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Wildflower Birthday Reverse Double Z-Fold Card

May 6, 2025 No Comments

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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Botanical Textures Double Z-Fold Card

May 1, 2025 No Comments

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.

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Mixed Floral Z-Fold Pop-Up Card

April 1, 2025 No Comments

This is a z-fold card, but with a pop-up twist, so there is a middle layer that pops up when you start to open the card. I love the colors, I saw someone else use them for a card so I decided to use the colors to make this style card.

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

Pretty in Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Mixed Floral designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Jet Black Staz-On ink
Stampin’ Blends (Stampin’ Up)
- Pretty in Pink Light
- Pretty in Pink Dark
- Mint Macaroon Dark
- Lemon Lolly Light
- Lemon Lolly Dark
Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

With the Pretty in Pink card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” then score at 2 1/8 and 4 ¼” and fold the card in half and the fold the front quarter forward to form your z-fold. Cut another piece with the Pretty in Pink to 2 ¾” x 4 ¼”. With your white card stock cut a piece to 2” x 4 1/8”, one to 4 3/8” x 4 5/8” and a third piece to 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and lastly one to 2 ½” x 3” scored at ½”, 1 ¼” and 2”. With the black floral designer series paper from the Mixed Floral designer series paper pack. Cut a piece to 4 x 5 ¼” and a second to 1 7/8” x 4”.

Take the coneflower stamp from the Mixed Florals set and the Jet Black Staz-On ink and stamp on to a spare piece of white card stock. Color the leaves with the Mint Macaroon dark Stampin’ Blends, the dainty flowers and large flower centers with the Lemon Lolly light and dark Stampin’ Blends and the large flowers with the light and dark Pretty in Pink Stampin Blends. With the white piece measuring 2 5/8” x 4 1/8” and stamps from the Mixed Labels stamp set stamp the dainty flower stamp once or twice in the lower left corner and the “I’m so glad we’re friends” greeting in the upper left corner.

Now let’s assemble the card. Adhere the white piece of card stock measuring 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” to the back of the card, and the black floral piece measuring 4” x 5 ¼” to the white card stock piece.

With the 2 ½” x 3” scored piece, fold into a square. Put adhesive on the top of the right side of ½” part. Fold in half with the glue half down, line up with the middle fold so it will lay flat with card closed. The put adhesive on the upper ½” section and fold card onto it again making sure it all lays flat. Take the Pretty in Pink piece and adhere your stamped white piece to it. Put adhesive on the top of your box piece and adhere this greeting piece to it centered.

Take the last white piece and adhere the black floral piece to that and adhere to the front of the card. Glue your large colored flowers to the front with it partially hanging of toward the center and making sure your greeting is covered.

That gives you the pop-up z-fold card in these lovely pops of pink with the black background.

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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Mixed Media Floral Z-Fold Card

March 11, 2025 No Comments

This cheery floral z-fold card made with Mixed Media Floral designer series paper from Stampin’ Up was so easy and quick to make.

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

Daffodil Delight card stock
White card stock
Mixed Media Floral designer series paper
Mixed Florals stamps and dies
Mixed Labels stamps and dies
Basic Black ink
Calypso Coral Dark Stampin’ Blends ben
Scissors
Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

Take the Daffodil Delight card stock and cut to 5 ½” x 11” and score at 3 3/8” and 6 ¾” and fold. With the white card stock cut two pieces 3 1/8” x 5 ¼” and one to 4” x 5 ¼”. From the Mixed Media Floral designer series paper pack, find the piece with the mixed florals of yellow cone flowers and peach tulips. Hand cut around the flowers with the even portion on the right side and up to the large cone flower on the right side. Then cut another portion of the two cone flowers from the rest of the left side to use in the middle section.

Note: The other easier option if you don’t care about the additional flowers on the middle panel is to not cut the white cardstock, but to just cut your Mixed Media Floral designer series paper to the three sizes of the white card stock and then you don’t have to the cutting out of the flowers. The other just ads a bit more dimension and I wanted the additional flowers in the middle section.

Take the first 3 1/8” piece of white card stock and line up the right side of the floral paper you cut out to line the right and bottom, and cut to size. Take the second 3 1/8” piece of white card stock and cut the next section of the floral paper to match for the lower portion and use the piece of two cone flowers you cut separate to the right and line up to look like they go together. Then take the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white card stock and line up and cut the last section of the floral paper to match. Adhere all pieces to the white portions and adhere to the Daffodil Delight card base.

With the Mixed Florals stamp set, stamp two ladybugs with the Basic Black ink, color them in with the Dark Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends pen. Die cut out each of the ladybugs and adhere one to the white portion of the middle panel and the other to the upper right side of the back panel. With the Mixed Labels stamp set and the Basic Black ink, stamp the small “Thank You” and cut out with the small label die and then cut out the next size up label die in Daffadil Delight and adhere together and to the upper left corner of the back panel of the card.

That is all it takes to make this cute 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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Citrus Blooms Lemon Upside-Down Double Z-Fold Card

January 26, 2025 No Comments

Z-fold cards are so fun and adorable, and this Double Z-fold card is even better and more fun as you can decorate across the second z-fold and\or on the card layers. This design takes that normal Double Z-Fold and flips it upside down as the second, smaller z-fold is usually toward the bottom. This makes it perfect for making cards with decorations that hang down.

You will need the following supplies to make this card:

Night of Navy card stock
White card stock
Mediterranean Blooms designer series paper
- Two different blue pieces, one with a larger print and one with a smaller print
Citrus Blooms stamp set
Scissors to cut out images
Paper trimmer
Night of Navy ink pad
Your preferred adhesive

For the card base cut an 8 ½” x 11” piece of Night of Navy card stock to 8 ½” x 5 ½”. Take one piece and fold it in half to measure 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then take the top panel and fold it back again so the front panel measures 2 1/8” x 4 ¼” which forms your first Z-fold. Take the larger print blue designer series paper and cut two strips to 2” x 5 ¼” and adhere these to the two small flaps of your Z-fold card. Cut a piece of white card stock to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere that to the back panel of your card.

Then take other half of Night of Navy card stock and cut a piece to 1 ¾” x 8 ½”. Now take the smaller blue print designer series paper and cut a strip to measure 1 ½” x 8 ¼”. Adhere the smaller print designer series paper to the center of the Night of Navy card stock. Now fold this strip in half to measure 1 ¾” x 4 ¼” with the floral side out. Take the bottom portion and fold the blue print designer series paper to each other to form your other Z-fold going the opposite direction measuring 1 ¾” x 2 1/8”.

Adhere the two Z-folds together by putting adhesive on the outer half of the under side of the long portion of the strip , make sure you don’t get the adhesive to far or your Z-fold will stick together. Then put glue on the bottom of the strip half fold and adhere that to the bottom part of your card. You now have your Double Z-fold.

Now it is time to do the decorations for the card. Take the lemon designer series paper and use your scissors to cut out the large double lemons grouping and then single lemon. Adhere the single lemon to the back portion of the card hanging off the smaller strip Z-fold. Take the large grouping and put adhesive on one half that will stick to the front of the card and then also a bit at the top to stick to the strip, but make sure there isn’t any adhesive that is going to hang out the back that will stick your card together.

The last thing to do is to add your greeting. I used the “wishing you the brightest birthday” stamp, stamped it in Night of Navy ink and stamped it on the white background on the back of the card in the space next to the lemons to make sure it wouldn’t show when the card was closed.

I also made this card in yellow with the oranges out of the same Mediterranean Blooms designer series paper pack which you can see at Citrus Blooms Upside-Down Double Z-Fold Card – Welcome or you can visit my blog at www.daisychaingfun.com to see that post and many other ideas as well.

If you are interested in purchasing any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

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Refreshed Beauty Z-Fold Card

January 25, 2025 No Comments

This lovely Z-Fold card is made using the Refreshed Beauty designer series paper from Stampin’ Up online exclusives from early 2025.

Other items you will need for making this card are the following:

Granny Apple Green ink pad
Stamp Set for a greeting (I used Cheerful Daisies)
A stamp block
Dies for labels (I used Sentimental Park dies)
Paper trimmer
Your preferred adhesive
Pop Dot adhesive

For the card base I used Peach Pie cardstock. This is cut to 4 ¼” x 11” then folded in half to make a card of 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Now fold the front portion in half again making the front 2 ¾” x 4 ¼” with the back remaining the 4 ¼” x 5 ½”, this gives you the Z-fold.

Then cut a piece of designer series paper (the yellow with birds) to 4” x 5 ¼” and two other pieces of designer series paper (I used the peach and a piece of the green with flowers) 2 ½” x 4 ¼”.

Take your card base, adhere the large piece of your designer series paper (yellow piece with the birds) centered on the back of your card base. Adhere the two other smaller pieces of designer series paper to the front (piece chevron) and the center (green floral) section of your card.

Die cut out two labels from white and a background label from Peach Pie card stock. If you don’t have dies or a die cut machine then just cut some rectangular pieces that will layer. For the front, stamp your greeting of choice (mine was “wishing you the brightest birthday from the Cheerful Daisies stamp set) with the Granny Apple Green ink on one of the white labels and adhere to the background label piece.

Turn your label over and place pop dots on the right half of your greeting label and adhere the popped dot portion to your front, centered in full card when closed. Then place your other white label on the back portion of your card for signature space but make sure it is also centered and doesn’t show when you close your card. You can also add an inside greeting if you choose, just make sure to leave enough room to sign the card.

Your card is now finished and ready to send to a friend for a birthday surprise.

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.