Yesterday, Bev hosted a workshop at her house and I had the pleasure of demonstrating for her and several friends. I'm always grateful for the opportunity to share my passion for papercrafts with others, so I like to make a handmade gift for my workshop hostesses. For Bev's workshop yesterday, I decided to make up a gift bag of Love Notes with a matching card.
Using an idea I learned at Convention last year, I cut a piece of Baja Breeze Patterns Paper to fit neatly inside a small cellophane bag (IB&C page 130), then punched a handle using the Word Window Punch. For the gift card set, I CASEd the 3x3 card design for my set from our current Idea Book & Catalogue and made a set of 4 of them. I slipped them inside the bag and then tied it closed with a piece of double stitched Chocolate Chip Wide Grosgrain ribbon.
For the matching card, I used the same design layout as the 3x3 cards, but enlarged the scale to make a standard A6 card. I layered a few felt flowers from Flower Fusion Too and secured them with a Vintage Brass brad to give a bigger size embellishment with a bit more detail to give my larger card balance.
As this gift card set is such a quick, simple gift idea, I decided to show the workshop guests how to make it themselves at home. For my demonstration, I decided to make the same design in different colours, using the colours from the original Flower Fusion set. 
I gave away the second set as a door prize at the workshop.
Workshops are a lot of fun and a great way to spend an afternoon with friends! If you'd like to learn some great quick and simple card and gift ideas like these, or even some scrapbooking techniques and layouts, why not host a workshop at your place? Don't forget, hostesses can earn EXTRA benefits during Sale-A-Bration! Email me or phone me on 0402 120 972 to book your workshop now!
