I finally made a bandstand style card, as it has been on my list to try but was waiting for something that seemed like it fit well. The Fine Art Floral that had the matching Golden Garden transparent designer series paper from Stampin’ Up a few years ago seemed like the perfect fit as the Golden Garden paper lines up to match with the Fine Art Floral paper.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Crushed Curry card stock
- White card stock
- Fine Art Floaral designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
- Golden Garden transparent designer series paper (retired Stampin’ Up)
- Art Gallery stamps and dies (retired Stampin’ Up)
- Crushed Curry ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
I used Crushed Curry but it isn’t one of the colors listed, looks like it is So Saffron but I couldn’t find a piece of that. This card is actually pretty quick to make, a bit of cutting but not really any stampings, so just cut and put together.
With your Crushed Curry card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 5 ½ and score at 1 1/8” and 3 1/8” and fold both sides to the front. The cut another two pieces to 1 ¼” x 4 ¾” scored at ¼”, 1 3/8”, 3 3/8” and 4 ½” and fold all to the back. With your white card stock cut a piece to 1 7/8” x 5 3/8” for the back of your card.
From the Fine Art Floral designer series paper of and the piece that has the floral and white space in the upper left that matches up with the piece of Golden Garden transparent designer series paper. You will want to cut the same sections of each so they line up, cut each to 3 7/8” x 5 3/8” and cut 1” off of each side of both pieces. Then find the yellow design piece of paper and cut two pieces to 1 1/8” x 3 7/8” and then cut 1” off of each side, keeping them aligned together.
Take your three pieces of floral paper and adhere to the front three panels of your card base. Take the two outside pieces of your Golden Garden and adhere to each side of the back of your card base, and adhere the white piece to the back. Use a general birthday greeting stamp to the upper center of your white piece in Crushed Curry ink. I used a stamp greeting that says “wishing you the best today and always.”
Take your two Crushed Curry stripes and adhere the yellow designer series paper pieces to the three sections of each. Adhere the Golden Garden to the back of one of the yellow stripe center sections, leaving about 1/16” and then adhere to the other piece. Adhere all four ¼” tabs to the front of your card base.
With a spare piece of white card stock and Crushed Curry ink stamp the “Happy Birthday” greeting from the Art Gallery stamp set and use the long postage edge die to cut it out. I did cut it twice, closer on one end to short it and the lined up and cut off the other end. Adhere onto a small piece of Crushed Curry and adhere to the lower front.
This was a quick fun card to make, not sure why I waited so long to try making one.
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