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Stampin Up Trim Your Stocking Outside of the Box

Stampin Up Trim Your Stocking Outside of the Box is what we have for you today. We have a die that we figured out how to use it for something outside of the box..

I made what you would expect, a Christmas stocking, with the die set. As you can see, this die is a nice size. It is approximately 6″ in length.

After making the Christmas stocking, I then thought why not think outside of the box? We created A Breast Cancer Awareness Gift Card and thought you would want to check it out too! Breast Cancer Awareness Month is October and what better way than to bring awareness to Breast Cancer than to put together a gift card holder for a loved one that is battling this horrible disease?

Supplies Needed for the Stampin Up Trim Your Stocking Outside of the Box Project

A Creative Journey with Melissa Awareness Ribbon #3 – Ready for a Fight Stamp Set

Trim Your Stocking Thinlits Dies by Stampin’ Up!

Acrylic Block for stamping

Adhesive

Black Memento Ink

Pink Ink

White card stock

Pink Paper (I used suede paper)

Place the awareness ribbon stamps on your stamp block. Ink your stamp block with pink ink and stamp on your white paper using a varying pattern.

This is how I made my own background paper for this creation.

Take out your manual die cut machine, base platform and clear platform.

Get your stocking die out from the set.

Place your awareness ribbon background paper down on your clear platform. Put your die on top of that cutting side down. Place your second clear platform on top of the die.

Run your die through the machine and set the die cut piece aside. Set the stocking die and the leftover paper aside as well.

Take out your plain white paper and place pillow box die on top of it. Place your clear platform on top of the die. Run your pillow box die through the die cut machine.

This is what your cut pieces from your dies will look like.

Using the A Creative Journey with Melissa Awareness Ribbon #3 – Ready for a Fight Stamp Set, take out the sentiment of your choice. I chose I love you for the sentiment.

Ink and stamp your sentiment on your pink paper.

Using the stocking trim dies, cut your stocking top, toes and heal parts from your pink paper. Center your sentiment in the top of the stocking die.

Here are the cut out pieces for the stocking. Set these pieces aside.

Take out your pillow box die cut. Fold in the tab at the bottom of the die. This tab will hold in your gift card once it is placed inside.

Fold in the two sides toward the center of the die. This is where you will be gluing it to the stocking.

Here it shows what it will look like once you have finished folding the pillow box for the Stampin Up Trim Your Stocking Outside of the Box Project.

Apply adhesive to the tab as well as the two sides you folded in.

Line up the sides to the back of the stocking die. The stocking die and the pillow box die will not line up at the bottom.

Here is a side view of what it will look like once you have lined up the sides and them are compressing the two sides together.

Be sure to push down on all areas that were glued to ensure its adhesion.

This is the gift card holder once it is glued.

Place adhesive on the back of the three pink pieces for your stocking.

Notice the embossed curved line here? You will use this as a guide.

Line up the top of the stocking with the sentiment to the embossed curved line.

Place the larger die cut piece on the toe of the stocking.

Put the smaller remaining piece on the heal part of the stocking as shown.

They are complete! Isn’t it amazing what you can do if you just think outside of the box? If you are interested in any of the die sets or the paper trimmer from Stampin’ Up, check out Brandie’s Website Here and you can order your own!

 Now for this weeks GIVEAWAY! We are giving away the A Creative Journey with Melissa Everyday Alphabet Upper Case and Emoticon stamp set

and the A Creative Journey with Melissa Awareness Ribbon #3 – Ready for a Fight Stamp Set

I have had a number of people say how much they love these stamp sets for organizing, their planners, lists and just about everything else under the moon so I thought this would be the perfect prize for this week. TWO winners – one for each set!

To qualify to win, you must be BOTH:

A public follower on YouTube, subscribe to our mailing list/blog posts and you may also comment on this blog post for an additional entry to win! Winners will be announced next week on our Mondays with Melissa blog post!

If you do not contact me within two weeks of the announcement of winning, you will forfeit your prize. Thank you for your understanding.

NOTE: You must be subscribed to BOTH with MATCHING NAMES. If I am unable to match you with your subscription to both the email list and the YouTube Channel, you will miss your chance to win a prize. If I can’t decipher if you are a matching subscriber (if your profile doesn’t show publicly who you subscribe to) and I can’t confirm you have subscribed to both, I won’t be able to enter you in for the prize. **DO NOT COMMENT WITH YOUR ENTIRE EMAIL ADDY. Only give me the first 6 NOT INCLUDING YOUR HOST. Just enough for me to match your name will work perfectly.

Here’s the GIVEAWAY from last weeks post which is the A Creative Journey with Melissa Everyday Alphabet Upper Case and Emoticon stamp set and the A Creative Journey with Melissa Everyday Alphabet Lower Case and Numbers Stamp Set.

The winner is Verna A. AGAIN!

Verna,  please send me your contact information via contact page on our website, which post you are a winner from and I will get your prize out to you! Thank you so much for being a YouTube follower and subscribing to our mailing list/blog posts!

 We hope you enjoyed our Stampin Up Trim Your Stocking Outside of the Box post!

Have a wonderful week and thank you for going on A Creative Journey with Melissa.

 

Packaging Recycled Craft: Making Holiday Gift Card Holders

Today we are creating a Packaging Recycled Craft: Making Holiday Gift Card Holders. I love to create different gift card holders. I am so often giving gift cards for birthdays, holidays and special occasions so there are numerous uses for them. Wouldn’t you like to have a few ideas in your back pocket? Then you are going to LOVE this!

Here are the supplies you will need:

You’re Snow Wonderful Stamp Set

Acrylic Block

3L Adhesive

Manual Die Cut Machine

Sizzix Die 658258 Pillow box with labels by Tim Holtz

Strap, tag and mat papers

Clear packaging material

Ink

Tag punch

Corner Rounder

supplies

Take out your manual die cut machine, recycled packaging material and die.

die cut your recycled packaging material

Place your material on the die ensuring all areas to be cut are covered. Run the die through the machine.

run die thru the machine

This is what the pillow box looks like after it has been cut.

die cut material

Fold all of the scored areas on the pillow box.

fold at score lines

Place strong adhesive on the flap of the pillow box as shown.

add strong adhesive to pillow box

Line up the flap to create the enclosure. You can also run a brayer on top of it afterwards to ensure its adhesion. Set aside.

line up edge of pillow boxTake out your paper, ink and You’re Snow Wonderful stamp set.

stamp tag

 Take out your tag punch and punch your tag out.

punch out tag

Using the corner rounder punch, corner round the mat for the tag

punch corners with corner rounder

Place adhesive on the back of the tag and adhere to the mat for the tag.

apply tag to mat

Take out the paper strap for the pillow box and apply adhesive to create a band for the pillow box.

place strong adhesive on strap

Adhere the strap to create an enclosed band.

adhere the strap to create the bandAdhere the tag to the band only using a line of adhesive down the middle to allow movement when placing it on the band.

adhere tag to the strap

This is the side view.

completed band

Your creation is complete!

finished creation

Thank you for joining us today. I really appreciate all of the kind words, love and support I have been shown due to my father’s passing. It is greatly appreciated. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial and hope you enjoyed going on A Creative Journey with Melissa.

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Tim Holtz Coffee Cup Holiday Gift Card Holder

Want to see how to make a Tim Holtz Coffee Cup Holiday Gift Card Holder? I know, I know… Thinking about the holidays is crazy so early when school is just starting for some.. Well it’s true, the first day of winter is only 133 DAYS AWAY! I thought I better get a jump on things and try to get some projects done so I can actually enjoy the holiday season. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make an adorable gift card holder. It is perfect for holidays and so much more! You can make it for birthdays, get well, cheer up, thank you and for just about any occasion!

If you like to learn by video above or pictorial below, we have you covered so let’s get started!

Here are the supplies you will need:

supplies w text

First you will need to take out your manual die cut machine, die and paper.  Place the papers on top of the area in which you want to cut.

die cut w paper

Run your die with paper through the machine. Remove pieces. Set aside the coffee cup and the coffee cup lid.

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Take your cut coffee sleeve, ink, stamp block and the Fall and Winter Holiday Sentiments stamp set out.

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Place your stamp on the stamp block and ink your stamp. Stamp sentiment on the coffee sleeve paper. Set aside.

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Take the coffee cup and coffee cup lid out. Place a small amount of adhesive on the coffee lid and adhere to the cup. Set aside.

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Take out the front paper for the gift card holder. Fold the top of the paper 3/4 of an inch. This will fold toward you.

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Take out your Coffee is My Liquid Therapy stamp set, ink and stamp block. Stamp a random pattern on the bottom of the paper using the small, medium and large coffee beans. Be sure to ink every time you stamp in order to ensure a consistently clean and thorough image.

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Take the coffee cup and place the foam squares on the back of it. Remove the backing of the foam squares. Set aside.

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Take out the front of the gift card holder and add adhesive to the flap.

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Add the string to the flap area so that it will fit inside once folded over. Fold over the string enclosing it under the flap.

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Wrap the twine to the front tying it in a knot or a bow. Press down on the flap to ensure proper adhesion Trim excess twine.

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Place the coffee cup on top of the front of the gift card holder lining it up how you would like it to look with the coffee beans showing.

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Take the coffee sleeve out and place foam squares on the back. Remove the backing of the squares and adhere to your coffee cup.

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Take out the card back. Place adhesive on the back of the gift card front only around the left, right and bottom of the card. This will enable you to have an opening to place a gift card.

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Be sure to press down on the sides where the adhesive is located to ensure proper adhesion.

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Your project is complete!

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Thank you for joining us today and we hope we inspired you to create your own gift card holders. Please be sure to share with us what you have made using this tutorial as inspiration. We hope you have a wonderful day and we hope you enjoyed going on A Creative Journey with Melissa

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