Clearly iStamp: Tuesday Tutorial -- Earth Day Gift Card Holder

April 10, 2012

Tuesday Tutorial -- Earth Day Gift Card Holder

It's Cassie here to bring you the latest Tuesday Tutorial! Okay, so my tutorial isn't actually Earth Day themed, but the general idea is to reuse :) Are you ready for this?!. . .I reused a toilet paper roll and made a gift card holder, haha! Do you want to try? Go grab a few supplies:

Stamps: Windowbox Wishes Color Digital

Paper: cream cardstock (or you could use plain old computer paper for your dp if you wanted something light weight)

Accessories: toilet paper roll, 1/4" Scor-tape, hole punches, paper cutter, bone folder, Yellow Twine

Start by printing out your paper and your image using the Windowbox Wishes Color Digital images as it's shown above.

Take your toilet paper roll and flatten it out using a bone folder.

Meaure your roll so that you know how big to cut your paper. I'll give you the measurements for my roll.

Mine measured 2 5/8" x 4".

Taking those dimensions I cut these 2 pieces from my digital paper that I printed. (Those digital papers and precolored digital images can make it so easy to make quick gifts! Go HERE for all of the collections in the store.)

I put some Scor-tape on the edge of my roll and attached my 2 5/8" x 4 1/4" piece of designer paper. If you look at the next picture, you'll see that my roll already has a half moon cut out of it. You can try to do that before attaching your paper with a punch (although mine was not strong enough). I got mine started with my punch and cut the rest out with scissors before attaching any of the paper.

As you can see, after I attached that piece of paper I flipped it out and turned it over. I then placed my other piece of dp that measured 4" x 3/18" as shown above.

Attach that sheet of dp, and then flip the other piece over.

Now you can cut out our half moons on your dp using scissors or your punch (if it's strong enough). You now have a very heavy duty gift card holder.

Punch holes close the the half moon where you will attach your twine.

Take your precolored image and attach it as a tag to your gift card holder.

There you have it! . . .you recycled and now you have a gift to give! I would love to see your variations of this or if you have questions about this tutorial send me an email: cassandratrask@yahoo.com.