Gift card holder tutorial

I recently saw one of these gift card holders made by a friend of mine. I thought I would try to make my own and give you some instructions too!

1. Cut a 4 x 12 inch piece of paper and score it at the 3", 4", 5", 6", 7", and 10" marks as pictured.

2. Fold the paper as pictured and staple the middle section together close to the edge. Sorry for the bad picture... Hope you can see what I am talking about... Here you can also corner round the edges to have a more finished look. Cut two pieces of paper (1 x 4") if you wish to tape over the staples.

3. Fold up and decorate as desired. I used the Echo Park Summer Days kit for mine. It goes perfectly with the Cold Stone gift card!

4. I then used some sticky velcro to keep it closed. You could also just use sticker or some tape.

5. Slip the gift card into the slot and you are done! So fun!

Summer Day layout

I did this layout using the Echo Park "Summer Days" collection. It really made my pictures pop with all the fun colors that they offer in this set! I love all the embellishments from the flowers, the trees, and yes... even the birds! (If you know me, I am NOT a fan of birds, but these are cute!)

A Walk in the Park card

This is a card I made using "A walk in the Park" collection by Echo Park. I absolutely love the colors in this collection and all the fun prints! The beautiful flower prints, the butterflies, I love it all!

Bo Bunny card

Bo Bunny Flutter Butter patterned paper and cut out

Jewels

Brown Zig pen

Brown Cardstock strip

Echo Park Guest Designer

I am so excited! I entered a contest to be featured as a guest designer for my new favorite scrapbook paper company, Echo Park...... and I made it! I was so excited to see my project chosen! Go here to check it out: http://echoparkpaper.blogspot.com/2010/12/hi-my-name-is-angela-alexander.html

Echo Park JOY project

So, I am really in love with this new paper company called Echo Park! Their paper is fabulous! It comes in paper packs where everything coordinates! They include stickers too! I have been hoarding this Christmas paper trying to decide on a cute project to make, when my best friend gave me this idea... Thank you Liz! I simply painted the wood blocks, modge podged the paper on, painted and chalked the letters, hot glued the letters on and then embellished with stickers and ribbon. Such a fun holiday project and I have the perfect spot to display them!

Gratitude craft

My friends know that I don't like to share pictures of my projects because I don't think they are that great, but I really liked how this one turned out and so I thought I would be brave and post it. I just made a leaf stencil, cut them out (all from scrap paper), inked the edges, cut out the trunk, Cricut cut out the letters, glued everything down, and tada! All done! You can't tell, but it is an 11x14 size completed. Oh, and I love that the colors match my house perfectly! (Sorry for my reflection in the glass!)