Birthday Horizontal Front Panel Fun Fold Card (and a video)- Hand Stamped Sentiments #360

 The challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments has some wonderful spring/Easter colours.  Below is the card I made. Scroll down to the bottom to check out a video on how to make the basic card fold.

The colours of the challenge are below:

To make the card, I first made my own designer paper using the colours above and the Pretty Perennial stamp set on a piece of Basic White card stock.

The basic card is a Horizontal Front Panel Fun Fold. There are many tutorials on You Tube and Pinterest for this fun fold, but the one I found most helpful was done by Jan B here . The measurements and score lines for the fun fold are as follows:

• Pear Pizzazz card stock 5 1/2 by 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4, 5 1/4, 7 & 8 on the 8 1/2" side
• Pear Pizzazz card stock 3 3/4 by 4 1/4" scored at 2 3/4 & 3 3/4 on the 4 1/4" side.
• Basic White  5 1/4 by 4"      DSP  5 by 3 3/4"   For back of  main fold.
• Basic White 5 1/4 by 1 3/4"  DSP 5 by 1 1/2" For front lower panel
• Basic White 3 1/2 by 2 1/2"   DSP 3 1/4 by 2 1/4" For the front panel
• Basic White die cut with the largest of the Stitched So Sweetly die - art piece
• The following stamped die cuts:  1 large flower stamped with Highland Heather; 3 medium flowers stamped with So Saffron ink; 1 large and 3 medium floral overlays; l large Pear Pizzazz stem and leaf.  The overlays are adhered to their floral counter parts before being added to the art piece as shown in the picture. Highland Heather pearls are added to the center of each flower.
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• The completed art piece is adhered to the front panel of the Fun Fold.
• Some Basic White ribbon (1/8") was coloured with a Highland Heather stamp'n blend, tied into a double bow and added to the lower corner of the art piece.
• Two little butterflies and a Ladybug are also added.
• Sentiment stamped with Highland Heather and trimmed all around; second part of sentiment stamped with Black Memento

After the card is put together this is what it looks like from the side:

Supplies Use:

Stamp:  Pretty Perennial

Inks:  Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Highland Heather, Black Memento, Highland Heather Stamp'n Blend

Papers:  Pear Pizzazz, Basic White

Accessories:  Perennial Petal dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Pastel Pearls, Ladybug embellishment, Dimensionals, 1/8" Basic White ribbon coloured with Highland Heather blend

Thinking of You

 Yesterday I made a video showing how I used the retiring In Colours to create a background.

Here is one card I made:

The card base is Rococco Rose card stock, layered with Basic White, and then a piece of the created background.  Before adding it to the Basic White layer, the edges were sponged with Rococco Rose ink.

Near the bottom, a piece of 1/2" scallop Linen Rococco Rose ribbon was added.

Using the Pretty Perennials stamp set, two of the larger flowers were stamped with Seaside Spray ink; the two smaller with Purple Posy.  All four were die cut using the Perennials Petals dies. The floral layers of the larger flowers were die cut with Basic White before being added with a glue dot.

Small leaves stamped with Pretty Peacock ink and then die cut, were added to the smaller blooms before being added to the card front.

A large die cut leaf and stem was added towards the right side.  The flowers were clustered around this stem, the larger blooms with dimensionals.

The sentiment, from " Good Morning Magnolia) was stamped with Pretty Peacock ink, punched with the Label Me Fancy Punch.  It was layered with Pretty Peacock card stock.

Faceted dots were added to the center of each flower.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Pretty Perennials, Good Morning Magnolia

Inks:  Rococco Rose, Terracotta Tile, Seaside Spray, Purple Posy, Pretty Peacock

Papers: Rococco Rose, Basic White, Pretty Peacock

Accessories:  1/2" scallop linen Rococco Rose ribbon, 2019-2021 In Color Facet Dots embellishments, Dimensionals, glue dots, Perennial Petal Dies, Label Me Fancy Punch