Peaceful Dock Father’s Day standing front panel card

Ah life has been extra busy these past few months so…whoops…forgot to finish posting several blog entries! Including a perfect Father’s Day card! I love fun folds but they don’t have to be complicated and this one is a simple one that stands up nicely and yet folds flat into an A2 sized envelope.             

To make this card, the card base is 8.25” x 5.5”  (note that this is .25” shorter than the standard 8.5” page width! I’ve made this card several times and tend to forget to remove .25” off of that end each time!!!). Then score the card base at 2”, 3” from each edge. Fold the 2” score as a valley fold (a “V” shape) and the 3” score as a mountain fold (the opposite direction). And then use a bone folder to get a crisp fold. The folded card base should fit easily in an A2 envelope.

I used an older DSP in my stash that looked “masculine” but don’t know the exact name. I adhered two panels on each side that measured 1.75” x 5.25”. The background of the front is 1 5/8” x 5.25” and the slim panels between the sides and front (which you can’t see in these photos!) is 3/4” x 5.25”.

The front panel is 3.75”x3.75” and I stamped it with the row boat from the Peaceful Dock stamp set. 

And on the back I’ve adhered a white panel 4 x 5.25” and attached it only on one side of the back so that it will allow the card to stand freely, but also fold and fit into the envelope:

I’ve made this card design several times and even made a bunch for donation! It’s easy and it’s fun. I hope you try it! 

Mini cards: Country Rose and Splendid Day

Here are two more 3x3” mini cards/gift enclosures that I made recently. This time I used Splendid Day DSP and Country Rose DSP:

Here’s a closeup of the Splendid Day DSP card: 

And here’s a closeup of the Country DSP card: 

These little cards are a great way to use up small squares (or almost squares) of pretty DSP! 

Toadstool Gardens: the latest batch of mini gift enclosure cards

I often make mini cards usually 3” x 3” but this time, I made some 2.5” x 3.5”. These mini cards are usually used as gift enclosures and I use them as “thank you’s”. Here are the latest ones made using Toadstool Gardens DSP:

It’s quite a darling pack of DSP and I had lots of fun creating these little cards. 

Latte Love coffee card

Ever get a stamp set (or other craft item, like some pretty fabric for example) and get all anxious about using it? That was this “coffee” based set for me. So I brought it on vacation. And yes I did make this card but I realized that I couldn’t use any of the wonderful dies since I hadn’t brought the right colors of cardstock! (Oh well, I can revisit that when we get back LOL. )

Anyhow so I needed to use mainly the DSP (A Little Latte #163453) and stamp set (#163455) for this card. No problem - Pinterest always provides  plenty of inspiration! And since I love fun fold cards, I decided to create a triangle flap card that has a smaller notecard attached. 

I decided to fussy cut from the printed DSP the coffee cups with the artistic milk foam…I love when a barista has some fun adding an artistic flair to the coffee foam💕 I chose two different (double sided) DSP prints for the triangular pieces so that all four triangular pieces would be different. And then I adhered the center panel and added a partial coffee cup on the bottom 

Last but not least was the sentiment, from the Latte Love stamp set, die cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies (#159183)

And with a bit of twine underneath the sentiment, this card was done! Perhaps a neutral color gem or matte dot might be nice but I don’t bring them along. Stay tuned for more cards with this set!

Alternate Designs Paper Pumpkin December 2023 Kit All The Best

It took me a while to start with this kit but once I did, it created sooooo many cards! Here’s the 6 different designs I’ve made so far, with still some components left to use!

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternative Designs

I’ll start with the bottom row since those are most like the kit’s original designs. The bottom left card is a Z-Fold. The original card base was cut into two, trimmed down slightly and mounted on Balmy Blue card stock. Then it was adhered to a Basic White card base that was folded into a Z-Fold base. I made 5 of these cards and gave them away with the original printed envelope. 

Alternate design: Z-Fold Dec 2023 Paper Pumpkin All the Best

In the center card design, I cut the card base in half again, trimmed 1/4” off each side and mounted it on a standard A2 card base. I made 2 or 3 of these pretty much as the kit intended, except for the sentiment and being mounted on a white card base!

I remembered seeing a Pinterest pin where someone had used the Deckled Circle die on the envelope to partially cut the flower from the envelope front. (At this point I had 4 envelopes to play with.) I thought that it looked neat and a bit different. I opted to add a stamped and adhered sentiment instead of stamping directly on the circle panel. The card base was again cut into two and trimmed down slightly to be glued to a Basic White card base.

Alternate Design Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Deckled Circle

By this time, I was a little “done” with the blue and white cards, having made 8 or so of them. So the cards on the top row purposely didn’t use any blue! If you’ve been counting, I had 3 envelopes left at this point. The flower was die cut from one envelope using the Deckled Rectangles dies. I put that on an Old Olive mat one rectangle size larger, added some twine, and adhered it on a Daffodil Delight panel that had been dry embossed with the Exposed Brick embossing folder. A few light green gems finished off this card design and I made 3 of these!

Paper Pumpkin Alternate Card design Dec 2023

I loved the gold panels that came with this kit and purposely left them for last. I decided to adapt them to an Asian theme and cut each of the three panels into two. Then I chose two different patterns of Japanese Washi paper to be the background for each card:

 

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternate Designs Asian

I couldn’t quite decide if I was going to angle the Distressed Gold mats or align it straight with the gold flower panels so I did both on the black Washi panels, but decided to only angle it on the red Washi design. There were 3 red cards and 3 black ones in the end. Oh and I embossed the gold flower panels with the Textured Textile embossing folder. Here’s a closeup:

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternate Design Asian

And believe it or not, I thought the embossing on the actual flower itself didn’t look great so I used my bone folder to gently flatten out some of the embossing!! I left it on the background though as that’s what I wanted…a little bit of texture!

And I have extra pieces still left that I can create more cards with! But I think I need to stop here and move on to the many projects I want to work on next.

I hope you are inspired… Thanks for stopping by…have a wonderful day