Thank You Gift Bag and Card Holder

I've been on a roll with these gift card holders. A coworker of mine has been organizing our weekly summer happy hours after work. Last night was our final event and we (okay so mostly me) wanted to give her a small token of our appreciation. I stopped by Starbucks and picked her up a tumbler and a gift card.

Now since she works over at EPA, it was only fitting that I repurpose a previously used Starbucks bag to put her gift in. Her favorite color is blue, so this is what I came up with:

The pattern paper is from the DCWV Green Tea stack. I LOVE that stack. The blue and green is just some solid cardstock I've had forever that I'm trying to use up. I cut the "Thank You" and its shadow from New Arrivals at 3 inches. The diamond on the gift card holder is just a 2 inch square that I cut with my trimmer. I cut the mat behind the words from Elegant Edges at 6 inches.

These gift card holders come together so quickly, I'm going to sit down and make ALL KINDS of them. Birthday, baby, graduation, etc. The possibilities are endless. I promised that I would give you the dimensions for my gift card holder so here they are!

I cut a piece of cardstock at 3.5 by 8. Then scored at 2 1/8 and 5 3/4. I fold and secure the edges of the 2 1/8 side to make a pocket. For the pattern paper I just remeasured each front flap and took 1/8 inch off the total. Sorry, I forgot to write that down...I'll do an update later today.

I had been using velcro to secure the flap, but for this one I used a ribbon. I secured it down before I put the pattern down.

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Miss A's School Project

Hi Everyone! Man, yesterday was a super day for me. I was nonstop from about 8:30 in the morning until around 9pm. Miss A has a school project due this week on recycling. After debating for about a week on what to exactly do, her dad and her settled on a "scrapbook" about recycling.

To fit the project, I decided to give a paper album a chance. So I did some research on YouTube for a tutorial. Here's a picture of the cover:

I have no idea why it won't rotate

Each page is dedicated to a different type of recyclable item: paper, metal, glass, plastic, and organic. I let her choose papers from my stash and helped her to adhere them to each page. We finished it off by adding to clasps to the front (hey, they're metal) and a little ribbon. If she doesn't get an 'A', I'll be shocked!

We used George and Basic Shapes for the titles. The front cover is cut at 1.25 inches, the inside titles are cut at 1 and 0.75 inch.

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