Quick and easy gift card holder

Tomorrow is the Christmas Card class at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church with Angie and Rena, and in addition to the Christmas cards I showed you previously we’re going to make a surprise project. It will be a surprise to the ladies, but I decided to give you a sneak preview. Before I get started, please be kind—this is my first tutorial! Actually, it’s a bit of a stretch to call it a tutorial—this is so simple. There are no special techniques involved, and you can easily alter the size to be smaller, larger, or whatever. So—here goes. 
You will need:

• Cardstock
• Patterned paper (scraps work great for this!)
• Embellishments, stamps, and punches of your choice (any or all!)
• Scor-Pal or other scoring tool
• Adhesive 

1. Cut your cardstock to 6” x 10”. Score along the long side at 2” and 6” and fold along the score lines.
2. Apply adhesive to the edges of the 2” section similar to this:
   








3. Fold up the 2” section and adhere. Your gift card holder will look something like this:
   
   






4. Now it’s pretty much done—just decorate and embellish as much or as little as you want. Here’s my finished gift card holder: 

OK—see why I hesitate to even call that a tutorial?? It’s embarrassingly easy! Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and will make some fun gift card holders for those boring gift cards we all give as gifts to someone on our list!

Oh—here’s what I used for my holder:

• Cardstock—Stampin’ Up!
• Patterned Paper—Papertrey Ink
• Flower—Hero Arts
• Stamp—Wordsworth/Rubber Soul
• Lace—clearance bin at JoAnn’s
• Snowflake brad—haven’t a clue…

Please be sure to stop by throughout the weekend. Tomorrow I’ll let you know how the Christmas card class goes, and Sunday I’ll announce the winner of the blog candy! I will post the winning name around 8:00 AM EST (assuming I roll out of bed in time). I’ll also be talking a little bit about Operation Write Home on Sunday, so be sure to come back!
Have a lovely Friday, everyone!