Double Z-Fold – Welcome

Lovely Blossoms Floral Double Z-Fold Card

I am infatuated with this card made with the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper and the Lovely Arrangements stamps and dies. This is one of those card where I came up with what I wanted to do in my head and it actually turned out just like I pictured it, which doesn’t usually happen.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Cloud Cover card stock (2025-2027 Incolor Stampin’ Up)
Old Olive card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Lovely Blossoms designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Lovely Arrangements stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
Cloud Cover ink (2025-2027 Incolor Stampin’ Up)
Secret Sea Stampin’ Write Marker (2025-2027 Incolor Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Scoring Board or scoring blade from trimmer
Adhesive of choice

From a piece of Cloud Cover card stock cut a card base to 7” x 8 ½” and score at 2 1/8” and 4 ¼” and fold into your “Z” shape. Cut 1 ½” off the top to make your card base measure 5 ½” x 8 ½” and then you have a matching strip for you double “Z”. With your white card stock cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and two pieces to 2” x 5 3/8”

Take the Lovely Blossoms designer series paper pack and pull out a piece of the Cloud Cover striped paper and a piece of the Cloud Clover with white flowers. From the striped paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. Take the floral piece and cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼”. Adhere each of these pieces to the white pieces. Adhere the stripes paper on the white to the back of your card base. Take one for floral pieces on white and adhere to the front half fold and the other to the inside center section. Then take the 1 ½” long “Z” fold and adhere the long end to the front of your card and the short end to the back of your card to form your Double “Z” fold.

Grab a piece of white card stock along with your Cloud Cover ink, Secret Sea Stampin’ Write marker and your Lovely Arrangements stamps and dies. With the full flower stamp, tap your stamp onto your Cloud Cover ink and then take the marker and color the center and stamp on your white card stock. Clean your stamp and repeat 3 more times. Then do the same 4 times with the half flower. Use your dies to cut these all out. Then with some Old Olive card stock and the single and double leaf dies, cut two of each.

Also stamp the “Thank You” and then the “So very much” underneath it, both in Cloud Cover Ink and use a label die to cut it out.

To start building your flowers across your strip, adhere your label hanging above the strip, then adhere two full flowers and one half and a double leaf and two single leaves.

Then adhere one full and one half to each of the small sections and divide your double leave into two singles and use one on each part. The thing you may want to pay a little attention to, which I didn’t, is the flowers showing when the card it closed, but I don’t think it is a big deal, just mentioning if it will bother you.

For the inside I used a label I had laying around as it was the perfect size, but I would say you can just cut a piece to 1 7/8” x 3” and adhere to the upper left side. Then I adhere the last half flower to the bottom which looks like it is in the background of all the flowers on the strip and decorates your label. This card turned out exactly as I picture I my head when I planned it, which is not usually the case.

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Botanical Textures Double Z-Fold Card

Another double z-fold card as they are one of my favorite folds and this on is in black and white tones which are also my favorite colors.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

White card stock
Basic Black card stock
Botanical Textures designer series paper
Memorable Blooms stamp set and dies
Two layered label dies
Basic Black ink
Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

With your White card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 2 1/8” and 4 ¼”. With Basic Black card stock cut a piece to 4” x 7 ½” and score at 3” and 5 1/4”. Cut another piece of White card stock to 1 3/8” x 2 7/8”. With the Botanical Textures designer series paper pack find the black texture piece and the opposite white textured piece. With the black textured piece cut one piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼”. With the white textured piece cut one piece to 2 ¾” x 3 ¾” and two pieces to 2” x 3 ¾”.

Adhere the black textured designer series paper to the white card base and the white textured designer series paper to the black card stock. One the large portion of the black card stock piece, put adhesive to about one inch of the back of the big portion and center and adhere to the small section of the White card base with the black textured paper. Fold the black piece toward the front and put adhesive on the back and while still folded fold the White card base onto the black to adhere together.

Take the small White cards stock piece you cut to 1 3/8” x 2 7/8” with your Basic Black ink stamp the “Thanks so much” greeting toward the top. Adhere this in the center of the white textured inside panel. Stamp the “I appreciate your thoughtfulness” greeting on a spare piece of White card stock and cut out with your smaller label die, then cut out the larger label die with the Black card stock. Adhere the white label to the center of the black label and adhere the black label to the front center of the white textured front panel.

Cut two leaves from the Memorable Blooms leaf die and one black one. Adhere one of the white leaves to the left side of the card and layer the black one off-set over the white one. Cut the second white leaves to a shorter length and adhere long ways below the label.

Give this diverse black and white double z-fold thank you card to let someone know you appreciate their thoughtfulness and them.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com. Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.