Ultimate Money Card - Christmas

Hello all! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!! We ended up with a White Christmas this year! Storms rolled in after midnight and kept waking us up but then around noon Christmas day the rain turned to snow and quickly turned our hour and a half drive from Mom's house to a 4 hour event!!

The kids are enjoying the snow today before it all melts away though! A real born and bred Texan can't pass up snow!!

Back to why I'm here! I have three awesome kids. My daughter is 9 and my boys are 11 and 16. If any of you have teenagers (especially boys) you know it's sometimes hard to buy them gifts. I myself am not ever wanting things (except craft stuff!!) so it's easy for me to understand why my son can't think of a single thing he wants for Christmas! This year I decided the best gift of all is $$MONEY$$ - but I didn't want to just hand over some cash I wanted to gift it in Crafty Style!!

My idea was to give him some cash for Christmas but I didn't want to just hand it over or put it in an envelope, I wanted to make it fun AND cute! I thought wouldn't it be fun to make a card that says MERRY CHRISTMAS and for each space there would be a money holder?? I didn't know what I was making and I've never seen anything like this so I thought about it and just started cutting paper.

This is the front cover of the card. The card is 3" x 4"H. The white part is 2.5" x 3"H. I used the turtle stamp because my son loves turtles and his nickname is "the Turtle" so it's perfect. I used the turtle stamp from Pun Fun and I filled in the hat to look more like a Santa hat than a party hat. I stamped Merry Christmas and the present using the Christmas Cheer Stamp.

Above: Stocking and Tree stamps from Christmas Love. The stamp above the stocking is from the Workshops on the Go Pear & Partridge Scrapbooking Kit. I used these to fill space and separate the words. The stocking is on the inside flap and the Tree was in between Merry & Christmas.

Below: The little pockets are 3" x 3" white card stock squares that I scored and folded and then glued down to make pockets. I scored at 0.5" on left, right and bottom. As you can see when you fold a bill into 4ths it fits perfectly. I cut two circles for each pocket to spell out MERRY CHRISTMAS using the Whimsy Caps alphabet stamp set and Ponderosa Pine and Pear inks.

 

When it I finished I had 14 pockets to put money in. I made sure to put this long accordion card into a box with bubble wrap so he would not know what to expect when he opened it!! 

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