craftykarendesigns: Penguin Gift Card Holder - Stamping With Friends Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,

For this blog hop, I am CASEing a project from the lovely Wendy Cranford. I don't have the same stamp sets and papers that she used so I have used the idea and put it with the Penguin and the In-Colour dsp instead, I've also tweaked the measurements. You can see Wendy's original video on the link below:

Wendy Cranford

Materials

1 piece of thick white card 4 1/8" x 5 7/8", 1 piece 4 1/4" x 9"

1 piece of dsp 3 7/8" x 5 5/8", 1 piece 2 7/8" x 3", 1 piece 2 3/4" x 4"

Scraps of basic black and white for stamping, silver foil for the stars

Penguin Place stamp set

Framed & Festive stamp set

Memento Black ink

Pumpkin pie ink

Real red ink

Early espresso ink

Penguin Builder Punch

Starlit Punch

Trimmer

Simply Scored

Bone Folder

Multipurpose adhesive

Dimensionals

Instructions

On the long side score the longer piece of thick white at 3" and 6" and fold and burnish into a Z fold.

Adhere the largest piece of dsp to the large white base.

Stamp a sentiment on the 3rd section of the Z for the inside of the gift card, stamp a smaller sentiment on a scrap for the front.

Punch out the penguin outer body from the black card and then the inner body from white. Stamp eyes, red Rudolf nose and bow tie and feet on this and adhere to the black piece. Stamp the antlers using early espresso and fussy cut them out and add to the back of the head.

Use a die or a punch or something round to cut a piece from the smaller piece of dsp so that you can get access to the gift card easier (see picture) and add a very thin bead of glue around the bottom 3 sides of this piece and adhere to the middle section of the Z.

Add the remaining dsp to the front section of the Z and adhere the whole thing to the centre of the large mat (see picture above).

Add the penguin and the sentiment and then punch out some tiny stars and add to finish it off.

I hope you like my cute gift card holder, don't forget to check out Wendy's original one using the Scottie Dog.

Please pop over and see what everyone else has been making too.

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Happy Crafting,

Karen

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