Z-fold Christmas Tree Farm

It won't be long before Christmas trees will be for sale at various venues.  When the temperature is 30 degrees C outside,(like it is today), it's hard to imagine this but time flies by quickly....
In making this card, I "married" 3 different stamp sets and their coordinating framelits/dies - Wood Words, Santa's Sleigh, and Christmas Carols.

The base is a 5 1/2 by  10 1/2" piece of  Garden Green card stock scored at 5 1/2 and 2 3/4" for form a  Z fold card. Two patterns of Be Merry DSP is adhered to this base.

On the front piece I stamped 2 reindeer with Soft Suede ink onto Crumb Cake card stock and then die cut them.  They were adhered to an oval dazzling diamond glimmer paper matted with  a scallop oval of Garden Green card stock.  One of the deer has a wreath around its neck.

Tucked inn the center is an inward collapsible crate that I die cut using Wood Grain DSP.  I placed an insert inside the crate to provide increased stability and to attach the trees to.  The sentiment and the Garden Green star on the crate are  from the Wood Words  stamp set.  They were both stamped in Garden Green ink- the sentiment was punched with the 1 1/4" circle punch, and matted with a 1 3/8" Cherry Cobbler circle; the star was die cut....both were adhered with dimensionals.

In order to make the crate collapsible I removed the bottoms of both crate halves prior to assembling them.. See the picture below. You can also see the insert I placed inside the crate.

At the top of the card, I placed a 1 1/4" band with DSP added to it.  It was also scored at 5 1/2 and 2 3/4" .  You can see that in the picture below. The Christmas sentiment was added to this band.

I added some die cut trees (large and small), to the insert in the crate as well as to the back of the card and front of the crate. Some were die cut in Garden Green, and some in Dazzling Diamond  glimmer paper.  Both Santa's Sleigh framelits as well as the  Front Builder Framelits were used to die cut the trees.

The picture below shows the card closed. But because the finished card is larger, I made an envelope using the envelope punch board.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Santa Sleigh, Wood words, Christmas Carols
Inks:  Garden Green, Soft Suede, Black Memento
Papers:  Garden Green, Be Merry DSP, Wood crate DSP, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer paper, Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Santa's Sleight Framelit dies, Wood crate framelit dies, Cards front builder framelits, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, Itty Bitty star punch, Layering Oval Framelits, dimensionals

You Move Me - a Z fold card

Today I played with the new " You Move Me" stamp set and coordinating framelits.
It was really quite a lot of fun making an image, that when placed behind a die cut "grill", fluttered.

The card base is Rich Razzelberry.  On the front I placed a die cut butterfly, with the actual "moving" part on the back panel.

The front panel is layered with Whisper White card stock, embossed with the Trellis embossing folder.  In the center is a Lucky Limeade landing for the butterfly, punched with the Pretty Punch.

The butterfly itself was made in 3 stages.  First the image was stamped with Rich Razzelberry, then it was die cut using the outline die from this coordinating framelit set. For the 3rd step, I die cut a more detailed butterfly in Rich Razzelberry which I placed on top of the other 2 layered only in the middle. Pearls decorated the center of the butterfly.

A smaller Bermuda Bay die cut butterfly was added to the upper right and on the band.

The middle panel is Lucky Limeade cardstock upon which I added a couple of Crushed Curry hibiscus and a hummingbird.

On the back panel is the part of the card that moves. Watch the stampin up video below to see how to make the butterfly flutter.

I made a 3 1/4 by 4" pocket for the butterfly, and popped it up with the thick double sided tape used for making shakers.  The insert is 2 3/4 by 3 3/4" with a punched tab punchie adhered to the top.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  You Move Me
Inks:  Rich Razzelberry, Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay, Real Red, Emerald Envy
Papers:  Rich Razzelberry, Whisper White, Lucky Limeade
Accessories: Circle Tab Punch, Pearls, Move Me Thinlet Dies, Dimensionals

Z-Fold Santa's Sleigh

The Z-fold card is all a rage today and this card fold is perfect for the Santas's Sleigh stamp set. The card took me longer to put together than I anticipated, but I'm happy with the outcome.

Card closed

Top View

Card is open

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Santas Sleigh

Inks: Cherry Cobbler, Black Memento, Garden Green, Crumb Cake, SU Markers (Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Basic Black) Versa Mark

Papers: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, This Christmas DSP, Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer, Real Red Glimmer

Accessories: Santa's sleigh thinlets dies, dimensionals, Emerald Envy embossing powder, itty bitty star punch

Baby We've Grown - a Z fold card

I made the basis for a Z-fold card on May 20, when I made my first  one.  Today I decided to finish it, and instead of using all flowers, I made it into a baby card.

I used 2 stamp sets:  Baby We've Grown (a retired set)  and Something for Baby.

The basic cardstock for this card is Blushing Bride and Whisper White.  The images were stamped with Stazon ink and coloured with markers and an Aqua painter.  The images from Something for Baby were stamped and then die cut.

Supplies Used:

 

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