Stampin' Up! Let it Ride Birthday Card

Good mid-week day to you, my peeps! Have you recuperated from the holiday yet? Our community had a golf cart parade so that was very enjoyable. Speaking of rides, here's another method of transportation...

I made this criss cross fun fold card for my friend and upline, Mary Deatherage. If you are not familiar with her, she has two horses (Cerah and Cady) and one who passed over the Rainbow Bridge in 2017 (Bo). They are beautiful ladies and he was a handsome gent. They were the inspiration for my card, along with the Just Us Girls Challenge #639 - Mammals.

  

I was inspired by Rhonda Griffin as well. I'm also entering my card at Make the Cards Challenge #58 - Technique - Make a Fancy Fold, and Creative Creases Challenge #35 - Anything Goes with a Fun Fold. I would be remiss not to give credit to Rhonda Griffin for my inspiration.

My card base is a sheet of Night of Navy cut at 4 1/4". I scored each piece at 5 1/2" and cut them at a diagonal from score to point. Then I adhered them together to make the criss cross fold. On a piece of not-so-white cardstock (Neenah Bright White) 4" x 5 1/4" that I had cut at a diagonal, I stamped Cerah and Cady in Soft Suede, along with the trees and the "for you" from the retired Let it Ride Stamp Set. Using my Stamparatus was very helpful in the stamping. Then I ran both pieces through my embossing machine with a retired embossing folder, Evergreen Forest 3D. 

I stamped the "just" from the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set on a scrap of Neenah and cut it out with a die from Stylish Shapes. I adhered it to a circle of Night of Navy and adhered the side left portion to the front flap.

I stamped Bo on the inside and stamped the sentiment from the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set. I adhered that to a panel of Crumb Cake cardstock and glued that to the base. 

I had some horseshoe stickers that I used to indicate what birthday she was celebrating ... she freely admits her age so it's not like I'm telling tales out of school...lol.

I'm pretty sure Mary has butterflies floating around her property so I added a couple inside and five on the outside. These are the Brushed Brass Butterflies.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll come back tomorrow for our Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop.

Partial Product List

Charming Sentiments Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[159985]

$23.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$30.00

Stamparatus

[146276]

$49.00

Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[100867]

$9.25

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[120953]

$9.25

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