Seasonal Saturdays: Beanie Gift Card Holder with Blog Candy

Happy Saturday! Where the heck did this week go? I had every intention to start my holiday gift giving projects series on Thursday, but due to power outage and lack of time, I didn't post the first item. So in order to stay on target with all the many projects I want to share with you for this series, I'm moving it to Saturdays. 

With each project I'm also going to offer some blog candy, all details for the blog candy will be below the tutorials for each project. For now welcome to the first project of my Seasonal Saturdays gift giving series: Beanie Gift Card Holder. The inspiration for this holder came from my nephew and niece. The other day Gaven decided to play peek-a-boo with his beanie and it cracked up Victoria so he kept doing it. As he was doing that, this template popped into my head. 

Here's a photo of the beanie closed.

Here's a photo of the beanie open, revealing the gift card.

Ready to make one of your own? Here are the step-by-step directions and hope to have a video tutorial of it tomorrow along with more samples (ETA: You can check out more samples and video tutorial HERE)

 

Materials:

• 1 - 5" Circle (I used Baja Breeze)
• 1 - 5-1/8" x 1-5/8" Strip of card stock (I used White card stock)
• Ribbon (I used 5/8" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon)
• Embellishments of your choice
• Eyelet
• Circle Cutter (I used EK Success Circle Scissors Plus)
• Scallop Edge Punch
• Crop-a-Dile
• Imaginisce iTop Punch
• Double-Sided Tape

Step 1: Cut out 1 circle measuring about 5" in diameter. I used the Circle Scissors Plus by EK Success but feel free to use what you have even a bowl from your kitchen...anything that will enable you to cut out a circle about 5" in diameter.

Step 2: Stamp or add texture to your circle and then cut it in half. For my sample, I left it plain and just cut it in half.

Step 3: I used Scallop Edge punch along one of the long sides of the strip of white card stock.

Step 4: To one of the semi-circle I added a strip of double-stick tape along the flat edge and adhered it to the bottom of the white strip of card stock, just above the scallop edge.

Step 5:I then inserted the other semi-circle in between the white strip and semi-circle. I slipped the Crop-a-Dile in the middle making sure to only punch through the strip and the loose semi-circle.

 

Step 6:I added an eyelet to the recently punched hole and set it with the Crop-a-Dile.

Step 7: I adhered a strip of ribbon and bow, which by the way is a sneak peek into my next ribbon treatment tutorial which will be posted soon.

Step 8:Using the Medium Topper Punch, I punched out a piece out of red card stock and folded it into pom-pom to use for the top of the beanie. I punched a hole and attached with a white brad.

Step 9: To finish it off I tuck a gift card inside.

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BLOG CANDY: I'm offering a Beanie Gift Card Holder of your very own along with a gift card. You can either keep it for yourself or use it as a gift this holiday season. This is how you can enter the raffle.

1) I love winter and getting all bundled up, but by far my favorite winter gear are beanies and/or hats with a matching scarf. What about you? Leave me a comment on this post telling me what your favorite winter gear is and I"ll enter your name into the raffle.

2) For a second entry, follow my tutorial and make one of your own! Post it on your blog or your favorite forum and then leave me a comment here with a link to your project. If you add it to a forum, please add CPSS01 - it would be fun to see many of these in a galleries - wouldn't it?

You have until Friday, November 13 to enter the raffle. I'll announce the winner's name at the top of next week's Seasonal Saturdays project.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hope you have a cupcakelicious day,

 

Comments

[Nancy Keane]

Oh, sure --- just what I need, ANOTHER craft! Your Beanie Gift Card holder is so cute! I'll be back ....

[philippines gift]

If are you making this as a gift its absolutely adorable so cute i love this. Will certainly visit your site more often now and also thanks for the tutorial. :)

vee

[gift to the Philippines]

If are you making this as a gift,this absolutely adorable so cute i love this. Will certainly visit your site more often now.

zaijan

[rumma]

very nice tutorial.Thanks a lot for sharing.I invite u to visit my site http://www.rumaslife.blogspot.com and http://www.rumma.pr4w.com/

[char]

This beanie is the cutest. Will use the concept for some of my own. tx so much for the great design

[Linda]

Oh, my goodness! That is just too cute. You are very clever and it looks like a card I could make - - - not too complicated.
Thanks so much for sharing.

[Cindy]

Hi!
My favorite winter designer fashion( don't laugh} are my husbands longjohns. They keep me so warm on those cold western N.Y. winter mornings!

[NICOLE]

fab! and I love the little bow!

[Sue D]

Very cute gift card holder! My favorite winter gear is a hooded scarf I knitted many years ago.

[lisa808]

I just made one of these adorable beanies:

http://craftingwithprincesslisa.blogspot.com/2009/11/beanie-gift-card-holder.html

Thanks for the idea and tutorial.

[wanda in NC/USA]

Oh so cute! Thanks for sharing the tutorial on making it.
My favorite winter gear at the moment is fleece and a scarf with gloves.

[Wilda]

This is really cute!!! Thanks for sharing.

[dianne shiozaki]

love my knitted sweaters and scarves.. and my wool coat (even though I live in So. CAL and it rarely gets cold, I love my winter clothes!

[Carla B]

Love Love Love this adorable gift card holder. I made one myself as soon as I could get my "stuff" out and had to fight off the urge not to copy it EXACTLY, colors and all! You can see mine here at http://thesouthernstamper.blogspot.com/2009/11/beanie-gift-card-holder.html

Thanks for sharing such an adorable project!

[Donna B]

this beanie gift card holder is SO cute!! thanks for sharing - you are so talented my friend

[Melissa Sauls]

This is the cutest little gift card holder I've ever seen!! I'm soooo going to have to try my hand at one of these. :)

[Vicki]

My favorite winter gear is anything fleece. Living in southern North Carolina, the winters aren't too bad, so most days, a snuggly fleece jacket is enough to stay warm.

This gift card holder is so charming! I'm looking forward to creating several for holiday gift giving! Thanks for the inspiration and the instructions!

[Laurie]

I love these, although they are totally reminding me of pac-man, which would be great if you were giving them to gaming teenagers
:-)

My favorite winter gear are my scarves. So snuggly fuzzy and wonderful!!

[Tina aka TeeGeeDee]

Great project ... since it's late I've bookmarked it but hope to soon give it a try. Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us!

My favorite winter gear is ... my cat Fred! He's almost always on my lap keeping me toasty warm.

But as for apparel, I love the dorky looking but practical hooded scarves because they keep my ears and neck warm.

[Patsy Behrendt]

I have and still love ear muffs! There are only 2 problems with that: I can hardly find them anymore and we live in a climate that has no winter! I still have a pair that my mom bought me forever ago and I love them. I can take any amount of cold as long as my ears stay warm!! Love this little beanie card!!

[Linda B]

Oh this is just about the cutest thing ever!!! Love your little beanie gift holder. 8)
I really love fancy knitted neck scarves.....I think I have about a dozen of various colors.

[janet robson]

My favourite winter gear is a matching hat scarf and gloves trouble is i walways end up loosing one of the usually on of the gloves and have to go and buy a whole new set. please enter me to WIN thanks for a great tutorial
artbyjan@googlemail.com
www.tarotwisdom.etsy.com

[Lynne Phelps]

This is charming - and I love the way it swivels open! I love to knit, and my favorite winter gear is nice warm wool shawls. They keep me warm inside, and I can toss one over a coat and use it as a big scarf or wrap it around my head like a hood if need be.

[Craftyria]

I love that beanie!

My favorite winter gear is my flannel PJs and slipper socks.

[Rae]

That is the cutest darn gift card!