This is a great masculine card for any male in your life and is so lovely. It is fairly quick and easy since the paper does the work, just takes a little time cutting the paper to line up.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Secret Sea card stock (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
- Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Beautiful Garden designer series paper (2025 Annual Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Label die
- Happiest of Birthdays stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
- Secret Sea ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
- Scoring board or scoring blade for trimmer
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
Take your Secret Sea card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 11” and score at 3 ¼”, 5 1/8”, 8” and 9 ½”. From the 3 ¼” first score, fold the next section in and then accordion fold from there with the last piece forming your card front.
From the Beautiful Gallery designer series paper find the piece of brown paint and then two of the marina painting. From the brown paint piece cut a piece to 1 3/8” x 5 3/8” and a second to 1 ¾” x 5 3/8”. Adhere the 1 3/8” wide piece to the second panel and the 1 ¾” piece to the 4th panel.
Cutting the marina papers is where it takes a bit of paying attention to get it to all line up to form the same picture when the card is closed. Trim both pieces of the Marina paper together to 5 3/8” in height so that the picture is the same exact height for both. Start by cutting the piece for the back, I cut a bit off the right side so it had the single boat starting at the right which then when folded will have all the boats showing, cut to 3 1/8” x 5 3/8”. Adhere to the back portion of your card. Fold in the middle and take the second piece of marina paper and see where the boats align to the right and trim to there. Then cut in from the right to 2 ¾” x 5 3/8”. Now fold in the front panel and take the leftover piece from the first piece of marina paper and again figure out where the boats need to align and trim the right and then cut to 1 3/8” 5 3/8”. Andere to the front which gives you your picture when folded and a nice scenic view when open.
From the Happiest of Birthdays stamp set find the “it’s your day enjoy it!” greeting and stamp onto some Basic Beige in Secret Sea ink. Take your label die and cut out your greeting. Adhere only a bit of the label to the front panel making your label centered when your card is closed.
Cut a piece of Basic Beige to 3” x 5 ¼” for the back of your card. Take the “wishing you the happiest of birthdays” greeting stamp and your Secret Sea ink and stamp in the upper center. Adhere your piece of Basic Beige to the back of the back panel of your card.
There is a great guy birthday card for when you need it.
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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.
