Christmas Red Stickles

 

For the box base:

Cut 4 sheets of white cardstock at 8.5 x 8.5, and score each at 4.25 in both directions.

Cut out one of the 4.25 squares leaving you with an "L" shaped piece of CS. Save these for the cake!

Adhere the 4 "L"s until you have a large square

 

For the lid:

Cut last sheet of white CS at 6.5 x 6.5 and score at 1" on each side

Slit on 4 score lines to make tabs, adhere to form the box lid

   

For the cake:

Using the scraps from your box base, you need to leave 1 square at 4.25 and cut 1 square at 3.75 & one at 3.25.

 

 
Score all 3 squares at .75 on each side and follow the directions for the lid

Adhere cake layers together with liquid adhesive (I used Zip Dry Paper Glue)

 

Now you are ready to embellish! Cut 10- 4" squares out of your accent paper. I ran 6 through my Cuttlebug embossing folders, and the other 4 I added an embossed border to and used the SU slot punch to hold the gift cards in.

I cut butterflies from the scraps for one of the boxes, and used Prima flowers and lots of bling for the other.

 

Sorry for the not so good pictures.. it was after 10pm when I finished these last night!

 

 

 

Wedding Cake Explosion Box

Ok.. now that the wedding is over I can show off the most awesome gift-card holder that I have ever made! My fabulously talented little sister Amanda made this explosion box as a Christmas gift for my Grandparents. Eric was so impressed that he insisted I make one for a wedding gift for his cousin Kathy. It took some time to figure out how to make a 3D wedding cake but I figured it out! The wedding colors were Tiffany blue, Black and White... so this is what I came up with:

 

The turquoise cardstock and butterfly die is from Stampin Up, the pearls are from Hobby Lobby, white and black CS and ribbon is Papertrey Ink, The "K" was cut from my Cricut (can't remember the cart...) and I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder in my Cuttlebug.

The other two gift card spots were filled by my FIL after I took the pictures, and he hand delivered the gift to the wedding. I hope that Kathy and Kel had a wonderful wedding!

I am linking this to

Graduation Gift

I started out making a card for my sister and playing with PTIs new felt. I wanted to make a flower... but it turned out a little big for a card. So I turned it into a pin/ headband instead!

Then I made a card with more of the felt..

And a coordinating notepad (there are actually 2 PTI notepads in this holder

I used PTI's Hawaiian Shore CS, Felt, and ink. Lots of pearls, some glitter (applied with a Zig 2-way Glue Pen), Nesties, a little ribbon and some stitching were used to tie all 3 pieces together. 
 
 
 

More gifts

Here are a couple more gifts that I made for Christmas and never posted. I used the Milk Carton template from Becky Roberts, and PTI supplies.

 

 

And the gift tags that I made this year:

 

Teacher Gifts

It took me over a week to figure out how to package the gift card for Megan's teacher. I saw the idea over at Beneath My Heart, and knew I had to try it!

It all started with a can of Pineapple, which was opened from the bottom and cleaned. I added some Hershey's Kisses and a Gift card, some patterned paper, ribbon and a little bling...

And this:

Yeah... you can see the hot glue mess that I made on the bottom of the can...

Turned into this:

I added glitter and flock to the PP with double sided sticky tape. The bottom tag says "Pull my tab".

 

Christmas Gift/ Decor Idea

I really need to get back in my craft room.. but I saw this today and wanted to share it! Such a cute idea!

Paper Bow

 I decided to keep the "wrapping" simple for my Mom's birthday gift since the box is a nice printed cardboard, and just made a pretty bow! I saw this tutorial on SplitCoastStampers months ago for the paper bow, but had not yet made one. The bow coordinates with her card, of course!

The paper is Doodlebug designs, butterfly is out of scrap vellum using the SU butterfly die (for the Big Shot), American Crafts bling and Papertrey Ink ribbon are the finishing touches! 

Hybrid Wedding Gift

A co-worker recently got married, and had a small destination wedding. Last week we had a reception of sorts for them. I was asked by the organizing co-workers if I would make a recipe box for the Bride and Groom, using the wedding invite stationary. So here is my first hybrid project. The patterned paper was designed by a co-worker. She also designed the recipe cards, but I did not get a picture of them.

Other supplies used:
CS: Bazzill and Papertry Ink
Ink, Stamps and Ribbon: Papertrey Ink
Pearls (Hobby Lobby), Heart Pin (MM), Nestabilities, Embossing Powder (SU?), Letter Stickers (MM?), Misc trim

Father's Day part 3

Ok, last one. This is my Father's Day gift set for my father-in-law. I bought the clock in a box thingy, and made a card and mini album to fit inside of it. I did not take pictures of the mini album, it is really simple inside and the pictures are cut to the page size, so there are very few embellisments inside. The card is mostly PTI. Ripe avocado and stampers select white are the colors that I used, with a little Chatterbox paper (?) as a mat. PTI's Men of Life with Dark Chocolate and Ripe Avocado inks make up the focal image and sentiment. The mini album is held closed with PTI Ripe Avocado ribbon and a Maya Road ribbon slide. The ribbon is adhered to itself with redline tape (or whatever it is called)

Another tea gift

I made this for my Grandmother with the same stamp set that I used for my Mom's Mother's Day gift, and the same tea. Instead of the large tea tins, I used the 8oz square clear top tins also from Papertrey Ink. The box with the acetate slider I designed myself. I used the square scallop nestabilities for the focal image. I love the tea pots in this set! It is hard to see, but on the side of the tins I stamped some of the sentiments from the Tea for Two stamp set in the Spring Rain ink.

All supplies are Papertrey Ink!
CS: Spring Rain and Stampers Select White
Ink: Spring Rain
Ribbon: Spring Rain Gingham & Fresh Snow Classic Grosgrain
Stamps: Tea for Two
Buttons: Vintage White