Adventurebound...

The latest challenge at Just Add Ink is to create a Gift Card Holder.

I have used the passbook style to create my Gift Card Holder (I have put the measurements and instructions at the bottom of this post).  The theme I have gone with is journey, which I thought would be perfect if you were wanting to give a little something to someone special in your life who is off on a great adventure (lucky them).  Instead of a gift card you could slip some cash into the little pocket for their trip.

When I went searching for just the right stamps I was amazed at how many stamps there are in various sets that suited the journey theme.  They are "Enjoy the Little Things", "Going Global", "Traveler", "Remember This" and "Sky Is the Limit".  The heading "Adventurebound" was created using the Project Life "Remember This" stamps set and the Project Life Cards and Labels Framelits.

I created a little pocket on the inside for a gift card (or money).   The Designer Series Paper that I have used is from the "Going Places" Designer Series Paper Stack, it coordinated perfectly with the journey theme.

The last page has a small panel where you can write your message to the lucky adventurer.

How to make the Passport Style Card

Cut a piece of cardstock 14.8cm x 18.5cm - Score on the long edge at 8cm, turn and score on the short edge at 5cm to the 8cm scoreline that you just created.  Cut away the top small rectangle that you just created to form the front and back of the card.

Cut a piece of cardstock 15cm x 12cm -  Score on the long edge at 5cm, this creates a 5cm strip that you adhere to the inside left margin of the back page thus creating the middle page (make sure you line the bottom of the pages up).  The pages are cover with Designer Series Paper which covers the join.

BEFORE JOINING IT ALL TOGETHER MAKE SURE THAT YOU ROUND THE CORNERS.

To cover the pages you will need to cut some Designer Series Paper:

1 piece at 10cm x 14.3cm

2 pieces at 9.5cm x 11.5cm

2 pieces at 7.5cm x 9.3cm

1 piece at 7.5cm x 5cm (for gift card pocket)

Make sure that you round the corners of the Designer Series Paper before you stick it down.

Decorate as you like.

If you have any trouble just CONTACT ME.

Thank you for visiting.

Carolyn

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Vintage Typeset

I have been getting back into scrapbooking (my first love before I got into card making).  I made these 3 picture frames to hang on my wall, and as the photographs are of my grand parents and great grand mother and great uncle I wanted to give the frames a vintage feel.


I purchased the 6" x 6" scrapbooking frames from Spotlight.  They are raw wood so I made a distress wash of Baked Brown Sugar with 5 drops of reinker with a little water to distress them with.  Once this colour was dried I found is was not quite the colour that I was after, so I made another distress wash with Early Espresso and painted this over the Baked Brown Sugar.  This is the colour that I was happy with for my frames, it ended up like a Walnut Stain finish.


I used the Typeset Specialty DSP to cover all the frames.


For the first frame I randomly sponged on some Lost Lagoon and then stamped the leaf stamp from the Kinda Electic stamps set in Baked Brown Sugar.  All the edges were inked with Baked Brown Sugar.

For the second frame I sponged Lost Lagoon on a piece of Basic Black Neutrals Paper Stack DSP for the background.  Again all the edges were inked with Baked Brown Sugar.

For the third frame I stamped butterflies from the Papillion Potpourri stamp set in Baked Brown Sugar over the Typeset DSP.  The background piece had the leaf stamp from the Kinda Eclectic stamp set stamped randomly with Lost Lagoon.



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