Petals of Beauty, Simply Said, Note Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog.  Today I do NOT have a Christmas card to share with you!  Though there is one more that I REALLY want to make and then I'll be moving on. It's almost Christmas so it's about time to wrap up the Christmas cards. Though I like to send out a lot and can never seem to have enough Christmas cards.  Anyway, let's move on to today's card.  It's a very fun fold and I spent a LOT of time trying to figure out the template.  Fortunately for you I am adding that template so you can make it.  So, please read on to see how I made my card.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Crumb Cake card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut a 4-1/8" x 5-13/8" piece of Very Vanilla card stock for the largest layer.  On top of that is a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Brushed with Beauty" 12" x 12" package.  I taped it to the Very Vanilla piece and then taped that to the card base. Before I moved on I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Very Vanilla card stock and taped it to the inside.

For the fan or arrow (which is it?) type fold I worked for about an hour trying to get it the right size and get the scoring right. Several times I didn't mark the right spot and messed it up. Fortunately I was working with scrap copier paper and didn't feel bad about having to put it in recycling but I did get frustrated with the mistakes.  Anyway, after all is said and one I now have a template and I also made my copier paper 3D card so I can add it to my layouts.  I do plan to make another card using this layout (now that I have it simplified).  

I cut my DSP for the fan/arrow piece at 4-3/4" x 2-1/2".  I marked the lower sides at 1/4". This is a cut line, not a fold line.  The next 4 lines are score lines. Measure from the upper corner to 1-1/4" on both corners.  Mark the bottom center edge of the piece. You will be scoring to this mark on all for lines.

Now to score from the corners to the center and then from the 1-1/4" mark to the center.  Cut away the bottom 1/4" to the center on each side.

To fold the pieces, do one side at a time. Fold the score line that was marked at 1-1/4", folding the rest of the card stock to the back.  Then score the corner to center line towards the front and repeat for the other side.  You will need to snip off those triangles (as seen in the pic - with a paper clip to hold it for the pic).  Don't worry about the tips not being sharp, they will be hidden. But you do want sharp edges on the folds. 

The pieces needed to be glued together so it stays closed.  You are going to have to make two of these. 

The snipped end will be lined up at the bottom and the top of the card front and taped or glued in place.  

I cut two open leaves from the "Petals of Beauty" bundle, one is Very Vanilla and the other is Mossy Meadow. It's a long die and I needed to clip off the last two leaves. I did use a Very Vanilla one on the top and I added the other piece (Mossy Meadow) to the bottom area.  I had trimmed the edges of the leaf where the longer piece was cut from. I taped the ends of these pieces in place. 

The words are from the "Simply Said" set and were stamped using Mossy Meadow ink on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock.  I cut it out using the 4th square die in the "Stylish Shapes" set.  If you don't have the set you can cut the card stock at 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" and then cut the Mossy Meadow layer at 1-5/8" x 1-5/8".  Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place on the center of the card. 

I added a few crystal rhinestones to the front and the card was done.  

I hope you have fun playing with this layout! 

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

Painterly Pears, Simply Said, Friendship Card, Thinking of You Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a card to share with you that I found on Pinterest. You can see the original card here. I changed it a bit due to not having all the same products. I did what I could with what I had. Please read on to see how I made today's card. 

The card technique or fun fold here is the "Book Fold". It's super easy to do too. I cut my Basic Black card stock on the 8-1/2" side. Once cut it measured 4-1/4" x 11".  I scored it in the middle at 5-1/2, as usual. Then I score one inch on each side. So the scores are at 6-1/2", 5-1/2" and 4-1/2".  Fold the card in half and burnish the fold line using a bone folder. You want a nice crisp fold. I opened the card and folded the top part back on the 4-1/2" fold, just like you are opening a card. I added glue to the one inch area and closed the card. I set it aside to dry. 

Next I cut the Granny Apple Green card stock. The left strip measures 4-1/8" x 7/8" and the larger piece measures 4-1/8" x 4-3/8". 

The Designer Series Paper (DSP) is from the "Painterly Pears" 12" x 12" package. I used a scrap piece for the strip. It measured 4" x 3/4". I taped it to the Granny Apple Green strip. The larger piece of DSP measures 4" x 3-1/2".  I taped that piece to the larger Granny Apple Green piece. Then I taped the strip to the front of the card.

As for the larger piece, I needed to add the circle before attaching it to the front of the card. I had used the retired "Spotlight on Nature" bundle and cut it using the largest die on Basic White card stock. I taped it to the front of the card about 1" from the top of the DSP and 1" from the side of the DSP. 

The pears were fussy cut because I only bought the DSP and not the stamp set/bundle. The bundle has the matching dies but these images are very easy to fussy cut so I went that route, plus I had bought way too many stamp sets to play with and I didn't dare get another.  Once fussy cut I laid them on the circle and noticed that the circle was too bright. I didn't have the dies to cut the other elements around the pears so I thought I'd just take a toothbrush (the husbands, not mine *winks*) and tapped on some Crushed Curry ink. I think Peach Pie might have been a better choice after I had put the card together. Once the color was added to the circle I set the large pear and stem on the left in place using tape. Then  the second large pear and stem was added with Dimensionals. The small pair of pears was added using Dimensionals on the left side and a bit of tape where it would be touching the large pear.

I had fussy cut some of the flowers from the same sheet the pears were on and I glued them to the front of the card.

The words are from the "Simply Said" set and were stamped using Mossy Meadow ink on Basic White card stock. I used a 1-1/2" circle punch on the word piece. I set it in place using Dimensionals. I also added a couple of flowers to it too.

The flowers were nice but they needed a little something so I added some small pearls to the center of each one and the card was done.

I did have fun making this card. It's something I don't think I would make again but I do like how it turned out.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's friendship/thinking of you card,
Wanda