Friday, August 13, 2021

Whimsy and Wonder Fancy Fold Card

Happy Friday my crafty friends! The Stampin' Chic's Team Retreat weekend begins this evening and I can hardly wait! But before I go, I wanted to be sure and share this beautiful Non-Traditional Holiday card with you. 


This one came about from a creative challenge from an event I'm in.  The challenge was to create something using only a few specific pieces of paper.  You could add whatever embellishments you like, but COULD NOT add any other paper.  This was a really fun one to come up with! 

I challenge you to do this challenge too! ;-) 

Here's your paper measurements: 

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Cardstock
3 1/4" x 3 1/4" Cardstock
3" x 3" Basic White Cardstock
2" x 5 1/2" Designer Series Paper (DSP)

I knew right away that I wanted to do a card featuring the Whimsical Trees Stamp & Die Bundle.  It's just so pretty! And the colors in the DSP pack are so pretty! It's a very Non-Traditional color scheme, but I LOVE it! My colors are Mint Macaron and Polished Pink. These are steadily becoming a favorite color combo! So pretty!


From this, I knew I was going to create a fancy fold card.  In doing so, I was able to "borrow" some additional cardstock from the base. Pretty smart, right?  I cut the base down to 6 1/2" x 5 1/2" and gave myself an extra 2" x 5 1/2" piece of cardstock. 

On that piece of cardstock, I die cut two little trees and stamped/embossed/die cut three little silver trees. 


As you can see, I made good use of that extra bit! :-D 

I scored my card base at 4 1/4" to give me a standard A2 size card (when folded). Then, I attached the DSP strip to the front flap of the card. It's a perfect fit with that other 2" cut off. 

On the Basic White piece, I stamped "May the love...." sentiment in Polished Pink ink and then matted the white piece to the Polished Pink cardstock piece with Stampin' Seal. Then, added Stampin' Seal only to the left side and attached it to the front flap of the card base. 

I glued the two long trunk skinny trees to the bottom right of the Polished Pink & Basic White panel, and trimmed the excess of the trunks off. One of the short squatty embossed trees was layered over the front of them with dimensionals.  The two tall embossed trees were glued to the left side of the panel and then the other short embossed tree was attached with dimensionals in front of them.  


Stampin' Up ribbon is so beautiful and is a perfect compliment to this card, so I added a bow made from the Polished Pink Open Weave Ribbon.  It's attached to the card with a Mini Glue Dot. 


The final touch to the card was to add the little Polished Pink In-Color Jewels. Viola! I love it!


Challenge complete!  

I ALWAYS SAY "NO naked insides and NO naked envelopes", so I did end up adding a 4" x 51/4" piece of Basic White cardstock to the inside.  

I stamped a cluster of the trees in Mint Macaron Ink on the inside panel, as well as on the envelope to coordinate.  

Now it's done! And I'm happy with the results.  What do you think?


Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my card and will take the challenge too! If you do, I'd love for you to share it in The Stampin' Chic's Group on Facebook!

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Until Next Time,
Happy Crafting!
#TheStampinChic

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