Gift Card Package

My friend Barb recently showed me how to make the coolest holder for a candy bar. I altered her template somewhat to make it large enough to hold a gift card. I wanted to give my brother and his wife a set of gift cards for an evening out -- one for a restaurant (Red Lobster), one for dessert (ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery), one for coffee at Starbuck's, and then one for entertainment (a Blockbuster gift card) so they could rent a movie or two.


Once I created the foldover holder I simply punched the half circle at top. I stamped the front of each one of them with the Baroque background stamp by Stampin Up. I used my scallop punch and then added the little circle greeting from Stampin Up inside that. On each one I hand wrote on a little banner whether it was for dinner, dessert, coffee or entertainment.

Here are the four of them I created in matching colors of brown, light and navy blue.

I then created a little holder for them by scrounging around in my kitchen cabinets and finding an almost empty Splenda box which I cut down a bit and wrapped in this blue and red flowered paper from Making Memories. I added the red scalloped border from cardstock and then also created an oval frame (Hero Arts) to hold the sentiment "For You." I placed the whole package in a cellophane bag and added a ribbon to tie it. All in all, it was a nice way to give a bunch of gift cards.