Our elder niece is turning 21 this spring and we’re thinking of sending her a generous gift card for a cool local restaurant. That’s definitely an “Uncle E” kind of gift and we think she’ll dig it, too.
I got these cool dies that cut that tear away piece shown at the top of the card which I thought would be a nifty addition to a handmade envelope. I had the “pull here” stamp and thought it would be good for high lighting the tear-away aspect.
Under the tear away it has a “cheers to another year” stamped sentiment for the added fun of it!
I haven’t sealed it yet, because I want to wait until we get the gift card. I just hope we can get an actual, physical card otherwise all this is for not! Or we’ll choose another kind of gift card, perhaps a general one.
I made most of this over a year ago and there was a “20” on the rosette - but I made it so far ahead of her birthday that I forgot! So I updated the center with the numbers on it today.
Oh, dang, that’s a fun envelope! The “rip strip” gives it such a professional look. She’s going to love it no matter what kind of gift card you tuck in there!
That’s so fun! It’s always so nice getting handmade cards. I think a gift card to a restaurant is such a good idea. Sometimes I feel gift cards to other things aren’t great because it feels impersonal.
Oh, yeah. We entered the Gift Card Years with our nieces a few years ago. Teens and young adults that you don’t live near… it’s hard to not give a gift card, even it feels a little lame.
Oh yeah I agree. It’s difficult. As teenagers it at least makes sense. They aren’t buying tons of gifts for people so it’s not like you’re just exchanging money with each other endlessly for no real reason.
That’s the reason I don’t want gift cards as an adult unless it’s for something specific because it’s just like you give them $20 one day and then a few months later they give you $20 another day. Lol. I’d rather not do it at all and just give each other cards or something if were just gonna do that.
It really can make gift giving feel transactional in a lot of cases. We’ve decided that 21 is going to be the last year of regular birthday gifts for the nieces. That’s adult-enough for a reciprocal relationship - or close to. We’ll still send cards and call to sing the birthday song, tho!
