The Twelve Days of Gift Tutorials: Day 4
Hello G45ers,
It's time to deck the halls with gorgeous ideas for handmade gifts, cards and more! Welcome back to this very special blog event! It's day 4 of The Twelve Days of Gift Tutorials! We're bringing you a new holiday gift tutorial everyday between now and December 12th! All of the featured gift tutorials are perfect if you're crafting on a budget! Plus we've got gorgeous 12 Days of Christmas cards that Gloria Stengel created to help inspire your holiday season! Today we will be sharing a dazzling handmade gift card holder and tutorial by Arlene Cuevas. You're going to love her fun and easy video tutorial for this magnificent project. So get ready to bring some holiday cheer to your day with Graphic 45.
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And now it's time to get in the holiday spirit with some spectacular crafts! We begin with Gloria's amazing card featuring our collection 12 Days of Christmas. The 4th day of Christmas celebrates the four calling birds, which Gloria expertly highlights in this breathtaking card. Just look at how all of the gorgeous colors and designs of 12 Days of Christmas effortlessly blend together to create a timeless work of art! Here Gloria describes how she created this magnificent card. Get inspired to create one of your very own! Take it away, Gloria!
I grew up in central Pennsylvania, and lived most of my life in the "snow belt." Colorful winter birds were rare and always a pleasure to see on a winter's day. I currently live in southern California where colorful birds are common, but I still love all the lovely bird images of the 12 Days of Christmas paper. I trimmed out the bird image with a postage stamp die cut template. I wanted extra contrast to make the image pop, so I matted it with black cardstock.
I created an embellishment from a bottle cap and one of the images punched from the Cardstock Banners sheet. The edge of the bottle cap mimics the postage edge of the image.
I used a banner die template to cute one banner from the plaid paper and one from the signature paper to create a dimensional sentiment strip.
I decorated the inside of the card with a postage image sticker and a strip from the Joyeux Noel paper. I needed a bit of contrast, so I also added a small strip of the My True Love paper. I love the red!
Supplies:
Graphic 45 The Twelve Days of Christmas papers:
Graphic 45 The Twelve Days of Christmas Cardstock Stickers
Graphic 45 The Twelve Days of Christmas Cardstock Banners
Cardstock: WorldWin Papers Original ColorMates Deep Berry Red, Light Totally Tan, Treasures Textured Pitch Black
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon
Bottle cap, doily: craft supply
Ink: Clearsnap Colorbox Chalk Rose Coral, Peach Pastel
Die templates: Spellbinders Ribbon Banners; My Favorite Things Stamp Stax
Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares; Scotch 3M ATG tape runner; Beacon Fabri-trac; Aleene's Tacky Glue
And now it's time to create a fabulous handmade gift card with Arlene! Gift cards are amazing, but you can make them even better by creating a handmade gift card holder to accompany them! This is the perfect way to add a personalized touch to any gift card. Follow along with Arlene's fun and easy tutorial and learn how to take your gift cards to the next level with 12 Days of Christmas! Take it away, Arlene!
"Give the gift of a gift card this season, but make it even more special with this cute little gift card holder! I created a video tutorial to help you put one of these together yourself. Hope you give one of these a try!" -Arlene
Video Tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W84PnChn4b4&feature=youtu.be
Supplies:
12 Days of Christmas - Calling Birds (8x8 and 12x12)
12 Days of Christmas Pockets & Tags
12 Days of Christmas - Holly & Ivy (8x8)
Staples: Large Tag
Coodinations - Graphic 45 Signature Series card stock
May Arts ribbon
Petaloo Flowers
Scrapbook Adhesive 3D foam squares
ScorTape
Hot glue
We've got one more special treat for you G45ers today! Romy Veul of our Design Team is being featured on today's Papercrafters Library blog! Here is a sneak peek of the exquisite Couture project that she created for today's fun feature! Hop on over to the Papercrafters Library blog to see this amazing creation in its entirety! Plus you'll learn more about Romy and her amazing artistic style! Enjoy!
http://blog.papercrafterslibrary.com/
We hope you all had a great time exploring all of today's remarkable crafts. There's more gorgeous holiday inspiration in store for you on tomorrow's blog. We hope you'll stop by and see us. Big thanks to Gloria, Arlene and Romy for their remarkable work today. We also want to thank you G45ers for joining us! We hope today's blog helped bring some extra joy to your day. We'll see you tomorrow with another fabulous day of our Twelve Days of Gift Tutorials. Have a marvelous day, G45ers!
Happy Holiday Papercrafting!
Your Friends at Graphic 45
Outstanding as always. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Melanie Ann MacKenzie | December 05, 2013 at 06:14 PM
The giveaway package is awesome. Thanks for the chance.
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Posted by: maida | December 05, 2013 at 07:24 PM
Pretty projects today, I'm loving the colors! Thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: Robin Buchholz | December 05, 2013 at 07:40 PM
What beautiful projects! I got my G45 stamps from 12 Days and started creating my cards, but now I want to stop and lift the cards you feature!
Posted by: Beatrice Lawson | December 05, 2013 at 08:46 PM
A really nice looking card! Very nice that the inside of the card was decorated too! The gift card holder is pretty nice also. Thanks for offering such a generous prize.
Posted by: Karen L K | December 05, 2013 at 10:35 PM
Beautiful gift card holder
Posted by: Nancey Thomson | December 05, 2013 at 11:30 PM
Wow...beautiful projects...stunning as always!!
Posted by: Diane H | December 06, 2013 at 12:41 AM
Gorgeous tutorials. I love it :-)
Thank you!!
Posted by: Vigdis Kluver | December 06, 2013 at 03:23 AM
Gorgeous! Love these cards!
Posted by: Sonia | December 06, 2013 at 03:24 AM
Why am I astounded at the beautiful items created using G45? Stunning!
Posted by: Cathy van Vollenstee | December 06, 2013 at 05:06 AM
beautiful projects, i love them all
Posted by: www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm8k0PwkEHjbIvaB1JlbJVT-Ioduob9EdI | December 06, 2013 at 08:07 AM
Wonderful inspiration, love it!!
Posted by: DeniseQ | December 06, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Oh what I couldn't do with these goodies. Thanks for the chance to win.
Posted by: Lori A. Geise | December 06, 2013 at 07:15 PM
Beautiful color combination!
Posted by: Dorothy Peterson | December 07, 2013 at 09:58 AM
Amazing projects...All of them. I would love to win but I am never that lucky...Yet anyway. Thanks for the chance to enter the drawing.
Posted by: sandy | December 07, 2013 at 03:59 PM
Beautiful gift card holder,
Posted by: Bev Witt | December 07, 2013 at 06:28 PM
another beautiful card and that gift card holder is stunning! how creative!
Posted by: carisa zglobicki | December 07, 2013 at 10:38 PM
What a truly beautiful and versatile paper line! How exciting it would be to win the g45 give away!!
Posted by: Sheryl | December 08, 2013 at 08:41 AM
Love this collection of papers and all the projects you've shown. I can't wait to try using some of the ideas here.
Posted by: Nona Hoecker | December 08, 2013 at 10:50 PM
Love these papers and all the projects. Can't wait to use some of them.
Posted by: Nona Hoecker | December 08, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Gloria is doing a great job making the 12 days of christmas cards!!!
next the tag gift card holder is just too clever.
stamping sue
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Posted by: stamping sue | December 09, 2013 at 04:25 AM
I love seeing these Christmas cards. They are so beautiful. Thank you!
Posted by: Linda R | December 09, 2013 at 05:59 AM
Interesting, wonder if I will be able to make the gift card holder. Gotta try it!
Posted by: Shannah Miner | December 09, 2013 at 07:30 AM
Love following along with these cards, they are the fanciest cards I've ever made. Thank you for the ideas and great tutorials. No instagram though, darn.
Posted by: Lyn Kaufmann | December 09, 2013 at 05:13 PM
The gift card holder is so awesome! Love the papers!
Hugs,
Jo
Posted by: Jo | December 10, 2013 at 05:37 AM
Beautiful card and gift card holder.
Posted by: Geraldine | December 10, 2013 at 10:23 AM
I just love that card!! So cute!!
Posted by: Emily H | December 11, 2013 at 11:34 AM
I love this idea. I'm going to make it right now.
Posted by: Susie | December 11, 2013 at 11:33 PM
Arlene, I love your work! Always beautiful and clean finished work. I saw the first of your tutorials on a holiday in the USA. You explained it so easy...
So, this tag or gift tag holder is the first thing In scrapping I am going to try.
Thank you.
Posted by: Irene | December 12, 2013 at 06:11 AM
cute idea for the gift card holder - may have to copy that one
Posted by: Faye Warriner | December 12, 2013 at 11:40 AM
lovely mini album
Posted by: sherri P | December 12, 2013 at 03:03 PM