 Well, hi there. My name is Sandy. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm going to make some pop-up gift card holders This is not my tutorial. I got it from somebody else. Her link is going to be in the description and lots of people have made This kind of a thing, but I'm going to use this stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps And thank you to them for sending me little treats to play with I'm just going to do some really fast watercoloring on a scrap of watercolor paper and Just throw some paint on there. I'm not going to stress out about it too much The gift card holder, the card itself, is so special that really working on these Little images is really not a huge priority, but I did decide I wanted a little bit of Shading going on. So what I did was a second layer of color and if I got too much on there I cleaned my brush and I used a Not a wet brush, but a damp brush to basically pull color out and white color off So I'd have a highlight area and then some shadow areas either on one side or both sides whatever Not a big deal left it really kind of minimal in terms of Detail because this is just going to go on the outside of the card as a little note to tell them This is going to be a coffee gift card inside for my coffee loving friends Because I do end up giving out a lot of Starbucks cards. It seems for the holidays There's some sentiments that you can stamp onto the mugs themselves that are in the set and You can also do snowflakes and hearts and all different kinds of little things You can take things from other stamp sets and add them to these and then fussy cut them out Starting with using my fingertip knife to cut the inside of the handles first If you wait until later, then you're going to have some trouble with that little thin handle trying to figure out how to get that to Cut without actually ripping the paper. So it's a lot easier to do if you do that portion first And just using that little fingertip knife. I find this works a little bit better for me I have a little more control than I do with a regular old exacto knife And then I'm going around the outside edges with a black marker To just make sure that there's no white showing on all of these because I'm going to have some dark card stock behind it So I'm just going to go around the edges kind of going from the back So I don't end up accidentally making a bloop with the marker on the front of the paper. I've just colored Now I've taken a four and a quarter by eleven sheet of paper And I'm going to score it at four and a half five and a half six and a half Super easy four and a half five and a half sick and a half about a boom about a being I will list those measurements on my blog post as well And then you want to do mountain valley mountain. I'm not sure wait. Let's see mountain is in the middle valley is on either side You just want to do this little zigzag, right? And that is it for the fancy folding. It's this is an amazingly easy card I might even actually make a bunch of these like for my Toastmasters club or something Because they're super easy and super quick So I'm going to take some B creative tape and stick it on one side You want the thin stuff and you want to just have it at that bottom edge Because your card is going to go inside that flap And that means that you need to open the flap somehow To open mine, I'm going to use a die. It's an old ticket die that I had from Sizzix for a long time ago and you can use all kinds of punches the stamp it up folks use the Word punch. There's like a word window punch. You can do that lots of different ways to slice that open You may need to like I'm going to open that up a little further with a pair of scissors to actually get The card to set in there So you might need to do a little fussing to make sure that it will open And I've taken some watercolor paper to make some panels. I've got some scratch paper here And these are three and three quarters by four I think that was the measurements so that I could do some layering behind it as well But you could also use instead just use some pattern paper and make them super easy But I wanted to do some water coloring since I had watercolor on the outside So I'm taking some of the snowflakes from the same stamp set and heat embossing them on the paper I'm just kind of doing a little cascade Around a corner rather than the whole thing and you'll see how that works out I'm using a spritzer to just spray some water on it And that means my color is going to be nice and muted And I'm going to drop some color in here. I had remember I had one of the Uh pink one of the green and one of the teal mugs So all I'm doing now is adding the same colors to the inside I'll do two panels for each of the cards And I'm just going to show you the pink one here I'm just throwing color mostly around the outside and out around where my snowflakes are And that color will resist where the snowflakes are and then I wanted to have some kind of some lighter areas in the center You can decide whether you want really rich color Whether you want to use multiple colors and stuff around that outside edge But leave yourself either room to write or room to stamp a sentiment And I didn't want to have to stamp my sentiment in white or anything So I wanted to have those be really light and pale You can see how beautifully they came out and I have room for a layer of paper around it So I've got a dark brown and a lighter brown And for the outside, I'm going to make what what's called a belly band at least in my graphic designer days I don't know what they call it in the the normal people world But I'm just going to fold a one inch strip around the Front of the card. It's 11 inches by one inch And then use some B creative tape on that to hold it closed And then I'm going to use some power tabs to just adhere onto it my little coffee cups So that's going to decorate that belly band and it's going to cover the place where it joins so Voila, bada-moom, bada-bing. These are nice and masculine by the way on the outside So if you use some masculine colors on the inside, you can totally make it a very masculine card if you want So you can slide that off. You can put it anywhere. I do it about kind of two-thirds down from the bottom like this And it makes for a very very cute little card And then each one when they open up have a wonderful treasure of a starbucks gift card inside So there's the one with the teal color on it And I I just think these are a whole lot of fun if you wanted to do all them in like a coffee brown Kind of a chocolatey color then they could be very unisex and you could just mix and match Give them to all your family members and everything Now I did have to slice a little bit of that paper in the center to make my card fit So do be prepared for that depending on what you use whether you use a circle punch or A die or whatever kind of thing to make that opening in there All right, so thank you for joining me. I hope this was helpful to you in making some last minute gift card holders And you can hit the subscribe button if you wish you can click for more on the blog and pin these to your Pinterest And there's some more videos if you would like to see some more watercoloring going on around here And I will see you guys next time if I don't talk to you by then you have a merry Christmas But I will be back before Christmas with lots more videos. Bye. Bye