Christmas Gift Card Holders (or just cash!)

So I was playing around with some different papers and two different styles of card holders. What I came up with is pretty simple. The first card  is patterned after the mens shirt card and displays the gift card on the front, incorporating the card into the design element. The second card is a pretty landscape with a shallow pocket inside to put a gift card or cash too. (cash works for me)
          
I am loving the landscape card! How do you make your cards to hold store gift cards?

Fathers Day Cards 2012

Fathers Day 2012 is coming up quick now! Have you gotten your gifts or cards? How about making one this year? I can be easy or challenging to make a handmade card. Here are some ideas:

Shirt card holder: Aren’t these cute? 

A standard gift card fits right in the pocket and cute buttons add to the illusion of a real shirt! The color combinations are endless and other frills can be added at your discretion. Instead of a gift card you could put a little hankerchief folded into a cute point.
What do you think of the shirt cards?

Next we have the apron cards. This is pretty cute and is great for Dads.

These super cute apron cards are perfect for holding a gift card for Dad. These are all about 4.25×5.5″. They are available at stores here in Gresham, Oregon.

And finally here is a masculine card for any dad.

Mothers Day Cards For Stores

So now that Mother's Day is over and done with I thought I would show y'all the cards I made for local stores!

First: The pink and blue "MOM" paper with coordinating ribbon and inked "happy".  I just loved how these turned out!
Next:

 A pretty glittery "Mom" sentiment and hand cut flowers! Time consuming but I like how they look.
And finally:

 I did a bunch of these cards; no two were exactly alike, different papers. I really love the papers I used for these and the pretty butterflies are always a favorite!

Well, what do you think? I am going into the stores to find out how I did. Lets keep fingers crossed!

Magic Monday Layout- Nelson

Magic Monday Layout is a fun way to feature different layouts that I have made or just fall in love with.
This week is a layout I made with old photos of my grandparents. It's so much fun to look at old photos and work with them! Of course these pictures were taken far before I was born and it gives me a glimpse into life at a different time...



 The little cabin you see of the left page is the old bunkhouse that slept 9 people! They lived in that while they built the cabin up in Sumpter, Oregon. And the baby that my grandpa is holding is of course my mom!
I used a layout from the CTMH book "Imagine". The paper used is from the retired paper "Wings". While this is not my favorite paper pack, I love the almost neutral colors on the backs of the B&T papers and I DO love the butterflies!
Here is a photo of the complete layout:

 

 All that's left is to do some journaling! Oh yeah, I used photo corners for these pictures because they are old and if I want to scan them into my computer it'll be super easy! Happy Scrapping!!!

Magic Monday Layout- A Good Man

Magic Monday Layout is all about new and fun layouts that I see or have created that I love!
This week it's a layout I did featuring my dad. I got some old photos and put them on a great CTMH layout.

I am using some retired CTMH papers for my layout. Because I want to preserve the photos I am using photo corners instead of using adhesive to stick the photos down. Because I used photo corners, I can later scan the photos or make copies!

These old photos are not standard 4x6 photos so I had to improvise some with the layout of the pictures. I will add some journaling and then I will be done! Don't you just love how easy it can be to do a layout?

Hope you enjoyed this post. Leave a comment to let me know your thoughts.

Happy Scrapping!

Magic Monday Layout- A Lovely Lady

So I'm back from the land of the sick child! Today is Magic Monday layout day and I have a mostly done layout I just did. I am really loving it so far.
I got some great pictures of my mom when she was younger (and my age too) and decided to make a layout.

I used CTMH paper that's retired. Silhouette is one of my favorite papers! And I used a layout from the Originals book. I love that if I am feeling stumped or just don't want to think too hard about cutting paper, I can just open a CTMH book and browse through different layouts and find one that works for me. Super easy!

I still need to do some journaling and add some fun embellishments before I am finished. Also, because I used old original photos, I did not glue them down to the paper. I used photo corners to preserve the photo as much as possible. And if I ever want to scan them into my computer, I can just pop them out and back in!

Wasn't my mom a hottie! She is still a great little lady and I love her very much! Next week stay tuned for a layout featurning my daddy!

Magic Monday Layouts -- Week 9

Magic monday Layouts
This week I am back to scrapbook layouts that I love!
This layout was done using the CTMH paper Miracle. It was a special that they were doing and I couldn't resist the cute layouts.

This cute layout features my brother and his kids. I love the colors that are used. A nice subtle combo of blue and green and cream.
As an extra cool bonus I made the photos on the right side do a cool thing. See?

The photos are in "flip-flaps" to make even more spots for photos. I cut a slit in the 12x12 page protector and adhered the flip flaps onto the page through the slit. I could have just stuck the flip flaps onto the outside of the page protector and not cut at all. You can choose how you want to do that.
If you want to add photos to your layout without adding clutter to the look try adding flip-flaps from CTMH. They are pretty awesome!