Fun Fold - Twisted Easel Book Binding

Hello my stamping friends. Today I am sharing with you a card I did for my monthly class. It's so simple, but so cute. I used the Beary Christmas designer paper for the star of the show.

Measurements:

Night of Navy: 4¼ x 11, scored at 4¼ & 5½ - you will also score from the 4¼ bottom left score line diagonally to the top right corner

Night of Navy: 4 x 4 plus scrap for greeting layer

Designer Paper: 3⅞ x 3⅞, 1 x 4

Basic White: 4 x 4 plus scrap for greeting

Instructions:

1. Fold card base in half at the 5½
2. Adhere the 1¼ section of the card front closed. This is the "book binding"
3. The diagonal score line will fold in towards the inside of the card
4. Adhere the 1 x 4 designer paper in the center of the "book binding" section
5. Adhere the 3⅞ x 3⅞ designer paper to the 4 x 4 Night of Navy layer
6. Adhere the 4 x 4 layer to just the bottom section of the card front
7. Either hand cut one of the polar bears or use the beary cute punch to cut one of the coordinating bears from the paper.
8. Adhere the bear you cut or punched out to the bottom right corner of the 4 x 4 Basic White layer with Stampin' Dimensionals.
9. Stamp the sentiment on the Basic White layer with Night of Navy ink. Adhere this layer to the inside of the card.
10. Stamp the greeting onto the scrap of Basic White with Real Red ink. Cut with the Deckled Circle dies (the smallest one)
11. Use the next to the smallest Deckled Circle die and cut the Night of Navy scrap
12. Adhere the stamped greeting to the navy circle and then to the card front
13. Randomly add a few of the Adhesive-Backed Snowflake Assortment snowflakes to the card front.

   

I have a video for you below that shows exactly how this card is assembled.

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Mystery Stamping with France "Frenchie" Martin

Howdy stampers. Welcome back. Today my share is the Mystery Stamping that I did live with France "Frenchie" Martin. I love working with her and think we make a great team. We are sharing a simple card with you and then showing you how to crank it up a notch and showing you a more stepped-up version of the same card. Below are the cut pieces that I shared for the simple version.

Measurements: 

Card Base (white or vanilla): 4¼ x 11 scored at 5½

Designer Paper: 3¼ x 5¼, ¾ x 4 (Garden Walk)

Coordinating designer paper: ¾ x 5¼ (Garden Walk)

Coordinating card stock: 2⅝ x 2⅝ (Poppy Parade), 3¾ x ½, 3¼ x ½, 1¾ x 1 (Pretty Peacock)

White or Vanilla: 2½ x 2½

This is my simple card.

   

For all of my samples, I started with my designer paper cut at 4 x 5¼. I then cut off a strip that measured ¾ x 5¼. I flipped this piece over and re-attached it to the remaining designer paper. I show you in the video how I do this with Tear & Tape adhesive. 

I have 2 samples for my stepped up version of this card below for you.

Measurements:

Card Base (white or vanilla): 4¼ x 11 scored at 5½

Designer Paper: 3¼ x 5¼, ¾ x 4 (Garden Walk)

Coordinating designer paper: ¾ x 5¼ (Garden Walk)

Coordinating card stock: 2⅝ x 2⅝ (Petal Pink), 3¾ x ½, 3¼ x ½, 1¾ x 1 (Mossy Meadow)

Coordinating card stock: 1 x 5¼ (Calypso Coral)

White or Vanilla: 2½ x 2½

Calypso Coral Braided Linen Trim: 6" and about 8"

On this card I attached the designer paper back together as shown in the video. Then I cut the 1 x 5¼ Calypso Coral in half with the Basic Borders dies. I attached one half to the designer paper right where the two designs met. I then wrapped the 6" piece of trim over the seam, adhering it to the back. It was then ready to be adhered to the card base. For the inside of the card I cut the other half of die cut from the Basic Borders die to 4" and then added above the designer paper. The rest of the assembly is shown in the video.

Measurements for the card made in the video:

Card Base (white or vanilla): 4¼ x 11 scored at 5½

Designer Paper: 3¼ x 5¼, ¾ x 4 (Garden Walk)

Coordinating designer paper: ¾ x 5¼ (Garden Walk)

Coordinating card stock: 2⅝ x 2⅝, 3¾ x ½, 3¼ x ½, 1¾ x 1 (Garden Green)

Coordinating card stock: 1 x 5¼ (Calypso Coral)

White or Vanilla: 2½ x 2½

Balmy Blue Double-Stitched Ribbon: 6"

Gold & Silver Trim Combo: about 8"

This card was assembled the same as example 2. For all of my samples I used the Sentimental Park stamp set. For all of my supplies, please click the image below.

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Fun Fold - Corner Flap Over with Video

Hello my stamping friends. I have a fun fold for you today that I am calling a Corner Flap Over fold. I don't remember who I first saw this from, but it is definitely not my design. I recommend using regular weight card stock for this fold as it gets rather thick in spots. This is one of the cards we did at my class this month.

Measurements:

Basic White: 8¼ x 7

Pebbled Path: 2½ x 2½ *2, 2½ x 1¼

Crumb Cake: 2¼ x 2¼ *2

Silver Foil: 1¾ x 1¾

Scoring the card base:

With 8¼ on top, score at 2¾

With 7 on top, score at 4¼

with 8¼ on top, make a small pencil mark at 5½, turn paper clockwise so that the 7" is across the top. Make a small pencil mark at 1½. Now score diagonally lining up these pencil marks in the scoring track. Make sure that you are scoring through the middle of the other 2 score lines you did.

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Team Swap with the Sept - Dec Mini catalog

Hello my stamping friends. My share for you today is the card I made for our team swap. We do a swap each time we have a new catalog so this card is for the September - December 2023 Mini Catalog. I love participating in swaps as you make a few of the same card and then get the same amount of different cards back. This is a great resource for inspiration. I have the supplies, measurements and instructions listed below for you.

Measurements:

Melon Mambo: 4¼ x 11 scored at 5½, 3¼ x 2

Basic White: 4 x 5¼ * 2, 3 x 1½

Flirty Flamingo: 2¼ x 4¼

Merry Bold & Bright designer paper: 2 x 4, 4 x 1¼, 4 x ¾, 6 x 2½ (flap of envelope)

Instructions: 

1. Emboss one Basic White layer with the Disressed Tile 3D folder and adhere to card base. As an alternate, I cut this layer with the Dots & Spots die instead of embossing it. I like both designs.
2. Adhere the 2 x 4 designer paper to the 2¼ x 4¼ Flirty Flamingo layer and then to card front.
3. Adhere the 4 x 1¼ designer paper across the card front
4. Using the Something Fancy dies, cut both the Melon Mambo and Basic White layers.
5. Stamp the greeting onto the Basic White label with Real Red ink. Adhere to the Melon Mambo label and then to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals.
6. Add some of the Daffodil Delight Glossy Dots to the card front.
7. Adhere the remaining designer paper strip to 4 x 5¼ inside layer and then to the inside of the card.

Supplies:

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Darling Details Thinking of You

Hello my stamping friends. I am back today to share with you one of the cards I made for my card class this month. The card it self is pretty straight forward, but we used plastic wrap to make the designer paper. I have all of the details in the video below for you.

Measurements:

Lemon Lime Twist 8½ x 5½ scored at 4¼ for the card base

Basic White: 4 x 5¼, 2½ x 8½, 3½ x 4¾

Melon Mambo: 1½ x 5¼, 4 x 5¼

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Gatefold with a Twist with video

Hello my stamping friends. My share for you today is a card I did for last month's card class. I always try to do a different fun fold for them each month and I think this one qualifies as a fun fold. It's super easy as well. I have a video for you below showing how to put this card together.

Measurements:

Thick Basic White: 8½ x 5½ scored at 1 & 5¼ with the 8½ across the top

Misty Moonlight: 3½ x 4¼ 

Vellum: 3½ x 4¼

Basic White: 2½ x 4¼, 2¼ x ½, 3 x 3

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Picket Fence with Cheerful Daisies and Darling Details

Hello my stamping friends.  I have a new video tutorial for you today using Cheerful Daisies and Darling Details with a picket fence. I have seen and done the lattice cards, but I drive by a house on my way to work every day that has a white picket fence and beautiful flowers in front of it so that was my inspiration for this card. I demonstrated this card for my teammates at our last meeting and a few of them were looking for the video, which at the time I didn't have and and it was recorded during the meeting.  I love it when someone loves my project and wants to CASE it. What an honor! Below is the original card I did for the team. For this one I only used the flowers and leaves from Cheerful Daisies dies.

Here are the measurements for the card in the video.

Thick Basic White: 4¼ x 11 Scored at 5½

Basic White: 4¼ x ½ *3, 3 x 5 for stamped daisies, 1¼ x 8 for the detail layer of daisies.

Highland Heather: 2 x 4½

Fresh as a Daisy designer paper: 4⅛ x 2⅜

Subtles Highland Heather designer paper: 4⅛ x 3

Soft Sea Foam: 1 x 5

Instructions:

1. Cut 6 ½ inch pieces from the card front so that when you are done you will have 6 strips that measure ½ x 4⅛
2. Emboss the 6 strips you cut from the card front and the additional 3 strips that measure ½ x 4⅛ with the Timber embossing folder.
3. Lightly sponge Gray Granite ink over the embossing to distress the fence a little.
4. With the Take A Banners Pick A Punch, cut the tops of the 6 pickets you cut from the card base.
5. Adhere the designer paper that looks like the sky onto the card front.
6. Line up an uncut wood strip horizontally on your work station. Put a small amount of adhesive on the uncut end of the picket and adhere even with the bottom and left edge. Repeat with another picket an line up with the bottom and right edge. If you are using grid paper to line up the rest of the pickets you would skip 2 squares between each one.
7. Put a little adhesive on the top of each picket, line the bottom edge up with the bottom of the card base and adhere the pickets to card front over your sky paper.
8. Adhere the remaining two horizontal wood pieces, just putting adhesive on the section of the picket that it will adhere to.
9. Adhere the remaining designer paper to the inside, making the left, right and bottom margins equal.
10. On the 3 x 5 Basic White stamp 6 small daisies in Lemon Lolly ink. Cut with coordinating die.
11. Stamp the centers of the daisies with Pebbled Path ink.
12. Cut 6 detail daisy images with the remaining Basic White piece and adhere to top of each yellow daisy.
13. Cut 2 of each of all of the small detail leaves from Darling Details dies.
14. Cut 3 of the tall flower images from Darling Details dies from the Highland Heather piece.
15. Adhere some of the daisies flat and some with Stampin' Dimensionals. Be carful not to use too much glue an stick your card shut. You will just want adhesive where the flower is going to sit on the picket. I used 5 daisies on the card front.
16. With liquid glue tuck the purple flowers and the leaves behind the daisies. 
17. Adhere the remaining daisy to the inside. (I forgot to do this in the video).

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Waves of Inspiration

Hello my stamping friends. I am back today to share with you a card I did for my class this month. The Waves of Inspiration stamp set has been collecting dust so I thought it was time to use it again. I have a video for you below so you can see exactly how I put this together.

Measurements:

Lost Lagoon - 8½ x 5½ scored at 4¼

Pretty Peacock - 5⅜ x 4⅛

Basic White - 4 x 5¼ *2, 5½ x 2¾, 3 x 1¼, scrap for clouds

Soft Shimmer - 5½ x 2¾

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