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Fun Folds · Sketchy Fridays

Sketchy Fridays: I Love You

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Here we are again – back to Friday! What do you have on the weekend agenda? I’m hoping to finish everything from last weekend’s to-do list myself. We got about halfway through our storage unit transfer. One wouldn’t think it would take all that long to move junk across town, but even with 2 people and 2 carts, each trip was almost an hour! The plan is to finish up this weekend. Now whether that leaves me time to get to all of the other things on my to-do list…well, that remains to be seen! Haha!

But how about we get to our task at hand – Sketchy Fridays! For those of you who are new here, Sketchy Fridays is a weekly series where we’re using a card sketch to design our featured card. Right now, we’re working through a full series of designs using the card sketches found in current Stampin’ Up! catalogs.

This week’s card is based on a card sketch I drew up of a card from the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration Catalog. Today, we’re pairing up the Season of Elegance and Marbled Elegance papers with several die sets to create this lovely Valentine design.

We get started with a base of Real Red cardstock. Today’s card is a peek-through fun fold design, where we’re removing 1 1/4-inches from the card front to create a small peek-through strip to the inside card panel. Our front flap is covered with a sheet of the red Season of Elegance foiled paper. The inside message panel is simply a sheet of white paper. The peek-through section is a strip of the Marbled Elegance paper, which is covered with a strip of Cherry Cobbler & gold ribbon that is tied in a bow in the center. Our front focal panel base is piece of foiled paper from the Nature’s Sweetness paper pack that is diecut with the Spotlight on Nature dies. It’s adhered to the front panel with dimensionals. Our hearts are cut from a piece red floral patterned paper from the Regal Winter pack and is diecut with the Hot Air Balloon dies. They’re adhered to the panel with dimensionals. The sentiment from Saying Hey is stamped on white cardstock and diecut with the Nested Essentials banner die using the extension method. I used an extra layer of dimensionals behind the sentiment to ensure that it stood proud over the hearts. Some gold thread and drusy embellishments finish things off with a touch of sparkle.

Tomorrow we’re going to be closing out our Valentines series in the air. I hope you’ll come take flight with me!

Products used in today’s card:
Real Red, Basic White cardstock
Season of Elegance, Marbled Elegance, Nature’s Sweetness, Regal Winter DSP
Saying Hey stamps
Spotlight on Nature, Hot Air Balloon, Nested Essentials dies
Gold thread, Cherry Cobbler & gold satin ribbon
Drusy embellishments
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[102482]
$11.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[159276]
$13.00
Season Of Elegance 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164144]
$16.50
Marbled Elegance 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164919]
$16.50
Nature's Sweetness 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[162616]
$16.50
Regal Winter 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164156]
$12.50
Spotlight On Nature Dies
[163580]
$35.00
Nested Essentials Dies
[161597]
$34.00
Hot Air Balloon Dies
[162754]
$30.00
Saying Hey Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[163697]
$17.00
Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad
[101406]
$10.50
Gold Twisted Thread
[164603]
$7.50
Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/2'' (1.3 Cm) Metallic Ribbon
[156312]
$8.00
Drusy Adhesive Backed Embellishments
[164223]
$9.00
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
[144108]
$4.25
Mini Glue Dots
[103683]
$7.25
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Fun Folds · Holidays

Sending a Little Love

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This week is all about honoring the Valentines in our life – be they friends, family, or significant others. Anyone whose special to you deserves a little handmade love from time to time. And today we’re pairing up some older Stampin’ Up! bundles with some of the newer papers to create this super cute spanner fun fold card design. We’re also going to be using the reverse stamp technique to flip an image. So let’s get to it.

We get started with a base of Fresh Freesia cardstock, which is cut to standard A2 size. We’re creating a fun fold today that is inspired by the Spanner Panel fold by fellow demo Jackie Bolhuis. To create the front spanner panel, the front panel of the card is cut from the bottom edge to the center score line on each side at the 1 1/4-inch mark, giving you a front panel that has 3 flaps – 1 1/4-inch, 3-inch, and 1 1/4-inch. The two smaller front flaps are covered with strips of the striped pattern from the Toadstool Gardens paper pack. The center flap is covered with a piece of the Everyday Skies paper, which is going to serve as the backdrop for our focal scene. We’ll cut a 3/4-inch strip of Fresh Freesia to span the front card panel and connect only the two smaller side panels, which are going to lift up separately from the center panel. This strip is going to serve as the structural base for our focal scene, so we’ll begin by covering it with grass. Our grass is cut from Old Olive and a piece of the Floral Delight paper using the Bright Skies long cloud edge die. This provides some nice rolling tufts of grass that don’t distract from our scene. These strips of grass are adhered to the strip of Fresh Freesia with dimensionals, layering one on top of the other to give depth. Using the Playing in the Rain dies, we’ll cut some tufts of grass from Shaded Spruce and Granny Apple Green cardstock and tuck them in, adhering with glue dots. The mailbox is diecut using the Sending Love dies. The post is cut from Blackberry Bliss, while the box is cut from Fresh Freesia glimmer paper and Fresh Freesia cardstock. The flag is Petal Pink for a pop of contrast. An industrial trinket serves as the screw that affixes the flag to our mailbox. A larger envelope is diecut from Beautiful Bokeh paper and closed with a heart sequin. Once assembled, we’ll tuck the mailbox into the grass and adhere to the far left panel with dimensionals, ensuring that we don’t have any overlap onto our center panel of clouds. Tuck the envelope inside the box an adhere with a dimensional or two inside the box.

Now for our main character. Turtle is from the Playing in the Rain stamp set, but when stamped as-is, he will be facing the wrong direction. To get our turtle facing toward the left, you’ll want to stamp the image onto your silicone mat and then carefully press your white cardstock on top to transfer the image onto the paper. Be sure that you’ve inked the stamp heavily to ensure that the image is dark enough once you’ve transferred from the silicone mat to paper. Next, I colored the turtle with a combination of Old Olive and Shaded Spruce Stampin’ Blends. I used a color lifter on the shell to lighten things up a bit and provide good contrast with the skin of turtle’s body. I cut him out with paper snips and then adhered to the grass with several layers of dimensionals for plenty of height. I stamped a smaller envelope from Sending Love on Beautiful Bokeh and cut out with the coordinating die.

The front sentiment is stamped in Blackberry Bliss using the Sending Love sentiment and then diecut with the Friends for Life banner using the extension method so that each end has matching shape. I adhered over the grass with dimensionals. We finish off the front with a selection of purple sequins. On the center panel, tucked discretely behind the mailbox, I stamped the small “sent with love” sentiment and added a few heart sequins around it. The inside panel of the card is left blank for a personalized message. The message panel is flanked with two strips of Beautiful Bokeh paper.

Isn’t this such a fun card?! I love creating scenes, and while we have some terrific products in the current mini catalog, Stampin’ Up! has some great go-tos in the main catalog that should get a little love, as well! Tune in tomorrow for Sketchy Fridays…with a twist!

Products used in today’s card:
Fresh Freesia, Old Olive, Granny Apple Green, Shaded Spruce, Blackberry Bliss, Petal Pink, Basic White cardstock
Everyday Skies, Floral Delight, Three Color glimmer, Toadstool Gardens, Beautiful Bokeh DSP
Playing in the Rain bundle
Sending Love bundle
Stampin’ Blends
Bright Skies, Friends for Life dies
Industrial Trinkets, purple sequins, heart sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Fresh Freesia 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[155613]
$11.50
Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[100702]
$11.50
Granny Apple Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[146990]
$11.50
Shaded Spruce 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[146981]
$11.50
Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[133675]
$11.50
Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[146985]
$11.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[159276]
$13.00
Floral Delight 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164700]
$12.50
Everyday Skies 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164622]
$12.50
Beautiful Bokeh 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164607]
$12.50
Toadstool Gardens 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164942]
$12.50
Playing In The Rain Bundle (English)
[160551]
$54.75
Sending Love Bundle (English)
[162880]
$54.00
Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad
[101406]
$10.50
Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad
[147092]
$9.00
Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad
[155611]
$9.00
Shaded Spruce Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
[154903]
$11.00
Old Olive Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
[154892]
$11.00
Stampin' Blends Color Lifter
[144608]
$5.50
Bright Skies Dies
[162793]
$34.00
Friends For Life Dies (English)
[163364]
$34.00
Industrial Trinkets
[163450]
$8.50
Adhesive Backed Heart Sequins
[164920]
$8.50
Purple Adhesive Backed Sequins
[164970]
$8.00
Mini Glue Dots
[103683]
$7.25
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
[144108]
$4.25
Add All to Cart
Coming Soon · Fun Folds

Miss You

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Happy Monday, crafty friends! Our weekend turned out to be waaaaaay busier than I anticipated. Between the kiddo’s bowling league and lessons and my own singing engagements, we kinda met each other coming and going this weekend. And that left no time to craft – womp, womp!

But here we are starting a bright, shiny new week and I have some bright & shiny new things to share with you from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives release that will go live next week! This week, we’re going to pair some gorgeous new patterned paper with all sorts of things from the crafty stash — from other new Online Exclusives to current products. It’s going to be a fun week.

We’re getting started with a really cool fun fold called the Curtain Fold because it really shows off the new Marbled Elegance paper beautifully! Our card starts with a base of Melon Mambo cardstock. The backdrop for our gorgeous curtain fold is a combination of Melon Mambo foil paper (sadly retired) and the creamy Season of Elegance foiled paper that’s been embossed using the Painted Texture embossing folder. The sheet of Marbled Elegance is a combination of pinks, shades of white, and gold foil. Our sentiment from Sending Love is stamped in Melon Mambo on Very Vanilla and then diecut with the Everyday Details circle die. I used the leftover portion of a piece of white glimmer paper cut with Spotlight on Nature dies as the eye-catching border around our sentiment. A strip of iridescent striped trim anchors it against our sparkly background. A few iridescent rhinestones basic jewels and gold hearts finish things off with the perfect amount of twinkle.

The Marbled Elegance paper really is stunning, and I’m looking forward to showing you all the ways you can incorporate it into your everyday designs to give a little extra pop.

Products used in today’s card:
Melon Mambo, Basic White cardstock
Marbled Elegance (coming soon), Season of Elegance, White glimmer, Melon Mambo foil (retired) DSP
Painted Texture embossing folder
Sending Love stamps
Spotlight on Nature, Everyday Details dies
Iridescent striped trim
Iridescent rhinestones basic jewels, gold hearts (coming soon)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Melon Mambo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[115320]
$11.50
Season Of Elegance 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164144]
$16.50
Berry Burst, Old Olive & White 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Glimmer Specialty Paper
[163769]
$6.00
Melon Mambo & Granny Apple Green 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Foil Sheets
[161953]
$10.00
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[159276]
$13.00
Painted Texture 3 D Embossing Folder
[154317]
$10.00
Spotlight On Nature Dies
[163580]
$35.00
Everyday Details Dies
[162864]
$34.00
Sending Love Cling Stamp Set (English)
[162873]
$25.00
Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad
[147051]
$9.00
Iridescent 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Striped Trim
[163299]
$8.50
Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels
[158130]
$7.50
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
[144108]
$4.25
Tear & Tape Adhesive
[154031]
$7.00
Add All to Cart
Fun Folds · L2S Group Instahop

You Can Do This

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This week, we’re making our way through the woods as we feature a whole array of woodsy products from the Stampin’ Up! lineup. Today, we’re dreaming of winter with this diamond fold card design featuring the Thoughtful Journey designer series paper and Frosted Forest bundle.

Stampin’ Up! has released some gorgeous watercolored patterned paper packs over the last year, and I think I have loved each and every one. I thought it would be fun to use the snowy scene paper from the Thoughtful Journey paper pack and create a pop-out using Frosted Forest since the evergreens closely resembled those in the paper. So let’s see how it all comes together.

We get started with a base of Blackberry Bliss cardstock. I love how this really pulls forward the purple hues in the patterned paper. Our diamond panel leaves a little of the Blackberry Bliss peeking around the edges and the mat for our panel is a piece of white glimmer cardstock to be reminiscent of twinkling snowdrifts. I used the Frosted Forest masks to create the evergreen using a combination of Blackberry Bliss, Fresh Freesia, Night of Navy, and Misty Moonlight inks and then diecut it using the coordinating Frosted Forest die. I went over the tree with Wink of Stella and added iridescent ribbon for added sparkle on the diamond panel. The sentiment from Saying Hey is stamped in black on white cardstock and then diecut using the Happy Little Things banner die. A few iridescent faceted gems finish things off nicely with an additional twinkly touch.

Isn’t this just a gorgeous scene?! Today’s card is a part of the Luv 2 Stamp Group Instagram Hop, which goes live today at 9 AM Pacific Time (PST).  Click here to head over to my Instagram feed at 11 AM Central and check out what the other demos in our L2S Group have created for you today! Tomorrow we’ll be walking in the woods with another fun fold design using the new Splendid Autumn designer series paper. I hope you’ll pop in and check it out!

Want to see how a Diamond Fold card layout comes together from start to finish? You can watch the full Terrific Tuesdays video where we make one together and snag a FREE printable tutorial to boot. Click here to download the PDF.

Products used in today’s card:
Blackberry Bliss, Basic White cardstock
Thoughtful Journey, white glimmer DSP
Frosted Forest masks and dies
Saying Hey stamps
Happy Little Things dies
Iridescent striped trim
Iridescent faceted gems
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[133675]
$11.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[159276]
$13.00
Thoughtful Journey 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[163303]
$12.50
Berry Burst, Old Olive & White 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Glimmer Specialty Paper
[163769]
$6.00
Frosted Forest Decorative Masks
[164350]
$15.00
Frosted Forest Dies
[164136]
$36.00
Saying Hey Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[163697]
$17.00
Happy Little Things Dies
[163709]
$12.00
Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad
[147092]
$9.00
Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad
[155611]
$9.00
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad
[147110]
$9.00
Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad
[153118]
$9.00
Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad
[101406]
$10.50
Iridescent 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Striped Trim
[163299]
$8.50
Iridescent Faceted Gems
[163368]
$8.50
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
Tear & Tape Adhesive
[138995]
$7.00
Add All to Cart
Fun Folds · Terrific Tuesdays

Diamond Birthday

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Do you ever see a special fold and think WOW? That’s precisely what happened when a fellow demonstrator shared the Diamond Fold with our team. And I’m glad to finally have the time to sit down and learn this fold. It looks far more complicated than it is, and it is absolutely a perfect way to spotlight beautiful patterned paper!

This week, we’re looking at all the ways we can use traditional holiday products in everyday designs. Today, we’re pairing the Season of Gold & Green designer paper with part of the new Season of Elegance suite to make this gorgeous Diamond Fold card.

We get started on today’s fun fold design with a base of Shaded Spruce cardstock. We cut a standard-sized base but in landscape orientation with a fold in the center and then one to divide the second half. I chose two different patterns from the Season of Green & Gold designer series paper pack, a current Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusive. We’re bringing out the gold foiling by using the gold foil specialty paper as an accent color on our diamond panel. Our focal image is the largest tree from the new Peaceful Evergreens bundle. It’s stamped and diecut from Mossy Meadow with a gold bow diecut and added to the top. The new Peaceful Evergreens die set that will release on September 6th with the Holiday Mini catalog includes a set of dies to make paper bows and it really makes it easy to have perfect bows for your cards! Our sentiment from Adventurous Sky is stamped in black on Very Vanilla cardstock and then diecut using the Peaceful Season dies. This panel is mounted on a gold foil banner diecut with the largest banner from that same die set. I added some drusy embellishments for lots of extra sparkle and to help draw the eye across the card front.

Tomorrow we’ll be using a sketch to create a super fun thank-you design. I hope you’ll stop by and check it out.

Want to know how to make today’s card step-by-step? You can catch this week’s of episode of Terrific Tuesdays to see this card come together from start to finish. I’ve also provided a FREE PDF tutorial here. Please note that some of the products shown will not be available until September 6th.

Products used in today’s card:
Shaded Spruce, Mossy Meadow, Very Vanilla, Basic White cardstock
Season of Green & Gold, gold foil DSP
Adventurous Sky stamps
Peaceful Evergreens stamps & dies (coming soon!)
Peaceful Season dies (coming soon!)
Drusy embellishments (coming soon!)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Holidays · Winter

Decorate With Happiness

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We’re wrapping up our week of winter-themed designs today with a simple fun fold card. This peek-through design uses the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusive bundle called Sophisticated Sled paired with the Winter Meadow patterned paper. I have to give credit to Create With Christy for the idea to transform the sled into a window pane. Absolutely brilliant! So let’s dive in and take a closer look at today’s card.

We get started with a base of Balmy Blue cardstock. This is a standard sized card base. To create our peek-through panel, we cut a one-inch section from the card front to allow our inside message panel to “peek through” to the card front. A sheet of berry and greenery patterned paper serves as our base panel on the card front, while a strip of Boho Blue luster paper peeks through from the inside panel. Our focal panel sits on a base of snowy vellum from the Graceful Greenery vellum pack that has been diecut using the Deckled Rectangles dies. Our window pane is built from three different papers. The molding is a sheet of white glimmer specialty paper. The paning is blue woodgrain paper from the Country Woods paper pack that has been diecut using the sled die in the Sophisticated Sled die set. The bottom rungs have been removed to give it a truer window pane look. The window pane is mounted over a snowy pattern from the Winter Meadow paper pack, which has been cut to size. These three layers are adhered together and then adhered to the vellum panel with dimensionals. Our decorative wreath from Sophisticated Sled is stamped on white cardstock, colored with Stampin’ Blends, and then diecut using the coordinating die. A few red iridescent discs add some sparkle to the berries on our wreath. A ribbon of gold twine adds the finishing touch. The wreath is adhered to the top of our window pane with dimensionals. The sentiment from Sophisticated Sled is heat embossed in white on a piece of blue woodgrain from the Country Woods paper pack. The sentiment is adhered to the card front with dimensionals and our focal panel is then adhered over it using an additional layer of dimensionals. We finish things off with a scattering of iridescent discs across the card front to help draw the eye across the design.

Next week, we’re heading to the garden. I hope you’ll drop in and check it out!

Products used in today’s card:

Product List
Balmy Blue 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[146982]
$11.50
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[159276]
$13.00
Winter Meadow 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[162133]
$12.50
Country Woods 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[163393]
$12.50
2023–2025 In Color™ 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Luster Specialty Paper
[161746]
$11.00
Berry Burst, Old Olive & White 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Glimmer Specialty Paper
[163769]
$6.00
Graceful Greenery Vellum 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
[164118]
$10.00
Sophisticated Sled Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[164340]
$24.00
Sophisticated Sled Dies
[164133]
$35.00
Deckled Rectangles Dies
[159173]
$30.00
Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad
[147088]
$9.00
Old Olive Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
[154892]
$11.00
Shaded Spruce Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
[154903]
$11.00
Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack
[161676]
$11.00
Versamark Pad
[102283]
$9.50
Basics Wow! Embossing Powder
[165679]
$21.00
Gold & Silver 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Trim Combo Pack
[161633]
$9.00
Iridescent Adhesive Backed Discs
[161954]
$7.00
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
Add All to Cart
Frosted Forest · Fun Folds

Thoughtful Thanks

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We are closing out our week of card designs where we’ve been using the new Online Exclusive by Stampin’ Up! called Frosted Forest. And we are doing so in style with one of my very favorite fancy fun folds called the Center Step fold. This is one of my favorite folds when I have a bundle made for scene building, and of course, Frosted Forest is absolutely perfect for that. For this design, we’re pairing it up with some patterned paper from the Thoughtful Journey designer series paper pack.

We get started on today’s fun fold design with a base of Lost Lagoon cardstock, which is cut to the standard size. The panel is then cut and scored to allow for the center standout section. (Click here for the full PDF directions.) I used the sheet of patterned paper with the evergreens from the Thoughtful Journey paper pack to serve as the backdrop for the front scene. The evergreen tree is stamped on Mossy Meadow using the Frosted Forest stamp and then diecut with the coordinating full tree die. The coordinating limbs are then diecut and added on top for additional detail. This is adhered to the left side of the center fold with dimensionals.

Next up is the tall tree, which is stamped on Crumb Cake cardstock and then diecut with the coordinating die. The top of the tree is then also stamped on Mossy Meadow, diecut, and adhered on top. I also diecut a branch portion of the tree from Crumb Cake to be layered on top of the green canopy. I went over the trunk and limbs with a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend. The coordinating leaves are diecut from Old Olive and then adhered on top of the branches. This is adhered to the right side of the center fold with dimensionals and made to stand a little higher than the evergreen for greater depth of field. I added some low-lying bushes using the die from the Sending Love set. The squirrel and bunny are diecut using the In the Grove dies, while the deer is from the Grove set. I added some shading detail to the deer and squirrel using my sponge dauber.

The sentiment panel is a simple circle diecut from Very Vanilla using the Everyday Details dies. The sentiment from Changing Leaves is stamped in Lost Lagoon. I added coordinating rainbow dots on either side to draw the eye and some linen thread behind for a more natural attention-grabbing detail.

The inside panel of the card is covered with another patterned sheet from the Thoughtful Journey paper pack. This sentiment from Changing Leaves is stamped on Very Vanilla and then diecut using the Autumn Leaves die. It’s adhered in the centered of the inside panel with dimensionals.

This card is a perfect example of how a great piece of patterned paper and a beautiful scene-building stamp bundle allow you to make beautiful cards without a lot of effort. The patterned paper does the heavy lifting here, while the Frosted Forest just adds the icing on the cake.

Next week, we’re going to dip our toes in the snow and dream of cooler weather! I hope you’ll join me.

Products used in today’s card:
Lost Lagoon, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Smoky Slate, Very Vanilla cardstock
Thoughtful Journey DSP
Frosted Forest stamps & dies
Changing Leaves stamps
In the Grove, Grove, Everyday Details, Autumn Leaves dies
Stampin’ Blends
Rainbow adhesive dots
Linen thread
Dimensionals
Adhesive

Product List
Thoughtful Journey 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[163303]
$12.50
Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[133679]
$11.50
Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[100702]
$11.50
Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[133676]
$11.50
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[120953]
$11.50
Pecan Pie 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[161717]
$11.50
Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[131202]
$11.50
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[101650]
$13.00
Frosted Forest Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[164344]
$21.00
Changing Leaves Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
[164351]
$20.00
Frosted Forest Dies
[164136]
$36.00
In The Grove Dies
[163511]
$31.00
Grove Dies
[157844]
$39.00
Everyday Details Dies
[162864]
$34.00
Autumn Leaves Dies
[162185]
$38.00
Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad
[101406]
$10.50
Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad
[161678]
$9.00
Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
[154882]
$11.00
Rainbow Adhesive Backed Dots
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Fun Folds · Masculine Designs

True Blessing

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This week, we’re working through our stash of Stampin’ Up! products to honor all the guys. It’s hard to believe that it’s already June and Father’s Day is quickly approaching. I hope one of this week’s designs inspires you to create something special for your fellas.

Today, we’re combining some gorgeous designer series paper with our dies to create this stunning fun fold called the Faux Fold-Over. We get started with a base of Early Espresso cardstock that has been cut to give us a flip-up panel, or the faux fold-over panel, in the center. Our full background layer is the sheet of Pool Party woodgrain from the Country Woods designer series paper pack.

For the center panel, we emboss a piece of the Pebbled Path luster paper using the Leaf Fall embossing folder. The sentiment panel consists of three layers — the bottom two layers utilize both sides of the white woodgrain sheet from the Country Woods paper pack and the third panel is white cardstock. Each circle is cut using the Spotlight on Nature dies. The white sentiment panel is stamped with the Unbounded Love sentiment in Copper Clay. The sentiment panel is adhered to the darker circle to create a matted sentiment. This layer is then adhered with dimensionals to the largest circle and the full panel is adhered using dimensionals to the center panel over a twist of linen thread. From Copper Clay luster paper, we diecut deer and branches from the Grove die set and a maple leaf from the Autumn Leaves dies and then adhere them to our panel to create our scene. The card front is finished off with swirl dots. Our inside sentiment from the Something Fancy set is stamped atop the small leaves from the Autumn Leaves stamp set in the bottom-right corner of the message panel.

This week’s Terrific Tuesdays episode walks you through making this card step-by-step. Missed the episode? You can watch the full episode right here:

You can also download the FREE step-by-step PDF tutorial for today’s card by clicking here.

Tomorrow we’ll be heading through the grove. I hope you’ll stop by and check it out!

Products used in today’s card:
Early Espresso, Basic White cardstock
Country Woods, In Color Luster DSP
Unbounded Love, Something Fancy, Autumn Leaves stamps
Spotlight on Nature, Grove, Autumn Leaves dies
Leaf Fall embossing folder
Linen thread
Swirl dots
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Flowering Zinnias · Fun Folds · Shop the catalog

Wishing Strength

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We’re finishing out this week’s tour of the Flowering Zinnias suite with a beautiful fun fold featuring the designer series paper. The paper in this suite is what initially caught my eye, but once it was all said and done, I ended up with all of the coordinating products after being inspired by what other crafters were able to do with the suite as a whole.

Today’s card design uses a double fold-over panel fun fold and showcases the Flowering Zinnias DSP. We’re using the coordinating Simply Zinnia dies to accentuate elements of the gorgeous paper.

We start this card with a standard base of Mossy Meadow cardstock, which is scored in the center. The front panel is cut diagonally to make a smaller fold-over panel in order to reveal more of the gorgeous designer paper on the fold-over panel underneath. This small panel is then covered with the leaves and stems patterned sheet from the Flowering Zinnias paper pack, which is matted with a piece of Soft Sea Foam cardstock. Each layer is 1/8-inch smaller than the next.

Next, we move to assembling the overlapping front sentiment panel. The base layer is Mossy Meadow cardstock that has been diecut with the second largest hexagon from the Nested Essentials die set. Cut an identical size hexagon from Soft Sea Foam and then cut a sliver from the center so that a small border of Mossy Meadow is exposed on either side at top and bottom when the two hexagons are adhered together. The sentiment panel is cut from white cardstock with the next-smallest nesting hexagon from the die set and the sentiment from the Inspiring Snapdragons stamp set is stamped in the center. All three layers are adhered together in one flat panel and adhered directly to the bottom of the front fold-over panel. I cut a second sentiment panel from white cardstock and stamped the sentiment from Something Fancy in the center. This is adhered to the back of the hexagon on the inside of the small fold-over panel.

Now we move to assembling the inside fold-over panel. This panel also begins with a base of Mossy Meadow cardstock, which is cut so that there is a 1-inch flap to adhere to the card base and serve as the hinge for this panel. The sheet of designer paper from the Flowering Zinnias pack is matted with a sheet of Soft Sea Foam and then adhered to the flap base. Each layer is 1/8-inch smaller than the one underneath. The inside message panel is a plain white sheet of paper that has been left blank for an extended message.

We finish off the card design by accentuating the zinnias in the patterned paper panel. Using the Simply Zinnia dies, I assembled two blooms. The petals are cut from Calypso Coral and Flirty Flamingo, while the flower centers are cut from Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie. I also cut a single bloom from the edge of the sheet of blooms paper from the paper pack and adhered a flower center to the top to add that bit of realism to it, as well. The partial flower is adhered to the left side of the sentiment panel to cover the center seam of the Soft Sea Foam layer. The two diecut zinnia blooms are placed so that they give some life and realism to the two DSP panels—one over the stems and leaves flap and one nestled in the floral DSP panel just under the sentiment. Everything is finished off with sequins and a butterfly.

Click here to download the detailed PDF tutorial for today’s card. Don’t be intimidated by the number of steps! I break things up into bite-sized pieces to help ME not miss a step the next time I pull out my directions. *wink*

Tomorrow we’re (finally) going to get a look at those By Your Side Kit alternatives. I hope you’ll pop in to see how you can make a few little tweaks to kits to give them a fresh look.

Products used in today’s card design:
Mossy Meadow, Soft Sea Foam, Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Basic White cardstock
Flowering Zinnias DSP
Simply Zinnia, Nested Essentials dies
Inspiring Snapdragons, Something Fancy stamps
Paper butterfly
Shiny sequins, sequins trio
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Fun Folds · Luv 2 Stamp Artisan Design Team

Big Hugs Giftie

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Our monthly Luv 2 Stamp Team challenge is using designer series paper and to include at least one 3D project in the mix. I decided to make a fun treat holder for my 3D project since I had just recently made a whole slew of this design for a craft fair.

What I love about this particular fun fold is that you can adapt it to numerous occasions based on what you stuff in all of the treat holder slots. For today’s design, I chose to focus more on afternoon tea time. But I’ve also used these little gifties to feature get well items, like a package of tissues, some tea and honey, and vitamin mixes. There’s really no limit to how you can tailor them to any occasion.

For today’s treat holder, I used a sheet of the Delightfully Eclectic designer paper. The decorative insert has a base of Gorgeous Grape diecut using the Thoughtful Expressions dies. The sentiment from Perennial Postage is stamped on white and then diecut using the All That dies. I cut a flower from the DSP to tie everything together. I hope to post a tutorial video tomorrow (cross your fingers) and will also share the PDF tutorial.

Products used:
Gorgeous Grape, Basic White cardstock
Delightfully Eclectic DSP
Perennial Postage stamps
Thoughtful Expressions, All That dies
Rainbow dots
Silver trim
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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