Hello and welcome back to Last Minute Holiday Gift Week!  Today I’m super excited to share more fabulous holiday gift ideas brought to you by the Web Artists.  Thanks to some handy templates and guidelines, today’s THREE projects will be a cinch to duplicate.  Let’s take a look at what these clever girls have cooked up!

First, Sheri Reguly has designed a gift card holder that is the very definition of cute and festive.  Love it!  Sheri says, “A gift card is the perfect solution for those on your list who are difficult to buy for. While some may feel they’re not always the most personal gift, the holder enclosing it can be. This fun design and color combination, housing a cool iTunes gift card, would make the perfect gift for the pre-teen or teenage girl on your shopping list. Gotta love that froggy!”

Supplies:

• DesignBlock Big Holiday Words
• Three Trees Large
• Jolly Christmas
• Lagoon Notecards
• Cyan VersaColor Ink
• Black VersaColor Ink
• Christmas Chalk Ink Queue
• VersaMark Ink
• Clear Embossing Powder
• White Embossing Powder
• Smooth Clear Gemstones
• Other: cardstock (Bazzill Basics), patterned paper (Bo Bunny), ribbon (Offray, American Crafts, Love Elsie), decorative edged scissors, scalloped border punch (Fiskars), brads (Doodlebug Design), chalk (Pebbles Inc.), thread, wiggle eyes

Sheri’s Tips:

• Use clear embossing powder on the background, trees, and sentiment to add a subtle holiday sheen.
• Add wiggle eyes to the stamped frog image to create a fun, playful effect.
• To add some dimension and further definition to the scarf, stamp the frog image a second time onto pink paper using VersaMark. Top with white embossing powder, heat set, cut out the scarf portion, and layer on top of the original cut out image.

Curious about the construction of the gift card holder?  Sheri thought a visual explanation would be the simplest and has provided a great downloadable diagram. Just click HERE to download the PDF.  What a fabulous resource — thanks Sheri!

The minute I laid my eyes on this next project from Jacki Jones I knew I would be making a couple for holiday gifts this year.  Feast your eyes on this stationery set consisting of a gorgeous portfolio plus ten notecards and envelopes. Jacki shares more about the set: “This is a practical gift for a teacher or anyone in your life who could use a set of quick and simple cards to have on hand. These particular cards were made with the CL155 Playful Animals set with children in mind.”

Supplies:

• Clear Design Holiday Gift Tags
• Clear Design Playful Animals
• Summer Mixed & Chocolate Notecards
• Sparkle Gems Large Flowers
• Fall Chalk Ink Queue
• Other: colored pencils, magnetic snaps, circle punches, watercolor paper, patterned paper (Basic Grey Gypsy)

Jacki’s Tips:

• Sometimes I use a mini hot glue gun as an alternative to double stick tape when dealing with heavy cardstock or water color paper.
• Add a large magnetic snap to close the pocket.

Jacki has also made up a template to help you with the assembly of the pocket portfolio. To download the PDF template plus tips just click HERE. Many thanks for creating this, Jacki!

For today’s final template-based project, Kandis Smith offers up a darling mug card designed to hold a packet of hot chocolate. Look closely and you will see steam rising from the mug!  Kandis says, “What’s better than a steaming cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter day? Not much. I love giving packets of chocolate to my friends. This is unique way of handing them out!”

Supplies:

• Clear Design Branch & Leaf Long Borders
• Clear Design Holiday Wishes
• Sparkle Gems Hearts
• Red Gemstones
• Small Accent Pearls
• Memories Cherry Red Ink
• Other: vellum, patterned paper, tag, machine stitching

Kandis’s Tips:

• Cut out swirls from vellum to make “steam”.
• Add in heart gemstones with the round red gemstones to let them know you love them!
• Stamp and cut out holly leaves with three gemstones clustered together. Add it to your tag for a festive look.
• The mug template can be found at this link:  Mirkwood Designs.

How about enlarging the template slightly and adding a tiny packet of mini marshmallows?  With marshmallows or without, this cute card is sure to bring a smile — thanks so much Kandis!

‘Tis the season for giving, so I think a giveaway is in order! One randomly selected winner will receive a versatile holiday favorite — the Clear Design Holiday Gift Tags set.

To be entered in the giveaway, just leave a comment on this post with a holiday color combination that you enjoy using for cards, gift wrap, decorations…anything holiday related!  I’ll announce the lucky winner on Thursday morning.

[ENABLER ALERT:  The fabulous tag set is available for purchase HERE in the Hero Arts Online Store.]

For even more template ideas check out Shari Carroll’s “Holiday Cards for Gift Giving” technique article — she provides links to four great templates!

Happy holiday stamping,

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