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Delightful Wishes Double Gate Fold Card

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Send some appreciation to someone with this bright and cheerful double gate fold card.  This Delightful Wishes set is so beautiful and you can’t beat the Floral Delight designer series paper. 

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

  • Daffodil Delight card stock
  • Lemon Lolly card stock
  • Crumb Cake card stock
  • White card stock
  • Floral Delight designer series paper
  • Delightful Wishes stamp set and dies
  • Memorable Blooms stamp set and dies
  • Limon Lolly ink
  • Daffodil Delight ink
  • Old Olive ink
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Bone folder
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With your Lemon Lolly card stock cut your card base to 5 ½” x 11” and score at 1 ¼”, 3 3/8”, 7 5/8” and 9 ¾” and fold up from the center and then out on the ends.  Take a piece of White card stock and cut that to 3 ½” x 8 ¼” and score at 1 1/8”, 2 5/8”, 5 5/8” and 7 1/8” and fold the same with coming up from the center and out on the ends.  Use a bone folder on all your fold edges to make sure they are folding flat.  Then take your Daffodil Delight and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and two strips at 1” x 5 ¼”.  With your floral delight designer series paper find the Forsythia paper and cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5”. 

Now take your Delight Wishes stamp set and dies and the Crumb Cake card stock and cut two sticks with the stick die.  Get your Old Olive ink, White card stock and the double leave stamp and stamp and die cut out 5 of them.  Take more White card stock, your Lemon Lolly ink and the solid Forsythia back group stamp and stamp three of these.  Then change the stamp to the Forsythia detail stamp and with your Daffodil Delight ink and light up the stamp and stamp on the detail over the background stamped items that you stamped in Lemon Lolly.  Use the Forsythia die and cut out the three sets of flowers.  Arrange and adhere one set to each and two leaves to each of the sticks.  Find your White scored piece of card stock for your inside and with your Memorable Blooms stamp set stamp “I appreciate your thoughtfulness” on the inside as a greeting and then decorate with the remaining set of Forsythia flowers and one last leaf.  Take a spare piece of White card stock and your Old Olive ink and stamp “Thanks so much” from the same Memorable Blooms set and use the small label die from that set to cut it out. 

Now it is time to put all the pieces together.  Start with your Lemon Lolly card base and adhere the Daffodil Delight 4” x 5 1/4 “ piece to the center and then adhere the Forsythia designer series paper centered on the Daffodil Delight piece.  Then take the scored white piece and adhere one side centered to the top fold on each side of your Lemon Lolly card base which leave it floating up about ¾” from the back of the card.  Find your two 1” x 5 ¼” strips of Daffodil Delight and adhere that over the white and the other flaps on each side.  Then take you Forsythia sticks and adhere to each side, making sure they are not hanging over in the middle so that the card can close.  Adhere the “Thanks so much” label to the lower right flap. 

There is the Double Gate Fold card.  You may want to incorporate a ribbon in to tie at the front to help keep it closed, but I think it being open is the appeal of this card. 

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.

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Delightful Wishes Angled Z-Fold Card

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This Wishing You Well angled z-fold card  is fun to make and so fun and bright, it just makes you smile. 

To create this card you just need a few things:

  • Daffodil Delight card stock
  • White card stock
  • Floral Delight designer series paper pack
  • Delightful Wishes stamp and die bundle
  • Lemon Lolly ink pad
  • Daffodil Delight ink pad
  • Old Olive ink pad
  • Pecan Pie ink pad (I didn’t have so I used Copper Clay ink pad instead)
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Adhesive of choice

With a piece of Daffodil Delight card stock, cut your card base to 5 ½” x 11”.  Score at 3 3/8” and at 6 ¾”.  Cut the angle staring in the upper right-hand corner and down to 3” at the left side.  Fold into the z-shape on the left side of the card. 

Take the Floral Delight designer series paper pack and pull out three pieces to use, I used the floral doily, gingham and flowers on stick papers.  Take the flowers on stick paper and cut a piece 4” x 5 ¼” and angle from 5 ¼” on the right down to 4 3/8” on the right.  Then cut a piece of the gingham to 3 1/8 x 4 ¼” and angle this from 4 ¼” on the right side down to 3 ½” on the left side and a piece of white card stock to the same dimensions but angle to the right.  Now take the floral doily piece and cut it to 3 1/8” x 3 3/8” and angle from the right side down to 2 5/8” on the left. 

With a piece of spare white card stock and the Delightful Wishes stamp set.  Stamp the filled in floral stamp in the Lemon Lolly ink, then use the highlight floral stamp in Daffodil Delight ink and line up and stamp over the Lemon Lolly.  Now use the Pecan Pie ink (or in my case the Copper Clay ink as I couldn’t find my Pecan Pie ink pad) and line up and stamp the stem.  Then take the Old Olive ink with the leave stamp and line up and stamp the leaves.  This gives you a beautiful floral decoration for the front of your card, you will need to cut out the floral decoration by hand. 

Take a piece of Daffodil Delight card stock and white card stock and use the two wishing dies from the Delightful Wishes die set.  Cut the think wishing out of the Daffodil Delight and the background wishing out of the white. Adhere together.  Use the long label die from the die set and cut out a label.  Use the Old Olive ink and stamp the You Well onto the label.  The cut off the other end of the label by lining it up to cut it to your desired length.  Adhere the wishing die cut to the front of your card down toward the bottom, the “g” will hang off a bit over the middle.  Adhere the You Well center below the wishing.  The adhere the floral decoration you created above and hanging over the angle.  Adhere the white angled piece to the inside on
the back center angle. 

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 photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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Floral Delight Accordion Window Flip Card

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This is a pretty straight forward easy card that is so cute.  With the Floral Delight designer series paper from Stampin’ Up, it is just so cheery and bright.    

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

  • Lemon Lolly card stock
  • White card stock
  • Floral Delight designer series paper
    • Large floral piece (both sides)
    • Dainty little flower piece
  • Spring Corners stamp set
  • Three rectangle nesting dies – I used the Stampin’ Up Rectangle Stitched dies
  • Old Olive ink
  • Lemon Lolly ink
  • Old Olive Stampin’ Write marker
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for your paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop-Dots

With your Lemon Lolly piece of card stock, cut a piece to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 5 ½ x 4 ¼”.  Take the white card stock and cut to 5” x 8” and score at 2”, 4” and 6”.  Fold the 2” part down, the 6” part down and the 8” part up.  Take the dainty flower paper from the Floral Delight designer series paper and cut a piece to 4” x 5” and score in half at 2”.  Fold that in half and adhere to the 4” and 6” center sections of your scored white card stock (see photo below). 

Take your largest of the tree nested rectangular dies and center it at the front half of your Lemon Lolly base and cut the front panel.  Then use the back of the large floral piece of designer series paper that is Old Olive and cut a rectangle with the middle size die.  Then take some white card stock and cut the smallest size rectangle.  Take the front side of the large floral designer series paper and cut out one of the flowers for the front of your card. 

Now grab your Spring Corners stamp set and stamp the “you brighten my day” stamp toward the top of the white rectangle piece and adhere your cut out flower to the bottom of the white piece.  Adhere the white rectangle to the Old Olive rectangle and then the Old Olive rectangle to the Lemon Lolly rectangle. 

With your Spring Corners stamp set and the Old Olive ink stamp the “happy we are friends” corners stamp in the upper right corners of the back of your white card stock insert.  Then take the little coneflower stamp and ink it with your Lemon Lolly ink pad and then take your Old Olive Stampin’ Write Market with the large calligraphy end and ink the stems and leaves of the stamp and also the flower centers.  Huff (blow a warm breath onto the stamp to re-moisten then stamp it in the center of your “happy we are friends” on the back of your card insert. 

Lets assemble the card.  Take your white insert piece and the card base, and on the inside front cover of your card base put adhesive to the center edge of your cut out and across the top and bottom of your cut out halfway, but make sure that you leave a half inch without adhesive at the top and bottom.  Now adhere the front 2” white section of your cardstock to the back of your cutout on the card base. Now put adhesive on the back of your back white panel, fold it all to the front of the card and then close the back of the card which will align it so it will open to the square it needs to. 

All that is left to do is put adhesive on the back left side of your rectangle cutout and adhere that to the dainty floral side with the card closed so you can just put it back in the cut-out, so it is lined up properly. 

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 by and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

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