Wrapping Gift Cards

I'm not a huge fan of giving gift cards for presents. I enjoy thinking about and finding things I know people will like. However, I don't mind getting them ... so that makes me realize that thinking of the right gift card for someone can be a good gift in the long run. But if I do give a gift card, I like to jazz it up a little rather than just handing it to them.

Here are some of the gift card holders I made this year. While I found most of the basic ideas on Pinterest, I did tweak each of them to fit what we were giving.

Coffee cups, whether for a non-Starbucks card,

 or a Starbucks card. (The light did something - I did make it cup shaped but it looks very rectangular in this picture)

 This one is good for anything movie themed.

 This is to a sports bar, so I used sports paper and color schemes.

 This one is just a restaurant, but I liked the design so I went with it.

 (It opens up like a wallet)

 This one didn't photograph well, but I made the holder a little longer, with tan paper, and aluminum foil instead of designed paper...trying to go for the "burrito" look since that's where it's for.

Baby book

My latest baby book gift. Farm themed this time. One of my favorites!

Year 2 - Day 364 - December 30

Even though Christmas was days ago, my pile is still sitting in front of my chair. I got a big variety of things this year and hopefully we can get them home!

I got some of these:

So that I can make these:

Also, an extra bowl for our mixer, rubber whisks, books, a Melting Pot card, Coldstone money, the Logo board game, and other assorted goodies. I have no idea how we are going to get everything home!

I'm very excited about going to see:

and I even promised that I wouldn't wear my new cozy outfit:

Year 2 - Day 356 - December 22

I just spent quite some time wrapping presents. I love wrapping presents!!! This isn't even all of them, it's just the biggest clump. It makes me sad that I'm not there to actually give most of these presents out, since we miss the family party on Mike's side due to flying each year, but I try to pick things out for people that they will like!

Year 2 - Day 353 - December 19

This is what Mike won as his pass-around gift at the work Christmas party at lunch this year. It's another brand's version of Bailey's. He was so proud of himself because he had to steal it back after it was taken from him. :) Goes to show the differences between school and non-school parties!

Day 216 - Aug 4

Mike's cousin & wife had a new baby recently and their other child just turned 2.  Due to the wedding, we missed the joint "Welcome to the World" and "Happy Birthday" party.  These have been wrapped for a really long time, and I keep forgetting to trek to the post office to mail them.  Luckily we're seeing Mike's parents this weekend so I can pass them along the chain of relatives. ;)