Anyone who knows me knows I love cats, and I have been trying to design this card in my head for a while as I wanted to do a layered card but that let you see all the cats even when the card was closed. I finally sat down and played with it yesterday and this was the result, and I was really happy with it.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- White card stock
- Copper Clay Stripe and Heart designer series paper (Stampin’ Up 2023-24 In Color)
- Love Cats stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
- Two circle dies
- Copper Clay ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
- Basic Black Ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Copper Clay Stampin’ Blends or Stampin’ Marker (Retired Stampin’ Up)
- Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
- Pop dots
With your Copper Clay card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ¼” and score at 1 ¾”, 2 ¾”, 4 ¼” and 5 ¼”. With your white card stock cut three pieces to 2 5/8” x 5 1/8”. With the striped designer series paper cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 3”. With the heart copper clay designer series paper cut two to 2 ¾” x 5 3/8”.
Take your three pieces of white card stock you cut, the Love Cats stamps and the Basic Black ink. Stamp the hanging cat on one piece at the top. With the cat flipped, stamp that in the lower right corner of the second piece. On the third piece stamp the laying cat about 2 ¼” (top of back) down. With the laying cat piece take scissors and cut the bottom out below the ledge so the paws and tail hanging off the ledge are cut out.
Take the hanging cat layer and adhere it to one of the heart pieces of paper. With the larger circle die cut out a partial circle at the bottom to show the flipped cat. Adhere this to the middle section of your card base. For the top layer, alight the striped piece where it would go on the top layer of your card base and flip upside down and with a pencil draw on the back side of the striped paper where the circle needs to be and then use that to line the circle die up and cut that circle out. Now adhere the white upper portion with the laying cat to the top of that making sure it measures a height of 5 3/8”. Lay your larger circle die upside down over the hanging cat, align your top layer where it would adhere on the top level and find where to cut the upper partial circle out of the top layer and cut out.
Now for the lower layer with the flipped cat, take both circle dies and align as above in the upper left corner, making sure you are leaving enough room for the inside circle to stamp the “I love hanging out with you” greeting, and cut out both circles together. Adhere the lower part with the cat onto your last heart designer series paper piece. Then align your upper corner and adhere that. With the “I love hanging out with you” greeting and your Copper Clay ink, stamp your greeting. Adhere this to the back or your card base. With the Copper Clay marker color in the open hearts on each of your stamped images.
You now have the Love Cats flap card to give so someone you love spending time with. I am absolutely in love with this card and so happy with how it turned out after spending so much time trying to figure it out in my head.
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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.