Gift Card Holder & Card With Loads Of Fun Textures!

Hello crafty friends!  Today I am happy to share with you this fabulous card and gift card holder I made featuring Honey Bee Stamps awesome Lovely Layers: Wallet Honey Cuts!  I love adding lots of texture to masculine cards since, obviously, I wouldn't use flowers for such a card, right?!  Haha!  Check out the details below.

Before I get into my card details, have you heard???  This evening the new Chapter & Charm CARD KIT will be available after the release party, scheduled for 7 pm CDT, on Honey Bee's YouTube channel.  Here is the caption of the description:

Turn the page to something special with our Chapter & Charm Card Kit.  Filled with beautifully coordinated book-themed stamps and dies, this charming collection is perfect for celebrating book lovers, teachers, librarians, and anyone who treasures a good story.

From cozy reading moments to heartfelt sentiments, Chapter & Charm, is designed to help you create cards and projects that are truly one for the books.

I began by constructing the wallet using the dies in the Lovely Layers: Wallet.  First I die cut the various pieces for the wallet from some medium gray cardstocks.

Next I pressed clear embossing ink onto the Tooled Leather 3D embossing folder.  Then I used a brayer to ink up the smooth side of the embossing folder with Weathered Wood Distress Oxide ink.  Then I placed the front part of the wallet die cut into the folder and ran it through my die cutting machine.  I repeated these steps for the back side of the wallet.

I wanted the Wallet to have an aged, well-worn look, so I used a blending brush and a couple different brown inks from my stash to ink the edges and a bit more into the middle portions too.

The die cuts for the inside of the Wallet were inked in the same manner, just not embossed.  I folded the scored tabs and added glue to the tabs to adhere the pieces inside the wallet.  There's a die cut included in the Lovely Layers: Wallet that is perfect to hold a gift card to fit into the open portion.

The card base is A7 size.  I used a dark brown-gray cardstock and a piece of patterned paper from the Urban Roots paper pad (a necessity I love for masculine cards) for the base layers.

I took another strip of the brown-gray cardstock, trimmed it to about 2", and tore the edge with my fingers.  Then I placed it into the Tooled Leather 3D embossing folder to emboss it.  I inked the edges with a dark brown ink and glued it to my card.

The sentiments are from the Heart Of Our Family stamp set.  I stamped them in brown ink onto gray cardstock and then cut them out with the coordinating dies.

To finish up, I added a few coordinating enamel dots on the wallet and around the sentiment.

So what do you think about all of the texture, embossing and inking?  I hope you like it as much as I do!  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope your day is crafty and very good!

P.S.:  Don't forget to check out the Chapter & Charm Card Kit--the kits sold out so fast last time!

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