Gift Card Holder

Sometime I don't know what to get people, so I buy them a gift card to a store they love so they can pick something out themselves, or in the case of Jon's sister, she asked for gift cards so she could redecorate her house. Rather than just throw a gift card into a card, I decided to make a card to hold her gift card. I found a tutorial for this card on Youtube. I'll include a link at the end of this post!

Here's a photo of the inside of the card (I made this after I sent her card to her so I didn't have a card to put into it). The gift card goes under the ribbon on the middle rectangle. The gift card is attached with tape just to ensure it stays, and the sentiment goes on the white rectangle on the bottom. 

Here's what it looks like when it's all tied up in a pretty bow! So pretty!

I'm obviously a terrible bow tier, but otherwise it turned out really nicely.

Here's a close up, I inked the edges of the floral paper before I adhered it to the pink paper.

Here's the side view of the card. Aside from the bow, the card isn't any thicker than a normal card.

This card is so simple to make (after you try it once). I'm probably going to make it a lot if I have gift cards to give to people. 

Incase the video above doesn't work, here's a link to the Youtube Tutorial.

Have a wonderful day!

-Alex

Congrats On Your Baby!

I love when people have babies, they're so adorable! Our renter (who also works for Jon's parents) recently headed back to the Philippines for the birth of his and his wife's baby. Everyone at work was giving money to buy some small things for him to take back for the baby, so Jon asked if I could make a card to go with all of it as well.

No one told me what they were having, so I wanted to make it as gender neutral as possible, without being boring and monotone. I knew I wanted to use the polka-dot paper for sure because it matched all the colours I wanted to use, and opened up the possibility of using other colours.

I made the card white, then layered the green paper on top, and the polka-dot paper on top of that. I rounded the corners of the gaga baby tag, and used foam squares to adhere it.

I stamped congratulations with sage green ink, and cut it out of the white paper I stamped it on. I used yellow washitape and another piece of white paper to create the banner in the back, and I used my Martha Steward doily border punch on the bottom of the green paper. I didn't attach the bottom of the yellow banner, I thought about curling the ends a bit, but decided it looked fine.

Here's a side view of the card. The gaga baby tag and congratulations are adhered using foam squares. You can also see my TV calendar in the back, my empty cup of tea from work, and my water. ;)

The tag and the polka-dot paper came from an old K&Company baby paper stack I found when I was unpacking. I almost forgot I had it. It was one of my first paper stacks.

It feels so good to be back making cards for all of you. If any of you are actually still there...

Have a wonderful day!

-Alex

Washitape Wednesday

I've missed this post over the last few weeks. I used to get so excited for Wednesdays simply because they allowed me to pull things out of my hat and get creative with my washitape.

As stated in my last Washitape Wednesday post, I mentioned the instagram giveaway that I held back in August. Today I'm sharing the second of four cards I made to congratulate all my lovely winners.

I picked colours from the floral tape, and added the green flower to break up the pink and white of the banner piece. I love the simple elegance of this card, can't wait for the winner to receive it and all the goodies I'm sending her way as well!

Here's a slightly blurry close up of the tapes I used. The light pink really did come from that tape! Plus I love a good floral patterned tape.

I used a plan silver brad to secure the flower, and foam squares so adhere the striped piece to the card.

I inked the edge of the congratulations piece with green ink to match the flower. The congratulations stamp is by Martha Stewart.

Here's a side view of the card and a peak at my messy desk!

Hope you all have a wonderful Washitape Wednesday! Don't forget to share your washitape projects with Tiffany over at Crafting a Fairytale.

-Alex

Happy Crafty Mail

I'm so excited! I haven't been to Michael's since August and I'm going crazy. I mean, I don't really NEED any craft supplies, but because I've bought new items roughly once a month for so long, it's unusual for me to have not bought anything in so long.

At the start of October I couldn't take it any more. I caved and bought Washitape from Pick Your Plum. Then Peachy Cheap and Scrapbook Daily Deals had grab boxes for reasonable prices, and I bought one from each of them (with shipping it came to $100 for both). Now I'll share what I got, I can't remember which grab box came from which site, but because they run from the same place, I got some duplicate items in them.

First up, I'm sharing the bright and fun washitape from Pick Your Plum. They fit nicely with the rest of my growing washitape collection!

Next up we have the stamps I ordered from Peachy Cheap. I love this first set, mostly because of the date stamp. I'm also in love with the three stamps at the bottom.

I love the quote at the top of this set. "I love you today, tomorrow & forever". It's so sweet!These will definitely be used for my Project Life (when I get it started).

I love t he date stamp on this one too! I plan ot use it for my letters (and Project Life of course). I'm also a huge fan of the glasses.

My favourite on this set are the phone, and the moustache. The only thing I love as much as owls, are moustaches. So excited to finally have one moustache stamp.

Now we get into the boxes I got! So excited to share this all with you!

First up, I got two packages of these adorable journalling cards. 

Here's the front side of each card.

Here's the backside of each card.

I also got these stamps. I'd debated picking them up a couple months back, but decided against it, now I have them anyway! Yay!

This is a terribly blurry picture, but they're 7Gypsies tag pockets. They're the cutest!

I'm not usually a fan of rub ons, but I love these!

I wish they would have sent 12 months, or at least 6 months in order, but instead I have three months, and a few random words.

I got some embelishments from Glitz design, My Mind's Eye, Sweet Surrender and Teresa Collins

I got some kraft paper heart stickers from Studio Calico.

Here's a close up of the hearts.

These key die cuts are supposed to be sticky on the back, but most of them weren't even attached to the sheet they came on. But they're super pretty!

Glitz design Peek-A-Boos, and Whatnots. I love Glitz products, they're beautiful. 

This vintage collage pack. Everything is so pretty. 

Here's page one.

Page two.

Page three.

I also got this package of paper, die cuts and stickers from Crate Paper.

This is the prettiest bunting I've ever seen. It's 5th & Frolic Bunting by Dear Lizzy. I love the 5th & Frolic Project Life edition, so I'm super excited about this.

These are like the keys, and like the keys they didn't stick to the sheet.

I'm in love with this tape. I got two sets (which I'm pumped about!). It's called Stationery Tape. It's transparent, and comes in all the colours pictured above.

I love the gem brads in the top right. I also got a package of Petaloo flowers, and My Mind's Eye enamel dots from the My Girl collection.

I love the skeleton ribbon! I don't usually do Halloween crafts, but I'm excited about the skeleton ribbon, I'm sure I'll find something to use it for. On the right are Crate Paper Sew Brads. Love them!

I got two of these Halloween Journals, I might do a giveaway, or swap them with penpals who like Halloween things!

I got Subway Accents thickers. Here's the front side.

And here's the back side of the thickers.

Pink Paislee Luxe Hearts. It's so metallic and shiny!

Two packages of Art C mixed fibres. The purple package has cord, wire, and suede. The blue package has wire and two suede. On the right is yellow lace tape.

I also got a second set of paper, die cuts and stickers from crate paper.

I also received some lovely Glitz Design Paper Layers, and Melody Ross cards.

Here's what the Melody Ross cards look like!

There you have my crafty haul! I can't wait to use some of these things, and share the ones I won't use with friends. 

Have a wonderful day!

-Alex

Welcome Back!

My apologies for having to take time off from blogging for a while. Sometimes life just gets in the way and you have to sacrifice things for a little while. I'm happy to inform all of you that we're moved into the house, and we love it here. Still trying to get everything unpacked and organized a little better, but we're happy to be living together now.

I'll be sharing all the before/after photos sometime after the holidays. I'll try and do everything by room since we changed a little in all of the rooms, with the exception of one of the basement bedrooms. It currently has our renter staying in it, and I'd hate to invade his space, but if he allows, I'll share photos of what he's done with his space.

I'm slowly getting settled into my new craftroom, and I can't wait to share it with all of you. I currently have a few boxes to unpack and some things I need to find places for, but once it's finished, I'm hoping that it'll be something I'm proud to share with all of you.

Getting things organized and the blog back up has taken longer than I anticipated it would. I was hoping to do a series of holiday projects through November/December, but given that it's already mid November, I don't think I'll be able to. Hopefully next year I'll be more organized that I can do a month of holiday posts.

Hope you have a wonderful day loves, and thanks for sticking around during this stressfully busy time in my life. I appreciate it.

-Alex