I’m so happy to have one of my dear friends, Andi, on the blog today to share some of her beautiful holiday card creations! Enter to win what she’s made at the end of the post!
I’m really excited to take part in Jana’s Bookish Little Christmas. For those of you that don’t know me I’m Andi from the book blog Andi’s ABCs. But besides book blogging I also make handmade cards and some other paper crafts. I sell them in my Etsy shop, Cards by Andrea S.. When I signed up for Jana’s Bookish Little Christmas I knew I was going to craft a few items starting with some gift card holders, my new favorite thing to make. I went to my supplies and pulled some stuff out.
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I grabbed my new Glitter Paper from The Stamp Market and decided to work with that and with the Bag and Tag die set. The great thing about the Bag and Tag die set if you can make one bag that is the perfect size for gift card and another bag that can be whatever size you want. Once the base was decided I grabbed my favorite Altenew ink in Crimson and the candy cane stamp from the No Peeking stamp and die set.
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Taking the glitter paper I die cut the bags and used double sided tape to hold seal the sides securely. When the bags were complete I set them aside and grabbed my Misti Stamping tool and stamped two candy canes. Using my mini die cutting machine and matching die I cut the candy canes into tags.
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With the bags and candy canes done I searched my stash and found some red snowflakes I had previously cut. Grabbing two clothes pins, one with an embellishment, I simply attached the the two tags to the bags. Once again looking in my stash of previously made items I found two tags to include in the larger bag.
Then it was time to move to the cards:
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I decided to keep the cards pretty simple by within the same theme. Using the Altenew ink I grabbed a small candy cane stamp set. I stamped the message in the corner and used one of the candy canes and created a pattern surrounding the sentiment. Creating a random pattern is the easiest way to make a simple card and I was able to quickly do this. And that is all there is to it.
And there you have it, two gift card holders, two tags, and two holiday cards. And what is the best parr about that? Well they are all up for grabs for you to win. One winner (US only) will receive all of the items I made and a code to save in my Etsy shop should you want to order something in the future.
Thank you so much Jana for having me! It was a lot of fun. I hope everyone has a Happy Bookish Little Christmas!
(Header by Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash)
I love the die cut candy canes and snowflakes!
I admire Andi’s art and especially love this design: Red Nose Deer.
Both the cards and the gift cards holders are just darling. I love making handmade cards and papercrafts too. Pinned.
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These are so cute!! I love the silver gift card holders – very fun way to give someone a gift card. From her Etsy shop, I also really love the gift card gift bag. Never seen anything like it!
My mother in law is super into stamping and card making, but mine just never seem to turn out right! These are so adorable, and I love that random candy cane pattern.
Loving the gift card gift bag! It’s too cute!!
These are awesome! I wish I had the creativity to do stuff like this. Or knew far enough in advance to maybe purchase from awesome people who already make them. Thanks for sharing this!