I finally made a hinge style card, I have had a sample in my craft room as an example for a while and saw it the other day and decided to make one.  This is made with the True Blue Floral designer series paper from Stampin’ Up and using the Peace on Earth and Petals of Beauty stamps and dies. 

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

• Night of Navy card stock (Stampin’ Up)
• White card stock
• True Blue Floral designer series paper (December 2025 Product of the Month Stampin’ Up)
• Peace on Earth stamps and dies (Stampin’ Up)
• Petals of Beauty dies (Stampin’ Up)
• Night of Navy ink (Stampin’ Up)
• Paper trimmer
• Scoring board or blade from trimmer
• Adhesive of choice
• Pop dots

From your Night of Navy card stock cut a card base to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 2 1/8”, 4 ¼” and 5 ½”.  Fold the card in half and then fold the middle score up and the last score down.  Then cut another piece to 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”.  With some white card stock cut two pieces to 4 1/8” x 4 1/8” and another to 1 1/8” x 4 1/8”.  From the True Blue Floral designer series paper pack, find the large Balmy Blue floral piece and the Balmy Blue piece with the white and navy leaves.  Cut the large floral piece to 4” x 4” and then cut two pieces of the leaf paper to 1” x 4”. 

From a scrap piece of the large floral paper cut out one of the larger flowers and three of the smaller flowers and the one set of leaves.  Then from white card stock use the large open leaf die from the Petals of Beauty dies and cut out one of the leaves.  The use a smaller die (I used an old Stampin’ Up dies, not sure the name of the set) to cut out three from Night of Navy. 

Then with the two label dies from the Peace on Earth die set, cut the smaller one from white card stock and the larger one from Night of Navy card stock.  On the white label you just cut, stamp the “with deepest sympathy” greeting  to the right side in Night of Navy ink.

Now let’s start of assemble it all.  Take your card base and adhere the 1 ½” section to the back of your card base.  Then adhere the white piece measuring 1 1/8” x 4 1/8” to the front of your adhered section to the left, and then the 1” x 4” piece of leaf paper to the white.  Then take the Night of Navy piece measuring 4 ¼” x 4 ¼” and adhere the white piece measuring 4 1/8” x 4 1/8” to that and then the large floral 4” x 4” piece to that.  Now adhere the right side of that to the right side of your card front, creating your card front and forming the “hinge” as shown below. 

To decorate your card front start with cutting your white leaf in half and adhering the top half in the upper left corner of the 4 ¼” square part of your card front.  Add on two of the Night of Navy pieces and then the Balmy Blue leaves you cut out.  Now adhere your white label to the Night of Navy label and adhere that over your decorative leaves with pop dots.  Now adhere three of your cut out flowers and the third Night of Navy leaf piece to the left side of your label. 

For the inside adhere the 4 1/8” x 4 1/8” of white to the inside of your card and then the Balmy Blue leaf piece to the right side of that, leaving a small white boarder on three sides.  Adhere the fourth flower your cut out to the lower left corner.  Stamp the “heartfelt prayers” greeting in Night of Navy ink in the upper center of the white portion of the inside of your card. 

You have made a lovely card to share your sympathy with someone who has had a loss. 

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.