Reason to Celebrate, Lovely & Beautiful, Anniversary Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a SO much better card to share with you than the horrible one I posted yesterday! I promise to never do that again! LOL That card haunted me all day and I felt I needed to find something fun to make to take my mind off it. So here's what I came up with. I got the layout from Cheryl at Paper Panacea. You can see her beautiful card by clicking here. She found a tutorial on how to make it at Frenchie Stamps. 

All you need is a 5-1/4" x 6" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP), a 4-1/8" x 5-3/8" piece of card stock for the large layer and a folded half-sheet of card stock. My DSP is from the "Lovely & Beautiful" 12" x 12" package.

For my card I used a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

My large layer is a 4-1/8" x 5-3/8" piece of Fresh Freesia card stock. I taped it to the card base once I was done working the rest of the front.

I made this card front twice. I didn't like how it turned out the first time so the second time I made a few little tick marks to guide my folding.

I marked the center of my large layer at 2-1/16" at the top and I marked my larger piece of DSP at 1-1/4".  I taped the large piece to my Fresh Freesia piece.

After taping the smaller strips in place (taping only on the outer sides because you need to fold the insides), I marked the center at 2-5/8" and on the sides I marked them at 5/8" down (on all 4 sides). Now I was able to make my folds a little neater. My first one was so off that I would have had to have a 3" x 3" word piece to make it look fairly balanced. My piece is a hair off in the very center but the word piece covers it nicely. I like that the sides are looking equal all around at those tops.

I did tape my folds down but I do regret it. I think it would have looked nicer leaving them along.

After the folding was done, I stamped the words from the "Reason to Celebrate" set using Old Olive ink on Basic White card stock. I cut the words using the largest ribbon ends die in the "Stylish Shapes" set.

I took some linen thread and wrapped it around 3 slightly spread fingers 3 times. I took the ends and pinched them together with the other side of the circle that formed and set them in the center of the card. I stuck a large glue dot on top to hold the threads in place. I stretched out the glue dot a bit before I did that because it was a bit too high.  

Dimensionals were added behind the word piece (not in the center where the glue dot is, it would end up being too high) and I set the piece in place on the front of the card.

I added 3 of the clear enamel dots from the "Ladybug Garden" package and the card was done.

This was a fun card to make (once I used measurements) and I can see myself making more with this layout. Perhaps for Valentine's Day or Easter and definitely Christmas!

Thank you SO much for taking your time to stop in and see today's anniversary card,
Wanda