Some paper collections are gender neutral – or rather, as I’d like to call it, gender encompassing š : fitting for both men and women, boys and girls. Certain themes will fit almost any occasion and any person, and natureĀ would be one of those categories.
Bo Bunny’sĀ Trail MixĀ is a fun design paper collection centered around the great outdoors. It has lots of wood, birds, flowers, trees and the coordinating NotepackĀ die-cuts even offer wild animals! Trail Mix fits both male and female recipients of almost all ages and I have used it as such.Ā The first project for which I usedĀ this paper was a little mini album for a ten-year-old boy. This tag card was createdĀ for a middle-aged (but young at heart š ) woman.
Tag Card – show & tell with pictures
The front of the card showsĀ a pocket with a punched border. It’s been matted, with a label from Bo Bunny’s Trail MixĀ Notepack die-cuts on top of that. The top corners of the card have been rounded with theĀ Deco/Stub Corner ChomperĀ by We R Memory Keepers.
The pocket holds a tag – which itself is a die-cut from theĀ Trail Mix Notepack. The card itself has been matted with two pieces of decorative paper, for some added interest and color.
I printed the name of the recipient onto the tag. I added some details, by applying droplets of diamond glitter glue to the flowers on the tag.Ā On the back of the tag I wrote my personal message to her. 
The label on the pocket is lifted with some dimensional tape. I stamped the label “Speciaal voor jou” – which is Dutch for “Especially for you.”
Because my personal note was written on the back of the tag in the front pocket, I could mat the back of the card with some nice design paper from the collection. 
I emphasized a ldetail in the pattern by tracing it with someĀ Glossy Accents: a little bird, sitting on a tree branch.
What gender encompassing paper collections can you recommend?
Middle inside panel –Ā I used red glitter glue to trace around the panel. OnceĀ the glitter glueĀ had dried, I could writeĀ my birthway wish with a silver metal marker.
Back panel –Ā No extra embellishments, this piece of paper was gorgeous enough in and ofĀ itself!
By the way, you want to take the time to work meticulously and with attention to detail, even with a fairly quick & simple design such as this one. For instance, I used more than one piece of napkin here, but can you honestly point out the seams between the pieces…?
ā¦and the top edges of the basket. I mixed that warmer, darker red color on the edges myself, by the way, adding more hints of dark colors to the handle’s bright red until it was just so.
Because the decoupage technique gives you the opportunity to create great projects relatively quickly, it’s also fairly easy to expand your project. Just use more of those awesome napkins that you picked, and make one or more companion pieces.
When you remove the card from the main front pocket, the pattern paper underneath becomes visible; as you can see I chose the “closure ribbon” in the same shade of light blue as this pattern.
The mini wallet shows two cute little hot pink tabs, which I fussy cut myself and then embellished with some pink stickle glue.
Each tab is attached to a card, which is meant for journaling or as a photo mat. Each card has its own pocket btw (so there are six pockets for six cards).
When you open the mini wallet, you gain access to yet another two cards.
And last but not least, the back of the mini wallet is the mirror image of its front.
I punched a little half circle out of each inner page, so as to create a way to grab hold of the cards inside the pockets.
