Aaaaack! Not a decent card for Father's Day left in the card isle.....time to drop back and punt! I haven't made a card in eons....I had no idea what to do. I don't even have many masculine stamps in my huge & currently collecting dust collection. Well, they're not really collecting dust. They're in a closed cabinet. But you get the idea. I wanted to make a card to accomodate a gift card too. So I sat and stewed on and off for most of the day...pathetic....then it came to me at about 8 PM.
I used this template that I took from a make-n-take at a crop ( It was an envelope mini book). I had the sudden brainstorm to make a template from the last pre-cut envelope shape just before I folded it and taped it together. ((Whew!)) Go me!
So it took a couple of tries before I got a decent envelope. Thinner cardstock is better than thicker, so I went from a MME patterned paper to a Bazzil kraft card stock. A little stippling, stamping and embellies and I came up with this
I made a card with corner slits for the gift card just hand wrote the "sentiment"...if you want to call it that! I know....again, pathetic, but believe me it's not about the card, but rather what's in the card!
Right? It's totally about what's in the card!
Here's a peek at the back so you can see how it folds.
Easy peasy!
Hope everyone enjoys their Father's Day!
Thanks for stopping by!
You pulled it off!!! :) Looks great!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 21, 2009 at 06:14 PM
I'm sure he is going to love it! Happy father's day!
Posted by: Danielle (vtpuggirl) | June 21, 2009 at 07:09 PM
It looks great. I wish I'd seen this yesterday. I completely forgot to make a card. I like the look btw.
Posted by: Sandie | June 22, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Great project and what a great way to wrap a gift card.
Posted by: Lisa @celebrate CREATIVITY | June 26, 2009 at 05:07 PM