Tartan Foil Specialty DSP for New at SU

 
Welcome to our November NEW AT SU! Blog Hop! We love to share creative ideas from Stampin' Up! with you. Today we have projects featuring a ways to dress up Gift Cards and Gift Certificates for the holidays. I'm planning on using the Tartan Foil Specialty DSP from the Online Exclusives Collection and the Joy of Noel bundle from the 2023 Sept./Dec. Mini Catalogue.

I'm old school, I guess. I just feel so wrong giving a naked, lonely gift card. It seems like I didn't put any effort into the gift at all. I know it may be the best option in a lot of cases, but it doesn't sit well with me for some reason. That's why I like to add a little something to the gift when I give someone a gift card. I think it eases my guilt!

The Tartan Foil Specialty Designer Series Paper comes in Copper Clay, Lost Lagoon, and Pebbled Path with two designs of each colour. I used the Copper Clay and Lost Lagoon designs. What you see here is a box with four drawers. Each drawer has enough room for 4 Ferrero Rochers and on top, if you lift the flap of the card, there is room to hold a gift card. See the photo below:

• First off, I got directions for the box, (which I think is genius) from Jo Blackman, a UK demonstrator. Thanks, Jo, for your great directions. Because we are showcasing ideas for Gift Card upgrades, I added the gift card holder idea on top.
• The top and bottom of the box have chip board pieces covered with both the Copper Clay and the Lost Lagoon, solid colour tartan designs. I made those first.
• I made the 4 double walled drawers next from Lost Lagoon cardstock. You can get the instructions from Jo's tutorial video.
• Each drawer has a wrap made from Copper Clay cardstock, which is a nice snug casing that goes around the four sides, and has a finished edge on the front.
• With the four drawers in the wraps, they are oriented on the bottom base so that each side has one of the drawers opening on that side. Making sure that they are located equidistant from the edges, they are adhered to the bottom base. Then the top cover is glued on over them.
• I added DSP and gold foil to the non-opening drawer end on each side, alternating the colours Copper Clay and Lost Lagoon, and using the design with more white in the plaid. The gold foil acts as a matte.

• The directions for the top cover decor and gift card holder are my added design. The first layer of gold foil is s 5" square and the layer of Copper Clay Tartan Foil DSP is a 4 3/4" square. Then comes a 4 1/4" Gold Foil square.
• After that you want to cut a piece of Basic White Thick card stock 4" x 8" and score it at 4". Fold it on the score line and center the folded card base on the gold foil and adhere it. Then take a piece of Lost Lagoon Tartan Foil DSP (the white tartan design) that is 4" square and adhere it to the top.
• Inside, attach a piece of the other design of Lost Lagoon tartan that measures 4" x 1 3/4" at the bottom of the inside as shown, running either adhesive or Tear 'n Tape along the sides and bottom only. Before adhering, use the 3/4" Circle Punch to punch out a half circle finger grip along the top of the paper.
• I used the Christmas Classics dies to die cut the label and some of the foliage you see. I stamped the Noel from the Joy of Noel bundle in Versamark ink and embossed it in gold embossing powder. I die cut the word using the inside label piece from the Christmas Classics dies and adhered it with dimensionals.
• The Gold Simply Elegant trim was doubled before tying a bow which is attached with Glue Dots.

I hope you enjoyed this project made with the Joy of Christmas bundle available in the 2023 Sept/Dec Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue, pages 28 - 31 and the Tartan Foil Specialty Designer Series Paper, found online with the Online Exclusive products.

Please take a moment to comment at the bottom of this post and let me know how you liked my project or ask me a question about the technique used. Don’t forget to scroll back up and keep hoppin’ with us! – Thank you!

Keep Creating!

Heather Cooper

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Product List

Joy Of Noel Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [161959] $33.00	Joy Of Noel Bundle (English) [161967] $66.50	Tartan Foil 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [162332] $13.75	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $7.00	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229] $12.25	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $14.50
Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133679] $13.75	Copper Clay 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161721] $13.75	Moody Mauve 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161723] $13.75	Pretty Peacock 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150880] $13.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Simply Elegant Trim [155766] $10.25
Paper Trimmer [152392] $36.00	Simply Scored [122334] $49.00	Paper Snips [103579] $15.00	Bone Folder [102300] $9.75	3/4" (1.9 Cm) Circle Punch [119873] $18.00	Christmas Classics Dies [161976] $51.00
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $175.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.50	Stampin' Seal+ [149699] $16.50	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $8.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00

Stars at Night Bundle for As You See It Challenge #311

 Here are both a cool product and a cool challenge! The product is the Stars at Night Hybrid Embossing Folder, and the challenge is As You See It Challenge #311, a recipe challenge entitled, Recipe for Holiday Spirit! To understand the Recipe challenge, you need to see the Challenge Banner, below:

As concocted by Team Member, Jane, we have to use all the elements shown on the challenge banner, but how we do that is up to us. I wanted to have the front of my card fulfill the requirements of the Challenge, but I wanted to also use the Night Divine Bundle on the inside of my card, so I used a modified Gate Fold for my card base. Take a closer look at both the inside and the outside:

• Score the 4 1/4" x 11" Gray Granite card base at 2 3/4" from each end along the long edge. This gives a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" center and two 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" flaps, which, when closed, make the finished closed card 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" standard size.
• From the O Holy Night Designer Series Paper (Patterned Paper), I chose the above design and cut a 4" piece from it. To get the right amount of sand and night sky, though, I had to cut off a strip of sand first. I cut that 12" x 4" strip into a 2 1/2" piece, a 5 1/4" piece and another 2 1/2" piece for the inside. 
• I ran them all through the Stars at Night Embossing Folder so that just the sky was embossed with the stars. I adhered them all to the inside card base with an 1/8" border all around each piece. For the outside I cut a piece of just night sky design measuring 5 1/4" x 4" and ran that through using the Stars at night embossing folder as well. I made sure that the stars were oriented the correct way.
• I cut down that piece into two pieces, each measuring 2 1/2" x 4" and adhered them to the front panels.
• Using the Stars at Night Hybrid Embossing Folder which involves the addition of a coordinating die inside the embossing folder, I used some of the Antique Distressed Gold Specialty paper and die cut/embossed some stars to create some 3D stars with. I also die cut the next level using Gold Foil. I hand built 2 gold stars by layering these and finishing off with Adhesive Backed Star Trinkets. I added one to the center of the split between the two sides on the front, adhering only on the right side. The other was added to the center panel on the inside.

• I die cut the stable from some old Coredinations cardstock in Early Espresso. I sanded it down so the grain would really show up and made the legs shorter by cutting off the bottom of the legs and mounting it underneath the existing legs. I added the stable to the center panel.
• I die cut the various figures using the Night Divine Dies and added them to the card center and side flaps.

• I heat embossed the two sentiments in gold embossing powder and heat set them. The small one I fussy cut and glued to the card front. The larger one was die cut with the second largest stitched square from Stylish Shapes dies and added to the inside flap left.

• I used Night of Navy & Gold Glittered Ribbon to create a belly band to keep the card closed (and fulfill the challenge criteria) and tied it in a square knot.
• They were completed with small gold Blooming Pearls in the center of a few embossed stars.

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Product List

Night Divine Cling Stamp Set (English) [161987] $37.00	Night Divine Bundle (English) [161997] $66.50	Stars At Night Bundle (English) [162007] $78.25	Stars At Night Hybrid Embossing Folder [162006] $54.00	O Holy Night 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161986] $17.00
Distressed Gold 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [159237] $7.00	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $7.00	Gray Granite 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146983] $13.75	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $14.50	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100867] $13.75
Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119686] $13.75	Pecan Pie 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161717] $13.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] $25.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $43.00
Night Of Navy & Gold 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Glittered Ribbon [162011] $12.25	Adhesive Backed Star Trinkets [162010] $11.00	Blooming Pearls [162238] $11.00	Stars At Night Hybrid Embossing Folder [162006] $54.00	Night Divine Dies [161996] $37.00
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $175.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $8.00	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $6.00