Polar Bear Gift Card Holder - Stampin' Up! Christmas Friends

 If you give out a lot of gift cards for the holidays then you'll definitely want to have a gift card holder design to wow because even they deserved to be jazzed up!  Every year I search for a new design to teach at my classes and this year's couldn't be any easier!  It only takes 2 scores!  We used the Christmas Friends bundle for this design but any Christmas stamp set would work or swap out Christmas for a birthday theme!

  This is the front and it starts with just a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card base.  So with one piece of 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock you can get 4 bases.  To add a bit of weight and some interest I added another slightly smaller piece of Cherry Cobbler embossed with the Forever Plaid embossing folder.

Cut a piece of Pool Party to 4 1/4" x 9 3/4" (you can get 2 of these pieces per one 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock).  Score at 3 1/4" and 6 1/2" to make your accordion style fold.  2  4" x 3" Basic White panels are used for the first two parts.  The outside one is stamped with the Falling Snow background stamp.  We stamped and colored and cut the bear and added him to the panel with dimensionals.  A little garland is cut with Old Olive cardstock and Festive Glimmer Paper in Cherry Cobbler.  The two piece of the garland are adhered together with mini dimensionals to make that element stand out a bit.  The sentiment is stamped and punched out and is layered with a punched circle of more Festive Glimmer paper.

  To make the gift card pocked we used a piece of Season of Elegance DSP cut to 4" x 2".  Using the circle punch we punched a half circle right in the middle to give a little thumb hole to slide the g.c. in and out.  Remember when you're adhering this piece to only apply your adhesive on the sides and bottom leaving the top edge open.  A gift card holder isn't much use if you glue down the pocket!

    I hope you'll give this design a try and get yourself ready for the gift(card) giving season!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Christmas Friends, Falling Snow

Ink: Pool Party, Pebbled Path

Blends: Cherry Cobbler light & dark, Old Olive light & dark, Pool Party light

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Basic White, Old Olive, Pool Party, Season of Elegance Specialty DSP, Festive Glimmer paper

Accessories: Forever Plaid embossing folder, circle punches (or dies), Christmas Friends dies, dimensionals, scoring board/blade