The Tale of Sad Boy

If you’ve visited us here at the Guild Hall before, you know that I am a weaver of stories. As every craft allows us to level up, so is every craft accompanied by a tale. This year, upon receiving my brother’s name in the family gift swap, I decided to combine the two - crafts and stories - into this epic gift for the most impossible to shop for human in the realm. I give you...The Tale of Sad Boy.

Here’s the front cover. It’s a storybook/gift card holder (because what else do you purchase for the most impossible to shop for human in the realm other than gift cards). I stamped the title with the Lawn Fawn “Jessie’s ABCs” set. I then used the Stampotique “Oh... Tree” and “O Joy” and the small ornament cube for the front cover. I quickly coloured it in with Prismacolours, not really spending a whole lot of time (Hey...this was being given to a boy...it was probably going to be thrown out after).

Here we go. First part of the story. (You can click on the picture to make it BIGGER if you can't read the story). On the left side I used the Stampotique “Tangled Enthusiasm” and a small tree that came with Kraftin Kimmie’s “Willard”. The right side was stamped with The Greeting Farm’s “Cheeky Geeky”. I paper pieced her hair and headband to save on colouring time.

K...next page. On the left I stamped Stampotique’s “Hunk” and the foodstuffs from the Lawn Fawn “Love ‘n Breakfast” set. The right hand side was “O Joy” again along with the tv stomach portion of the robot from Technique Tuesday’s “Tin Man” set. So now comes the gift card part…

The way this was folded, there were kinda like pockets in the tops of the pages. I made little paper tabs and taped them on the gift card that cooresponded to what was happening in the story. This page got a tab stamped with the toast from the “Love ‘n Breakfast” set and went on a Subway gift card.

This tab just got a little present and went on a Future Shop gift card (which is a big box electronics store...like Best Buy).

Here’s the next page. The left side was stamped with the Stampotique “Karin” and then I drew on the angry eyebrows to make her more ragey. The steam (showing just how mad I was gonna be) was stamped with the Lawn Fawn “My Cup of Tea” set. The RAWR was stamped with “Jessie’s ABCs”. On the opposite page I stamped the cute girl cuddling a kitty with The Greeting Farm’s “Furever” set. The fruit all came from Lawn Fawn’s “My Silly Valentine”. Ready to see the gift cards in these pages?

First up is an itunes gift card.

Next is for a grocery store (this is what happens when you are the most impossible to shop for human in the realm). I actually wanted to get way more gift cards in smaller denominations - like $5 - (just to be extra obnoxious...cuz what are sisters for?), but it was surprisingly hard to find ones that came in small amounts.

This gift card holding story book will creep around in the following challenges:

Stampotique Designers Challenge #128: Anything Goes

Love To Create Challenge #94: Holiday Gift/3D Project

Loves Rubberstamps Challenge #81: Anything Goes

Divas By Design: Feeling Festive

Craftitude Challenge #54: Anything Goes

Cardz TV Challenge #40: Christmas Treat

Dream Valley Challenge #71: Anything But a Card
Shopping Our Stash Challenge #129: Holiday or Winter

Jingle Belles Wrap-Up

One Crazy Stamper December “Winter/Holiday” Challenge

CHNC Challenge Extra For December

Friends of SpeedyTV Challenge #101: Anything but a Card

This storybook/gift card holder was fun to make and super easy. Hopefully it will teach my dear brother to be a little more cooperative come Christmas time and give people ideas of what to get him…...but...I doubt it.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

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