Christmas Gift Card Holders
Do you need some gift card holders for the holiday season? I wanted to create some different fun gift card holders for Christmas. I made a Santa going down the chimney and a hot cocoa cup that you can make with the help of your Cricut.
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As you know there are lots of gift cards bought during the holiday season and through out the year. These gift card holders will make a nice touch for giving gift cards this holiday season.
Materials Needed
Materials Needed
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- If you are not sure how to upload an SVG cut file to Cricut Design Space, please read this post How to Upload an SVG in Design Space
These gift card holders should fit any standard gift cards. However, sometimes Cricut Design Space doesn’t upload SVG Files in the correct size.
Santa Going Down the Chimney Gift Card Holder
Equipment
- Cricut Maker or your favorite cutting machine
- Brayer
- Standard Cutting Mat (Green)
- Weeding Tool
Materials
- 2 Sheets of Red Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of Black Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of Light Brown/Kraft Brown Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of White Glitter Cardstock
- Glue
- Foam Glue Dots/Strips
Instructions
Step 1. Cutting Out the Santa Going Down the Chimney Gift Card
upload the SVG file
- There will be three (3) different mats for this ornament.
- Then click on the Make It button
The prepare screen will appear
Now if everything looks correct on it, click on the continue button
The next screen will be where you will select the type of card stock you are using. If you do not see the material in your material favorites, click on "browse all materials" to find the weight of cardstock that you are using. For example the gold Cardstock I used is foil cardstock weight, you will need to select "Foil Cardstock Weight"..
Once you have Design Space set, you are now ready to prepare your mat. I used a brayer when placing the Cardstock on the mat, this helps in making sure that the paper is adhered to the mat and will help in keeping the paper from ripping or moving when it is being cut.
Step 2. Assembling the Santa Going Down the Chimney Gift Card
- Starting with the back of the chimney
- put a foam strip across the bottom
- then take the front of the chimney
- fold on the score lines, then put glue on the tabs and glue to the back of the chimeny piece
- next take the bricks of the chimney
- put glue on the back and glue to the front of the chimney
- next take the chimney top overlay piece
- put foam dots/strips on the back and place on the top of the chimney
- next take the snow piece for the top of the chimney
- put foam dots/strips on the back and place on the top of the chimney
- then take the piece of snow for the bottom
- and put glue on it and glue to the bottom of the chimney
- set the chimney aside
- then take the gift card holder piece
- and the boots
- put foam dots on the back of the boots and place them on the gift card holder piece
- then take the boot tops
- put foam dots on the back of them and place on the gift card holder at the top of the boots
Hot Chocolate Gift Card Holder
Equipment
- Cricut Maker or your favorite cutting machine
- Brayer
- Standard Cutting Mat (Green)
- Weeding Tool
Materials
- 2 Sheets of Red Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of Medium Brown Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of White Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of White Glitter Cardstock
- Glue
- Foam Glue Dots/Strips
Instructions
Step 1. Cutting Out the Hot Chocolate Gift Card
- Unzip the download file.
Then open up Design Space and start a new project.
Click Upload and find where you saved the unzipped version of the downloaded files for this project.
Then go into the SVG Folder and select the SVG Files
- select all and
- then select the card holder piece
- and
- then select the card holder piece and the two half circles
- and click on
- Then click on the Make It button
The prepare screen will appear- click on the marshmallow piece and then on the three dots
- click on move object
- select a new mat
- then select a color for the new mat
Now if everything looks correct on it, click on the continue button
The next screen will be where you will select the type of card stock you are using. If you do not see the material in your material favorites, click on "browse all materials" to find the weight of cardstock that you are using. For example the white Cardstock I used is medium cardstock weight, you will need to select "Medium Weight"..
Once you have Design Space set, you are now ready to prepare your mat. I used a brayer when placing the Cardstock on the mat, this helps in making sure that the paper is adhered to the mat and will help in keeping the paper from ripping or moving when it is being cut.
Step 2. Assembling the Hot Chocolate Gift Card
- Starting with the back of the hot chocolate cup
- place foam strips around the handle of the cup, the bottom and two sides of the cup
- next take the front of the cup
- and place it on top of the back of the cup
- next take the gift card holder piece
- and the chocolate for the straw
- glue the chocolate pieces on to the straw
- the take the chocolate for the marshmallows
- glue the chocolate on to the marshmallows
- set the gift card holder piece aside
- then take the chocolate for the cup
- put foam strips/dots on back of the chocolate and place on the cup
- then take the marshmallow
- place foam dots/strips on the back and place on top of the chocolate on the cup
- next take the brown gingerbread man
- put glue on the back and glue him to the white gingerbread man piece
- then put foam dots on the back of the gingerbread man and place him on the front of the cup
- now you can put the gift card holder piece into the cup
I hope you enjoy my gift card holders!
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