This weeks Challenge over at Frosted Designs

Our challenge this week was to think spring. We were to

include flowers in our project. I decided to enter

two projects this week. The first one is a gift card

holder made with TP rolls. All the cuts for this

project were from Walk in My Garden.

To make the TP roll gift card holder you flatten out 2 TP

rolls. I found out the easiest way to do this is to get

them slightly wet. Then place a phone book on top of

them for a couple days until they are dry. After they are

dried measure the length and width of the TP roll and

add 3/4 inches. This will be the over lap for the back

and the paper that you tuck inside the roll.

Take the paper with glue on it and wrap the TP roll

around it. Then tuck the sides in.

To make the holes on the side I used my crop a dile. And

binder rings to bring it all together. I had to add lots of

ribbon to make it feel like spring.

For the cards inside the tubes measure the width and

length and make slightly smaller so they don't fall out easily.

I then added lots of spring cuts from WIMG.

These are the perfect size for any gift card. I added

a Starbucks gift card to the last page.

For my second project I used the flower pots made with

more flower cuts from WIMG. I cut out 3 different flowers

in 3 different sizes and 6 different colors.

After I stacked and glued the flowers I crimped, curled

and folded the flowers to give them more depth and texture.

Once again I used my Crop a dile to make the holes in the

center of the flowers for the suckers to go through them.

The butterfly was cut out once and then again with the

flip button on. They are stacked together with a jumbo

paper clip in the middle. They can now be used as a book

mark. The name tags were also made with WIMG.

To put it all together I added styrofoam to the inside of

the clay pot. To hide the styrofoam I shredded green tissue

paper and then just added the flowers until they looked full.