Halloween Boo Shutter Card

I love Pinterest as it has so many ideas and tutorials for fun card designs. I’ve seen the shutter card many times over the years but somehow, never got around to making one….until now! I wanted an interactive card for some young ones and thought it would be perfect for a Halloween card. I followed Lisa Curcio’s tutorial and have linked it here: https://lisasstampstudio.com/2020/07/how-to-make-interactive-card-like-a-boss.html

And here is the card closed:

And as it’s opened up slightly:

A little more:

And more:

And here it is fully opened:

Can’t you imagine a child opening and closing it repeatedly? I sure can and in fact, even I did several times after I made the card!! lol Hoping you enjoyed watching the card open in the photos. Thanks for stopping by....

Oh a tip: the BOO sentiment is a plastic die cut, which sometimes had enough "surface" to catch on the shutter mechanism. So I glued a strip of dimensional (double sided foam sticker) to cardstock and cut it out-- I only wanted one surface of the foam to be sticky. Then I attached the dimensional strip to the card base just about (but also out of sight) of the shutter mechanism as it opens and closes. I added this above the "BOO" and another below it. Then all I had to do was to carefully place the shutter pieces so that they were flush with the printed card stock so that the foam strip kept the shutters elevated off of the card base and hence, not catching on the "BOO". If you make a card and just stamp a sentiment or have an otherwise totally flat focal, you won't have to worry about it catching. 

Happy Halloween!

Paper Pumpkin June 2026 Bikes and Blooms alternates

What a fun kit this is! I have to admit that the partial bikes kind of bugged me initially but it grew on me pretty quickly and I loved the florals combined with the bikes💕. I’ve made 3 alternate designs so far with a 4th in mind but not finished at this time. I’ll hopefully post that one later but I have to admit that I’m so behind on posting …! 

The first two designs (shown on the bottom of the photo above) are variations on a z-fold but given the direction of the bicycle half, I flipped the Z portion of one. Let me explain…first of all, I preferred adding a background to the bicycle so I pulled out some leftover DSP from the Thoughtful Journey pack. I loved the abstract landscapes and thought they’d be a perfect backdrop for the bicycle, without being too specific. They were perfect (or so I think). The standard z-fold has a front panel that is also 5.5”x4.25”. I cut the Thoughtful Journey DSP at 5.25”x4” then I adhered the large bicycle - which I purposely attached going to the right most edge of the card base! Then I added a grassy die cut in front of the bike. I stamped a bunch of small florals in the open spaces on the basket of greenery and stamped a birthday greeting on the sentiment label. The finishing touch was adding a little bird from the birds and butterflies embellishment pack.

 

Since the front panel is the full size of the card, the z-fold doesn't show unless you see the card from a  top view. I added a strip from the front panel DSP to bring it inside the card too:

For the second z-fold, I cut the full bicycle into two and fussy cut around it. Then I reversed the Z since it was just the back end of the bike and it didn’t take up the entire card front, I took advantage and used a smaller front panel. Again I used the Thoughtdul Journey DSP as a background, and added the grass die cut in front. I also stamped some birds flying in the sky, but it got hidden until you open the card. 

Again the finishing touch was a little bird from the birds and butterflies embellishment pack. Here's the "reverse" z-fold card from an aerial view. I decided to reverse the Z-fold because I wanted the cut off portion of the bicycle to be on the right edge of the card. You can also see the little birds stamped in the top left corner:

The third alt is a Thank you easel card and I used the sentiments from the Banner Sayings stamp set for both the focal sentiment as well as the stopper. Once again I added a Thoughtful Journey DSP panel to the background and stamped the flowers in the bike basket. 

When you open the card the stopper is a second sentiment:

Which left plenty of room above the sentiment to write a personal thank you message!

Thanks for stopping by....hope you like my alternate designs from this Paper Pumpkin kit. Have a wonderful day...

Lovely & Beautiful DSP fun fold

A shoutout of thanks to Rachel Tessman for her tutorial on this card design. It looks like a horizontal book binding card but when you open it, it twists around and becomes a vertical orientation card!! 

Here I'm starting to open it:

Opening it further...you can see how the front of the card is flipping...

And here it is, fully open:

Love love love this card design and of course this DSP pack has been a huge favorite of mine. I've used it in many a card! Thanks for stopping by...