Holiday Gift Card Holders

For my gift card holders this year I decided to look through the stash and see what dies I had that I could use for the gift cards I needed to make. I decided to use the My Creative Time "Fancy Gift Card Holder Die" for the gift card holders. Then I wanted to have a tree on the front of this gift card holder and first I thought I would use scrap printed card stocks for that but then decided to use my holiday washi tapes instead. Looked through my holiday die sets and found a tree die that would fit on the front of the gift card holder so I would know how many rows of washi tape I would need to make a tree....

For the card stock for the gift card holders I decided on kraft card stock. Then for the washi tapes I decided to keep the gift cards more traditional for the holidays so red and green it was..... I cut a piece of cream card stock in half and this would be the base for the washi tapes. I stacked the rolls in the order I would put them onto the cream card stock and I put liquid glue onto the cream card stock covering about 2". Then I began laying down the washi tapes onto this base, adding glue as I added more rows of the washi tape. I laid the tree die on the rows so I would know how many rows I would need for the amount of trees I would need. I used mostly traditional washi tapes but at the bottom I used some thinner washi tapes I have in the stash that have gold on them. For those I stacked them on the bottom of the cream card stock base. Here is a photo after I glued and laid down all the washi tape rolls before I set it aside to dry:

For the traditional washi tapes at the top I used tapes that did not have a directional pattern so I could get as many trees cut out as I could by die cutting the tree right side up and then next to that one a tree that was cut upside down. Running the tapes through the die cutting machine to cut out the trees also pressed the tapes into the glue so I should not have any edges lifting. Here is a photo of one of the gift card holders done:

The gift card holder die set comes with a rectangle frame die for the front of the holder and I used cream card stock for my panel. Using scissors I cut out a trunk for my trees using scrap brown card stock. I used an old star punch to punch out a gold star for the top of the tree. I used liquid glue to assemble the tree, trunk, and star and to put this onto the cream panel on the holder. Here is a photo to show how the gift card sits inside this holder:

with a sample card inside:

Here is a photo of more of the gift card holders:

Wanted a small greeting at the top of the holder so I went through the holiday stamps and I used an older stamp set from MyFavoriteThings (MFT Stamps) and stamped the "Be Merry" onto cream card stock using red ink and then punched that out. Used liquid glue to put that on the top of the holder. Easy holder to put together and decorate using holiday washi tapes and a tree die. All that is needed is some bling for the front panel near the trees.....