Surprise your friends with this fun gift pocket idea

Hi fellow crafters! Today I am going to take a break from my Christmas Gift Countdown (don't worry I will be back tomorrow for a Cyber Monday BONUS offer!) to bring you a super easy and really fun Gift Card Pocket idea. I will be using my Poinsettia Petals and Eden's Garden stamp sets, and the beautiful Heartwarming Hugs designer series paper:

The Heartwarming Hugs paper has perfect patterns for packaging or cards in traditional Christmas colors. This high-quality printed paper is excellent scrapbook paper, card making paper, and more. The pack includes various tiny patterns of plaid, stripes, dots, and more. It’s a great choice for Christmas cards and projects. This papercrafting staple is great for scrapbook paper, card making paper, and more! Coordinating colors are: Mossy Meadow, Pear Pizzazz, Real Red and Whisper White.

You have already seen that I often use the fabulous Poinsettia Petals stamp set and coordinating dies. See another project here.

And I have shared several projects using the beautiful Eden's Garden Collection, here's one of my faves, showing you how to make a Double Flap fun fold idea.

What a shock to get the new Mini Catalog in the mail this week and realize that the Ever Eden designer series paper and Cotton paper are not in the new catalog. This means you need to purchase it now - before it is gone for good.

So on to today's project - this super easy gift card holder. Of course this project doesn't have to be a gift card holder, you can simply make it a lovely Christmas card with a holiday message instead of attaching a gift card.

Here's my Heartwarming Hugs Gift card holder:

And a photo of the gift card holder 'unpacked':

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Poinsettia Petals (158251); Eden's Garden (157823)
Inks: Cherry Cobbler Classic Stamp Pad (147083)
Paper: Mossy Meadow stock (155574); Cherry Cobbler card stock (102482); Basic White card stock (159276); Heartwarming Hugs 12x12 Designer Series Paper (153492)
Other: Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine (149653); Layering Circle Dies (151770); White 1/4" Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon (151326); Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (104108); Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755), Stampin' Daubers (133733); Layering Circles Dies (151770); Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels (146924)

Measurements:

Mossy Meadow: 9 ½”x 4 ¼” scored at 5 ½”; 2 3/4" square; (2) 1/4" x 3 3/4"; 1" x 3 7/8"
Cherry Cobbler: 4”x 3 ¾”; 2 1/2" square; 4 ¼”x 1 ½”
Basic White: 3 3/4" x 2 1/8"; 2 1/4" square; 3/4" x 3 7/8"
Heartwarming Hugs 12x12 Designer Series Paper: 1 ½”x 4” pattern one; 3 7/8”x 3 5/8” pattern two
White Ribbon: 12"

Instructions:

Adhere Real Red card stock to Evening Evergreen card base with the fold at the bottom. Adhere greenery Designer Series Paper to Real Red Card stock. Adhere brick Designer Series Paper to top portion of inside of card base. Tie Real Red Ribbon around entire card base to create a pocket for gift card.
Stamp “to/from” on Basic white card stock with Real Red Classic ink pad. Adhere to Evening Evergreen strip.
Cut Circle from Basic White, Evening Evergreen and Real Red card stock. Stamp “jingle all the way” with Real Red ink. Adhere Basic White Circle to Evening Evergreen Circle to Real Red Cirlce. Adhere to end of tag with Dimensionals.
Slide Gift Card Holder tag into pocket.

Here's my video tutorial. Be sure to watch all the way through for my bonus tips and design ideas.