Stampin' Up! Fern & Flora Birthday for Amy's Inkin' Krew Blog Hop

Welcome to the AIK monthly blog hop. Our theme for this month is "Fun Fold" and we can  use any product we wish.  The list of hoppers is at the end of my post. I hope you'll hop along. Here's a thumbnail of my creation...

 

 Let's take a closer look...

 

This is another card design/fun fold that Alyson Mayo taught me how to make. If you join her group, you can watch the video and get the pdf. I hope you'll do that.

I'm using up some items from my stash that I found when I participated in the Papercrafters Get Organized Summit. I have so many pre-cut butterflies and flowers it's pathetic! 

Thank you for stopping by today. Clicking on the "Next" button will take you to Christie King . Clicking on the individual names below will take you directly to each member's post. Trust me, you're in for a treat! 

 

Terry Lynn Bright

Ann Louise Fodgaard

Charlene Tackvic

Tara Carpenter

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen Finkle- that's me!

Christie King

Mary Deatherage

Amy Koenders

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Year of Flowers (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Berry Burst; Fern & Flora; Basic White; Old Olive; Color Theory DSP (ret.)
Ink	Berry Burst; Light Old Olive and Light Berry Bursts Blends
Accessories	butterflies and florals from my stash
Tools

Stampin' Up! Lily of the Valley Birthday Card for the Creative Creases Challenge - Anything Goes with a Fun Fold

 Welcome to our Anything Goes With a Fun Fold Challenge. I'd like to welcome our new Design Team Mate, Sue Jackson! She played a lot at CCC. If you haven't played at Creative Creases Challenge before, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to Challenge #115. We'd love to see your fun fold creation. Here's mine...

 

I made this fold last month for the CCC and today I CASE'd my Design Team Mate AND upline, Mary Deatherage. I hope I did Mary proud! Her instructions and measurements were spot on and easier. These are "rough" shots of  front, open, back and measurements. Let's take a closer look, shall we? 

 

 

Mary has a great video for making this card and I do hope you'll check it out because I'm not going to "reinvent the wheel" :-)

Thank you for stopping by today and I can't wait to see all the creativity from the team.  Be sure to check us out at CCC#115 ... we hope to see your entry there!  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Phrases & Frames (available 5/5/26)
Card stock & Papers	Granny Apple Green; Coastal Cabana; Basic White; Garden Green; Valley in Bloom (available 5/5/26)
Ink	Coastal Cabana
Accessories	Shimmering Dots (available 5/5/26)
Tools	Lily of the Valley Dies (available 5/5/26); Everyday Arches Dies (smallest)

Stampin' Up! Dainty Flowers Birthday Card

Good mid-week morning, peeps! Over the weekend I participated in a PaperCrafters Get Organized Summit. WOW, I decluttered, sorted and organized a lot of drawers but my main goal was to clean up my pre-cut sentiments, images, card stock and DSP. Today's card represents some of that. Take a look see...

 The base, mat, DSP, butterfly and banner were just thrown in a drawer. The sentiment is new (5/5/26) from the Lily of the Valley Photopolymer Stamp Set. It fit perfectly in the pre-cut banner. I didn't have to declutter, sort or organize my ribbon because I have always done that. The base is either Fresh Freesia or Purple Posy. I know the mat is Highland Heather but I have no idea what the die cut was. The DSP is the Dainty Flowers which was offered through Sale-A-Bration but I don't remember what year (no reference in my UpNote inventory). The ribbon had no name on it so it must have come in a bundle. The butterfly was in with all my pre-cut insects so I have no clue where that came from or it may have been punched. In any event, I had fun putting the odds and ends together. The inside is the same find...

There was a piece of Highland Heather card stock and the flower image with the sentiment in a box. It was stamped in black so I colored it with various Blends. The three stamped little flowers are from the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set (on the Last Chance List).

You will be seeing more of my sorted stash in the future. I have yet to being sorting my unfinished projects bin. This is exhausting, peeps, BUT it is so rewarding. I felt like I had really accomplished something during and after the seminars and I plan to keep it going.

Thanks for stopping by today and let me know if you attended the Summit. 

Stampin' Up! Bendy Birthday Card for the Stampin' Up! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop

 Hello my stamping friends.  Welcome to our monthly Stampin' Up! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop!! The participating demonstrators are listed at the end of my post. I hope you will choose to hop along. Here's a thumbnail of what I created for the hop today...

                                             
 Let's take a closer look...

My inspiration came from Dawn Griffith.

Early Espresso Card Stock:

·        Base – 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”

·        Mat – 3 1/4” x 5”, scored at 1/2” on both sides of 5” side

·        Bendy – 1” x 6”, scored at 1/4” on 6” side

Petal Pink Card Stock:

·        Front Mat: 3” x 3 3/4”

·        Back Mats: 2 1/2” x 4” (2) (not shown in post)

·        Scrap for Sentiments

DSP:

·        Share What You Love – 5 1/4” x 4”

·        Beautiful Gallery – scrap for hash (2)

·        Painterly Pears – cut outs for pears, stems/leaves

Inks:

·        Early Espresso

·        Old Olive

·        Mossy Meadow

·        Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools:

·        Perfectly Pears Stamp Set and Dies

·        Stylish Shapes Dies

Accessories:

·        Adhesive-Backed Swirl Dots

·        Dimensionals

Instructions:

Adhere  5 1/4” x 4” DSP to card base, score at 2 3/4” on the back side of base. Bend back and forth with fingers ending up with a valley fold.

Stamp a pear image in center of 3” x 3 3/4” Petal Pink Mat; adhere to 3 1/4’ x 5” Early Espresso Mat that has been scored previously on the edges. With the scored sides folded in and down, score at 2”. Fold back and forth with fingers ending up with mountain fold.

Add cut out two pears and adhere with dimensionals. Cut and adhere 3 stems/leaves. Put liquid glue only on stems and mini dimensionals on leaves.  Adhere hash marks.

Line up center fold with center fold of base and adhere with Tear & Tape on folded edges, make sure it’s high enough that “bendy” doesn’t cover the bottom of pears.

Stamp splatters on the 1” x 6” bendy piece. Tear & Tape on the ¼” folds and butt up against edges of base. Stamp splatters on the banner sentiment (optional).

Add sentiments…one dimensional on banner center. 2 mini dimensionals on the “hello”. Add 3 embellishments. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you will hop along with the list of demos below. 

Rae Burnet

Karen Finkle - that's me!

Debbie Mageed

Su Mohr

Lisa Ann Bernard

Mary Deatherage

Michele Deschenes

Sue Jackson

Beth McCullough

 

 

Stampin' Up! Painted Illusions Birthday Card for the Creative Creases Challenge - Anything Goes with a Fun Fold

Welcome to our Anything Goes With a Fun Fold Challenge. If you haven't played at Creative Creases Challenge before, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to Challenge #114. We'd love to see your fun fold creation. Here's mine... 

 Let's take a closer look... 

Misty Moonlight Card Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"; score at 2 1/8", 4 1/4", 6 3/8" (mountain, valley, mountain) 

DSP Front Panels: 1 7/8" x 5 1/4" (2)

Misty Moonlight Decorative Panel: 4" x 5 1/4" cut with Countryside Label Die

Basic White for "30" Panel: 4" x 5 1/4" cut with Countryside Label Die and embossed with Subtle 3D EF. I decorated it with a retired Paper Accent Butterfly (sponged with Granny Apple Green Ink). I stamped and punched the "30" with the retired Alphabest Bundle. I used scraps of the DSP and Misty Moonlight Ink.

Misty Moonlight Mechanism for Pop Out: 1 3/4" x 8", score at 2, 3, 5 and 6 inches; fold into a T and glue bottom of  T in the center fold of the card. Terry Gaines has a great video of how to do this. 

I used scraps of Misty Moonlight and Basic White for the birthday sentiment from the current BBQ Master Stamp Set. I cut the mat and sentiment with a die from the retired Grow with Love Dies. I offset them, which I thought gave it a little more interest.

For the back of the card:

 

 Basic White  Back Panel: 1 7/8" x 5 1/4" ; scrap for sentiment on the DSP Panel: 1 7/8" x 5 1/4" . The sentiments are from the retired Hooray for Surprises and Something Fancy stamp sets. I used Misty Moonlight  and Granny Apple Green inks. I fussy cut the "belated" sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by today and I can't wait to see all the creativity from the team.  Be sure to check us out at CCC#114 ... we hope to see your entry there!   

 

 

Stampin' Up! More OSW Painterly Pears

Here's more of the One Sheet Wonder cards. I posted a batch here and I still have another batch, which I will post on Tuesday.

Now, what am I going to do with all these cards?? They'll probably be donated or sold. Perhaps I have 12 birthdays coming up this spring :-)

Thank you for stopping by today.
 

Stampin' Up! Boardwalk Fun Birthday for the SU Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop

Hello my stamping friends.  Welcome to our monthly Stampin' Up! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop!! The participating demonstrators are listed at the end of my post. I hope you will choose to hop along. Here's what I created for the hop today...                                      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU4LLpaZ8yc to see it moving click the blue link! (Hopefully it worked!) If not, let me give you a closer stationary look...

I was inspired by Terry Gaines and Marcie Besecker. Here are the deets:

Card Base: Pretty Peacock Card Stock 8 1/2" x 4 1/4", scored at 5 1/2"  and embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D EF

 Z fold Nature Walk DSP Piece: 11 1/2" x 3", scored at 3" (M), 5 1/2" (M) and 8 1/2" (V)

I used the Boardwalk Fun Bundle to create the ferris wheel and the Soft Sea Foam Card Stock tickets. The ferris wheel uses Silver Foil and Basic White Card Stock sponged with Basic Gray ink. The buckets are Pretty Peacock and Soft Sea Foam. 

The Great Smoky Mountain Wheel is about 1 1/2 hours from me but you'll never catch me riding it. I have been afraid of ferris wheels since I was little because my father would rock the seat back and forth when we got to the top! Another time, later in life, I got brave and rode one in Florida. However, my husband and I got stuck on that one at the top so I said "never again"!! Give me a roller coaster any day.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you will hop along with the list of demos below.  

Su Mohr

Debbie Mageed

Lisa Ann Bernard

Karen Finkle - you are here!

Peggy Noe

Rae Burnet

Sue Jackson

Tara Carpenter

Mary Deatherage

Michele Deschenes