Money purse
The Holidays just over we already start with the birthday round dance. There’s often no good idea left after all the gifts crafted and bought for Christmas. With the help of our little purse hiding a banknote and/or suncream you’ll surely delight every birthday girl or boy. Your choice of paper and the decoration make it fitting. In my case it’s a soft-skinned hobby gardener and the money will surely be transferred into seeds or plants as soon as the sun will warm us again.
The necessary materials are shown on a PDF ready for free download. The purse consists of two card stock rectangles mesuring 6.5 x 4.5 inches. For the inner card stock you may take a simple white one. A design mix looks very well too. Cut and fold the inner card stock as marked on the template. The outer one is only to be folded twice.
Spread glue on the back side of the inner card stock omitting the gutters to be folded up lateron. Fix the two pieces of ribbon as handles on the backside of your printed card stock piece and glue inner card stock on top accurately fitting.
On one side of the printed card stock fix a locking flap. I simply hid the end with a leave cut from a paper remainder. On the opposite side of the purse you need to glue the latch holding the flap. You may take a straight one or just one resembling to the paper design. As a gift tag I twisted a little trefoil round the handle to write the name of the recipient or a little compliment.
Either banknote or suncream are slipped beneath the center gutter. The smaller ones prevent the gift from falling out. Fold your banknote and place it under or on top of your suncream or simply wrap the tube with the note.
This purse will collect a lipp stick, lip balm or USB flash drive as well. Wether you offer it with our without money the recipient will in any case be happy about this fancy gift. If you want to hide a bigger tube or bottle you need to increase the size of your purse and the gutters accordingly.
P.S. I only left my marks on the interior card stock for demonstration purposes.
