Gift Card Holders

So yesterday I spent a couple of hours making up these lovely little Gift Card holders for the market stall I'm hoping to run next month.

I made mostly "New Baby" holders as the market is a Mums and Bubs market, but I did do a few Birthday ones and I think I'll also make a couple of plain ones so people can use them for any occasion.

They were so quick and easy to make and I used mostly scraps of patterned paper and cardstock. I just hope the people at the market like them as much as I do!!

Have fun,
Chlo

Ingredients

Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Pool Party, Bashful Blue, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Peach Parfit and Whisper White - Stampin' Up
DSP: Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Big Top Birthday and Spice Cake - Stampin' Up
Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes and Punch Bunch - Stampin' Up
Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Pool Party, Bashful Blue, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Peach Parfit and Whisper White - Stampin' Up
Other: Bakers twine.

First of Many...

Today is the day I made my first Challenge card!!!! I know, it's a pretty big milestone. I had been surfing the web this weekend looking for a challenge that took my fancy and I noticed that alot of them are American and even though they allow everybody to enter, only US shipping address win prizes. So I decided I wanted to enter an Australian Challenge first.... Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!!

I found this great blog called Just Add Ink which is not only an Aussie site, but the challenge this week is a colour challenge, using some of the colours I've been hoping to play with. This is the photo that we are too be inspired by:

Tiffanys no less. And the colours are Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Melon Mambo and Lucky Limeade. The design team have come up with some beautiful interpretations, well worth popping over to take a look!!!

So this is MY design:

I decide to be inspired by the colour and of course the bling. I have a few Christmas Birthdays coming up soon and I really like this stamp from Stampin' Up's Punch Bunch. I don't usually leave so much white card and I was very tempted to "pretty it up" but this is a challenge after all!!!

Hugs and Merry Christmas,
Chlo

Ingredients

Cardstock: Whisper white, Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Lucky Limeade - Stampin' UP.
Ink: Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Lucky Limeade - Stampin' Up
Stamps: Punch Bunch - Stampin' Up
Other: Rhinestones - Kaisercraft

Note Card Box

Wow, I can't believe it's been over a week since I last posted. I've been so busy organising Christmas cards, Teachers Presents and wrapping the kids toys. I suppose that's Christmas for you!!

In between all of my jobs I managed to find time to have a look through some of my regular blog haunts and I came across this beautiful little box that holds note cards on Di Gibbs blog Stamping with Di. I want to give a big shout out to Di. She always has something new to look at everyday and I love visiting for inspiration!!

So I decided that I would have a go and this is what I came up with. This is the box closed:

The inside with the cards in their pockets:

And these are the three cards that are inside. I actually did two of each design so it holds six all together.

I have to admit, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and came out better then I imagined. I think it would have gone easier if my 4 year old daughter didn't want to "help" mummy lol.

Hugs and Merry Christmas,
Chlo

Ingredients

Cardstock: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Regal Rose - Stampin' Up
Paper: Regal Rose and Rich Razzleberry DSP - Stampin' Up
Ink: Regal Rose, Rich Razzleberry, Chocolate Chip - Stampin' Up
Stamps: Punch Bunch - Stampin' Up
Other: 1-3/4 scallop punch, Designer Label punch, Scallop Border punch - Stampin' Up, Ribbon and Pearls - Kaisercraft. Brads and twine.