I’ve always loved the double pocket card and have found that designer series paper folds up awesomely!

I have shared a photo step-by-step tutorial of how I made it and also some photos of other double pocket cards that I have made with the ‘Deck the Halls’ designer series paper.  Click on the icon above to download.

I have so much of the ‘Cottage Wall’ designer paper left over from my Stamp Festival so I thought to put it to good use!

At my team meeting last week, we made this adorable ‘tag’ holder (which was an idea that I flagrantly stole from the very talented Becky Roberts who made me one for a private ‘Take 3′ swap at Leadership).  What a nice gift this makes!

And as a funny coincidence, Amanda Coughlin this morning posted her CASE of a Becky Roberts project tutorial she purchased for our swap in January!

The body of the booklet is a 3 1/4  x 10 1/2 inch piece of Razzleberry Red cardstock, scored at 5 & 5 1/2.  The ‘pockets’ inside are 3×5 flat cello bags (#103104) lined in white cardstock (so the tags really show up).  The other coordinating color is Old Olive.

If you made this to hold the 4×6 flat cello pockets, this would make a nice photo holder, don’t you think?

While I used a different designer paper/color combination, I loved her designs of the tags (and hers were WAY more detailed than mine) so I copied three of them with what I had on hand.

The middle mini-pocketbook is fully functional in that it opens!  The pocketbook is a piece of designer paper folded in half and punched with the large oval leaving out the bottom seam so it opens.  The purse ‘clasp’ is the very small oval punch decorated with the Trio Flower (#109183) punch and a crystal brad held shut with a glue dot and the handle is the medium oval punched out and then the scalloped oval punched out above that!

The tag on the right is a flowerpot made from the ornament punch upside down, the leaves is the Sizzlit Die – Stampin’ Up! ‘Little Leaves’(#114511) and again the flowers are the Trio Flower punch.

Accessories Used:

Scallop Trim **ONLY AVAILABLE TWO MORE DAYS** #118402
Two-Step Bird, #117191
Trio Flower, #109183
Small Oval #107304
Large Oval #107305
Wide Oval #112082
Scallop Oval #114889
Scallop Circle #109043
Ornament #116794
Designer Label #107590
Stampin’ Up! exclusive Sizzlit die ‘Little Leaves’ for Sizzix
#115613 Rich Razzleberry ribbon
Rich Razzleberry cardstock and ink, Old Olive cardstock & ink
Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper #115671
Sponge daubers

This purse is made from the “Pocket Notes” in the current Winter Mini Catalog (available only until February 28th!).

The note inside “You’re a special ‘purse-on’, worth more than a mint!” and adding a score line to make a pocketbook idea was totally stolen from one of my partners in crime Amanda Coughlin (see her new blog and tell her how talented she is!).

The other set used is “Be Happy” and the embellishments are Ribbon Originals “Sweet Shop” and square metal edge tags.

This is a cute little gift idea and I am sorry to see the Pocket Notes go away, I love the way it closes with the slit.  The “key tag” punch done with coordinating cardstock makes the flap longer and folds over into the slit to keep the pocketbook closed with the mint in it.