WOYWW 182

Been missing in action, simply 'cos I didn't have enough time to hop around other WOYWW desks and I like to play fair.

And am not even showing the whole pigsty desk here today - but a little something else. There are lots of lovely money/cheque/gift card holders being made right now - some with a lot of work in them, for example, Lynn made a lovely and quite unusual one for the snippets Playground the other week and also linked to a great tutorial. Speed is the name of the game here right now though, so this is a really quick and easy one I made earlier:

First, find a pre-printed topper or image and a toning/complimenting sheet of A4 patterned card. Measure so that the topper and anything else you want to add will fit nicely onto a portion of the sheet of card when it's folded and trim off the excess from the top or bottom then trim down the length of the piece of card at the width you want leaving about two and a half inches uncut. A little bit of measuring here! Then trim at right angles up to the decided width of your card, the photo illustrates it better than I'm explaining it:). I did do the bits of the final cuts with sharp scissors BTW. Round the corner of what will be the 'flap' and then score the piece of card as shown above - across the main fold and down the fold line for the flap.

Grab strong double sided tape and run it along the bottom edge of the flap.

Peel off the backing from the tape, fold over the flap to what will be the inside of the card and stick it down. I added a stamped sentiment by LOTV which was punched using SU's scalloped oval punch. You could decorate the inside of the thing too - but when time is at a premium I'm just leaving them blank for a little handwritten message - besides which the families will already have a 'proper' Christmas card from us as well.

And this is one all finished, just with a My Paper Stash 'Winter Wishes' topper and a strip of self adhesive paper lace made by Woodware down one edge. Lift up the front and the little pocket and contents will be revealed inside, with a hand written message such as 'Go SHOP!'.

Of course you can make sideways or tent style opening ones (such as A6, DL etc. just to suit the size and shape of topper you intend to use on the front) - and don't fret over folding the money or cheque, the betting is that it will be folded at some point by the recipient anyhow :)

One super fast and easy money wallet - which leaves more time to hop around WOYWW over at Julia's - so why are you hanging around here then? The mulled wine isn't heating in the Snippets Playground yet and the tree wasn't up with lethally and dangerously wired lights last time I dared to peek so go on, shoo!!

Happy WOYWW :)

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