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Gift Card Gift Tutorial by Nicole

Hey there, everyone!  Nicole here to share a project with you today!  It's that time of year- graduations, weddings, birthdays and family gatherings.  Gift cards are a wonderful gift, but can always use a fun way to present them.  Well, I have a great solution- create a fun and simple "Gift Card Gift."  Here's a tutorial on how to make one!

First of all, gather your supplies:
Cardstock: One piece cut 4" by 8", One Piece cut 4 3/4" by 3 1/4", and one piece cut 3 3/4" by 1 1/2"
Patterned Paper:  One piece cut 3 7/8" by 3 3/8" and One piece cut 3 5/8" by 5/8"
Adhesive, Score board and scoring tool, craft knife, ribbon, circle punch, pencil and scissors. 


Now, score your 4"by 8" piece of cardstock at 4" horizontally and at 1/4" and 3 3/4" vertically.

Using your scissors, cut along the 1/4" and 3 3/4" score line up to the 4" horizontal score line and remove the pieces, as shown.

Now, fold the remaining scored sections and add adhesive to them.

Fold the bottom half of the cardstock to the top half.  Crease along the 4" score line and adhere using the flaps created in the last step.  You now should have a pocket as shown below.

Next, adhere your 3 7/8" by 3 3/8" piece of patterned paper to the front of your pocket.

Using adhesive, add a piece of ribbon along the center of the pocket tucking it inside at the top, and wrapping it to the back on the bottom.



Set your pocket aside, and score the 3 3/4" by 1 1/2" piece of cardstock at 3/4".

Put adhesive on both sides of the score line, fold over and ahdere to the top of the 4 3/4" by 3 1/4" piece of cardstock.  This creates the slider that will slide in and out of your pocket.

Using your adhesive, wrap a small piece of ribbon around the 3 5/8" by 5/8" piece of patterned paper.  Try to line it up with the ribbon on the pocket as shown.


Now, adhere the patterned paper to the top of the slider, as shown.

Now, it's time to add the gift card!  Place your card where you would like it to go on the slider.  Using a pencil, put two dots on either side of the upper right hand corner.  Repeat in the lower left hand corner.

Using a straight edge (I used the gift card) and a craft knife, connect the dots creating a slit to put tuck the corners of your gift card into, as shown.  Be sure to erase your dots once you have made the cut!

You're almost done!  Simply slide the gift card into the pocket as shown.

Your gift box should now look like this:

Next, tie a bow and adhere it to the top of your gift.

And, lastly, make a tag for your gift.  I simply used a circle punch, a stamp and a piece of twine.  I tucked the twine into the adhesive under my bow.

And now it's done!  Isn't it cute?!?!

Simply slide the gift card out of the "gift box" to reveal the gift inside!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!
~Nicole

Momenta Product Used:
PA-2250: Family Outings Premium Cardstock Pad

Birthday Love Card Set by Andrea

Time to celebrate...bring out the candles, gifts and sweet treats...oh, and those Momenta chipboard birthday pieces.  Giving a little love for someone special on their birthday.
There is so much color in each chipboard sticker...a perfect opportunity to mix and match your Momenta papers for the card base.  I began by picking out three chipboard stickers and scrap pieces of paper. 
If you have tiny stamps, each gift chipboard sticker has a blank tag just waiting for a little sentiment addition.
A set of three, ready to celebrate, ready to send some love and ready to make someone smile. 

Momenta Supplies:
PA-2383 12x12 Pyramid Paper Pad - Kaleidoscope
PA-2384 12x12 Pyramid Paper Pad - Chloe's Garden
birthday chipboard stickers

Additional Supplies:
Papertrey Ink - ink, stamps, buttons
Precious Remembrance - stamps
Prairie Bird Boutique - wrinkle ribbon
glitter

Sliding Into A Happy Birthday with a Tutorial by Christa Uttley

Good Morning!
Today, I want to share with you a slider card tutorial that I adapted from the talented scrapbooker and cardmaker, Kimber McGray. Slider cards have been around for ages but I saw these super cute cupcake layered stickers and thought they would make a great interactive card for a friend of my daughter.


Let's begin! Here's what you need:

1. Patterned paper of your choice. I used a baby themed Scrapbook pad (PK-2146 BAS)
2. Matching Border Stickers. I used a puffy scalloped border sticker from the "Let's Party" package. (ST-5160)
3. Matching Sentiment Sticker. I used the words Happy Birthday from the "Celebrate" package. (ST-1765)
4. Matching single sticker for the slider embellishment. I chose a cupcake. This sparkly gem came from the "Let's Party" ST-4879 package.
5. Trimmer.
6. Several foam squares or dots.
7. White card stock.
8.Corner rounder.
9. Tape runner.
10. Optional: Ribbon or floss trim.(decided against using min even though it shows in the photo).

Step 1: Cut one piece of white card stock to 4.25 inches by 11 inches. Fold in half to form a card 4.25 by 5.5 inches. Cut a second into a 4.25 by 5.5 inch piece. This second piece will form the base for the top portion of the card.


Step 2 : Cut two pieces of pattern papers into 3.25 by 4 inch pieces.


Step 3: Adhere one to the card base in the lower right. Adhere the other matching piece to the single piece of white (4.25x5.5).


Step 4: Cut the slider using your paper trimmer. The slot should be 0.5 inches from the right side of the slider and from the bottom. It will be 1 inch from the top of this patterned piece. Add the remaining pieces paper of your card to cover the remaining white base.

Step 4: Add several pop dots to the bottom of the decorate white base.


Step 5: Add a pop dot to one penny and then place it under the slot and add the second penny on top. This creates the slider.
Step 6: Add your choice of sticker to the top penny.  After this add the top layer of the card over the base of your card.
Step 7: Round the corners using a corner rounding punch.

Another look at the final card!

The final card allows the receiver to move the cupcake up and down. What could be more fun? This technique can be sue with butterflies, birds, spiders or even frogs..you are only limited by your imagination!

Until next time, keep doing what you love.
Christa

Play Time & Birthday Layouts by Sarabeth Burke

Happy Monday everyone!  Sarabeth here today to share a few layouts I have created with the super fun Momenta Lines.  The first double page layout is an 8x8 for my pup Riley:



These 8x8 pages came with the 8x8 Scrapbook Album Kit.  
I love that it's a little scene and all you have to do is add a few pics to set it up.
Here are a few close ups:


Next up, 2 double page layouts.  
This was created for a special croppin' lady who has fallen ill and is on a mission to complete her scrapbooks for her family.  In order to push things along, many of us got together and created a ton of layours for her.  She was so appreciative-it was just wonderful to see!  Take a peek:



  
Here are a few close-ups:


PS- have you checked out the new website yet?  click HERE to see for yourself :)

Happy Scrappin!

Momenta Product Used:

8x8 Precocious Pets Album Kit
12x12 Precocious Pets Page Kit
Glitter Puffy Alpha (Red & White)


Puffy Word Stickers (One Fine Day)




12x12 Super Paper Pad, Cuddle & Coo
Puffy Title Stickers (Birthday)
Message Stickers (Birthday)

Making Photo Props by Pinky

Happy Mother's Day!


Good morning, Pinky here from beautiful Tennessee,

You know it is that time of year, it is time for new photos!!
I am working on getting all my boys photographed this year and
I began last year making these "Paper Cakes", they became
popular and I think they would be perfect for any photo shoot.

Instead of getting all messy with a real cake you can set this down
and not worry about the muss or fuss.
You might remember I made a single layer version and posted it.

I had a request for a 2 layer....(hey I might get crazy and make a 3 layer soon)
so I thought I would highlight the Pyramid Pads by Momenta and
just play with the adorable matching patterns.

I am really excited with how it turned out.
I actually grabbed a giant wooden #1 from the local craft store,
then coated it in glitter. Now, how to talk my 16 yr old into posing
with one that say 16! hehehe
Have a wonderful day, and thank you for popping by.


A Baby Card/Journal using CPS Sketch with Savannah O'Gwynn



Hello, friends:}
Savannah O'Gwynn here today to share a baby card and prayer journal using the CPS Sketch and some Momenta products:) 


This week, Momenta is sponsoring the CPS Sketch challenge....and of course I wanted to play along! So I used the sketch to create this card for my cousin (her first baby is due at the end of June!!). I paper pieced this image from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps using Momenta's Butterfly Garden pyramid paper pad. I LOVE LOVE LOVE how this turned out! 
Close-up of my paper piecing
I also created a prayer journal for this family. This is a small journal with 31+ prayers to pray over children. I used the same Momenta pyramid paper pad for this project. I also used the same CPS Sketch, even though this isn't a card:) The birdie was fussy cut from the Butterfly Garden pyramid paper pad. **If you would like this PDF file of the scriptures and prayer journal, please email me {sbmmhoover at yahoo dot com}. 
I love this gift set! It's perfect for my cousin:) 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be blessed:}


Other Prodcut
Pearls: KaiserCraft
Ribbon: Hug Snug
Other: (die cut machine) Cricut, sewing machine, thread

CPS Sketch with Kris!

Hi Momenta friends!  Kris here with a Mother's Day card inspired by CPS 264


I used cardstock and embellishments from a few different collections but look how nicely they coordinate!  I love that about Momenta products... so easy to mix and match.

Supplies:
ink (Colorbox)
lace (misc.)
metal die (Spellbinders)
white cardstock (Bazzill)

Simple (but oh, so cute) Card by Nicole

Hey, there Momenta peeps!  It's Nicole here today and I have a SUPER cute and SUPER easy card for you today!  I made a wedding version of the card, but it can easily be adapted to any occasion, especially birthday, graduations, anniversaries or Mother's and Father's Day!

First, make your card base.  This one is a 4" by 6" card, so my card base is cut at 6"x 8" and scored and folded at 4".

Then, I matted some of the beautiful textured/embossed white cardstock from the "Black Tie" pack on some black cardstock from the same pack.  Then, I adhered that onto the front of my card.

Next comes the FUN part!  I cut my a piece of patterned paper from the "Black Tie" pack at roughly 2" by 3 1/4".  Then I used one of the die cut border pieces from the same pack along the top of the "bag."

Then, I turned by "bag" over and attached some tissue paper and a ribbon (the handle) with some adhesive.  I also added some foam tape to the back.

Lastly, I added a foil treated sticker (so the sentiment has a great metallic shine!) to the front of my back.  I removed the backing from the foam tape and stuck the the whole "bag" to the front of my card!

So easy!  So cute!  So versatile!  Aren't those the BEST types of cards?!


Momenta Products Used:
PK-2147: Black Tie/Foil Treatment 12X12 Scrapbook Pad
ST-3055: Black Tie/Foil Treatment Chipboard Word Sticker

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you were inspired!

~Nicole

Celebrate Card by Laurel Seabrook

Hi everyone.  I have a CAS card for you today.  Sometimes a CAS is all I have time or the mojo for and this card was made under time constraints for a little girl in my class.  I paper pieced her dress and balloons with some papers from the Kaleidoscope Pyramid Paper Pad.  I just love the colors and patterns of this pack!


Products used:
PA - 2383 Kaleidoscope Pyramid Paper Pack

Other products used:
Bugaboo Digital image
Paper Smooches sentiment stamp
May Arts V Striped Twill ribbon
floss

CPS Sketches from Christine and Laurel

Hi Momenta fans!  Christine here today to share a couple of cards that I made based on the CPS sketch this week.  I've only worked with a few card sketches before and once I got into the swing of things I was really enjoying it.  For me it helped to move things along a little quicker!  Here's what the sketch looks like!


And here's the two cards I came up with!  

 It was my son's birthday over the weekend and he is an avid football fan.  So I made this one just for him!  Did you know Momenta has a variety of sports stickers and most of them are dimensional or foiled!?!  The ones I used here are foiled Football ones ST 2136.  I have been holding my son off for awhile on stealing them because he thinks they are fantastic! I used the Kaleidoscope Pyramid Pad PA2383 for the base of the card.

Since my first card was all boy I decided to do a girly one and  ended up going the baby route!  I used die cuts and paper from the Baby Steps Pad (PK2146) that includes paper and die cuts.  I love taking their already adorable die cuts and giving them even more dimension like I did with the cloud and the gems.


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Up next is Laurel!  She used one of her favorite paper packs, the Kaleidoscope Pyramid Paper Pack and a dimensional sticker.


Products used
Momenta:

Other Products:
Stamp: Purple Onion Designs
Ink: Close to My Heart
Button: Papertrey Ink
Twine: The Twinery


We love all the different results from the same sketch!
Be sure to play along with the CPS for your chance to win 
some Momenta goodies!


Questions?