Cards, Papercrafting

Wildflower Birthday Reverse Double Z-Fold Card

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This is bright and fun birthday card made into a reverse double z-fold card turned out great.  It uses the Wildflower Birthday designer series paper pack from Stampin’ Up that also includes two sheets of cut outs to use to decorate. 

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

  • Blueberry Bushel card stock
  • Pretty in Pink card stock
  • White card stock
  • Wildflower Birthday designer series paper and cut outs
  • Blueberry Bushel ink
  • Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

Cut a piece of Blueberry Bushell card stock to 4 ¼” x 11” and score at 5 ½” and 8 ¼” to form you Z-fold card base.  With the Pretty in Pink card stock cut a piece to 3” x 9” and scored at 4 ¼” and 6 5/8”.  Take your white card stock and cut a piece to 2 ¾” x 4” for the front of your card and cut two pieces to 2 1/8” x 2 ¾”.  Find the pink gingham paper in the Wildflower Birthday pack and cut one piece 4” x 5 ¼”, two pieces to 2 ¾” x 4” and two to ¾” x 2 ¾”. 

Find the greeting saying “Wishes for a beautiful birthday” stamp from the Framed Florets stamp set, and with the Blueberry Bushel ink stamp on to one of the 2 1/8” x 2 3/4” pieces.  Time to start assembling your card.  Take your card base and your three large pieces of the pink gingham and adhere one to each panel of your card.  Do the same with your Pretty In Pink piece by adhering the three white panels, with the stamped panel in the middle.  Take the long side of your Pretty In Pink piece, put adhesive on the top half and adhere to the short side of the Blueberry Bushel piece.  Then put adhesive on the bottom side of the bottom panel, fold it up and then fold onto the card base. 

Take you two small pieces of pink gingham and adhere one to the bottom of the inside panel leaving a small bit of white, and the same on the large pane.  In your Wildflower Birthday pack find the cut out sheets and punch out one of the large pink tiered cake, two of the small pink flowers and one of the cupcakes.  Adhere one of the flowers next to your greeting, adhere the cupcake and the other small flower to the inside panel and the adhere the cake to the front panel.  Add a few pink party dot embellishments for some additional decoration if you choose.  I planned to do this and apparently didn’t end up doing it. 

That is all there is to making this pretty pink reverse double z-fold birthday card that will be great for any females birthday.

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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Nests of Winter Warbler Card

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This is a fun card and pretty easy and straight forward to make.  I have mentioned before but I love my birds, so this paper is one of my favorites.  I feed the birds daily and I get a warbler every once in a while, but that is maybe once a year if I am lucky that I get to see one so at least I can make a card with them on it.    

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

  • Daffodil Delight card stock (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blueberry Bushel card stock (Stampin’s Up)
  • White card stock
  • Nests of Winter designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
  • Birch Wood 3D Embossing Folder (Stampin’ Up)
  • Framed Florets stamp set
  • Blueberry Bushel ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Daffodil Delight ink (Stampin’ Up)
  • Blue cord
  • Sponge
  • Paper trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Adhesive of choice
  • Pop dots

With your Daffodil Delight card stock, cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Take your Blueberry Bushel card stock and cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and cut a piece to 1 ½” x 1 ¾” for the label.  Now with your white card stock cut a piece to 3 ¾” x 5” and another for the inside of your card to 4” x 5 ¼ inch and one for the label to 1 3/8” x 1 5/8”.  Get your Nest of Winter designers series paper pack and find the paper that has the birds on it and cut out one of the warblers, which is the blue and yellow bird.

Take the Birch Wood embossing folder and your white piece measuring 3 ¾” x 5” and emboss.  Take your Daffodil Delight ink and your sponge and sponge all four edges of your embossed white piece.  With your blue cord, tie a piece around the white embossed piece and tie into a knot or bow.  Adhere that to the Blueberry Bushel piece cut to 4” x 5 ¼” and then adhere that to the front of your card base.  Take the bird you cut out and adhere to the front of your card toward the upper left corner. 

With your Framed Florets stamp set find the “For a special person for a special friend” greeting and the Blueberry Bushel ink and stamp on the small piece of white you cut earlier.  Adhere that to the small piece of Bluberry Bushel you cut and adhere that to the lower right corner of the front of your card. 

Take the last piece of white you cut for the inside of your card and with the “Wishes for a beautiful birthday” greeting stamp and your Blueberry Bushel ink stamp for your inside greeting.  Then with your Blueberry Bushel ink and your sponge, sponge all four edges and adhere that to the inside of your card.

That is your Nests of Winter Warbler card and a great birthday card for anyone. 

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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Countryside Inn Foxy Tri-Fold Card

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This elegant foxy tri-fold card made with the Countryside Inn designer series paper from Stampin’ Up is just adorable and easy to make. 

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

  • Night of Navy card stock
  • Balmy Blue card stock
  • White card stock
  • Countryside Inn designer series paper
  • Three stacked Oblong Nested dies
  • Sizzix Forest Friends (not sure on the name) dies
  • Small floral dies
  • Framed Florets stamps
  • Night of Navy ink
  • Embellishments to decorate the center of the flowers
  • Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
  • Paper trimmer
  • Adhesive of choice

With the Night of Navy card stock cut a piece to 3” x 9” and another to 3” x 4 ¼”.  Score the 3” x 9” piece at 4 ¼” and at 8 ½”.  Fold the 9” piece in half and then fold the half inch piece in the opposite direction.  Put adhesive on the ½” piece and adhere the 3” x 4 ¼” piece to make a z-fold.  Find the blue striped piece from the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack.  Cut three pieces to 2 ¾” x 4” and adhere to each panel of the z-folded card base. 

With your Night of Navy card stock die cut three of the largest panels which are about 4 ½” long.  In the Countryside Inn designer series paper pack find the paper that has the foxes on it, use the middle size die or next size down to cut three of these.  With White card stock us the next size down cut two.   Cut out one each of the fox and the racoon (which looks like a fox) with Night of Navy card stock and Balmy Blue card stock and adhere the pieces together.  For the racoon version, just take the Balmy Blue tail and cut it with a jagged edge instead of the double stripes for the racoon.  With Night of Navy, Balmy Blue and White card stock scraps cut some flowers for decoration. 

With the two white oblong octagons, Night of Navy ink and the “wishes for a beautiful birthday” and stamp that on one toward the top, then with the “for a special person on a special day” stamp that onto the other white one toward the top as well. 

Now take all the oblong octagon pieces and adhere the three fox designer series paper to the three Night of Navy pieces.  Add the two white ones to two of the pieces.  Take the back one with the “for a special person on a special day” and put adhesive slightly less than half way up from the bottom and adhere to the back panel.  You want it to measure 5 ½” in total so that it is the proper size for an envelope.  Put adhesive about 1/3 of the way up for the piece that doesn’t have a white panel, line it up face down on the back one and fold the middle panel down so that they line up perfectly.  Now put adhesive on the front panel about 1/3 of the way up and with the card folded, align with the other panels so that when the card is folded it should only show the front panel. 

This now gives you the Countryside Inn Foxy tri-fold card with this beautiful fox paper in these elegant blues. 

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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