Fun Fold Tropical Escape Birthday

This is a really a fun fold. It allows you to show off some off any of our beautiful DSP  For today's card I used the Tropical Escape DSP and even made an embellishment from images in the paper.

In the above picture the card is closed but you can see the beautiful embellishment.  Opening up the card reveals the different patterns in the DSP.

Here's how to make this fun fold:

• Start with a 5 1/2 by 10 1/2" piece of Thick Whisper White card stock
• Score at 5 1/2, 6 3/4, 8 and 9 1/4.  Starting at the left side, fold as follows:  mountain, valley, mountain and valley.  Burnish with a bone folder
• Add DSP matted with Basic Black  and the Whisper White using the following measurements:

Basic Black card stock:  

(1) 4 1/4 by 5 1/4"

(2) 2 1/8 by 5 1/4

(2) 1 1/8 by 5 1/4"

DSP (Tropical Escape)

(1) 4 by 5"

(2) 2 by 5

(2) 1 by 5

Whisper White

(1) 1 3/4 by 5 1/4

Make the embellishment:

Cut 3 palm leaves and 3 flowers (pink) from the DSP.

Punch a 1 1/4" scallop circle which will be the base for the leaves and flowers

Sponge leaves with Granny Apple Green ink ; the flowers with Petal Pink ink.

Using an Emerald Green marker, make markings on the inside of each flower.

Shape the leaves and the flowers.

Using a hot glue gun (you can use tombo if you wish) attach the leaves to the scallop circle base and cluster the flowers at the base of the leaves. Add a black rhinestone to the center of each flower.

Adhere to only half of the first mountain fold from the center.  The embellishment should extend over the edge. ( see first picture)

Die cut a  Delicate Lace Edgelit in Granny Apple green and adhere to first panel. 

• The sentiment, stamped with Black Memento, was die cut using the rectangular, notched framelit from "Farmhouse Christmas"
• Stamp birthday sentiment from "Bunch of Blossoms"

Close the card and wrap a 5/8" white polka do ribbon around the end fold the keep the card closed.  An alternative would be to make a belly band.

Supplied Used:

Stamps:  Painted Glass, Bunch of Blossoms

Inks:  Black Memento, Granny Apple Green, Petal Pink, Emerald Green Marker, Stampin Up Blends

Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Basic Black, Tropical Escape DSP, Granny Apple Green

Accessories:  Stained Glass Thinlets, Delicate Lace Edgelits, Festive Farmhouse Framelit Dies, Black Rhinestones, 5/8" white organza polka dot ribbon

Bringing the Tree Home

For this card I brought out not one but two of my favourites - the Woodland Embossing Folder and Lovely as a Tree - and brought in a new friend -  Farmhouse Christmas

There are many tutorials on You Tube demonstrating stamping on the Woodlands Embossing Folder so I won't go into a lot of detail here.

 I applied Smoky Slate and Pool Party with a Brayer and then stamped the  tree from " Lovely as a Tree" with Mossy Meadow ink  directly onto the embossing folder. After running the embossing folder with  inserted cardstock through the Big Shot, Dazzling Diamonds were added to  the birch trees- making it look like a Winter Wonderland.

On a separate piece of Whisper white the image of the truck was stamped , colored with Stampin' Up Blends and then die cut using the coordinating  Farmhouse framelit.  Some snow, in the form of Liquid Applique,was applied to the tree and the top of the truck.

Dimensionals were used to adhere both the truck and the die cut sentiment to the embossed art piece.

Two rows of 1/8" Blueberry Bushel grosgrain ribbon adhered to the lower art piece, actually look like a road and  help to ground the truck.  Do you see the tiny wreath on the upper left corner of the sentiment?

The embossed art piece was adhered to a Blueberry Bushel card stock base.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Farmhouse Christmas, Lovely as a Tree

Inks:  Smoky Slate, Pool Party, Mossy Meadow, Black Memento, Stampin' Up Blends

Papers:  Whisper White, Blueberry Bushel

Accessories:  Woodland Embossing Folder, Brayer, Big Shot, Farmhouse Framelit Dies, 1/8" Blueberry Bushel ribbon, Liquid Applique (non SU), Dazzling Diamonds,