Halloween Gift Card Holder

Hi! I think I'm working backwards. After a bunch of Christmas projects, I thought I'd better get onto Halloween. And really what pushed me to start was TGF's Farm Fresh Friday Halloween challenge. I thought I'd also play along with Crazy 4 Challenges C4C106--Halloween projects and Simon Says Stamp--use dies or punches.

I thought I'd make a little haunted house for Halloween. I used TGF's Spooktacular set (rubber version). It's now available in digi form. I used Magnolia's Tilda lace die for the roof, Martha Stewart's scary fence punch, My Favorite Things grass die, and Spellbinders' rectangle dies for the windows and door (which got hidden by the witch). I distressed the edges with my scissors and sponged some white over the house.

Here's a little close up.

The house opens up from the roof end to reveal a treat! A gift card! It's held closed with some velcro. More trick or treaters from TGF's Spooktacular set. I embossed some spider webs using Tim Holtz's embossing folder and sponged them in white. The sentiments on the web are from the same TGF set. The letters for Boo! were die cut using my Sizzlit alphabet die. I'm not sure what it's called.

Here's a little close up of where the gift card goes. You can see the spider sticker too. I cut a small slit with one of the Spellbinders rectangle dies. This house was made using the whole length of an 8.5 by 11 inch piece of cardstock. The widest part of the roof measures 6 inches.

I thought this would be a cute way to give a gift card to one of my kids' teachers for Halloween. Adults need treats too, especially teachers!

Thanks for reading and hope you're having a great weekend!

Comments

Mephisto said…

WOW, really fab creation.
Thanks for joining us at SimonSaysStamps this week.

Domi

September 25, 2011 at 12:19 AM

Jo Nevill said…

Oh wow, what a fabby idea. Love it !

Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Challenge this week.

Hugs,

Jo x

September 25, 2011 at 1:22 AM

Cheryl said…

Adorable house gift card holder! Hmmm, makes me want to get the digis....

September 25, 2011 at 6:32 AM

Lorraine said…

Cool idea, Eva! Love the house gift card holder! And eeek - little cutie pie Halloween images!

September 26, 2011 at 9:40 AM

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one of the dies from MFT's gift card dies.

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story

crafting this and that

Search This Blog