Violets & Sunshine: gift card holder for girl

15 April 2016

Let's Celebrate!

Hi all! Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop featuring our favorite Close To My Heart Cricut cartridges. If you've just come from the oh-so-talented Marg Van Patten's blog, I Didn't Have Potatoes, you're in the right place. If you're starting with me or get lost along the way, I'll have a list of hop participants at the end of this post.

In honor of Close To My Heart's "Baby, I'm Worth It" consultant sign up campaign, the Rose Blossoms are featuring projects that you can make with the CTMH Cricut cartridges. So I thought I'd showcase a little birthday card/gift card holder I made for my daughter's birthday this week. Let's take a look:

I was inspired to create this pop-up matchbox by Dawn Griffith at Dawn's Stamping Spot. While I do have an envelope punch board (which is what Dawn used to create her matchbox), I decided to make this quick and easy using my Cricut and Cricut Design iPad app. Since I used the app, I could pick and choose images from all of my cartridges and then some. For this card, I used images from CTMH's Artfully Sent, Artbooking, and Artiste circuit collections. The match box itself is from the Artiste collection and is cut from white daisy cardstock. I layered it inside and out with Kaleidoscope paper. The "celebrate" image (from Artfully Sent) that I used for the shaker front was cut 5 times from White Daisy Cardstock and once from Kaleidoscope paper. I layered the 5 cardstock pieces together and added some glitter to the letters. I then added acetate and Kaleidoscope paper to finish it off. The Happy Birthday sentiment is an Artiste image cut from white glitter paper and the 14 is the Artbooking font cut from gold glitter paper.

Here are some images of the inside:

The flowers, balloons, and Birthday Girl sentiment are all from Artiste and cut from Kaleidoscope paper.

I still wanted a card that I could write in, so I made a little one from White Daisy cardstock that would tuck inside with the gift card. I created the fun birthday cake image using Canary, Gypsy, Cotton Candy, and Pear inks along with stamps from the Build-a-Cake set. "Happy Birthday" is stamped in Crystal ink and gives you a sneak peek of the fabulous Stamp Of The Month for May. I added some doodles at the bottom to give the cake stand a place to...well...stand, and then added diamond and yellow stickles for some added bling. My daughter loved it!

Here's one more look at the shaker:

I hope you enjoyed this little matchbox. You can find out about the fantastic Baby, I'm Worth It! sign up deal right here. And now hop on over to see what the incredibly talented Morgan Vogt has for your inspiration at TweetScraps!

And, as promised, here's a list of blog participants:

Kim {that's ME}

Mary

Kim

Have a wonderfully creative weekend!

14 September 2014

#Party Time!

Hi All! Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop celebrating #30yearsofhappy! If you've hopped over from Created By Barbara, you're in the right place. Did Barbara offer up some amazing inspiration or what??? If you're just joining in the hop, you can find a list of participant blogs at the end of this post.

Now on with the projects!

This month I needed packaging for 4 gift cards--3 for girls and 1 for a guy. I decided to go with a little matchbox that's big enough for a gift card and some candy. (I also made some matching gift bags with enclosure cards.)

Let's take a look:

For the guy gift set, I used the mustache from #30yearsofhappy to make my own patterned paper, stamping it in Black Exclusive Ink on White Daisy cardstock. (He's having a "Mustache Party," so it's perfect!) The box, bag, and card are made from Black and White Daisy cardstocks. I decided to accent the box and card with other stamps from the same stamp set in Glacier and Goldrush Exclusive Inks. I also added a few black enamel stars--white stars would work too.

Here's some close-ups of the box and 3x3 card:

And here's a look at the bag:

Now let's take a look at the girls' set:

For the girls' boxes, cards, and bags, I used Smoothie cardstock and Chalk It Up paper. I added a little Chalk It Up Picture My Life card to the bottom of the box for some fun reinforcement. The sentiments are in Lagoon and Black Exclusive Inks. Let's take a look:

Here some close-ups and a look at the box when it is opened:

And the bag:

I hope you enjoyed these little gifties. Now hop on over and see what inspiration the oh-so-talented Shelly Nemitz has in store for you. If you want to start at the beginning of the hop (or if you've gotten a little lost), here's a list of the blog participants:

Kim Hill {That's Me}