Fifth Avenue Floral Card and Gift Holder

I’ve been looking through my photo folder and came across these ones I hadn’t posted pre Christmas.  They are for a birthday card and matching gift card holder I made for my youngest sister Melissa.  (They were a bit late – oops – so I wanted to make them EXTRA special.) 

Her favourite colour is purple so I used Elegant Eggplant, and teamed it with Pretty In Pink, Pink Pirouette and Whisper White.  One of my favourite stamp sets is Fifth Avenue Floral so I used that too, plus Sincere Salutations for an elegant greeting.  I used the card on the front cover of the catalogue as my starting point for the design.  The large flower is cut out and layered using dimensionals.

Part of my gift was a photo shoot session of her boys.  (My Canon camera and I have captured some great pics of kids some days.)  I made my own voucher and popped it into the gift holder I made to match the card. 

The gift voucher is just a piece of white cardstock with Fifth Avenue flowers stamped in the background.  Using my Elegant Eggplant marker helped keep it all looking coordinated.  To make the holder I just folded a piece of cardstock around and taped one end closed.  I just made sure it was a little larger than the gift voucher.  I punched a slot out to make it easy to get to the voucher and added some decorative touches,  and of course a hat pin.

I’m so lucky to have 2 lovely sisters who live nearby.  Melissa and I both have young children so we are often on the phone sharing the latest funny happenings from our munchkins and sharing ‘mum’ moments.  

Back soon – thanks for stopping by,

Cheers Sue