Penguin Gift Card Wallet

It's Tuesday, so it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week my teammates and I are creating gift tags or gift card holders. I have two family birthdays, Chanukah, and Christmas coming up, so this was a timely topic for me!

I opted to create a gift card wallet with Katzelkraft's Penguins Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set and the Funny Accessories Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set. I also used the Scenic Winter Layering Stencils by Polkadoodles, Periwinkle Prism Ink by Hunkydory Crafts, the Acrylic Hills Mask Stencils by Lavinia Stamps, and Snowflake Fresco Chalk Finish Acrylic Paint by PaperArtsy.

Here's the outside of the gift wallet.

Here's the inside of the gift wallet, complete with a cat fur decorating the gift card.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Penguins Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft
Funny Accessories Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft
Scenic Winter Layering Stencils by Polkadoodles
Acrylic Hills Mask Stencils by Lavinia Stamps
Periwinkle Prism Inks by Hunkydory Crafts
Snowflake Fresco Chalk Finish Acrylic Paint by PaperArtsy

Other Products Used:
Gift Card Wallet Die Set by Stampendous®!
Solar White Classic® Cardstock by Neenah Papers
Blue Cardstock
Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®
Copic® Markers:
Penguins: B60, <B91, RV0000, RV000, C00, C0, C1, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y32, <R81, R81
Gifts: B32, B34, B45, R02, R05, YG41, YG45, BV11, BV13, Y13, Y21, Y26, Y32
Cocoa Cup: R02, R05, E77
Cotton Ball White Fun Flock by Stampendous!®
Quickie Glue Pen® by Sakura® of America
Enjoy Die by Cheery Lynn Designs
Removable Label Paper by Avery®
STAY-tion™ by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink
Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Use the Gift Card Die to cut Blue cardstock, pinch the score lines, and fold to form the gift card.
2. Use magnets to secure white cardstock to the base of the stamping platform.
3. Place the penguin and the gift pile stamps facedown as desired on the white cardstock.
4. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamps, lift the platform, ink the stamps with Memento ink, and stamp.
5. Remove the stamped image panel and use magnets to secure a piece of Removable Label paper to the base of the platform.
6. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamps, lift the platform, ink the stamps with Memento ink, and stamp.
7. Fussy-cut the label versions and adhere over their counterparts on the image panel.
8. Place the image panel onto STAY-tion.
9. Use magnets to secure the Snowflakes stencil, one of the four stencils included in the Scenic Winter Layering Stencil Set, over the top part of the image panel.
10. Use magnets to secure the flattish mask from the Acrylic Hills Mask Stencils over the bottom of the image panel .
11. Brush Periwinkle Prism ink over the stencils.
12. Add a drop or two of Snowflake Fresco Chalk Finish Acrylic paint to a craft mat and mist with water to thin it slightly.
13. Load a paint brush with the white paint and tap the paint brush to splat the surface of the image panel with white drips n'drops.
14. Remove the Snowflake and Hills stencil and wash them.
15. Remove the image panel from the STAY-tion.
16. Clean up all the paint splatters on your work surface, lamp, hands, and cat.
17. Lift and reserve the masks from the images.
18. Use Copic markers to color the image and the snowy ground.
19. Secure the image panel to the front of the gift card wallet.
20. Brush a piece of white cardstock with Periwinkle ink.
21. Repeat Steps #12, 13, and 16.
22. Use the rounded rectangle and the wavy rectangle dies to cut the splattered inked cardstock.
23. Position the notches die to cut the wavy rectangle die-cut (from Step #22).
24. Apply adhesive to the back of the wavy rectangle die-cut taking care to avoid the areas of the notches and adhere to the center portion of the inside of the gift card wallet.
25. Use a paintbrush and Snowflake Fresco Finish Chalk paint to add some "snow" to the base of the rounded rectangle die-cut.
26. Stamp the reclining penguin onto white cardstock.
27. Color with Copic markers, fussy-cut, and edge with a dark marker.
28. Adhere the penguin to the rounded rectangle die-cut as shown.
29. Use the Quickie Glue Pen to add adhesive under the penguin and along the line of snow.
30. Sprinkle on some Cotton Ball Fun Flock, press lightly, and let dry.
31. Tap off the excess Fun Flock.
32. Adhere the penguin adorned rounded rectangle die-cut to the top of the the inside of the gift card wallet.
33. Use the Enjoy die to cut blue cardstock.
34. Adhere the sentiment as shown to finish the inside of the gift card wallet.

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