Birthday Gift Card Holder.

Morning, Autumn is on the way isn't it :/  It will soon be half term and I can't wait, I really need the break from everything.
Anyway!  does this look familiar?  A little while ago I shared a Christmas Gift card, seen here and while I was making it I was thinking that it would also be a very useful design for those awkward teenage birthdays.  My little cousin will be 15 next week and as I usually send him a gift card I thought I would dress it up a little this year. 

Baby Blossoms

A pretty birthday card today.  The stamp set is Baby Blossoms from the summer mini, a two step stamp set and it is so pretty.  I used marker pens from the subtles series to ink up the stamps, a light colour for the base layer of each flower and then a toning darker colour for the detail.  Once  all the flowers and leaves were in place I used the textured embossing folder in the big shot.  This folder is great, it makes your paper look and feel like a piece of fabric.  I matted onto Baja breeze and then onto the card base of rose red.  I also used rose red ink for the greeting (sincere salutations stamp set) and the frame which I then 3d mounted over the top of an organza ribbon sash.

Gift card holder

Day 4:  Do you have teenagers to buy for at Christmas?  I do and it can be really difficult to find them something suitable.  I first made something very similar to this with my lovely upline Amanda and it is just so perfect to jazz up those boring gift voucher cards that I thought I would share it with the ladies at my own class.
It is made using the bigshot and the topnote die btu making it as a folded card.  The Jolly Holiday designer paper makes the pocket on the front for the gift card to slide into and then it is decorated with a fower from the 5 petal punch. some ribbon and a little bling.  The greeting is again from Sincere Salutations

Variation on a theme

Day 3 : this is very similar to a card I have shown you before.  I love the Sail Away image and stamped in white onto a card of crumb cake and marina mist works perfectly.  The sentiment is stamped on a blue banner in both ink colours and is from the Sincere Salutations stamp set.

Butterfly Scallops

Day two of the cards from the All Occasions class.  The card is CASE'd from a swap I received a while ago at a team training day but this is a colour combination I haven't tried before, you have to love the Color Coach it gives you some great ideas and pushes you out of your comfort zone a little with some great combinations.  The colours are Wild wasabi for the card base, Perfect plum for the scallops and the greeting and So Saffron for the butterfly image and the mat.  The background stamp is en Francais, the image is from Strength and Hope and the greeting from Sincere salutations, I love that font!