Day 5 - 12 Gifts of Christmas

Sorry its a bit late today, but I had a meeting this morning that I had forgotten about until the middle of the night, when I lay awake and remembered (dont you just love these times.... lol). My Stampin' Up! order arrived, so had to get that packaged up and posted off to everyone too, so start stalking the postie from Monday onwards girls if you ordered from me with free P&P.

So today, what are we going to make I hear you all ask... well it is a

Tissue Holder

Nice and cheap and ideal for this time of the year when everyone has snuffles and sniffles and the cold wind doth blow....

So this is what I started with...



A piece of Real Red Cardstock measuring 6" x 5". I then scored it across the short edge at 2 1/2" and 3 1/2" and using the bone folder folded them along the lines leaving the red cardstock as shown in the photo. I then cut some of the Patterned Paper from the I Wish Kit to size to fit on the front, back and spine, this was cut at 2 1/4" by 4 3/4" for the front and back and 3/4" by 4 3/4" for the spine.

The next step was using my snail adhesive to glue the Patterned Paper to the outside of the Real Red Cardstock like so...

I later decorated it a bit more. Now we need to make the inside part that holds the tissues in place. The tissues I used were Kleenex Original Travel Pack, you may have to alter the inside part slightly to accomodate different size tissues.

I used Real Red Cardstock again (you could use a co-ordinating colour if you wished) and cut a piece measuring 5" by 3 1/4". I scored the 2 short sides and 1 long side at 1/4" and then again at 1 1/4".

You will then need to cut along the lines that I have drawn on the cardstock, cutting the corners out on the bottom of the cardstock, the opposite end to the non-scored long edge as shown above. It will then look like this....

The next step is to put the double sided tape along all the small scored edges, peel of the backing and stick it into the cardstock folder making sure that the sticky edges are touching the right hand side of the folder, these need to be tucked under.... and the finished result will look like this (I hope)...

Using Old Olive Grosgrain ribbon I cut a length of 14". I then stuck a line of double sided tape across the middle of the outside of the folder from one side to the other side and stuck the ribbon all the way across the middle of the folder...

I then decorated the inside and outside, I only did the small bit on the inside as I didn't feel it needed to be over decorated, so just used a small piece of the Patterned Paper measuring 2 1/4" by 1 3/4", I then stuck on a sticker from the I Wish Simply Scrappin' kit.

All that was left to do was to decorate the outside, I used a Real Red Scallop Circle and a snowman image from the Level 3 Hostess Set "Window Dressing" which I coloured in using Stampin' Write markers. I used dimensionals to stick the snowman image to the scallop circle just to give it a bit of, well, dimension!!! lol This was then stuck over the Old Olive ribbon and this was the finishing touch. I didn't want to decorate it too much because it would get scuffed up in a handbag, so kept this to the minimum, but a very nice little gift for teenagers to give to their friends at school, or just for anyone really to keep in their handbag, a good conversation starter to introduce Stampin' Up! to people...

Have fun making and wrap up warm, it is freezing here, might just need these tissues myself.

I will be back tomorrow with another Gift idea.... have a good evening all xx