Good morning! We hope you are enjoying our 12 days of gift-giving with Faber Castell and Xyron! In addition to sharing our ideas for quick and easy gifts, we will be randomly giving away product on all three blogs!
And today we have a winner!! These are so cute and they'll make sweet gifts - I hope the teachers appreciate the time, work and talent put into them! ~ Ann Jobes! Ann please email me your address to Ceeangels@aol.com.
Be sure to pop over to the Xyron Blog and the Faber Castell Design Memory Craft for more projects and a chance to win some of their products!
We are excited to present DT member, Alicia's beautiful Holiday project!
Good morning! Today, I decided to showcase some gift card envelopes which are perfect for the holidays. If you are like me and are short on time and just plain don't like to shop, you give a lot of gift cards for Christmas. These gift envelopes make the perfect way to dress up your gift card.
I used my Cricuit (Tags, Boxes & More cartridge) to cut out these gift card envelopes with Kraft paper. I then used the Cricuit (Winter Woodland cartridge) to cut out 2 and 3 inch poinsettias with white carstock. The Faber Castell Gelatos are so much fun to play with and I colored the poinsettias with reds and greens and then used the Faber Castell colored pencils to add some detail to the poinsettias. The Faber Castell gelatos are also fun to ink (watercolor) the sides of the kraft envelopes for extra detail. I then used the CI Holly Jolly collection (6X6 paper collection) to decorate each envelope and the Xyron mega runners rollers are oooh....soo....fabulous! They can be used to adhere anything and the mega runner goes a very long way. The Holly Jolly stickers and die-cuts were added to my envelopes for extra dimension and detail.
I then added ribbon to each gift card envelope to finish the envelope off - but the top opens easily to place your gift card as you can see here:
Supplies used:
Creative Imaginations Holly Jolly 6X6 pads
Faber-Castell
Faber-Castell Watercolor pencils
Xyron
Great gift cards and techniques for creating them. Wonderful job and so creative,
Posted by: Dorina D | November 21, 2012 at 01:50 PM
Great idea for gift cards! Looks like you put all of the time and creativity into these that you would to make a card if not more! They are all really wonderful and will hopefully be appreciated! Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
Posted by: Katie B. | November 21, 2012 at 02:55 PM
Love the idea! I just do something similar and attach it to a mason jar filled with cookie mix. Maybe a Starbucks GC inside.
Posted by: Robin L | November 21, 2012 at 03:24 PM
Love this idea, I always give the teenagers in my family gift cards, can't please them other wise!! lol Lovely idea! Loving the blog, so glad I came over from Faber Castell!
Posted by: sandeeNC | November 21, 2012 at 04:25 PM
Very festive way to give gift cards!
Posted by: Sue D | November 21, 2012 at 05:43 PM
Great little envelopes. Love how you decorated them!
Posted by: Miriam Prantner | November 21, 2012 at 06:32 PM
Beautiful way to present a gift card. Love them!
Posted by: Marilyn Nimmo | November 21, 2012 at 07:21 PM
These are just glorious!! I do lots of gift cards too and it lovely to offer them in such a pretty holder as oppposed to a plain Jane envelope.
Posted by: beatrice lawson | November 21, 2012 at 09:26 PM
what clever little gift card sleeves. love the variety, great layering. thank you for sharing.
Posted by: Kim H | November 21, 2012 at 10:38 PM
These are just soooo pretty! And a great idea!
Posted by: jpscraps | November 22, 2012 at 05:27 AM
Great gift idea, very cheerful,loved it! Thanks for sharing! Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for the chance!
Posted by: Angelina | November 22, 2012 at 11:41 AM
These are fabulous and so cleverly designed.
Posted by: PetraB | November 22, 2012 at 11:56 AM
wonderful, beautiful gift card envelopes.
Posted by: Donna Bryant | November 23, 2012 at 04:03 AM
I love the gift card envelopes, they are so pretty!
Posted by: Robin B. | November 23, 2012 at 05:01 PM
Great design . These are so festive . TFS .
Posted by: Julie A. Shearer | November 24, 2012 at 06:58 AM
Love all the details in these beautiful gift card envelopes!
Posted by: lynn kopas | November 24, 2012 at 02:24 PM
The tags are so cute. They are small enough that they can be displayed as a keepsake anyplace in the house.
Posted by: MaryLouH | November 24, 2012 at 02:24 PM
Love these! Great colors and fun designs!
DeniseB
Posted by: Denise Bryant | November 26, 2012 at 06:13 PM
So cute! Love the colors, fun & bright!
Posted by: Teresa | November 29, 2012 at 10:54 AM